iRacing.com Motorsport Simulations

[Bram Hengeveld]

iRacing.com Motorsport Simulations check it out

 

[Wally Masterson]

I have tried it, but I think you need to be able to dedicate a lot of time to taking it seriously to get your money's worth out of the dollars you have to put in.

At the moment, it suits me more to be involved in one Racing Club race here, with a tiny bit of practice through the week.

 

[Marcin Wójcik]

Yes. I will try iRacing when i find more time. I think its very good sim and its no problem for me to pay monthly for this.

 

[Stirb Iuliu]

I have voted "maybe".

I will pay for 1 month subscription just to get the feel of this thing.

However I dislike the monthly "fees" and the additional costs of extra cars and tracks.

 

[Nigel Roberts]

I just voted already have and unsure about it, agree with others the price dosnt justify the experience, and also I had issues on first signup and found the customer service and attitude to my issue was extremely poor and just plain rude. Wasnt untill I emailed the back and asked for an address where I can email or post an official complaint to, before there decided to appologise and look my issue But I could have lived with that the main issue was I didnt feel like I was racing in any sort of organised league, and found myself stting staring at the online site for ages on end waiting for sessions to open. Sure I could have been practicing more, but by myself for another 15mins waiting for the session was getting a tad boring. everyone was raving about the skip barbers, sure they had very good physics, but I also beleive the FBMW and F3000 in Race 07' are pretty darn good also, not quite as good but a hell of lot cheaper, and again to me the difference dosnt justify the price. The fact they make you pay for the additional items I think is insane and I am guessing with the state of the worlds economy at presesnt they will have to give this another lookin very soon, the Aussie $ buys $.67USD ATM so Iracing just became a whole lot more expensive again.

The other thing too is I am glad SimBin have advised they are not interested in this approach and I am hoping other game developers arent either, so for me I guess I am hoping the sim racing community will make a sort of stand by not subscribing to this form of monthly rent a sim so other developers wont follow suit.

Also a WARNING to any members here thinking of subscribing to try it, iRacing have what I believe to be a very sneaky subsciption system/account management system on their online site. when you subscibe and pay with your credit card there is a box automaticlly ticked to resubscribe at the end of the month they claim for convenience. If you want to try for month and dont go and change this you will be trying for 2 months or 3 months or untill you check your credit card statement. I am sure there was a clause somewhere in the EULA, but its still sneaky.

 

[Stirb Iuliu]

Thanks for your review Nigel.
I didn't even knew about the "sneaky" account management system.


In my view that's a legal theft, no one ever bothers to read those readme files.

 

[Márcio Campos]

I liked the game, but just tried for 1 month, I dont get time to race in all simulators...

But it is an amazing game.

 

[Kevin Johnson]

its a maybe for me. the game seems to look pretty good but i think ill wait a little while for it to develop some more before i go jumping in.

 

[Mike Simian]

While I like the idea, I think the pricing scheme right now will hinder its
popularity. Really I think it should be close to free to start with and then once you get beyond the starter class the price should raise substantially, either that or you should get a lot more initial content, I get what they are trying to do, but I think its a little naive.

Anyway I would like to try it, It looks very good, but will I find enough to keep me going untill I get to the real content??

 

[Mitja Bonca]

It`s a great sim, but it sure need some more time to develop!!

 

[Jacek Kozlowski]

iRacing wheel settings?

Yeasterday i payed for one month subscryption.....wanted to see how its done etc...
Hour after hour starting to see more advantages over other sims(FFB,physics,graphic),mostly driving solstice now.Still looking for good wheel setings-for now i use 900deg and FFB strengh in game 14,outside game as usually FFBs 105% others 0,
thinkng maybe about changing deg. of rotation to 400-600.What You Guyes think-use??
Probbably this time im not gonna buy more traks,cars and renew my subscryption as we have RDGTC and RDNGP leagues in few days so its not the best time.Maybe at beginning of next year.
I just wish there would be more road cars that i like,beacouse i dont have any experience in oval racing.
Today time for my first solstice ranking race....

 

[Simon Trendell]

Leave it at 900 Jacek, iRacing will use however much rotation the car uses in real life. The Solstice has over 1000 so it compensates by making each degree you make on your wheel a bit more in game.
Where as if you drove the Skippy, I think that has about 450 if you turn the wheel beyond 450 then it won't do anything. There's a similar system in LFS and it quite useful

 

[Hansi Josefsson]

I've found 200 (default) to be t6he best.

 

[kydiwl]

I think you're going to get as many answers as there are racers. I think I used to use 900 degrees when I raced the Solstice. I am driving the Skip Barber car now and have changed the setting to 420.

I have found that setting the steering rotation of your computer wheel to match that of the car in the sim seems to work the best.

 

[Dan Burke]

When I sign up for practice sessions, I enter into the latest session available at the time. Fifteen minutes later there are usually a few additional drivers who see me signed up, so some people join in if there's not an actual race. Gives you a few extra laps of solo practice but you can always test other stuff as well...That blinking timer display is useful to remind you of your intentions when you become distracted with all the other motorsports genres on iRacing.

 

[Dan Burke]

Add me to the iRacing list...

So far just ten wins, split equally between road and oval.

 

[Heppu]

Hi all iRacers.

You can add me in the list.
My name in iRacing is Kari Nyman.
Going to get my c licens after next week but i have still lot to leart from skippy so im driving there in next season too.
see you on track!eace:

 

[Heppu]

I think you're going to get as many answers as there are racers. I think I used to use 900 degrees when I raced the Solstice. I am driving the Skip Barber car now and have changed the setting to 420.

I have found that setting the steering rotation of your computer wheel to match that of the car in the sim seems to work the best.

But if you calibrate wheel to 900 and then change it only from the profiler to 450, i think you get 225 degrees of rotation in the car that should have 450.
Don't know which way you do that change, just my 2 cent:yo:

 

[Chris Standring]

Ive recently subscribed to check out iracing to and im very impressed. Still running practice sessions to build my confidence, but the feel of it is just amazing, way beyond rfactor and evo i think.

Ive been running on 900 degrees. After reading around the general consensus seems to be calibrate your wheel, have it set at full rotation and let the sim handle the rest. So far everything ive done has felt spot on so it must be doing something right

 

[Heppu]

I agree. You should set wheel to it's max degrees and let the sim handle the rest.
I have G25 and some guy who got something to do with rFactors real feel, suggest force strent in profiler to be set 101 and 10-15 in sim. It's not much for solstice, but with skippy it works really good.

 

[Valentijn Scholten]

looks nice, but it way too expensive. Especially for the occasional gamer.