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GPL Demo - More Criticisms

Jonny Hodgso

GPL Demo - More Criticisms

by Jonny Hodgso » Sat, 25 Apr 1998 04:00:00


> > I thought I was going mad! I disliked F1RS (at least partly) because I
> > couldn't believe the steering was accurate. I'm glad a real F1 driver
> > has confirmed this belief. Even if I was able to play F1RS with a
> > perfect frame rate, I'd still say GP2 is the better game and the > better

> I have gone mad playing CPR! I believe the car's handling is just
> bananas. It is not the setup (I think) as I have downloaded 'fast'
> setups to find them more uncontrollable and slower than mine. Could my
> driving style be the poblem?

> OTOH, FIRS is as I imagined an F1 car to be - easy and intuative. I
> can't believe that Frank Williams - with all his millions - is going to
> produce cars that are a handful to control.

Quick race cars are always a handful.  If it's easy to control, then it's
almost certainly slow, at least over a single qualifying lap.  Endurance
racers will be trimmed back a little bit to avoid falling off at the end
of a four-hour stint...

The quick setups you've downloaded will be extremely fast if you can keep
them on the track, although (at least with real physics) I still maintain
that there is no one best setup for a car - it depends on your personal
driving style.

A fellow model car racer, who is somewhere around my pace, accused my car
of being 'undriveable' when we swapped for a few laps.  I found his
horribly, horribly sluggish and unresponsive.

Jonny
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Greg Cisk

GPL Demo - More Criticisms

by Greg Cisk » Mon, 27 Apr 1998 04:00:00


>I never extrapolated F16 flight dynamics to F1 sims!!!  I only stated
>that since the most maneuverable airplanes show instability, it

That might be true of older non computer controled aircraft, but the
modern aircraft us their computer control programs to maintain
a flight envelope. Even the F-15...

Since you use *might*, anything is of course possible. But in general
I think not. For one I think the aerodynamics in the car body is primarily
concerned with downforce, and some straight line speed. And of course
you can have problems in traffice. Besides you can set up your F1 car
like ***to make it more manouverable and harder to drive right now.
I think Jordan is doing that, aren't they :-)

Huh.

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