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Jason

I can't really tell abt. GTR's physics.  The car spun abt. where and when
and even how I expected it to spin...and didn't where I didn't...but
mentally I'm still stuck in the pre-Jurassic period when Drivers were Real
Men, Tracks were Death Traps, and Race Cars handled like...well, GPL and
N2003.  Real-world modern physics is voodoo to me...particularly in F1, but
to some degree in nearly all "aero" enabled vehicles.

For example, I had both ABS and traction control on in GTR, both set to low.
The TC behaved abt. how I expected it to: it would save me from most of my
wretched excesses (right foot-wise), especially when I was going fast enuf
to have the aero pressing my nose to the pavement.  But if I banged the
throttle wide open coming out of La Source in first gear, I got spanked, as
well I should.

OTOH, no matter how hard I mashed the brakes, I never locked 'em up.  That's
what I'd expect with ABS on High or maybe Medium, but with Low, you'd
certainly expect to lock up the inside rear whilst trail-braking.  Nada.

Maybe this is just a matter of tweaking...like the Menus (which don't seem
any more logical than when ISI was helming the code).

The one thing that stood out as literally unbelievable was what would happen
when you got the outside tires on the grass accelerating hard out of a
corner: NOTHING!

The best thing about the new GTR: the sounds!  I'd pay real money (i.e.,
Euros) for the gear whine alone!

Don't you mean the inside front?  Usually you have the brake bias slightly
to the front in these sorts of cars.  That was one of my gripes with
GTR2002 - the inside front locked up far too easily when trail braking -
unless you used completely unrealistic anti-roll/damper settings which of
course all the aliens did after a while.. :-\

  Has anyone, purely for scientific research, taken a corner too fast,
plowed into the armco, lost the front hood and splitter, then used the
'page up' key and the keypad keys to rotate the view and take a look at the  
engine bay?
dh

Marc

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I would guess it controls the amount of camera movement in***pit mode
that simulates your head movements due to G-forces.

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   Then you need to start doing neck exercises immeadiately.
Dave lol  Henrie

   Their design goal called for 30 car fields online.  So they will have to
have some improvement over the F1c code to achieve that.  I never messed
with Nascar THunder, which is where I'm guessing the server code comes
from, what were the field sizes capable with Thunder 2004?

dave henrie