It seems everybody is playing,downloading patches etc.
I cannot find RC 2000 in New York City.Can someone tell me where to buy
it on line or in a store??
Thanks,Maurizio
Are there patches that improve the feel of the cars?
Thanks,
Johan.
> It seems everybody is playing,downloading patches etc.
> I cannot find RC 2000 in New York City.Can someone tell me where to buy
> it on line or in a store??
> Thanks,Maurizio
Yeps. There are now three patches (1,2 and 4) and #4 enables you to change
all sorts of stuff in the game, like removing the sticky grass and changing
the brake effectiveness...You can find it at
http://www.simracingnews.com/updates/downloads/rallychampionship2000/...
.shtml.
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Kenneth Verburg
Webmaster/Editor-in-chief High Gear
http://www.simracingnews.com
David
http://www.simracingnews.com/updates/downloads/rallychampionship2000/...
> --
> Kenneth Verburg
> Webmaster/Editor-in-chief High Gear
> http://www.simracingnews.com
You can totally change the handling of the cars if you'd want to, but most
people have discovered that the initial driving model wasn't that bad. A lot
more info on the patch, etc can be found on the High Gear RC Forums at:
http://forums.simracingnews.com/cgi-bin/forumdisplay.cgi?action=topic...
=Rally+Championship&number=3&DaysPrune=30&LastLogin=
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Kenneth Verburg
Editor-in-chief High Gear
http://www.simracingnews.com
> > It seems everybody is playing,downloading patches etc.
> > I cannot find RC 2000 in New York City.Can someone tell me where to buy
> > it on line or in a store??
> > Thanks,Maurizio
Phone: (250) 952-2447
Fax: (250) 952-2072
David G Fisher
> Are there patches that improve the feel of the cars?
> Thanks,
> Johan.
> > It seems everybody is playing,downloading patches etc.
> > I cannot find RC 2000 in New York City.Can someone tell me where to buy
> > it on line or in a store??
> > Thanks,Maurizio
I can see why many people have posted messages on usenet saying the
handling in RC is crap? But it isn't crap! It just takes a bit of
tinkering to make it feel better. RC felt pretty dire using the default
settings. But you need to change the steering sensitivity, and the lower
and upper dead zone values to suit your own controller.
After spending about half an hour tweaking these, I transformed the
handling, and it felt pretty good to drive afterwards. The car
does stop dead if you hit anything, even a straw bail, but I am now able
to slide it around corners, and perform pendulum swings and handbrake
turns with relative ease!
It takes a bit of adjustment, and I can see why maybe people have missed
these features, they are hidden away in the many menus, but its well
worth making the effort. The car is now very rewarding to drive, better
than RAC rally championship, and I would say better than CMR also.
Going off road (say onto grass slows the car quite a bit, and hitting
walls, etc doesn't do much damage unless repeated often?) so realistic
it ain't, but it drives well despite this.
Copied from a later post (by me):
----------------------------------------------------------------
I've d/l'd the Rally Championship patch v4 from the simracing news
website, which gives a new ral.exe file, and also allows configuration
of the games physics settings (much complained about by some people!)
If you do not have one already, make a ral.cfg file (using notepad or
similer) and save it to your rc\var directory.
Using this text file (once the patch has been installed) you can specify
all sorts of settings to make the cars brake longer, reduce or increase
grip on various surfaces, etc, etc.
Check out these sites for the patch (and when you d/l it read the
patch.txt file for all the details of what can be changed):
http://www.simracingnews.com/
http://www.rallychampionship.co.uk/
After some experimentation today, my ral.cfg file has the following
lines....
patchstickygrass=0
patchdamages=50
patchbrakegrip=50
patchslidegrip=80
patchmaxdrawdistance=1
This turns off the sticky grass, so you do not slow down when on grass,
reduces the amount of damage done by 50%, decreases braking power by
50%, (so the car takes twice the distance to stop) increases the cars
sliding slightly, and reduces slightly the amount of graphics drawn in
the distance (to speed up graphics).
This has transformed the game for me. Before these changes it was a good
game, pretty realistic (once the steering sensitivity had been sorted
out) and looked great. Now, the car brakes better, steers better, slides
better, and seems to fly along even quicker than before. It now feels
awesome, the game Colin M Rally should have been!
Get the patch, make the changes (you may want slightly different
settings to me, but use mine as a guide if you like) and enjoy.....
8-)
*Peter* - http://www.cix.co.uk/~peterpc/home.html
Anybody know of a way to turn this behaviour off? I chose Manual shifting so
I could do the shifting. I don't want the game shifting for me!
> I can see why many people have posted messages on usenet saying the
> handling in RC is crap? But it isn't crap! It just takes a bit of
> tinkering to make it feel better. RC felt pretty dire using the default
> settings. But you need to change the steering sensitivity, and the lower
> and upper dead zone values to suit your own controller.
> After spending about half an hour tweaking these, I transformed the
> handling, and it felt pretty good to drive afterwards. The car
> does stop dead if you hit anything, even a straw bail, but I am now able
> to slide it around corners, and perform pendulum swings and handbrake
> turns with relative ease!
> It takes a bit of adjustment, and I can see why maybe people have missed
> these features, they are hidden away in the many menus, but its well
> worth making the effort. The car is now very rewarding to drive, better
> than RAC rally championship, and I would say better than CMR also.
> Going off road (say onto grass slows the car quite a bit, and hitting
> walls, etc doesn't do much damage unless repeated often?) so realistic
> it ain't, but it drives well despite this.
> Copied from a later post (by me):
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> I've d/l'd the Rally Championship patch v4 from the simracing news
> website, which gives a new ral.exe file, and also allows configuration
> of the games physics settings (much complained about by some people!)
> If you do not have one already, make a ral.cfg file (using notepad or
> similer) and save it to your rc\var directory.
> Using this text file (once the patch has been installed) you can specify
> all sorts of settings to make the cars brake longer, reduce or increase
> grip on various surfaces, etc, etc.
> Check out these sites for the patch (and when you d/l it read the
> patch.txt file for all the details of what can be changed):
> http://www.simracingnews.com/
> http://www.rallychampionship.co.uk/
> After some experimentation today, my ral.cfg file has the following
> lines....
> patchstickygrass=0
> patchdamages=50
> patchbrakegrip=50
> patchslidegrip=80
> patchmaxdrawdistance=1
> This turns off the sticky grass, so you do not slow down when on grass,
> reduces the amount of damage done by 50%, decreases braking power by
> 50%, (so the car takes twice the distance to stop) increases the cars
> sliding slightly, and reduces slightly the amount of graphics drawn in
> the distance (to speed up graphics).
> This has transformed the game for me. Before these changes it was a good
> game, pretty realistic (once the steering sensitivity had been sorted
> out) and looked great. Now, the car brakes better, steers better, slides
> better, and seems to fly along even quicker than before. It now feels
> awesome, the game Colin M Rally should have been!
> Get the patch, make the changes (you may want slightly different
> settings to me, but use mine as a guide if you like) and enjoy.....
> 8-)
> *Peter* - http://www.cix.co.uk/~peterpc/home.html
By the way, a compliment to Kenneth Verburg at simracingnews for the most
current easy to use page I have used for a long time. Good on you for
keeping us so up to date.
Tinker
>David
>> > Are there patches for RC2K? If so, where can I get them? I bought this
>> > game when it came out (Netherlands), downloaded the patch to make it
>> > work with my V3 but after one championship I put it aside. The feel is
>> > just TOO wrong to be enjoyable.
>> > Are there patches that improve the feel of the cars?
>> Yeps. There are now three patches (1,2 and 4) and #4 enables you to
change
>> all sorts of stuff in the game, like removing the sticky grass and
>changing
>> the brake effectiveness...You can find it at
>http://www.simracingnews.com/updates/downloads/rallychampionship2000/...
s
>> .shtml.
>> --
>> Kenneth Verburg
>> Webmaster/Editor-in-chief High Gear
>> http://www.simracingnews.com
If you do not have one already, make a ral.cfg file (using notepad or
similer) and save it to your rc\var directory.
Using this text file (once the patch has been installed) you can specify
all sorts of settings to make the cars brake longer, reduce or increase
grip on various surfaces, etc, etc.
Check out these sites for the patch (and when you d/l it read the
patch.txt file for all the details of what can be changed):
http://www.simracingnews.com/
http://www.rallychampionship.co.uk/
8-)
*Peter* - http://www.cix.co.uk/~peterpc/home.html
> > A recent post had a link to an
> > application that allows you to control the setup of the variables from
> > outside the game.
> Rally Championship patch v4 from the simracing news
> website, which gives a new ral.exe file, and also allows configuration
> of the games physics settings.
> If you do not have one already, make a ral.cfg file (using notepad or
> similer) and save it to your rc\var directory.
> Using this text file (once the patch has been installed) you can specify
> all sorts of settings to make the cars brake longer, reduce or increase
> grip on various surfaces, etc, etc.
> Check out these sites for the patch (and when you d/l it read the
> patch.txt file for all the details of what can be changed):
> http://www.simracingnews.com/
> http://www.rallychampionship.co.uk/
> 8-)
> *Peter* - http://www.cix.co.uk/~peterpc/home.html