rec.autos.simulators

Todd

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Todd Walker
http://www.racesimcentral.net/
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Drive the Minicooper, most of the other cars are fishtailing tanks. I must
say I'm disappointed in this game after all the Euros posting here saying
that it is the GPL of rally games. I guess I had higher expectations. Frame
rates are sometimes fine and at other times stutters for no apparent reason.
Lifting off the gas pedal completely causes the wheel to disconnect which
means I plow into the corners more than I should. Plus this game causes my
PC to get an "invalid page fault" almost evertime I exit it. Now I kow why
they are trying to dump it for only $35.00 CAD at EB, most new games cost
almost double that. I think I will return it to EB. The blow settings for
the "input.ini" file may help you. You will find this file in the
"Data\Settings" folder.

# How many control events are buffered
BufferSize  = 8;
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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# Converts analog steering to digital
# (for gamepads that are reported as analog, but give nearly digital
feedback)
ForceDigitalSteering = 0;
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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# Minimum & maximum values for input devices
AxisMinValue  = -1000;
AxisMaxValue  =  1000;
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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# Values for exponential functions
# ( 1.0 = no effect, bigger values give less sensitivity, smaller more)
SteeringExponent = 1.0;
ThrottleExponent = 1.0;
BrakeExponent  = 1.5;
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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# Set this to 1 if you want to use following custom ranges instead of
detected values
OverrideRanges  = 1;
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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# Steering input range
# (100% left, 100% right)
AnalogXAxisRange = {-1000, 1000};

# (often brake)
AnalogYAxisRange = { 1000,-1000};
# (often acceleration)
AnalogZAxisRange = { 1000,-1000};
# Rotational
AnalogRXAxisRange = { 1000, -1000};
AnalogRYAxisRange = { 1000, -1000};
# (often a rudded control)
AnalogRZAxisRange = { 1000, -1000};

#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Thanks for your help
Todd

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I don't find the rear wheel drive cars to be impossible to drive, although
the stratos is pretty damn hard :) I did the expert championship in the
stratos, and it did take a lot of practice.

The only advice I can really give you for the RWD cars is to start out in
novice and drive a rear wheel drive car (don't use a mini or anything), and
then move up to a RWD car in intermediate. Then by the time you hit expert
(where all the cars are rwd), you'll be used to how a RWD car sort of acts.

The steering is the least of your worries really.. it's the gas and the
break pedal that you have to be really cautious about. When I drive a FWD
car, like the Mini... I control the car, and throw it around as much as
possible. When I drive the Stratos, it is more incontrol of itself.. I just
baby it through corners :)

Mike
http://mikebeauchamp.com

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There's a reason the Mini is such a legendary car. I'm sticking with it. :-)

Mike
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Mike
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So far with a Microsoft Sidewinder wheel, no deadzone, and full
sensitivity, I'm finding every car to be a joy to drive, and the
detail of the driving model (in the patched version) to be easily on
par with GPL.  I had some problems with my pedals acting like on/off
switches at first, until I realized the problem was caused by changes
I had made using dxtweak in order to get realistic pedal movement in
F1 2001.  It's amazing how much personality each car has, and while
the stages are short they're much better imho than those in Rally
Masters and Colin McRae 2.0.  More atmosphere for starters, and more
variety in terms of challenges (as opposed to the standard 'let's
throw as many similar curves at the player as we possible can').  I
would love to drive these cars on the Rally Championship 2000 stages,
tho.

I hope Bugbear takes what they've learned making and patching RT and
puts out another top notch sim.  Assuming Papy doesn't throw their
hand in the rally sim genre, Bugbear may be our only hope.

Jason

PAPA DOC

Pierre PAPA DOC Legrand
Never Forget Never Forgive September 11, 2001
www.papadoc.net
Maj. Bryan Hilferty, a spokesman for the
10th Mountain Division:"If they want to bring in
more people so we can kill them,We're happy to oblige."

How far do I have to get to unlock that one?

Quite a few people at a couple of web message boards are saying this is a
bug and not how it should be. Physics are livley, but maybe a bit
exagerrated? It's fun, but it ain't no GPL.

PAPA DOC

Pierre PAPA DOC Legrand
Never Forget Never Forgive September 11, 2001
www.papadoc.net
Maj. Bryan Hilferty, a spokesman for the
10th Mountain Division:"If they want to bring in
more people so we can kill them,We're happy to oblige."

Yea, I find that true of all the cars. It feels like the wheel is
disconnected when you completely lift off the gas. Try left foot braking to
overcome it.