rec.autos.simulators

by **Don Awal** » Tue, 24 Jan 1995 22:42:34

How do you set the camber on the rear wheels? I notice that it doesn't
let you on the camber screen, but the NCSETUP utility prints it out.
Can I assume that these are hard coded numbers, and like normal
cars the camber is seldom if ever modified on the rear?

by **John Clarke Mccanle** » Wed, 25 Jan 1995 05:32:40

You never need to, I believe. If you check your tire temps, they'll
always be about equal across the rear tires. That's prpbably a
concession by the game designers since they did not give us the
ability to change rear camber.

Cheers,
John

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Department of Electrical Engineering
University of ***ia

by **Pat Campbe** » Wed, 25 Jan 1995 23:15:02

>>How do you set the camber on the rear wheels? I notice that it doesn't
>>let you on the camber screen, but the NCSETUP utility prints it out.
>>Can I assume that these are hard coded numbers, and like normal
>>cars the camber is seldom if ever modified on the rear?

>You never need to, I believe. If you check your tire temps, they'll
>always be about equal across the rear tires. That's prpbably a
>concession by the game designers since they did not give us the
>ability to change rear camber.

Well, another reason for this is that you cannot LEGALLY change the camber
on the rear of a Winston Cup car. First off, to change the camber on the
rear-end, you have to bend the axle (it's a solid axle). A couple of
years ago, someone came up with the idea to do this, giving the cars more
rear-end traction. The result? A lot of broken axles. After three or
four races, NASCAR mandated no more cambered rear-ends.

Pat
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by **Richard O** » Wed, 25 Jan 1995 18:45:02

>Subject: Camber question
>Date: 23 Jan 1995 13:42:34 GMT
>How do you set the camber on the rear wheels? I notice that it doesn't
>let you on the camber screen, but the NCSETUP utility prints it out.
>Can I assume that these are hard coded numbers, and like normal
>cars the camber is seldom if ever modified on the rear?

The cars run a straight axel. You cannot change the setting even on the real
cars from what I understand. They explain it in the setup part of the manual.

Rich

by **Scott Fo** » Wed, 01 Feb 1995 16:13:16

: >How do you set the camber on the rear wheels? I notice that it doesn't
: >let you on the camber screen, but the NCSETUP utility prints it out.
: >Can I assume that these are hard coded numbers, and like normal
: >cars the camber is seldom if ever modified on the rear?
: >
: You never need to, I believe. If you check your tire temps, they'll
: always be about equal across the rear tires. That's prpbably a
: concession by the game designers since they did not give us the
: ability to change rear camber.

In Nascar they use a solid rear axle, so realy the only way to change the
camber is to bend the axle, and if that happens your fubar anyway. The
rear camber settings are fixed in Nascar, You only need to set the rear
camber in a car with an independent rear suspension, such as Indy, or F1
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by **m..** » Thu, 02 Feb 1995 04:27:07

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In Nascar I have heard of the teams using positive camber in the rear of the
car to get traction. This can only be done by adding and taking away
stagger from either tire because of the solid rear axle. I also remeber
from a an announcer on TNN that there is about .5 deg for ever 1 inch of
stagger, or something like that...

Matt

by **TR Sil** » Fri, 10 Feb 1995 06:00:50

Thanks to all who've offered info. on car setup...

On another note though, I have now got my B-inlaw hooked on the game,
but his machine is running dog slow. He has a 486/DLC 33 w/ Cirrux
chips/ 1 meg Diamond Star video card/ 8 Meg ram/ no cache/ no sound/ &
no VLB's (all ISA's). He will boot w/ a clean autoexec (holding down
left shift button) and turn most if not all detail off (really sucks
too) and still the game is choppy. Further, we've tried hooking up via
modem & as you would expect, even w/ 5 opponents on the track his
machine is out to lunch.

Any ideas? Is he hosed because of his machine? Is it the lack of VESA
buses?

I mention the VLB because I have a 486/33 w/ VLB's and I have no
problem w/ speed...

Unfortunately, I have to turn to this newsgroup since Papyrus doesn't
respond to Email...go figure considering Email is highly recommened in
the manual.

Thanx,

Tim

by **HOFMANN, MA** » Sat, 11 Feb 1995 02:39:43

Well, to answer your question, I'll tell you what I have.... 486/dx33 w/ an
Oak Tech. video card (1mb), 4Mb RAM, and an SBPro, I can run all details on
at 15 frames/second with 33 cars enabled - without it slowing down.

I don't know what is wrong, but I do know that if anything, my system should
be slower than that one. I also don't know exactly what holding down that key
does (Yes, I STILL have DOS 5), but if it disables everything, you are missing
your HIMEM and EMM programs...

--Mark

by **Peter Burk** » Sat, 11 Feb 1995 03:25:48

>On another note though, I have now got my B-inlaw hooked on the game,
>but his machine is running dog slow. He has a 486/DLC 33 w/ Cirrux
>chips/ 1 meg Diamond Star video card/ 8 Meg ram/ no cache/ no sound/ &
>no VLB's (all ISA's). He will boot w/ a clean autoexec (holding down
>left shift button) and turn most if not all detail off (really sucks
>too) and still the game is choppy. Further, we've tried hooking up via
>modem & as you would expect, even w/ 5 opponents on the track his
>machine is out to lunch.

Running without Autoexec and config.sys is good, since ICR doesn't need
himem or emm- anything. I have a hunch your machine may be running it's
CPU at 8mHz or its caches may be disabled - check that BIOS! This stuff
won't be as obvious in Windoze as it is in IOCR, so you may even speed
up some stuff you always thought was slow by design ;-)