garyellis

I've had a search of the forum and here are a few peoples replies to various setup questions - ....................................... Softer springs makes it grippier, slower and usually more stable. Harder springs makes it loose, faster and usually far less stable and harder to control. ....................................... One thing you have to remember this that setups are not crucial to fast laps, they are helpful but not crucial. You need to sort out aspects of your driving aswell to be fast, for example think logically when going into the bends. To go as fast as you can you generally need to use as much track as you can to speed up, so for places like buxton, arena and northampton you would want to be driving near the fence on the straights and cutting into the corners reasonably late. That way you will be braking as you are turning the corner, and you will also be going fast whilst maintaining a tight line. Then accelerate down the straight near to the fence as soon as you feel that doing so won't spin you or drag you into the fence. Then repeat the process for the next bend. Thats the way to do it on most tracks, well it is for me anyway. Setups help alot of course. Start with the 'default' setup and then adjust wheel lock, depending on your controller, you want around 9 or 10 for gamepad, abit higher for keyboard and even higher for steering wheel. Then you want to sort out the weights, mainly wedge as this will affect the over/under steer on the car quite dramatically, then play about with the sway bars. If your using automatic gears then change your gear ratios so that you are only using two gears, and the final gear. Set 3rd and fourth gears 0.50 as this will prevent the car from going above second. Then play with your racing gear (in this case your second gear) and get it so it stays in that gear and does not shoot down to first round the bends, and so that you hit around 7000 rpm at the end of the straights. Final gear will also have the same effect when you adjust it, so you just need to play. Leave shocks and springs until your confident, a simple gears, weights, sway bars and wheelock setup should start you off nicely and get you clocking some near-on-pace laps. .............................. when in game go to controls and turn down throttle speed, its prob set to max. turn it down so the red bar indicator goes down to quarter or just before the quarter, should help you a lot. ...................... soften the right rear spring and bump and raise the front sway bars and reduce the rear to nothing. to much left handside camber will aslo make your car spin out, reduce this also till your happy with turn in and not oversteering out. .......................... then you can start playing with the rest. adjusting front and rear shocks making the front harder and stiffer will give understeer, if your fronts to soft and rear to high it will oversteer badly. also make sure you lock isnt set to high also, i find between 5-8 is ok, to high and it,l oversteer again. Try setting the wedge to 50% Set the rear tyre pressures, springs, shocks a rebounds all equal on left and right. Also on more uneven surfaces have larger differences between the shock & rebound. If that leads to understeer then set the right rear slightly higher settings than the left rear or add more left weight or more wedge on left front. You can make it turn in better by setting the right front on higher settings than the left but this usaully makes it oversteer. As such, you need to counteract that with rear wheels settings & weight. .............................. If I've never raced a track before , I usually use the setup exchanger in the MOD LAUNCHER to copy setups from previous tracks and try to find a good starting point for that setup . Hope this post along with LeeK's post helps others Cheers Gary

cheers Leek , that's the sort of thing I was on about If anyone else want's to put in a bit about tweaks they've noticed improved their handling when doing setups , the more the merrier

I would like to see a detailed setup guide section on the forum. I've followed the one on UKDirt , and it's helped me out of the " embarisingly slow " catogary into just the " get out my way " category . But It would be good if someone could pick an element of the garage , say wedge or suspension for example , and give a decent explanation of how changes effect the way the car handles and how they use it to cut down lap times . I've used other peoples setups before but could never get on with any of them and some mods seem to frown on newbies asking for help . Anyone willing to spend a bit of time explaining the mysteries to those less fortunate

[attachmentid=17612]Nerd City , or what

A few more chassis in ssc wouldn't go a miss a Darby / Aldous type or an unbreakable Rab Copland type for me

I use photoshop , but it shouldn't matter if you are saving your skin as a " .tga " file , 24bit uncompressed . photoshop asks you this when you save it but I seem to remember having problems with PSP as the 24bit part was set in preferencies in the program and not when you were actually saving it . hope this helps

I put the MKTEX program in the folder C:\Documents and Settings\gary ellis and save my painted skin as a tga file in the same folder . then start " command prompt " program ( the black DOS window ) . type in the following - C:\documents and settings\gary ellis > mktex FILENAME.tga car668.texIf it doesn't come back with an error message , there is a CAR668 TEX file in that folder . drag that file into the C:\Program Files\Hasbro Interactive\NASCAR Heat\ukdirtf2 or whatever mod you have painted the skin for , edit the drivers text file - IE - add your text to the notepad document in the same folder - table Driver number 668 name gary668 chassis fto rank 1 race_image 100 body_style ccar wheel_basename whitew end then save , when you start the game , your car should be seen in the driver's selection now UNLESS it is a BANGER then you would have to run Banger Manager again before you would see it in the game . hope my idiot's ( me ) guide helps

I use the launcher to manage the tracks for each mod , but I usually open up the setup folders to swap among tracks . after checking I'd got the current version of the launcher at mod launcher 2 version 1.6 I see it's got a setup exchanger as well Well worth having

Situation normal then

cheers Boss

After uninstalling all the mods I can using add.remove programs , I still have 31 skinpacks in banger heat manager , is it ok to just go into the UKDirtbangers folder and delete last years folders ?

I had this when I downloded a skinpack with NO driver entries in the pack . add your driver text , save it click on class from BCM then try restarting game . hope this helps

Can we see another photo of it AFTER it's first meeting at Cowdie ?

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