Belle Vue Results - 19/3

[Kevin]

The results of the meeting were:

HEAT 1: 216, 136, 112, 16, 531, 137, 561, 288, 188, 599, 11, 8, 363

HEAT 2: 8, 216, 291, 188, 3, 136, 151, 561, 315, 599, 300, 11 (dnf 515, 365, 290)

HEAT 3: 16, 531, 112, 290, 137, 291, 363, 288, 151, 315, 300, 3, 365 (dnf 515)

 

GRAND FINAL: 112, 531, 291, 216, 136, 3, 300, 16, 188, 137, 561, 8, 11, 288, 363, 151, 599 (dnf 290, 315)

 

GN: 8, 291, 137, 16, 136, 112, 561, 3, 531, 599, 300, 288, 315, 216, 11, 363, 151, 365 (dnf 188)

 

And the points scored were:

Number .. Points

112 .. 49

291 .. 37

531 .. 34

136 .. 31

216 .. 31

16 .. 29

3 .. 20

8 .. 20

137 .. 20

188 .. 12

300 .. 10

561 .. 10

290 .. 5

599 .. 4

151 .. 3

288 .. 2

315 .. 2

363 .. 2

Zeros: 11, 365, 515

[big al 515]

I had to jack the meeting in after the heats as the feel just wasn't right, I could not be precise as it was all too "swimmy" on screen and totally unlike offline - I don't know if I need to drop my graphics settings down further or if the cheap pc is just not upto it.

 

Racing rFactor F2's is a totally different experience, the graphics are perfect throughout races, probably like the rest of you are getting in F1's.

I will probably be a very occasional performer in F1's until I eventually upgrade the pc, unless dropping graphics as low as poss helps - but either way I will be racing the Tooz aplenty.

[Matty300]

Just wondered Al if dropping the special effects down from full (display>special effects) may help.The dust kicked up on shale tracks certainly makes things much trickier, & I would imagine puts a strain on your PC's processor & graphics card chip in the same way as processing shadows does on mine in some games, eg far cry 2 etc. When racing online the processor obviously has to draw in all the other cars & the effects created by them & this may be reason you get that "swimmy" effect. Having plenty of RAM helps & is probably the most cost effective upgrade you can make, 4GB should make rFactor fly at average settings.

[Kruiz 136]

Single 2.8ghz processor, 2GB RAM, with a 7950gt graphics card, similar or better cards can be bought for about 30 quid these days on ebay, and I play it on full settings except for special effects, I even have shadows on low. I do get lag from time to time but it doesn't seem to help if I lower the settings or not, its just background processes that I just can't get rid of, that causes the lag for me I think.

[Walker363]

Good meeting - Shame I could not get right on the pace due to my FFB feeling light and heavy at times. Maybe something to do with the track I think MoR was saying ? Apart from that I enjoyed the meeting. Roll on Ipswich

[big al 515]

Just wondered Al if dropping the special effects down from full (display>special effects) may help.The dust kicked up on shale tracks certainly makes things much trickier, & I would imagine puts a strain on your PC's processor & graphics card chip in the same way as processing shadows does on mine in some games, eg far cry 2 etc. When racing online the processor obviously has to draw in all the other cars & the effects created by them & this may be reason you get that "swimmy" effect. Having plenty of RAM helps & is probably the most cost effective upgrade you can make, 4GB should make rFactor fly at average settings.

 

Thanks for the tip matty, will certainly experiment more with this as I did see dust being kicked up so I need to get rid of that for sure.

[Kruiz 136]

Ah well turning off the effects will improve your frame rates for sure mate, problem solved I'd say, it makes a huge difference.