The wait is over. Need help from the iracing gods on the beeb..

I started doing the GT4 series because I was a little tired of the Miata, plus my friend is buying a real life GT4 club sport so I wanted to play with that car. One thing I have noticed- the tracks you have to pay for, those races are far more gentlemanly- You may still get hit but it's not the unbridled crash fest that is the free tracks.

This is starting to become an axiom in American life- raise the price to get rid of the Rif Raf.

 

I got into D class and was thinking it was gonna be better. Pretty much the same shit. Instead of racing I'm driving around managing the morons around me and invetably somebody still manages to do stupid shit.

I think they SR system works once you get people that know how to race but when you have a bunch of people that are just clueless...it doesn't help anything. I think the penalty in the lower classes should be harsher. Like an automatic DQ or drive thur penalty for spinning or making contact. Also the system doesn't recognize who's actually at fault...

Meh.

 

One thing to look at is how populated the race is .
The more splits , the bigger the chance of getting in with lower quality racers .
Less splits also means you might be in with much better drivers that can be safer , but also much faster which can raise your SR , but lower your IR .
Unless of course you beat those higher IR guys it will help both .
The game overall has brought in more game console members than when most of us here got started .
Some of those people are using game pads , which also leads to shitty driving .

 

I finally have my TrakRacer rig complete. I'm doing some cable management before I plug everything in. One thing I've noticed is that with my old Logitech setup, I had one USB for the wheel and pedals. Now I'll have 3- one for the wheel and it's associated buttons, one for the pedals, and one for the wheel controller?

Also, the wheel came with a short coiled cable, but that's obviously not going to reach the PC. so is there a USB extender I should get for that?

I think with the mouse and keyboard, I'll be using all 6 of my USB ports on the PC.

 

Mount a USB hub somewhere close to the wheel deck ..

 

I have nothing to add except that I absolute hate iRacing UI .

 

Whats the best bang for your buck graphics card these days? I'm still on a 2080, think it's about time to upgrade.

 

Wait. The 50 series cards are on the way. 40 series stocks are dwindling so prices are not dropping a ton. But if you have to buy today. The 4070 Super is probably the best balance of price to performance.

 

If i want to wait, what am I waiting for?

 

Most likely a power connector related fire. I doubt they will have reduced the power consumption much while improving performance. Unless you are going 2k or 4k triples it may not be worth the wait.

If you are me you are sitting on your hands waiting for all the " I got have the latest, greatest shit crowd" to pay the premiums for the upgrades and buying their 40 series stuff at a lower price point.

 

Anyone have terrible luck this season?

Went from almost 2800ir down 500. A rating is almost gone. I get taken out almost every race. The lower the ir it gets worse too. It’s like a vicious circle.

 

Freaking Road America last night...it is always shit luck for me at Road America. In 20 years of sim racing I have never had a race there that turned out worth a damn. Having said that I don't do any official shit so I don't keep track of SR or IR.

 

Def don't need latest and greatest. Just need an upgrade over the 2080. Just want whatever the best bang for the buck at this point is. All I do is iracing so don't have to worry about anything else.

 

I'd go 4070 at least. Skip the 30 series since you were on the 20 series. I jumped 10 to 30.

 

Just official stuff for me. Schedule is weird and I don’t have any leagues or nothing I’m apart of.

 

TI, super or regular.
Good lord there's a lot of options.

 

Super or Ti. Super is probably the best value mark.

 

Max on the difference between sim and real racing

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DE-5A3Dt_vM/
interesting stuff he said"
motion rigs are slower
and sim racing is 95% similar except for the G-Forces

...for me it's like 75%, maybe 60% similar ..maybe that's why i'm slow lolol

 

Never turned off my motion to check , but I can't even count the times rear traction loss has saved my ass .

 

Whats that food he was handed??