[Race 07] General Discussion

Race 07 General Discussion area

Race 07 can be purchased at steam or on disc at a local games store

http://store.steampowered.com/app/8600/?snr=1_7_suggest__13

Minimum requirements
- Operating Systems Microsoft Windows XP Home/Pro, Windows Vista, Windows 7
- Processor 2.4 GHz Intel Pentium 4 or 100% compatible
- Memory 1 GB RAM
- Hard Drive 3.7 GB free space
- 3D Accelerator DirectX 9 compatible graphics card with 256MB memory
- Sound Card DirectX 9 compatible
- Input Keyboard and Mouse
- DirectX Version 9

Recommended requirements
- Operating Systems Microsoft Windows XP Home/Pro, Windows Vista, Windows 7
- Processor 3 GHz Intel Pentium IV or 100% compatible
- Memory 2 GB RAM
- Hard Drive 4.7 GB free space
- 3D Accelerator DirectX 9 compatible graphics card with 512 MB memory
- Sound Card DirectX 9 compatible
- Input DirectX 9 compatible Force Feedback steering wheel
- DirectX Version 9
 

Expansion Packs:

Race 07 has many expansion packs and are very cheap, alot of the newest mods available require GTR EVO and Race ON expansions to run

Packs can be bought at steam or raceroom.com keep an eye on steam they frequently have 50% sales every other month were u can get packs for $2 :)

http://www.raceroom.net/games/

Mods:

Race 07 has a huge modding community with tons of car add ons, tracks, graphic enhancements, patches,  and ingame user tools.

The best sites ive come across are listed below

Note: nogripracing has a 100mb daily download limit, and the german site can be switched to english by clicking on the British flag located at the top of the page, you must also register to the sites to be able to download content

http://www.weissbierbude.de/component/option,com_remository/Itemid,26/lang,en/

http://living-simracing.blogspot.ca/search/label/Race07

http://www.nogripracing.com/files.php?maincat=5

Adding Mods:

first you will need a program to open the zip files.  the ones that i suggest are 7-zip or winwar

2nd...ive found some files at nogrip racing are a little tricky and you will need to create 3 folders within your race 07 folder

Your race folder should be located in program files or program files (x86) under steam\steamapps\username\race07\

inside your Race folder you will need to create a Gamedata folder within that folder you will need to create 2 seperate folders.  Teams and Locations

The 2 german sites and most of nogrip are very simple just extract the file to your Race 07 folder and it will sort everything for you!

Now your ready to install your mod!

unzip your file and extract it to the following location

C:\Program files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\username\race07\

Always read the read me if availableand back up your files before installing incase something goes wrong

Note: sometimes the file wont have a gamedata folder if so......tracks get extracted to your locations folder and cars and series mods go to  your teams folders

Must have Graphics enhancements!

https://docs.google.com/folder/d/0ByQRckRcCX7RODd0VUdYYXkwalU/edit

Wheel setup:

This is more of a personal thing so i wont go into great detail

In your wheel profile its suggested to use these setting and is also what i use for the g27

Combine pedals uncheck

degrees of rotation 900 (but it sounds like 540 is very popular for this title

enable force feedback 100-107%

spring effect 0

damper effect 0

Center spring stregnth check set to 0

allow game to adjust unchecked

Ingame settings for force feedback,

alot of people crank the ffb to max, but from what ive read by setting it so high your actually cancelling out some of the important feelings.  this is what ive taken in

low=tire grip and road

med=tire grip, road, brakes

high=tire grip, roads, brakes, curbs, engine

max=tire grip,  roads, brakes, curbs, engine, vibrations other car and ingame sounds

I set mine to med and crank ffb and steering strength to 100 and leave the rest at stock settings

But again its personal choice ive tried many configs, and found these gave me the best feeling of the road and my cars actions.

The most important setting to adjust ingame in car setups is steering lock set to 22-25 degrees....lower for rwd higher for fwd

H pattern shifter: in controller settings you will need to config. your shifter, very easy scroll down to yours gears right click to unbind and the set your gears repeating till there all set

Sounds:

I watched a video @ insidesimracing and they said one of the most important data to know what your car is doing is sound settings, like fbb if you max everything its just gets overloaded and important data is  lost in the mix

Max out tires, tire scrub and engine and turn everything else down to 5-10% only other one i turn up is road noise and player car sounds 30-40%

Another interesting tip i learnd is in the visual section, that if your look to apex view is higher than 10% it will give a false reading of understeer to your wheels ffb causing your tires to scrub losing valuable time.  I have settled with 5%

Resourceful sites of interest and organized leagues:

http://www.weissbierbude.de/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/lang,en/

http://www.insidesimracing.tv/forums/index.php?sid=252ceb2edc4bdafff60e76838d88cc1b

http://www.racedepartment.com/

http://www.race2play.com/

http://www.raceroom.net/

Hopefully this will help with the intial setup hassels, and give some helpfull tips along the way!  Next ill work on mods that have really brought the game to life!

Cheers