which racing game for pc?
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Sun, 12/28/2014 - 07:59
which racing game for pc?
Hello,
I want to try racing via PC, but I don't know which game is somewhere near Forza 4 (cars, tracks, tunes, liveries, online series)? I will use my Dell Vostro Notebook, i5, 8GB memory, 750GB HDD. Which game would you choose?
game -- price -- system requirements
rFactor2 -- --
iracing -- --
simraceway -- --
others ??
Thanks for your tips.
JDANKERT
Project cars and Iracing is those that comes to mind.
Jdan - which graphics card does your laptop have? That will likely be the limiting factor for which racing game will perform best.
Hey Skiwi,
it is a Radeon HD 7670M
[480 @ 600 MHz 128 Bit @ 1800 MHz / Architektur: Terascale 2 / Pipelines: 480 - unified / Speichertakt: 1800 MHz / Speicherbandbreite: 128 Bit / Speichertyp: DDR3, (GDDR5) / Shared Memory: nein / DirectX: DirectX 11, Shader 5.0]
That's a good laptop card - enjoy your racing.
IMO, the PC racing game that is closest to the Forza series is GRID Autosport. It has a good stable of cars, but not nearly as many as Forza 4. It also has quite a few real life tracks. You can tinker with the cars. The career mode is more structured than Forza's. I cannot speak to online since I have never tried it.
iRacing is my favorite sim, but it is very different, and much more difficult than Forza. It has no career mode, far fewer cars than Forza and only real life tracks, no fantasy tracks. The oval racing in iRacing is unmatched, the road racing is hit or miss, some like it the best, others prefer rFactor 2 or Assetto Corsa. The Cadillac CTS race car in iRacing is my favorite car in all of sim racing.
It really depends what you are looking for. If you want an offline experience with career mode racing against AI, I would go with Zero's suggestion. I haven't played Grid myself, but I have read the reviews and heard from friends that it is a good arcade racing game.
Only get iRacing if you are ready to make a large initial investment and only want head to head online racing. As Zero said, there is no offline mode and no AI cars. You can do private testing and time trials, but if you want other cars on the track, they will be real people. There are currently 41 cars and 67 tracks, but some of them are obselete and no longer used. The racing in the official series depends on the series. The rookie series has the worst possible racing which is understandable. The other series are sometimes hit or miss, but some of the series have good racing most of the time. The best racing is in the Leagues. I am in a league right now which runs V8 supercars on Tuesdays and is starting up a Saturday night series soon. There are Leagues for almost every car on the service. It's really what you make of it. As I said though, it is a large initial investment to get the cars and tracks you want. After that, the subscription costs are minimal if you renew when they have the sales and race enough to get your participation credits.
If you want an open world arcade game similar to Forza Horizon series, then The Crew would work. The graphics aren't nearly as good, the the driving and story are enjoyable.
Hello,
just joined iracing. I think this will be "my world". Serious and ambitious racing. I just took a short ride and I can tell you: I have to learn everything, completely new, but as you all know: I love challenges.
Who from 204f is racing on iracing?
I run Iracing mainly . mx5 cup and the skip barber . Ovals I like to run the truck series. Have fun. Its an all new challange. send me a fr request. greg connelly.
I am on iRacing a lot, send me a friend request. Troy Eddy. Any questions, just ask. I have every car and track and have done over 1000 official races plus many league races.
I'm also on Iracing , still a rookie but enjoying it very much . Look me up as well (Julio Arroyo). Good luck.
Oh hells bells, I have dived in and out of iRacing with a love hate relationship, it's hands down the best organised online but it's pricing model and lack of offline mode drive me up the wall. rF2 is my sim of choice, I prefer the way it feels to any of the alternatives...But JD I miss racing with you. I have been waiting for a cheap yearly offer to drop so I can get some use out of the content I have. Also I have been fierce unlucky with a lot of the fields I have raced in, even though I am well passed the rookie stage. But...Hmmm just maybe I should take the three month offer and see how it goes now some familiar folk are around.
Im on iRacing now too, I have a few of you as friends on there so those who want to add me feel free my name is Shane Randall on there so would be nice to see some of you. I have also set up a team called 2old2Play not sure if it has much use but its there, Im taking it one momnth at a time at the minute as money is likely to change a bit int he near future and work is taking alot of my time so wont be there as often as i want. Good to see there are a fair few of us on common titles. Hoping Pcars will help bring some of us back together miss racing with a lot of you.
JDan,
You should try RaceRoom Racing Experience. It is "Free 2 Play" but, of course, the better content has to be purchased. If you do decide to spend money I would recomend the WTCC 2013 pack. It's very good. The only bad part is setting up the FFB. It takes a bit of tweaking to get it set to your individual liking. I don't know what wheel you are using but there are lots of sources out there to help you get the proper set up with a little work. Let me know if you try it and need any help.
-Snappy
I am playing RRE also.I had a hard time setting my Fanatec CSW with this game, after searching forums what helped me the most was this , If your using a Fanatec wheel you need to enable reverse force feedback in FFB settings that alone helped big time.
The only add-on I got for RRE has been the '92 DTM add-on.