iRacing after 2+ years

**Happy29** · 08-11-2011, 06:20 PM

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3 D was okay to me but not as great as what I was expecting. It gives more of a depth to things.

**av7** · 08-11-2011, 08:01 PM

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Originally posted by bluengold34_OS

Aaron, make sure you follow up with your impressions on this. I am really interested to hear the sim does in 3-d......appreciated!

Score wise, I think its a 6 or barely a 7. Not great but not bad. There's some ghosting (haven't checked if there's any 3D options in the menus) and the colors are washed out from the glasses. You'll notice depth if you look for it but when you're actually driving, its marginal outside of the wheel. The most noticeable 3D comes from the menu and black boxes, which seems to be a common theme no matter what game I'm trying.

I feel like the word gimmick would best describe this technology for now in gaming, its not at the point where I'd say its here to stay. Cool moments but not what I was expecting.

If your card supports 3D, Nvidia has glasses on Ebay for $5 and up

Edit: I may buy the 3D kit from Nvidia thats wired glasses (non red/blue lenses) and see how that is. The kit runs around $60-80 depending on the online shop

**bluengold34_OS** · 08-11-2011, 09:31 PM

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Well it sounds like from both of your experiences.....3D is not a must have for iRacing, by an stretch. My card does 3-d, but until it makes the experience better, no sense setting anything up.

Thanks to both of you for your responses.

**Happy29** · 08-11-2011, 09:48 PM

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Originally posted by bluengold34_OS

Well it sounds like from both of your experiences.....3D is not a must have for iRacing, by an stretch. My card does 3-d, but until it makes the experience better, no sense setting anything up.

Thanks to both of you for your responses.

Yeah it definitely does not make the sim better

**Skittles6547** · 08-12-2011, 06:52 PM

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I didn't realize how cool iRacing was. I love it. I ordered a wheel and it's on his way so I can get even more realizism from it.

I'm already a Class D liscense at a 4.86. Just need a D class car to get the MPR.

Hopefully, I will be able to jump in a hosted session before long.

**Happy29** · 08-12-2011, 08:08 PM

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Originally posted by Skittles6547

I didn't realize how cool iRacing was. I love it. I ordered a wheel and it's on his way so I can get even more realizism from it.

I'm already a Class D liscense at a 4.86. Just need a D class car to get the MPR.

Hopefully, I will be able to jump in a hosted session before long.

Just take your time, and, practice, practice, practice and when your done practicing practice some more. It's easy to move up in license's really fast then you'll find yourself in a B or A car and find out you moved up too fast and have gotten in over your head and pissing a lot of drivers off. Learn the right lines at the tracks especially Daytona and Talladega. Good luck and have fun, if you want to race sometime I'll be glad to

**Chaos81** · 08-18-2011, 03:32 AM

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Just won a Class A Impala race at Michigan.

Got a little lucky near the end thanks to a caution. I sped on pit road during green flag stops, and it dropped me quite a ways behind the leader, but the caution erased the distance and my two tire stop got me the lead. Had a bit of moment with about 6 to go, as I hit the wall which allowed second and third to close up on me. Actually lost the lead a couple times, but managed to get it back thanks to my own screw up. Drove in too deep and drifted up, which caused the other guy to back out. Judging by the divebomb he put on me a little later, he wasn't too happy about it, but hey, if I was that perfect, he wouldn't have been that close to me to begin with.

http://members.iracing.com/membersite/member/EventResult.do?&subsessionid=3976269

**Chaos81** · 08-20-2011, 02:35 AM

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I cannot figure the Ford GT out. Part of it seems to be the tires, as the car feels great for the first half lap or so, then once the heat builds up, the car feels like complete crap. It's too bad, because I really enjoy multi-class racing, and especially the GT series cars, but I absolutely hate driving the Ford.

**Seahawk76** · 08-22-2011, 02:37 PM

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After dabbling with iRacing briefly a couple of years ago I re-subscribed about a month ago and I'm totally hooked. I decided to focus on road racing and have been running the Class D Mustang series. I'm relatively slow but clean and have fast tracked to a C license and can fast track to B as soon as I satisfy the Class C MRP. I'm in no hurry to move up to the high racing classes though. I figured I'd try to become fairly proficient with one car before moving to another. After the Mustang season is over I'll decide whether to move up to a Class C series or run the Skippys.

I'm in no danger of winning races but I'm having fun and don't think I'm doing too bad considering I haven't done much sim racing in about 10 years.

**av7** · 08-22-2011, 06:00 PM

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Originally posted by Chaos81

Just won a Class A Impala race at Michigan.

Got a little lucky near the end thanks to a caution. I sped on pit road during green flag stops, and it dropped me quite a ways behind the leader, but the caution erased the distance and my two tire stop got me the lead. Had a bit of moment with about 6 to go, as I hit the wall which allowed second and third to close up on me. Actually lost the lead a couple times, but managed to get it back thanks to my own screw up. Drove in too deep and drifted up, which caused the other guy to back out. Judging by the divebomb he put on me a little later, he wasn't too happy about it, but hey, if I was that perfect, he wouldn't have been that close to me to begin with.

http://members.iracing.com/membersit...sionid=3976269

Are you liking the cup car over the nationwide?

**Chaos81** · 08-22-2011, 06:34 PM

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Originally posted by av7

Are you liking the cup car over the nationwide?

They're pretty equal to me. I just did a Cup race over a NW race because of the tracks. This week I'll probably try a NW or Truck race, as both series are at Atlanta, compared to the Cup car which is at Bristol.

**Dylema** · 08-27-2011, 06:43 PM

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What would you guys suggest for a class D road racing car? I don't really want to have to buy any tracks so it's between the Skippy and the Mustang.

**ROABS** · 08-29-2011, 11:57 AM

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Originally posted by Dylema

What would you guys suggest for a class D road racing car? I don't really want to have to buy any tracks so it's between the Skippy and the Mustang.

The skippy im pretty sure has a higher participation rate so you will always have a decent amount of splits to race in. The mustang is used in the grand am series also but does have less participation. The skippy has been remodeled and also has the new tire model on it. it kinda depends on if you prefer open wheel or tin top also? i would personally choose the skippy again as its easier to find races with it.

**TCrouch** · 08-30-2011, 12:18 PM

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If you learn how to drive the Skippy fast, you'll be able to drive almost anything.

**av7** · 08-30-2011, 02:53 PM

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I've never enjoyed the Skip Barber, ever. I rather race the Mustang or Jetta at that level and then go to the Star Mazda

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