Starting woes

Highflyer · 21 February 09, 21:14

I have dl,ed the software and updates, but when I go to start the sim up, it goes to try to connect, but then tells me 'couldnt connect'.....any help?

~~Jack B~~ · 21 February 09, 21:27

Quote:

Originally Posted by Highflyer

I have dl,ed the software and updates, but when I go to start the sim up, it goes to try to connect, but then tells me 'couldnt connect'.....any help?

Hmmm, no idea. I've never had that. My first guess is you don't have a connection, but if the browser works, you should be fine. I'd post on the official forums. Use the General Forum. Everyone reads that first. You'll get help right away.

Friedhelm7 · 22 February 09, 17:23

Looks like your firewall is locking one of the iracing executables. There are some hints on how to set up firewalls: http://www.answers-script.com/iracing/index.php

motostick · 22 February 09, 18:21

Hello All,
I have a quick question... I understand that you may not know.

Can I use my company credit card to subscribe since for me sim racing is business related?

Thank you in advance.
moto-

SecondSkin · 22 February 09, 18:26

If your company credit card has your name on it, you should be fine.

motostick · 22 February 09, 19:37

Thanks for the reply, it has my name as the signer but the title of the card is to the business. I'll give it a try on Monday in case I have issues I can call customer support.
moto-

Viper · 23 February 09, 11:02

Quote:

Originally Posted by motostick

Hello All,
I have a quick question... I understand that you may not know.

Can I use my company credit card to subscribe since for me sim racing is business related?

Thank you in advance.
moto-

If you don't mind my asking, how is sim racing business related for you?
Reviewer?

DucFreak · 24 February 09, 03:34

Quote:

Originally Posted by Viper

If you don't mind my asking, how is sim racing business related for you?
Reviewer?

...quoting myself.... to make it easyer for me (lol):

Quote:

Originally Posted by DucFreak

(...)

There's a project that, once it has become a reality, may change things in a way that racing-sim addicts/fans never felt untill this day (for bike-sims), and that is a new, propper -and affordable- game controller for this sort of racing-simulation... check this out:

(click the thumbnail image to enlarge it to full size)

More about this new "bike-controller" here: http://forum.racesimcentral.com/showthread.php?t=319568

(...)

...unfortunatly it turned out completely abandoned (vaporware) just as lightning quick as it appeared announced, and the idea sold out to who-knows-who to make who-knows-what (our member motostick may answer better about it, or not, depending on signed NDA...).
It left quite a bitter feeling among inumerous interested fellow simmers... (*sigh*)

PS: ...unfortunatly RSC is still down, you might have understood a bit better what it's all about.

JeremyD · 25 February 09, 06:03

Ya know if somebody made a controller like that and a great bike sim to go with it I bet it would sell like mad

Viper · 2 March 09, 21:18

Ooh, sorry Ducfreak, I forgot I posed that question

So you were going to test a bike equivalent of a steering wheel in a car sim?

Hm, I guess the bike worlds does kind of lack sims. Or I'm just not aware of them.

~~Husky42~~ · 3 March 09, 22:34

Quote:

Originally Posted by Highflyer

I have dl,ed the software and updates, but when I go to start the sim up, it goes to try to connect, but then tells me 'couldnt connect'.....any help?

You have to connect from the website, took me abit ot figure it out,

but once i did..

Wow.. Iracing just feels... right.. only doing the trial right now but so far i love it.

Viper · 4 March 09, 11:08

Quote:

Originally Posted by Husky42

Wow.. Iracing just feels... right.. only doing the trial right now but so far i love it.

Quit seducing me! You are the serpent offering me the apple! You're evil! EVIL I TELL YOU!

Edit: Heh, how I ironic of me to call someone else the serpent... Oh well. EVIL!

AeroMechanical · 4 March 09, 15:21

It really is a good thing they started offering these trials. You really have to try it to appreciate its qualities.

redi · 7 May 09, 08:09

Just got an iRacing free trial with the Radical. Starting was woed for me as well, but could get around the issue and am now ready to try it. Hopefully the default set-up is decent, I don't want to spend ages on tweaking the set-up...

ellis · 7 May 09, 16:06

The Rookie cars have locked setups, so you'll be fine with those. Anything above is open setup (including the Adv Rookie cars). The iRacing forum has tonnes of setups (I recommend Ian Lakes and Wolfgangs for stability) and there are a few good sites dotted about. A really good one is http://www.iracersresource.com/ And you can upload your own to that.

iRacing also supplies basic and advanced setups for each car. In the setup page click "iRacing setups" in the top right and select the relevant track.

redi · 7 May 09, 16:56

Quote:

Originally Posted by ellis

The Rookie cars have locked setups, so you'll be fine with those. Anything above is open setup (including the Adv Rookie cars). The iRacing forum has tonnes of setups (I recommend Ian Lakes and Wolfgangs for stability) and there are a few good sites dotted about. A really good one is http://www.iracersresource.com/ And you can upload your own to that.

iRacing also supplies basic and advanced setups for each car. In the setup page click "iRacing setups" in the top right and select the relevant track.

Allrighty, thanks for that. Did my first laps at Lime Rock in the Radical just now

It feels great, it looks good though nothing special, the sense of immersion is lovely.

Graphically it has some glitches, still, like polygons of the car changing colour, quite some jerkiness during replays and the most striking one: semi-transparent trees and armcos after I spun out and got close to the armco. Looked really silly

kludger · 8 May 09, 04:44

I don't have an ATI card yet (running on an NV 8800GT and a newegg openbox 4870 arrives tomorrow), but I saw a similar problem on the iracing forum:
http://members.iracing.com/iforum/th...32147&tstart=0

You should have access to the iracing forums there, but just in case not, the problem appears to be ATI related and the recommended fix was turning off "Adaptive anti-aliasing" in the catalyst drivers.

Hope that helps, also I would suggest trying the Spec Racer Ford before judging iracing just on the Radical, the Radical is a bit of an understeering rocket which handles the worst compared to all the other iracing road cars I've tried (including the Skip, StarMazda, DaytonaPrototype), I've driven it in a couple of 24hr fun events and love the speed but haven't been able to come to terms with the handling of it yet, but the Spec Racer Ford is one of the truly fun cars, I'm glad they made it available as part of the basic signup.

redi · 8 May 09, 06:06

Quote:

Originally Posted by kludger

I don't have an ATI card yet (running on an NV 8800GT and a newegg openbox 4870 arrives tomorrow), but I saw a similar problem on the iracing forum:
http://members.iracing.com/iforum/th...32147&tstart=0

You should have access to the iracing forums there, but just in case not, the problem appears to be ATI related and the recommended fix was turning off "Adaptive anti-aliasing" in the catalyst drivers.

Hope that helps, also I would suggest trying the Spec Racer Ford before judging iracing just on the Radical, the Radical is a bit of an understeering rocket which handles the worst compared to all the other iracing road cars I've tried (including the Skip, StarMazda, DaytonaPrototype), I've driven it in a couple of 24hr fun events and love the speed but haven't been able to come to terms with the handling of it yet, but the Spec Racer Ford is one of the truly fun cars, I'm glad they made it available as part of the basic signup.

Thanks for that!

I actually like the Radical, and I haven't even started to set it up properly

Viper · 29 May 09, 19:32

So far so good. None of the above problems, although I do have a different problem which can be called "starting woes".

Apart from the Solstice feeling as numb as a pirates wooden leg (aarrr!) I've got a bit of a problem with degrees of rotation.

I'm used to driving the F3000 mostly in Race 07, so all that time I've had my G25 set to 360-400° rotation. Since the REAL Solstice probably has at least 900° rotation I decided to max out my wheel again.

But alas, whenever I need to recover from a spin and need to take my hands of the wheel because my arms fail to bend over each other, I lose it.

I don't know if it's the FFB pulling it away, the size (or lack of) of the G25 or just my sheer inability, but I lose it every time I need to go beyond an arm full of lock.

Any recommendations? I've already tried the Ford spec racer which give a LOT more feedback than that driving couch, but that one waggles his tail more than a puppy being shown it's tin of chow. On a waggly day.

Well anyway, I can keep that in check for as long as I don't need to let go of the wheel.

So until someone tells me "NOOOOOOOO You're doing it wrong" I'll use 360-400 degrees of rotation again.

ellis · 29 May 09, 19:46

http://members.iracing.com/iforum/th...sageID=329431& I use this thread for setting up my G25. It might be useful...it might not be.

Viper · 29 May 09, 20:27

I already had those settings, courtesy of you in an earlier post.

It's all good until I slide too much and need to take my hands off the wheel.

One might argue that I should try not sliding that much though... But when I do I still want to be able to recover it, and so far I can only do that with limited range of rotation.

Jett · 30 May 09, 02:52

I have seen your posts in the iRacing forums as well..welcome.

I have a G25 but am not using the profiler..so if you are..turn it off as you don't need it.

In the G25 controller window under game controllers this is my settings:

900 degrees
Enable FFB checked
107% Overall
0% Spring
0% Damper

Enable Centering Spring checked
Centering spring 50% (some have it higher..some a bit lower)

In iRacing..900 degrees
Overall strength 8-10%

Hope that helps.

pela racer · 30 May 09, 03:53

hey Jet,,
about your g25 set up, in the profiler under game settings is the enable ticked for allow game to adjust settings or not ticked

Jett · 30 May 09, 04:13

i have uninstalled the profiler

Viper · 30 May 09, 17:05

Hm, I can't reach the members.iracing.com site right now... Which means I can't even do an off-line test run! Bugger me!

Edit: never mind, they're up again. The problem was on their end it seems.

ellis · 30 May 09, 19:08

Yeah they had a crash. First time I've seen that happen in 1 year.

Viper · 30 May 09, 21:15

Great. I broke their servers.

21 February 09, 21:14	#1
Highflyer Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Glasgow Age: 41	Starting woes I have dl,ed the software and updates, but when I go to start the sim up, it goes to try to connect, but then tells me 'couldnt connect'.....any help?

22 February 09, 17:23	#3
Friedhelm7 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Germany	Looks like your firewall is locking one of the iracing executables. There are some hints on how to set up firewalls: http://www.answers-script.com/iracing/index.php

22 February 09, 18:21	#4
motostick Join Date: Aug 2008	Hello All, I have a quick question... I understand that you may not know. Can I use my company credit card to subscribe since for me sim racing is business related? Thank you in advance. moto-

22 February 09, 18:26	#5
SecondSkin Join Date: Apr 2008	If your company credit card has your name on it, you should be fine.

22 February 09, 19:37	#6
motostick Join Date: Aug 2008	Thanks for the reply, it has my name as the signer but the title of the card is to the business. I'll give it a try on Monday in case I have issues I can call customer support. moto-

25 February 09, 06:03	#9
JeremyD Join Date: Feb 2009	Ya know if somebody made a controller like that and a great bike sim to go with it I bet it would sell like mad

2 March 09, 21:18	#10
Viper Moderator Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Torhout, Flanders, The Great Kingdom of Belgium Age: 28	Ooh, sorry Ducfreak, I forgot I posed that question So you were going to test a bike equivalent of a steering wheel in a car sim? Hm, I guess the bike worlds does kind of lack sims. Or I'm just not aware of them.

4 March 09, 15:21	#13
AeroMechanical Join Date: Dec 2006	It really is a good thing they started offering these trials. You really have to try it to appreciate its qualities.

7 May 09, 08:09	#14
redi Superator Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: On a thin crust covering a huge ball of hot molten stone whizzing through space Age: 40	Just got an iRacing free trial with the Radical. Starting was woed for me as well, but could get around the issue and am now ready to try it. Hopefully the default set-up is decent, I don't want to spend ages on tweaking the set-up...

7 May 09, 16:06	#15
ellis Join Date: Oct 2006	The Rookie cars have locked setups, so you'll be fine with those. Anything above is open setup (including the Adv Rookie cars). The iRacing forum has tonnes of setups (I recommend Ian Lakes and Wolfgangs for stability) and there are a few good sites dotted about. A really good one is http://www.iracersresource.com/ And you can upload your own to that. iRacing also supplies basic and advanced setups for each car. In the setup page click "iRacing setups" in the top right and select the relevant track.

8 May 09, 04:44	#17
kludger Join Date: Jul 2006	I don't have an ATI card yet (running on an NV 8800GT and a newegg openbox 4870 arrives tomorrow), but I saw a similar problem on the iracing forum: http://members.iracing.com/iforum/th...32147&tstart=0 You should have access to the iracing forums there, but just in case not, the problem appears to be ATI related and the recommended fix was turning off "Adaptive anti-aliasing" in the catalyst drivers. Hope that helps, also I would suggest trying the Spec Racer Ford before judging iracing just on the Radical, the Radical is a bit of an understeering rocket which handles the worst compared to all the other iracing road cars I've tried (including the Skip, StarMazda, DaytonaPrototype), I've driven it in a couple of 24hr fun events and love the speed but haven't been able to come to terms with the handling of it yet, but the Spec Racer Ford is one of the truly fun cars, I'm glad they made it available as part of the basic signup.

29 May 09, 19:32	#19
Viper Moderator Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Torhout, Flanders, The Great Kingdom of Belgium Age: 28	So far so good. None of the above problems, although I do have a different problem which can be called "starting woes". Apart from the Solstice feeling as numb as a pirates wooden leg (aarrr!) I've got a bit of a problem with degrees of rotation. I'm used to driving the F3000 mostly in Race 07, so all that time I've had my G25 set to 360-400° rotation. Since the REAL Solstice probably has at least 900° rotation I decided to max out my wheel again. But alas, whenever I need to recover from a spin and need to take my hands of the wheel because my arms fail to bend over each other, I lose it. I don't know if it's the FFB pulling it away, the size (or lack of) of the G25 or just my sheer inability, but I lose it every time I need to go beyond an arm full of lock. Any recommendations? I've already tried the Ford spec racer which give a LOT more feedback than that driving couch, but that one waggles his tail more than a puppy being shown it's tin of chow. On a waggly day. Well anyway, I can keep that in check for as long as I don't need to let go of the wheel. So until someone tells me "NOOOOOOOO You're doing it wrong" I'll use 360-400 degrees of rotation again.

29 May 09, 19:46	#20
ellis Join Date: Oct 2006	http://members.iracing.com/iforum/th...sageID=329431& I use this thread for setting up my G25. It might be useful...it might not be.

29 May 09, 20:27	#21
Viper Moderator Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Torhout, Flanders, The Great Kingdom of Belgium Age: 28	I already had those settings, courtesy of you in an earlier post. It's all good until I slide too much and need to take my hands off the wheel. One might argue that I should try not sliding that much though... But when I do I still want to be able to recover it, and so far I can only do that with limited range of rotation.

30 May 09, 02:52	#22
Jett Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Des Moines, Iowa	I have seen your posts in the iRacing forums as well..welcome. I have a G25 but am not using the profiler..so if you are..turn it off as you don't need it. In the G25 controller window under game controllers this is my settings: 900 degrees Enable FFB checked 107% Overall 0% Spring 0% Damper Enable Centering Spring checked Centering spring 50% (some have it higher..some a bit lower) In iRacing..900 degrees Overall strength 8-10% Hope that helps.

30 May 09, 03:53	#23
pela racer Join Date: May 2009 Location: Melbourne Australia	hey Jet,, about your g25 set up, in the profiler under game settings is the enable ticked for allow game to adjust settings or not ticked

30 May 09, 04:13	#24
Jett Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Des Moines, Iowa	i have uninstalled the profiler

30 May 09, 17:05	#25
Viper Moderator Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Torhout, Flanders, The Great Kingdom of Belgium Age: 28	Hm, I can't reach the members.iracing.com site right now... Which means I can't even do an off-line test run! Bugger me! Edit: never mind, they're up again. The problem was on their end it seems.

30 May 09, 19:08	#26
ellis Join Date: Oct 2006	Yeah they had a crash. First time I've seen that happen in 1 year.

30 May 09, 21:15	#27
Viper Moderator Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Torhout, Flanders, The Great Kingdom of Belgium Age: 28	Great. I broke their servers.