Project Cars Weekly TIme Trail

[Twistygit]

had a few tries, its a bit bad was stuck at 136s for ages then started to get it a bit, hopefully drop another second and that will be it for me I think

[Trigbert]

Oulton Park Island	Mitsubishi Lancer Evoloution X FQ400
Gamertag	Platform	Control	Time	S1	S2	S3
Born2BSlow	PC	T500	1:30.289	31.783	28.440	30.066
GroundEffect (Scotracer)	PS4	G29	1:30.579	31.772	28.555	30.251
xjay1337	PS4	Pad	1:31.072	31.980	28.836	30.255
Jezz172	PC	G29	1:31.112	31.807	28.990	30.515
Gavjd21	PS4	Pad	1:32.667	32.410	29.415	30.842
TrigL_2011	PS4	G29	1:33.728	X	X	X
Throwawaygra71	xbox	G920	1:34.826	32.842	30.762	31.221
IainT	PS4	G29	1:35.003	33.695	29.922	31.386

Sadly the times not as hot as the weather, I blame driving in flipflops

[Twistygit]

Trigbert said:

Oulton Park Island||Mitsubishi Lancer Evoloution X FQ400||

Gamertag	Platform	Control	Time	S1	S2	S3
Born2BSlow	PC	T500	1:30.289	31.783	28.440	30.066
GroundEffect (Scotracer)	PS4	G29	1:30.579	31.772	28.555	30.251
xjay1337	PS4	Pad	1:31.072	31.980	28.836	30.255
Jezz172	PC	G29	1:31.112	31.807	28.990	30.515
Gavjd21	PS4	Pad	1:32.667	32.410	29.415	30.842
TrigL_2011	PS4	G29	1:33.728	X	X	X
Throwawaygra71	xbox	G920	1:34.046	32.913	30.083	31.048
IainT	PS4	G29	1:35.003	33.695	29.922	31.386

Sadly the times not as hot as the weather, I blame driving in flipflops

[Tronneh]

Oulton Park Island	Mitsubishi Lancer Evoloution X FQ400
Gamertag	Platform	Control	Time	S1	S2	S3
Born2BSlow	PC	T500	1:30.289	31.783	28.440	30.066
GroundEffect (Scotracer)	PS4	G29	1:30.579	31.772	28.555	30.251
Tron	PC	G27	1:30.590	31.649	28.897	30.044
xjay1337	PS4	Pad	1:31.072	31.980	28.836	30.255
Jezz172	PC	G29	1:31.112	31.807	28.990	30.515
Gavjd21	PS4	Pad	1:32.667	32.410	29.415	30.842
TrigL_2011	PS4	G29	1:33.728	X	X	X
Throwawaygra71	xbox	G920	1:34.046	32.913	30.083	31.048
IainT	PS4	G29	1:35.003	33.695	29.922	31.386

Tough one this.
Biggest place I loose time is on the hairpin and up the hill. Tried left foot braking, clutch kicking, early apex, late apex.
Just cannot get the boost in early enough, still time yet though

[Tronneh]

Oulton Park Island	Mitsubishi Lancer Evoloution X FQ400
Gamertag	Platform	Control	Time	S1	S2	S3
Born2BSlow	PC	T500	1:30.289	31.783	28.440	30.066
Tron	PC	G27	1:30.316	31.616	28.569	30.131
GroundEffect (Scotracer)	PS4	G29	1:30.579	31.772	28.555	30.251
xjay1337	PS4	Pad	1:31.072	31.980	28.836	30.255
Jezz172	PC	G29	1:31.112	31.807	28.990	30.515
Gavjd21	PS4	Pad	1:32.667	32.410	29.415	30.842
TrigL_2011	PS4	G29	1:33.728	X	X	X
Throwawaygra71	xbox	G920	1:34.046	32.913	30.083	31.048
IainT	PS4	G29	1:35.003	33.695	29.922	31.386

Getting there!
Lost a 10th in the last sector over my previous best grr...

[born2bslow]

Come on Tron, don't let me win one now. I'm getting a nosebleed up here

[FourWheelDrift]

If it's cooler tomorrow I'll have a go, it's been too hot this week. Then I'll not be around for TT for 2 weeks as I'll be at my other place.

[born2bslow]

I just knocked a whole 1/100th off my time, I was 1/4 second up but lost it all in the last corner. I'm finding that if I just keep driving the balance of grip eventually comes to me, new best lap was no.13 of my run. Laps 3-10 were awful but then it just started to drift a little and it all came together.

Some combos need a restart to get the best tyre grip, this one seems to be the opposite, might just be me getting into the groove though.

[GroundEffect]

I think I'm having to bow out of this one. I just can't see where I can improve; a 'perfect' lap of best sectors may get me a couple of tenths but I've already done enough laps!

One car I was using yesterday that was great fun was Ford V8 Supercar. That's probably my favourite car in the game. Big power, not too much grip ==> fun!

[Tronneh]

born2bslow said:

Some combos need a restart to get the best tyre grip, this one seems to be the opposite, might just be me getting into the groove though.

I'm finding the opposite, after 3~4 lap my rears are going cold. Perhaps I'm not driving it hard enough!

[xjay1337]

I think that Oulton has jumped up to my "new favourite" track based on how many miles I've bloody driven it.

I can't see how I can knock half a second off.

[born2bslow]

Tronneh said:

I'm finding the opposite, after 3~4 lap my rears are going cold. Perhaps I'm not driving it hard enough!

Yeah, I get that too but as the fronts wear down the grip balance front to rear comes to me, and once the car slides more I seem to be able to find more speed. I know it sounds weird but that's what's happening. Laps 3-10 I can't get within half a second of my time, but then it just comes to me. By lap15 it's gone though.

[GroundEffect]

This car seems best on lap 2 or 3. After that the front left has given up.

With the Lotus 72D it was always my first lap that was fastest.

And then when I tried same track with Formula A, it had to be 2nd lap as the first had no brake temp for Turn 3!

[Trigbert]

Doing these TT's is making me find out loads about this game and the G29.
So my latest lesson from last night - Brake temp,
I watched a couple of your chaps videos and also saw the comments about brake temp. So changed the HUD to view to the tyres/brakes (first time I used it). Now could quite clearly see how cold the brakes are on lap 1. But also I noticed on the red brake bar I was leaving a chunk of brake travel - was only going about 70% red unless I'm literally stamping on the pedal every corner. Think that when I setup my pedals for the G29 that's what I did - pressed down the pedal hard and as far as possible. But things is I never drive like that, too tiring and would prob break the pedals.
So recalibrated the pedal and now the brake bar goes fully red when I want which means I can now get temp in the brakes - lopped 1.5s off the time, lesson learnt.

[Derwins Revenge]

Oulton Park Island	Mitsubishi Lancer Evoloution X FQ400
Gamertag	Platform	Control	Time	S1	S2	S3
Born2BSlow	PC	T500	1:30.289	31.783	28.440	30.066
Tron	PC	G27	1:30.316	31.616	28.569	30.131
GroundEffect (Scotracer)	PS4	G29	1:30.579	31.772	28.555	30.251
xjay1337	PS4	Pad	1:31.072	31.980	28.836	30.255
Jezz172	PC	G29	1:31.112	31.807	28.990	30.515
Derwin's Revenge	PC	G27	1:31.529	31.776	29.286	30.467
Gavjd21	PS4	Pad	1:32.667	32.410	29.415	30.842
TrigL_2011	PS4	G29	1:33.728	X	X	X
Throwawaygra71	xbox	G920	1:34.046	32.913	30.083	31.048
IainT	PS4	G29	1:35.003	33.695	29.922	31.386

That's probably my limit.

Tron, have you tried PC on the Vive yet? What do you think?

[Tronneh]

Yeah it's really good

As you said the only issue with ProjectCARS is the resolution makes it quite hard to pick out a distant apex.
Only time I get a little twinge in my gut is when making fast direction changes or getting some slip angle while on the power

[born2bslow]

Tronneh said:

Yeah it's really good

As you said the only issue with ProjectCARS is the resolution makes it quite hard to pick out a distant apex.
Only time I get a little twinge in my gut is when making fast direction changes or getting some slip angle while on the power

How adjustable are the lenses to cope with contacts glasses?

I'm really thinking I will hold off for the next iteration, I'm reading lots of reviews most are saying the technology is not quite where it needs to be just yet.

[Gav147]

Not sure if you still follow LFS B2BS but a few on there where saying the biggest problem is the lack of field of view, close racing means you are constantly having to move your head around to check mirrors, glance at the car next to you etc, where as in reality you would see these in your peripheral vision. I'm not sure how this relates in PCars though nor have I any first hand experience of it but thought it was worth mentioning.

[Tronneh]

With the Vive you dont set the depth of the lens, only the width.
I dont know how this would work with contacts, can only suggest you try one.

With regards to the other comment; I think that games that are built for VR are excellent, The Lab, Fantastic Contraption, AudioSheild etc are really good examples.
ProjectCARS has not been specifically built for VR and certainly their HUD implementation needs some work. Perhaps their is some optimisation they could perform but you still have the problem your specifically looking into the distance for a pin point. This was in the Lotus as its close to the ground and its fast sweeping corners, but is better when your sat up higher.
What i would say is, that all said, it is still very very good.

[Twistygit]

Hi I don't really know anything about PC gaming in regards of system requirements for VR but does anyone know how Xbox Scorpio compares to a PC in regards VR