Monday 17th September 2007

Drive An M3 At The 'Ring

Take a virtual spin in BMW’s new M-car

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More addictive than Facebook

Save yourself the boredom of twiddling your thumbs while you wait for your shiny new M3 to arrive by exercising them instead.

BMW has just launched a free computer game which allows you to drive the Nürburgring grand prix track in the M3, complete with an accurate recording of the car’s V8 as it screams up to 8,400rpm.

The game allows you to configure the car to your spec before you set 414bhp loose on the track, without the worry of picking up the bill for an excursion into the barriers at the Schumacher chicane.

BMW reckons that the game should run on any PC, but using a steering wheel is recommended if you’ve got one because the keyboard controls take some getting used to. Give it 20 minutes, and you’ll be setting competitive times.

Download it here

[Gareth135R]

Saw one in the flesh on Sat...rather bland.
Audi are making far better products at the moment.

[Valentin]

Great!!!! I'm downloading it right now. Now let's hope it'll run on a mac...

[bodhi]

Gareth135R said:

Saw one in the flesh on Sat...rather bland.
Audi are making far better products at the moment.

This is incorrect.

[Fidgits]

bodhi said:

Gareth135R said:

Saw one in the flesh on Sat...rather bland.
Audi are making far better products at the moment.

This is incorrect.

way to counter a point of view.

Full of information, facts and opinions there - a wonderful rebuttal that has left me in no doubt.

[sa_20v]

eddieo said:

It's only an .exe in the .zip file so won't work natively on the Mac.

You have a MAC?! Then you don't deserve to play!

Stephen (wishing he had a Mac right now )

[plfrench]

345Mb I was going to set that going, but I think I might leave it for home. Looks like a bit of fun though!

[Fastra]

sa_20v said:

eddieo said:

It's only an .exe in the .zip file so won't work natively on the Mac.

You have a MAC?! Then you don't deserve to play!

Stephen (wishing he had a Mac right now )

...we're getting new G5 intels next week -- and my BF2142 is on order!

[Valentin]

Valentin said:

Great!!!! I'm downloading it right now. Now let's hope it'll run on a mac...

yepp.
Doesn't work on a mac...

[Zod]

Fidgits said:

bodhi said:

Gareth135R said:

Saw one in the flesh on Sat...rather bland.
Audi are making far better products at the moment.

This is incorrect.

way to counter a point of view.

Full of information, facts and opinions there - a wonderful rebuttal that has left me in no doubt.

Well, the post from Gareth was hardly full of information either, so the two posts cancel each other out.

[y2blade]

works great

thanks

[Fidgits]

Zod said:

Fidgits said:

bodhi said:

Gareth135R said:

Saw one in the flesh on Sat...rather bland.
Audi are making far better products at the moment.

This is incorrect.

way to counter a point of view.

Full of information, facts and opinions there - a wonderful rebuttal that has left me in no doubt.

Well, the post from Gareth was hardly full of information either, so the two posts cancel each other out.

True - but at least the first post contained a sliver of information, and could accuratley be read as opinion.

The rebuttal was, well to the point at least

[Road_Terrorist]

It's basically just a standalone customised version of GTR/GTL as far as I can tell. I suppose it wouldn't be too difficult to port the M3 over into those games if you have them(?).

If you get bored of racing around the track, you can actually make it to the inside of the track (look for openings in the fence) and go hooning around those tight twisty marshalls roads and get some serious air when you hit the bumps, dont go too far though or you'll end up suspended in the timespace continumn. There is also a giant burnout pad just behind the pits, hold down brake and acceleator and you can do some great burnouts and doughnuts, which is about all you'll be doing if you have a keyboard. Reverse J turns are also good fun. Bet the BMW dealer wont appreciate you doing that on the real life test drive

[andynormancx]

Fastra said:

...we're getting new G5 intels next week -- and my BF2142 is on order!

Huh ? What on earth is an G5 intel ? The G5 was the old PowerPC processor before they swapped to Intel.

[marctwo]

andynormancx said:

Fastra said:

...we're getting new G5 intels next week -- and my BF2142 is on order!

Huh ? What on earth is an G5 intel ? The G5 was the old PowerPC processor before they swapped to Intel.

I've heard someone else say this too. Maybe it's just because the metal tower cases were introduced with the G5 and the name has stuck. I think he means Mac Pro.

[Riyazc]

should run on mac if you use bootcamp or parralel (i think!)

[Brink]

[roadie]

Would this work with a Xbox 360 controller?

[Muncher]

It's pretty much unplayable unless you have a steering wheel as turning left and right just goes straight to full lock so you get understeer everywhere.

[Silentz]

That's not quite tru, Muncher... it's just got pretty "non standard" game steering.

You need to commit to a turn and get the amount of steering (e.g. time pressing button) correct, or you spaz up. Its not like playstation style d-pad racing game steering, where you can sort of "tap" a direction through thte whole bend to make it turn gently. You need to press the direction for a short time and release it. The wheels self-center themselves (relatively) slowly so it completes a turn.

Hard to explain but if you go into the controller config and see how the steering and throttle bars light up when you press and release you might see what I mean.

We had a 4-player network game at lunch.

[Phil Dicky]

Gareth135R said:

Saw one in the flesh on Sat...rather bland.
Audi are making far better products at the moment.

Saw a red one on the M6 Cheshire, nice car, but not that impressive, was expecting more the first time I saw one.