Best place to find setting for cars

[Viper_Maniac]

??? Well? Besides GTVault, is there any other good sites that have settings like GTVault?

 

[quattro_bro]

GTDatabase.com has some settings you can get online. They are also selling a book that looks like it has detailed settings for each car for each track. Someone has put some hours in!

 

[Duke]

What's wrong with the forum you just posted in?

 

[sukerkin]

Good point Neon_duke!

You're probably best off using this forum (and Gran Turismo by the Numbers) for getting your settings advice Viper_maniac.

The GT Database stuff isn't all that great (have a look at some of the 'free samples' on their site to see what I mean) but it could be suitable for you if your driving style matches that of the guy that did them. He/they have put a lot of work into producing them but to try and charge for the fruits of their labours is a fair indication of what their motives were!

Car settings in GT3 is very much dependant on personal preferences and how the individual drives. If you can find someone who sets up cars how you like them (and does a good job of it of course!) then you will probably be able to make some progress in honing your own tuning skills by seeing what they did that makes the car behave in the way you want it to.

In GT2 it is true that there were some 'magic bullet' settings which would make a car perform better regardless of the driver. But in GT3 it is much more the case that tuning is about getting the car to handle the way you like it rather than making a given car lightning fast in and of itself i.e. by a tailored set-up you can turn in faster lap times because you get the car to react predictably to your driving as opposed to actually making the car go faster.

Hope all that made some sense!

 

[quattro_bro]

Not only made sense, but was very sensible!

You're right, the GTDB settings are not going to work for you unless you drive just like the author. I tried some of their settings and had to make adjustments all over the place. :janitor: May have even taken longer than if I had started from stock.

Anyway, I like the format of this forum much better! You actually have the opportunity to learn something about tuning the cars rather than letting someone else do all the work (and learning) for you.

 

[sukerkin]

Anyway, I like the format of this forum much better! You actually have the opportunity to learn something about tuning the cars rather than letting someone else do all the work (and learning) for you.

Truer words have never been spoken! I spent months teaching myself how cars are set up for racing in the real world but it paid off because the physics engine in GT3 is as close to a simulation as we've yet seen in a PlayStation title. What works on the track for GT or BTCC racers also works in GT3 (thank God, otherwise I'd have wasted countless hours of research!). The only big shortfalls in the game are:

- that you don't have tyre temperature monitoring so setting camber and toe is pretty much trial and error

- that you can't adjust tyre pressures (a fairly vital procedure and one that has a massive effect on tyre wear and general handling characteristics)

 

[Sk8erBrett_Viper999]

Originally posted by sukerkin



The only big shortfalls in the game are:

- that you don't have tyre temperature monitoring so setting camber and toe is pretty much trial and error

- that you can't adjust tyre pressures (a fairly vital procedure and one that has a massive effect on tyre wear and general handling characteristics)

I tottaly agree, tire wear gets to be a big problem in some cars