Change BHP to HP readings?

[brambos]

I have my PS3 set to english language (because I generally dislike lousy translations of videogames and prefer the original intended language) but I actually live in the Netherlands and have my locale set properly.

GT5 now assumes I want to see things like power and torque in British units. I can't find any way to switch to HP and Nm units... Is there something I can do? I can choose between Miles and KM but that's it...

 

[Dennisch]

I have my PS3 set to english language (because I generally dislike lousy translations of videogames and prefer the original intended language) but I actually live in the Netherlands and have my locale set properly.

GT5 now assumes I want to see things like power and torque in British units. I can't find any way to switch to HP and Nm units... Is there something I can do? I can choose between Miles and KM but that's it...

Ooh you should play Resistance.. Dutch spoken.

Sergeant, Sergeant, de aliens komen eraan!!

 

[freedomweasel]

I'm just going to say "I doubt it", I'm in the US on a regular old US purchased PS3 and GT gives me no option to see things in lbs not Kgs, and a few other measurements are stuck in metric as well. The units menu only gives the option of miles or kilometers if I recall.

 

[brambos]

I'm just going to say "I doubt it", I'm in the US on a regular old US purchased PS3 and GT gives me no option to see things in lbs not Kgs, and a few other measurements are stuck in metric as well. The units menu only gives the option of miles or kilometers if I recall.

Strange... you could tweak all of that in GT4. Or should I not be surprised?

 

[freedomweasel]

Strange... you could tweak all of that in GT4. Or should I not be surprised?

It's pretty darn silly. I have to convert everything myself.

And to anyone who says "waa it's so hard to do math", there is *no* reason the game shouldn't do it for me. I'm fully capable of doing math, but this is something that could have been fixed by a programmer doing the conversion once, instead of me doing it every time I'm curious how much my car weighs.

 

[HugoReyes-8]

It's pretty darn silly. I have to convert everything myself.

And to anyone who says "waa it's so hard to do math", there is *no* reason the game shouldn't do it for me. I'm fully capable of doing math, but this is something that could have been fixed by a programmer doing the conversion once, instead of me doing it every time I'm curious how much my car weighs.

Hello freedomweasel:

The Metric Conversion factor for converting imperial pounds into kilograms is 2.2046. Therefore, a 900kg car weighs 1,984lbs

Hope this helps

 

[freedomweasel]

Hello freedomweasel:

The Metric Conversion factor for converting imperial pounds into kilograms is 2.2046. Therefore, a 900kg car weighs 1,984lbs

Hope this helps

👍

*Currently sitting in my office in the R&D wing of our building*

As I said, it's perfectly easy to do but why should I have to do it, or have another computer do it when the software and hardware of GT/PS3 is more than capable?

 

[lav01]

i agree. its completely asinine that it can be a setting one way or the other.

anyone thats not a total idiot can convert it, but it would be a few lines of code in a program that took FIVE YEARS to write. somebody could have taken 1 less coffee break over FIVE YEARS and stuck it in there.

 

[grog]

I'm guessing you guys figured this out already, but I'm pretty sure that the units of measure are tied to your region, which is terrible.

It would be so easy to add more options, which I hope will happen with an update.

 

[freedomweasel]

I'm guessing you guys figured this out already, but I'm pretty sure that the units of measure are tied to your region, which is terrible.

It would be so easy to add more options, which I hope will happen with an update.

Only some of them are though, like my lbs/kg "issue". I live in the US, bought a PS3 in the US and GT5 in the US, we use the crazy "standard" system, and yet I've got no way to change the weights to lbs from kg.

Unless by region you meant "North America"?

Like you said though, I can change from kph to mph, so hopefully they'll add more conversions.

 

[shirakawaa]

In the Time Trial it was possible to change (although it didn't have any effect anywhere) Torque and Power readings to any equivalent unit of measure regardless of the system language setting. I wonder why PD removed this option.

 

[martona]

There's no way to convert from HP to BHP or the other way around. HP is measured at the wheels, BHP at the engine. The former will always be smaller - by how much it depends on the efficiency of the gearbox, etc.

 

[stadti]

I think that's quite fun, because all power measurements are on my PS3 in kW. That absolutely get's me crazy because it's more of a difference than from hp to bhp. I know one kW is 1.3410 hp, but that's absolutely crazy that they did the conversion for the different regions but didn't give us the option to choose which conversion we want.

By the way, I'm from Austria and the standard here is ps = hp,

 

[DGXR]

Just one more thing to bitch about. Yes it is inconvenient to do the math every time, but does it make the game any less fun? Maybe for some, but not for me. I live in the USA and believe we all should be on the metric system anyway. The use of different units to measure the same thing is completely asinine in the modern world.

 

[niknac]

sorry stadti but our official units here are kw, not hp...

 

[HugoReyes-8]

👍

*Currently sitting in my office in the R&D wing of our building*

As I said, it's perfectly easy to do but why should I have to do it, or have another computer do it when the software and hardware of GT/PS3 is more than capable?

I totally agree with you on that point freedom. 👍 It was an option in GT4 .. why take it away in an "updated" game.

PS: I was at work too when I replied to your initial post ... you know what they say when the bosses are away

In Canada we use the metric system but it was being implemented when I was half way through grade school so I am more used to imperial measurements in some areas and metric in others ... speed in MPH, weight in KG's .. my younger friends think I'm strange that way

 

[Mr. S]

sorry stadti but our official units here are kw, not hp...

But then again, 99% of the people would think that "PS" (HP) is the standard. I've never bothered with KW when buying my first car but well...uh, all the dealers in my home town (Germany, 2km away from Austria) had both numbers listed.

I think that's quite fun, because all power measurements are on my PS3 in kW. That absolutely get's me crazy because it's more of a difference than from hp to bhp. I know one kW is 1.3410 hp, but that's absolutely crazy that they did the conversion for the different regions but didn't give us the option to choose which conversion we want.

By the way, I'm from Austria and the standard here is ps = hp,

Change your XMB language to English - it'll show BHP then. Not perfect but better.

 

[Tispower]

I'm just going to say "I doubt it", I'm in the US on a regular old US purchased PS3 and GT gives me no option to see things in lbs not Kgs, and a few other measurements are stuck in metric as well. The units menu only gives the option of miles or kilometers if I recall.

Also, the metric units are stupid, it doesn't even let you view torque in Nm!!

kW etc I'm fine with as that's what the Auto industry uses anyway, as well as Nm...

 

[Watto]

I totally agree with you on that point freedom. 👍 It was an option in GT4 .. why take it away in an "updated" game.

Exactly this. Sure, let the region initially decide what measurements are used, but we should still have the option to change it.

Just one more thing to bitch about. Yes it is inconvenient to do the math every time, but does it make the game any less fun? Maybe for some, but not for me. I live in the USA and believe we all should be on the metric system anyway. The use of different units to measure the same thing is completely asinine in the modern world.

I agree 100%. In Australia we use metric. England, strangely, use metric for some things and imperial for others.

I remember reading about a probe that was sent to Mars by NASA in the last decade or two. Apparently, it failed because parts of it were built in different countries using a mix of metric and imperial.

Also, the metric units are stupid, it doesn't even let you view torque in Nm!!

kW etc I'm fine with as that's what the Auto industry uses anyway, as well as Nm...

I'd never heard of kgfm (kilogram.force.meter) before GT5. I had to search around the net to find the conversion for Nm which is ?? x 9.80665. Now my cars list spreadsheet converts it automatically, same as HP to kW.