How accurate is the fuel consuption???

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It may sound like a "hurr durr" question, but does GT5 measure fuel consuption accurately?
What I mean by this is, will fuel consumption increase if I run a hard lap compare to a soft lap ie short shifts, coasting, or does the game just judge it by how far round a lap you are in a perticular car?

Thought I'd see if anyone else has tested this before I do.
 
I heard it did. I ran the 4 hour enduro on the ring and stopped every 3 to keep the tires fresh. I had up to a 5 liter difference from stop to stop.
 
Erm, if I can remember my math, on 4h Nurburgring my Murcielago spent ~60L of fuel on each pit.
And I've pitted every 3 laps.
But I don't know the exact figures, if that's the case then - 60L per 70km...sounds a lot, but again, it's a fully modded car on a race track so I don't know if it's accurate..
 
Yev
Erm, if I can remember my math, on 4h Nurburgring my Murcielago spent ~60L of fuel on each pit.
And I've pitted every 3 laps.
But I don't know the exact figures, if that's the case then - 60L per 70km...sounds a lot, but again, it's a fully modded car on a race track so I don't know if it's accurate..
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Really? I used a fully modded RM ZR1 Vette and only used 45-50 for 3 laps. Fuel never dipped below half.
 
I used the Takata Dome NSX '03 to run the 4hr event. I was using 47 liters every 3 laps and only taking fuel every other pit stop.
 
I wish we could start a race with just one gallon of gas in the cars and see how accurate GT5 really is! :dopey:

 
Also if you let any car idle for hours or days in one go, it wont use a drop of fuel.
 
grashopper
I ran the 4 hour enduro on the ring and stopped every 3 to keep the tires fresh.
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Yev
on 4h Nurburgring my Murcielago spent ~60L of fuel on each pit.
And I've pitted every 3 laps.
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grashopper
I used a fully modded RM ZR1 Vette and only used 45-50 for 3 laps.
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budious
I used the Takata Dome NSX '03 to run the 4hr event. I was using 47 liters every 3 laps
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Wow, off topic but how come everyone was pitting every 3 laps !! I was using the Nissan Calsonic and pitting every 6 laps easy. I could probably have gone 7 but thought I was being conservative and leaving a decent bit of wear in the tyres. Is there that much wear difference between racing hards and racing softs ?

On topic. I don't think the game accurately models a particular cars fuel economy, especially since every car in the game seems to come with a 100 litre tank, unlike real life.

However yes, if you push the car harder in the game it will definately use fuel faster, especially if it is a gas guzzler in the first place.
 
I used the Nissan Silvia RM and pitted every 8 laps.

I wondered about fuel and tires too. I was getting 50-51 laps on my tires at Tsukuba. So, I ran a stint very hard and used them up in 41 laps. Then I ran a stint very easy and got 65 laps.
 
I did a comparison between the BMW 120i and 120d. The 120i proved to be marginally more economical, which is not really true to life. This was in untuned cars.
 
What I mean is ---
If I thrash 3 laps of nurburgring, (using all the revs, braking late) and do it in 20 mins, will the fuel consumption be greater (as it should) than if I did 3 soft laps (short early shift, coasting up to the bends), or does the game not take this into consideration and has the two end values as the same?
 
STIG_RS6
What I mean is ---
If I thrash 3 laps of nurburgring, (using all the revs, braking late) and do it in 20 mins, will the fuel consumption be greater (as it should) than if I did 3 soft laps (short early shift, coasting up to the bends), or does the game not take this into consideration and has the two end values as the same?
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I think there's only one sure fire way to find the answer to this question.
 
Wasnt the veyron supposed to go out of gas if ran at max speed for 4 or 5 minutes? Thats what the top gear presenter said why not try it that way?

I know you cant max speed for 5 mins but the daytona oval is a good place.
 
to answer the OP question.

Yes, I have noticed, if you drive full throttle you will consume fuel faster than driving more conservative. You can notice it during b-spec, if you let bob run cool he will pit until x amount of laps, but if you tell him to pace up constantly he will do less laps until pitting for fuel.

But the difference is minimal and irrelevant.
What I really want to know is if low fuel levels affects the car weight, handling and tire wear, for what I have noticed... it doesn't, which is a big disappointment.
 
STIG_RS6
What I mean is ---
If I thrash 3 laps of nurburgring, (using all the revs, braking late) and do it in 20 mins, will the fuel consumption be greater (as it should) than if I did 3 soft laps (short early shift, coasting up to the bends), or does the game not take this into consideration and has the two end values as the same?
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Im gonna vote itll be the same, tire wear however will be different.
 
Caliper
to answer the OP question.

Yes, I have noticed, if you drive full throttle you will consume fuel faster than driving more conservative. You can notice it during b-spec, if you let bob run cool he will pit until x amount of laps, but if you tell him to pace up constantly he will do less laps until pitting for fuel.

But the difference is minimal and irrelevant.
What I really want to know is if low fuel levels affects the car weight, handling and tire wear, for what I have noticed... it doesn't, which is a big disappointment.
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Yaay double post.

Anyways thre was a thread a while back (a very long while) that mentioned faster laps with less fuel and new tires. But when refueled and again fresh tires no matter what they couldnt match the empty time.
 
nah!! it's not the fuel, is the tire, new tires are cold, so you're first laps are a bit slow, after about 2 laps the tire icon turns pale blue and they're warm so you start lapping faster until they wear out and you start spinning like crazy.
 
Caliper
nah!! it's not the fuel, is the tire, new tires are cold, so you're first laps are a bit slow, after about 2 laps the tire icon turns pale blue and they're warm so you start lapping faster until they wear out and you start spinning like crazy.
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No becuase the tires were in the same state for both times (low and full)

Pit - 25% fuel - New Tires
Pit- 100% fuel - New tires

Even once the both reached max. grip it was stated the 25% fuel load was faster. Not by much but enough to not be achievable full.
 
really?? I should give it a try then...

Now if only we could choose our fuel amount during setup of the car, would be easier to try.
 
While I can't speak to fuel consumption on hard driving vs cruising (I see no reason to assume it doesn't work correctly, it does vary so something must make it do so), I can absolutely say that it makes a HUGE difference in weight and tire wear. Just run Grand Valley 300 in a heavy/tire eating car and you can easily tell the difference. In my experience around GV it was a difference of 2-3 seconds per lap full tank vs about half a tank, and the tires easily lasted 2 or 3 laps longer when driving hard with half a tank.

IMO this is the explanation for 90% of the "different physics offline vs online" argument. You can't roll over the car online, but other than that it seems to be the same as the physics in endurance races, which happen to be the only A-Spec races with tire wear and fuel consumption, as well as races that a lot of people haven't run, or only with an X1/FGT/otherwise AI-annihilating car.
 
I don't really think it does. I just finished a 48 lap race last night on Tsukuba using the Arta Autobacs '08 fully modified with Stage 3 Turbo set at a max hp of 375 and when I went into the pits to change tires on lap 28 I had at least 3/4 of a tank of gas left. Not sure where in the game it tells you the amount of petro a particular car's full tank will hold?
 
Well, I did some testing... on La Sarthe, (~13km) the Veyron need about 13-14 liters after 1 lap... A '90 Civic need only 5... A damned Prius haven't used even 1 liter... in this point, it is different.

Now I dunno if its accurate. And need to test different driving styles eg: racing and cruising.

What we REALLY NEED is accurate fuel tanks. A civic doesn't have a 100 liter fuel tank.
 
diegorborges
Well, I did some testing... on La Sarthe, (~13km) the Veyron need about 13-14 liters after 1 lap... A '90 Civic need only 5... A damned Prius haven't used even 1 liter... in this point, it is different.

Now I dunno if its accurate. And need to test different driving styles eg: racing and cruising.

What we REALLY NEED is accurate fuel tanks. A civic doesn't have a 100 liter fuel tank.
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Thanks, but that's not what I was asking.
 

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