SimRaceway

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Bigbazz
Simraceway prices cars based on their real world value, so a $1,000,000 car costs $10 in the game. Prices are not much different to what iRacing charges, except that you can buy the cars with ingame credits aswel as cash, events also reward cash prizes and the game is free to play.
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I already know that, problem is 20 euro for a single F1 is still a joke, no matter the silly math excuses they are using.

iRacing is another very expensive game, we all know that and I don't agree with their scheme, but there's no need to blame them if SRW is charging 20 bucks for a single car. At least iRacing give you a template to paint your car.
 
HKS racer
I already know that, problem is 20 euro for a single F1 is still a joke, no matter the silly math excuses they are using.

iRacing is another very expensive game, we all know that and I don't agree with their scheme, but there's no need to blame them if SRW is charging 20 bucks for a single car. At least iRacing give you a template to paint your car.
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Except it's a one-off fee in SRW, and you don't have to buy any cars if you don't want. Tracks are free too, iRacing is a subscription AND you pay for cars AND you pay for tracks AND you lose access to everything when your sub lapses (but then get it all back when you resubscribe so that's ok I guess). Yeah, 20 dollars is a lot for one car but you get to keep it forever and you don't HAVE to pay 20 dollars for it anyway, you could save up the credits for it.

Also you can enter free events to win money and prizes like the SRW-S1 which is $100, so that's pretty good (if you're good enough to win).
 
HKS racer
I already know that, problem is 20 euro for a single F1 is still a joke, no matter the silly math excuses they are using.

iRacing is another very expensive game, we all know that and I don't agree with their scheme, but there's no need to blame them if SRW is charging 20 bucks for a single car. At least iRacing give you a template to paint your car.
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The difference here though is that as has been said in iRacing you pay for all the cars, all the tracks + a subscription. In SRW the vast majority of cars are very cheap and very realistic to buy with in game credits, all of the cars in iRacing are $12. In iRacing if you want to move forward you have to spend that $12 on the car and that $15 per track to run the car.


In SRW most of the cars are cheap, a load of them are less than $1. In 1 hour of playing you could earn around 300 credits ($0.30) doing the right events and you're already in the price range of a couple of cars. Yes the price of the MP4-26 is probably unreasonable, but the game as a whole is really cheap.

Anyhow, its early stages at the moment, I'm sure a lot of things will change before the beta of this game is over.
 
Just stopped in to say SRW is neat! Cheaper than iRacing, and you can win real money in free to enter hotlap competitions! Just tried my first hotlap session in the Z4 on Lime rock and am in 2nd place to Stephen (S_Diem, acerockolla), one of the GTA finalists. He gets $6 for finishing first, Id get $3 for second, and $1 for third.
 
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Just stopped in to say SRW is neat! Cheaper than iRacing, and you can win real money in free to enter hotlap competitions! Just tried my first hotlap session in the Z4 on Lime rock and am in 2nd place to Stephen (S_Diem, acerockolla), one of the GTA finalists. He gets $6 for finishing first, Id get $3 for second, and $1 for third.
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Damn you, beat my time by 0.002 seconds, I can't set any faster laps either as I just sent my graphics card back under warrenty (it was randomly switching off a couple times per day).

That said, if 50.5 is the best a GTA finalist can do I don't feel too bad, I lost a potential 50.4 when someone joined my game while I was up in S1 (by 0.1s) and S2 compared to my 50.6 lap. Never really been in the position before where I can keep up with a GTA finalist quality driver.

As it stands I'm looking at a 3rd position, wish I had the chance to atleast try, though going sub 50.6 is very difficult, have to get the tyres in the right range on the warmup lap.
 
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Is there anything I can do to make the game more likely to save my best time? On the site it still says my best is 51.971 even though I did a mid 51 sec lap on the kart event and just now I finally broke into the 50's, I think it was 50.9 but even so... I actually managed to get into the 50's twice as well but apart from that I was in the 51-53 sec range so it wasn't a complete fluke. I did have a lot of scrubbed laps from pushing too hard though!

Edit: Never mind, it saved; 50.868. Can't wait to get into the 49 second range!
 
The Mclaren MP4-25 (2010 Formula 1 car) became available today, for $19 I believe.

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Ayrton Senna/Alain Prost's 1988 Mclaren MP4-4 F1 car was added to the sim.

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The price appears to be $38 - I'm almost heart broken because I really can't afford to spend that on it.
 
While the MP4/4 has made the history books as one of the most successful F1 cars of all times, it’s presumably the most expensive add-on content ever sold in the sim racing world as SimRaceWay charges members $38 to drive the car.
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:lol: I just hope Kaz don't hear about these Simrace trolls guys.
 
I don't (G27) and I don't think Bigbazz, the only other person who isn't trying to troll the thread (who has posted in the last two weeks), does either. Sorry!
 
The 1964 E-Type Jaguar has been added to the sim

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Costs $1.45 or 1450 ingame credits.



And yeah I use a G27 so don't know how the game is with the T500rs, best way to find out is to try it out, it's free afterall.
 
Well that's just complicated my decision. I was going to save up around 1,600 credits and then try to pick between the F3 and F3.5, but I do love the E-Type. Then again it hasn't taken me that long to save 600 credits. I might get the F3 first, I don't have anything that fast already.
 
I think I'm going to have to give this game a try. I've really been wanting something like iRacing or RACE '07 but with road cars lately. How do the physics compare to those games? I had rFactor way back but was really turned off by the poor quality of most of the stuff available for it, but sounds like all of this is professionally developed.

Oh, I see that it's developed by the same guys who have the center at Sonoma Raceway. That's basically enough to sell me on it, then. I hope they add the Riverside track that they made a few years ago, it looked like it was awesome.
 
I haven't tried iRacing myself, but Simraceway compares well with Race 07. It's hard to say though because I've always thought Race 07 has just a little too much grip when it comes to road cars but to be honest it's been a long time since I've driven any.

I recommend it to anyone interested in sims, it may not be super hardcore but it's nice to just pick up and play some online races in for free, but don't expect many honest races at low levels... It is free, after all!
 
So I FINALLY installed this today. Is it supposed to look so, er, awful? It doesn't look much better than a PS One game and as far as I can see I've got everything on full. Or is the free version restricted?
 
SimonK
So I FINALLY installed this today. Is it supposed to look so, er, awful? It doesn't look much better than a PS One game and as far as I can see I've got everything on full. Or is the free version restricted?
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Depends from circuit to circuit. Longstone is the first track in the list I believe, it's also probably the worst looking track in the game. Go try out Mid-Ohio or Lime Rock and come back to us!

The game is considered a beta and everything is a WIP, some of the older track circuits I believe are just placeholder visually. Lime Rock/Mid-Ohio is the bar you should measure by, aside from Project CARS I think this sim on those circuits sits alongside anything else pretty well.
 
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Well it was mainly the car interior that looked the worst, fuzzy and just generally terrible. That's why I thought I must have missed some setting or something because it couldn't look that bad. I did get a warning when I started the game that my GPU was too weak and lower than 512Mb RAM when it's not, it's a 512Mb HD4850 that plays CARS on moderate settings.
 
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I just took this, haven't optimised the settings as I was playing with an old Radeon HD3870 while my HD6970 was sent back, but this is how it looks for me, I play it in windowed mode. Playing around with Nvidia settings on my new card I'm sure I could getting looking better with AA injection etc (as I had done with my HD6970).

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Outside view, the car could use a lick of paint I think!

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Some more, MP4-12c at Zandvoort.

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Toyota Supra at Indianapolis
 
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Palatov D-1 at Sonoma/Infineon Raceway.

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Formula Renault 3.5 at BRNO, taken from a replay of a race I did a while back.

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Renault 5 Turbo at Lime Rock Park.

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Hopefully this should help people get a more well rounded view of some more of the content and graphical quality. Like I've said, I personally think it looks really good with the newer content and it is a beta.
 
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Yeah something was definitely wrong the first time I started it up, just ran it again and things were looking pretty similar to the above. It was really weird though, the settings were definitely all on full but as I say it looked like a PS1 game. Weird bug there.
 
SimonK
Yeah something was definitely wrong the first time I started it up, just ran it again and things were looking pretty similar to the above. It was really weird though, the settings were definitely all on full but as I say it looked like a PS1 game. Weird bug there.
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I had a similar problem with rFactor, I had to run it as an admin to get any of my settings to stick. Never had it with SRW though, no idea what that's about.
 
Downloaded this the other day, seems fun. I like what they did with the physics, they feel realistic but not like iRacing where you spin out if you make the smallest error.

What's the deal with the available tracks, though? I only have the options of Infineon, Mid-Ohio, and the Infineon kart track. Do they limit you in practice/free run or do I have to download them somehow?
 
If you look at the bottom of the main menu you'll see a fraction, for me it's currently '1/14' and then a percentage after that. That shows files that are being downloaded, usually tracks, so if you have that going on then wait for them to finish and you should have more tracks available. As far as I'm aware though there should be others with a sort of chain link icon over them if they haven't been downloaded yet. If the download fails you have to exit the game and launch it again to get it to resume (which is annoying as mine fails pretty much all the time). I'm pretty sure there are no limits on what you can drive in practice (because that would be insane) but if you can enter any events, particularly hot lap events, I strongly suggest you do that because you don't earn any credits from practice laps.
 

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