Stupid Malasian GP bug almost ruins game!

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So I'm trying career mode on hard, and managed to win the first seat with Super Aguri for my first season. Did reasonably at Bahrain, I broke my front wing on the last lap but still managed to finish 9th. But I get to malaysia, which is a track I just hate (the second corner in particular) and the game decides that for the "Fuel&Tyres" bit of the racecar evolution, it will run me on wets, even though the track is dry. So the car becomes an unstable hairy dog of a thing to drive, and makes it almost impossible for me to complete the evolution section.

WHY IS THIS HAPPENING!!!!>!?!!!H!!@G$$*%&

I've almost got a setup I'm happy with by doing it manually, but no matter what I do the car wants to oversteer wildly into the second corner (the tight left through a dip). Any suggestions on that front?
 
if it has bad oversteer just ease on the gas when you aren't accelerating in a straight line or try and roll through the center of the turn and then gas it coming off.
 
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if it has bad oversteer just ease on the gas when you aren't accelerating in a straight line or try and roll through the center of the turn and then gas it coming off.
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Without meaning to sound rude, I know how to control oversteer, its just that it seems to "snap" out quite violently on one corner. The only way I can deal with it is to brake quite heavily, trickle straight through the apex, head for the outside of the bend and gingerly get back on the throttle. It feels so achingly slow though, and I'm sure its just a setup thing, which is even more annoying because the car feels good everywhere else and has no trouble hauling out of slow corners.
 
So try setting up the car with more understear? There are many different ways this can be acheived.
Every setting that can adjust rear and front of the car independently will affect what we perceive of as over- and understear. Tire pressure, cambers, suspension, anti-roll, dampers, brake balance, wings...
Change one or a combination of many and there's your understear.
 
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Yeah but then the balance is screwed for the high-speed stuff. Its ok anyway, I got a setup I was happy with eventually (the damn thing still oversteered like crazy through turn 2, and ONLY turn 2) and half-fluked it onto pole position in quali.

Then, naturally, I got nerfed off the road by Fernando running first and then Schumi crashed into me, taking my RH front wheel and wing.

Ah well, bring on Melbourne!
 
Well Sepang turn two is known for being bumpy and I think that softer rear suspension, less rear anti-roll and less rear dampening will solve your problem for next season without making any other changes. Even though you're now done with the race, why don't you try it out as a prep for next season and let me know how that works for you?
 
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Well Sepang turn two is known for being bumpy and I think that softer rear suspension, less rear anti-roll and less rear dampening will solve your problem for next season without making any other changes. Even though you're now done with the race, why don't you try it out as a prep for next season and let me know how that works for you?
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I thought that might work, but the setup I used was harder than the original and it STILL snapped sideways occasionally. The only solution I found was to brake very hard into left, keep the car as straight as possible through the dip and then nail the throttle once the elevation change was dispensed with. I'll have a shot at it in time-trial mode with very soft rear suspension and see what happens.
 
I'd say because of your stiff setting you had the problems. Also try changing all three a little instead of just rear suspension alot. 👍
 
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I'd say because of your stiff setting you had the problems. Also try changing all three a little instead of just rear suspension alot. 👍
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I'm not making myself clear. I'd usually run with softer suspension as a "base" as its easier for a driver of my abilities to control when things go wrong. So I tried that at Sepang, nope - spun several times at turn two. Tried stiffening up - still spun. Stiffened up even more and things became slightly less unpredictable, but even so the suspension wasn't really that stiff.

It's just a course that I really don't like too much. Tilke must have been on his period when he designed it I think. The fact that the "racecar evolution" starts you out on wets was just the icing on the cake.
 
I like Sepang too, the only time I've had trouble at Sepang is when I accidentally left my traction control on 1, which caused me to spin in turn 2 when I was accelerating, maybe that's the problem.
 

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