Turning off hud.

[GTOne2Three]

How many of you are good at keeping track of your gears? Especially when your car's interior doesn't have a gear number displayed? Or if it's a standard?

I tried counting in my head, but then I lose count.

 

[10,500RPM]

I have no bother counting gears, I'm used to doing it because my motorbike doesn't have a gear indicator.

 

[jasjeet]

Dont track gears, learn how to judge how much you need to slow down and how many downshifts youll need to do that.
This way you never need to know what gear your on.

Not easy though, all my friends at college all ask me the same thing.

 

[MMeglen]

H-pattern shifter so I don't need to count :-) I turned my hud off a month ago and i've never even thought of swtiching back. I just don't like that I don't know mph but that flashing gear indicator is SO bothersome.

 

[Vesartis]

Yah, I just keep track of the revs, or at least the sound of the revs, if in a standard. You kinda get used to where you have to be to travel a certain speed. If you know that you went up 2 gears after a certain turn and reach a similar turn, you go back down 2 gears. It is hard to explain, but you just have to listen. Don't downshift to quickly or too early.

 

[Parnelli Bone]

Takes practice and patience, like everything else in virtual (and real-life) racing. I usually have the HUD on initially if it's a car I'm not used to driving. But as I get to "know" the car better, I'll turn it off for immersion purposes. I'll either turn off the instruments, or the entire HUD.

You have to learn to listen for your car's RPMs mostly. Listen and try to remember what gear you're in. I actually count at first. Most corners are left behind in 2nd gear for me, so I'll count up. Then as I approach a turn, I'll count back down again. After awhile, the counting is not even necessary..the entire process becomes second nature.

Of course, there will be those inevitable times which I'm in the wrong gear at the wrong time. I'll think I'm in 2nd gear but the engine will start hitting its RPM limiter! Or I'll think I'm in 3rd, but after pushing the accelerator, it's obvious the engine is revving much too low.

Online, I usually have the HUD on, only turning it off if I get really comfortable with the folks I'm racing against.

 

[kadoimmortal]

Dont track gears, learn how to judge how much you need to slow down and how many downshifts youll need to do that.
This way you never need to know what gear your on.

+1:tup:

 

[nyyellowtaxi]

How many of you are good at keeping track of your gears? Especially when your car's interior doesn't have a gear number displayed? Or if it's a standard?

I tried counting in my head, but then I lose count.

My car and motorcycle in real life don't have gear number displayed. Somehow I can manage fine.

 

[Watevaman]

You don't need to count gears, otherwise you'd be memorizing combinations of gears for each for on every track.

Instead, just rely on the engine sound and shift when you're out of the power band.

 

[sideshowfrost]

How many of you are good at keeping track of your gears? Especially when your car's interior doesn't have a gear number displayed? Or if it's a standard?

I tried counting in my head, but then I lose count.

I try to keep track in my head, but I also have a mid point i can fall back on for when i forget - in the 400PP cars we race this is typically knowing that 3rd gear covers 100kph (I use cockpit view).

 

[HurlingDervish]

I'd think this is probably easier to do if you're a driver in real life, or a musician, but there are definite changes in tones and pitch to give you tells of when to shift.

One helpful thing, for me, is that the RPM's often aren't made of a single pitch. When they aren't, you can hear the engine going in and out of tune. Another tell is that the sound may go from thin to beefy all of a sudden, and in my experience, this kind of drastic change usually happens around the time you need to shift, although the variety of engines would probably differ.

Ultimately you should try to remember what the actual pitch is at the optimal shifting point, using the other tells as tools to remember when as well.

 

[Tweetman_277]

I keep track of the noises for the revs. The best car ive found so far for HUD-less is the Mclaren F1 for me. So easy to place on the track and Big, Clear dials...

 

[spapadillion]

I don't find myself counting the gears 1-2-3-4-5-6, but counting the number of shifts according to corner and straight, like so: 3-down, 1-up, 2-down, 3-up, etc. Probably a bit odd...

 

[sideshowfrost]

I don't find myself counting the gears 1-2-3-4-5-6, but counting the number of shifts according to corner and straight, like so: 3-down, 1-up, 2-down, 3-up, etc. Probably a bit odd...

No, that's what I do. The problem is when you screw up, or crash, or have an incident with another driver (or even get some draft - that can throw it out too) and you have to work out the actual gear you need, not the relative one.

 

[iamjajo]

My real car and motorcycle both have gear indicators.

In game, when I use cockpit view, I turn off the HUD too. And, I use the relative method to shift.

But, it is easier when I use the stick shift instead of the paddles.

 

[mclarendriver]

I increased laptimes by 1-2 seconds by turning off the hud

 

[Vitzio]

Pay attention to the dials in premiums, then in standards, I shift by ear, it just works for me.

 

[W3H5]

Dont track gears, learn how to judge how much you need to slow down and how many downshifts you'll need to do that.
This way you never need to know what gear your on.

Best advice there^. 👍

 

[GT_Prologue5]

I drive maybe one lap with the HUD on to know when and how many shifts to do. In some cars, it is a bit hard to know when to shift, say running extremely high rpm, you may shift earlier than needed. Listening is the best though.

 

[Leicht]

Me but usually I switch off when I'm only at the Nurburgring

 

[OK8]

With standards I use the hud but with premiums it's cockpit with no hud always. Don't have to worry about counting gears since I use H-shifter like some others in this thread.

 

[Willfred_1]

the cock pit cam works well just watch the revs as when u race u only drive by the revs

 

[Gran_Turismo]

I don't use MT anymore. Its much easier to concentrate on the drive and corners when I don't have to think about shifting. The X2010 should have stayed CVT, too many rapid gears changes required to drive it in MT, so I just use AT now.

 

[Parnelli Bone]

I don't use MT anymore. Its much easier to concentrate on the drive and corners when I don't have to think about shifting. The X2010 should have stayed CVT, too many rapid gears changes required to drive it in MT, so I just use AT now.

Ironic that the person with the coveted screen name of Gran_Turismo doesn't actually want to drive cars with their full benefits & features!

 

[GeneralJesh]

Counting gears ? What the fridge

 

[Slammedc]

Just don't think about it. I turned off my entire HUD a couple weeks ago and only drive the Premium cars now and I just listen for the time to change and after a few days of driving many different types of cars I can pretty much just jump right in and compete. I do drive in a league though, so I am used to the other drivers and I don't have to worry about the random rammers that come in. By the way, I used to be horrible with a F40 and after turning off the HUD and using interior view I have gotten pretty good with it.... weird.

 

[SkylineObsession]

I drive with full HUD on, but sometimes i turn off the lights, plomp myself in the drivers seat of a Premium car and turn off the HUD, to make it seem like i'm driving that car (partly) for real.

I can tell what gears i need to be in just based on how the car drives, if its sluggish out of corners i drop down a gear and all is fine.

 

[Rittig]

Dont track gears, learn how to judge how much you need to slow down and how many downshifts youll need to do that.
This way you never need to know what gear your on.

This is the way you should go.
I've been racing motorcycles for 20 years, and I never know what gear I'm in - IRL or online. But I know exactly how many downshifts for any given corner. Any IRL race driver will tell you that.
Especially when racing very different vehicles, you'll be better off counting your downshifts.
Shifting up - well, you can hear from the engine rev's when the time has come. On race bikes you can also feel the power fade, and that's probably the only feature I seriously miss in GT5! Also in rally races, I miss the feel of traction. It's damn near impossible in GT5 for me to asses, if shortshifting is good. It's easy as hell on an enduro trail.

 

[enri93]

I try to keep track in my head, but I also have a mid point i can fall back on for when i forget - in the 400PP cars we race this is typically knowing that 3rd gear covers 100kph (I use cockpit view).

+1:tup:

 

[Rico_S]

I don't really cared about it since I'm using DS3 and set the transmission automatic.

It does better though if using steering wheel, the gear shifter can tell you the gears without looking at HUD.

And like some people saying it, if you can't use steering wheel and wanted manual transmission, just practice it. If you get used to it, congrats. Firstly, get to know your car first.