Open source racing sim

I just found TORCS, The Open Racing Car Simulator. Downloading now. Anyone have any experience with this? Please share your thoughts.

Dan

Link?

http://torcs.sourceforge.net/

Sounds interesting. I'll be giving this a go, too.

Sorry about no link. Duh. Thanks Luke.

O/T: Do you own that 95 in your avatar?

downloading now.....will see how fun it is. the dirt track looks like a blast

And it's available for OSX! Awesome. DLed it at work, and I'll DL it at home, too.

MiatarPowar wrote: O/T: Do you own that 95 in your avatar?

No, but I do own 2 95s and a 96, all V4.

I think I might download it too.

I don't have a very powerful computer anymore though. So many background programs running. When I built this computer, it had 5 background processes running at any time and it was a fast computer. Now, with all the darn Windows security updates, it's locked down so tight with security that even I can hardly use it. Norton, Spybot SD Resident, Windows Indexing, etc. All of these things sucking up valuable resources. Argh!

Gah! Just tried it out and couldn't stand it.

The sound and graphics are crap. The handling is twitchy, and the cars can corner on a dime. Just frustrating with no redeeming value.

GT Legends and GTR2 are probably the best cheap sims out there. Good handling similation, great force feedback support, and a large variety of cars with custom added cars from users.

I use http://www.altbierbude.de/ for all the added content on GT Legends, and http://www.pilsbierbude.de/ for all the added content on GTR 2 (though I don't play GTR 2 that much).

Most of the added content are tracks, there are almost 300 different tracks now. The added car content are usually just different paint jobs on the car, or open top etc. But they did add a few completely new cars; Porsche 935, Nissan Skyline, Toyota Corolla, NSU TT, Aston Martin DB4GT, BMW 320 (all of which are from the 70's era). There are other sites where there are more cars to be had, but Altbierbude is super easy to use. They have an auto-updater that downloads all available updates from their server and installs them (which is almost always updated at least once a week). Plus, all the mods are 100% working every time.

You can pickup a bundle pack with both GTR 2 and GT Legends for around $20-30 now http://cgi.ebay.com/GTR-2-FIA-GT-Racing-Game-(includes-GT-Legends)-'_W0QQitemZ250380011608QQcmdZViewItem

Bumboclot wrote:

MiatarPowar wrote: O/T: Do you own that 95 in your avatar?

No, but I do own 2 95s and a 96, all V4.

I have a 96 DeLuxe and a 95.

Cool.

Salanis, the difficulty setting changes grip, did you try thst?

BobOfTheFuture wrote: Salanis, the difficulty setting changes grip, did you try thst?

Nope. I uninstalled the program. Nothing about the game was pleasing to me. Even if I fix the too-much grip, I'd still be left with the goofy darty steering.

I have Toca 3 on this computer, and Forza 2 and DiRT in the living room. I also have GT-L and GTR-2 somewhere that I can dig up for a more hard-core sim. Actually GT-L remains one of my favorites.

I gotta matchbox car on my desk.

What are the stock controls for this game? I finally got it so that I could drive but then could only figure out how to go forwards and backwards.

You have to start a character and enter a race before it will let you configure the controls.

I was also underimpressed, but hey, the price was right.