Anyone here into Sim racing?

[ermax]

I’ve always wanted to do triple head but it takes up so much room. Off and on I throw around the idea of going VR but the resolution always makes me change my mind. Most of my simracing friends have gone VR and all swear by it. I need to find a place to test but most places that have them on display are running silly stuff like PC or Forza.

I’ve also tested a few motion sims and they all suck at being convincing. They don’t simulate enough g-forces and they are way to laggy. They end up being more of a distraction than anything.

As for sims, rFactor2 and iRacing are the only ones worth messing with. rF2 takes a lot of fiddling with settings (in the UI and in the config files) to get a good experience. People tend to mess up the FOV which is probably what you experienced with feeling far away. I went several years without simracing but just this summer reinstalled rF2 and it took me forever to remember all the tricks to get low inputlag and good frame rates. I also wasn’t really racing when they switched to Steam so it took a bit to figure out how the whole steam workshop works. It’s no wonder why rF2 struggles to get new users. They have DLCs for the sim which you would think would be easily visible right from Steam or maybe even their website but nope, you have to read through their blog to find the links to their DLCs. You would think they would jump through hoops to make the DLCs easy to find because that is an extra revenue stream. If I didn’t know what rF2 was truly capable of I would have just deleted it.

[serialk11r]

If I were richer, I would've already gone for an HP Reverb. I really wanted to give the Pimax 4K a chance, but it seems like it has too many drawbacks. I think it would be great to use with some virtual desktop app for productivity, and hopefully have enough pixels to make driving sims work.

The motion simulator was pretty disappointing. I think a seat mover might actually work better since it'd force you to lean over a little. The seat shaker gave useful feedback, but I couldn't help but think it was really fake, since I'd just back off the throttle when it turned on. I think the huge 6 axis ones that can really rotate your body to extreme angles would probably do a good job, but they're impractical.

[ermax]

I test drove one at PLM one year that rotated at extreme angles. It was too laggy to feel right.