The rFactor Thread

[Harakimi]

The first installment in the rFactor series features mixed class road racing with ultra realistic dynamics, an immersive sound environment and stunning graphics. This is the game you will want to play. rFactor provides unprecedented flexibility, allowing the series to grow and evolve with mod community involvement, race club formation, and feedback from users worldwide. We hope you enjoy the ride!

rFactor is one of the most realistic driving sim around. Maybe the best thing about it is the PvP community, there is countless amounts of leagues and servers where races are held daily basis. Few years ago there was even a NASCAR league with real sponsors and such, and drivers were PAID in cash. Not anything like real life drivers get but winner of the series got several thousands US dollars.

The game provides you with few carsets and tracks , but there is large amount of great carsets and tracks made by the modders.

F1-79, F1-07, NASCAR, Indy Car, Australian V8's, DTM, WTCC, Porsche Cup, GP2 etc, etc, etc...

Go check the rFactor homepages at
http://www.rfactor.net/

And the range of carsets and tracks with more screenshots at
http://www.rfactorcentral.com/

[DanicaRules]

Does this game support a steering wheel ??

[JoStream]

Does this game support a steering wheel ??

Yea it does. I only have a gamepad though, so I'll take the game for a spin with it tonight . The screens got me sold :lol:

Maybe we can explore the establishment of a WRF presence in rFactor ;)

[DanicaRules]

I dont think my pc could handle it too well.

[Harakimi]

Maybe we can explore the establishment of a WRF presence in rFactor ;)

I'd love that in near future, when I get my new PC. ;)
Here is some clips from different carsets.

F1-1979 ( I just can't wait to get my hands on this one )

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F1-2005

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NASCAR

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[saltysurprise]

I should have never, NEVER, NEVER... Clicked on this thread:lol:

[EIR Loe.307]

It's only $35 if you want the cd copy from the store online. :lol::lol:

[JoStream]

I should have never, NEVER, NEVER... Clicked on this thread:lol:

Haha :lol:, yea but I'm still safe, the download broke and I'm not in the mood to start over :p. It'll have to wait a bit :cool:

[saltysurprise]

It's only $35 if you want the cd copy from the store online. :lol::lol:

Don't try and fool me into believing that that's all the money I'm going to blow:rolleyes: I'm sure I can turn that 35 bucks into several hundred in a heartbeat:greedy::lol:

[EIR Loe.307]

Ya, $35 for the game, $300 for the seat, $300 for the G25, $2000 for the 42" LCD, couple hundred more for the video card upgrade, more ram. Gaming experience = PRICELESS :D:lol:

[saltysurprise]

Ya, $35 for the game, $300 for the seat, $300 for the G25, $2000 for the 42" LCD, couple hundred more for the video card upgrade, more ram. Gaming experience = PRICELESS :D:lol:

For you and your new divorce attorney, Mastercard is everywhere you want to be:rolleyes::lol:

[JoStream]

Gaming experience = PRICELESS :D:lol:

For you and your new divorce attorney, Mastercard is everywhere you want to be:rolleyes::lol:

Might as well buy a seat with Spyker :lol:.

[saltysurprise]

Might as well buy a seat with Spyker :lol:.

HEY!! Good idea. That's probably cheaper than a divorce too!:lol:

[EIR Loe.307]

Don't piss off the safety car in rFactor. :p:lol:

I'm pretty sure it's slowed down.

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[saltysurprise]

Don't piss off the safety car in rFactor. :p:lol:


What the hell???

[DanicaRules]

I agree, what was that ???:confused:

[EIR Loe.307]

I agree, what was that ???:confused:

Pretty damn funny if you ask me.:lol::lol:

[saltysurprise]

Pretty damn funny if you ask me.:lol::lol:

Well thanks, Miss Information!:rolleyes:

[JoStream]

Alright, I downloaded the game yesterday and took her for a spin. It's a good start, but there are some annoying quirks.

1. I was hoping to test the hyped multiplayer feature, but for that I have to buy the game :wonder::mad:. Also, the distributor does not provide a standard game server. There are dedicated sites for that, which will take you a while to figure out :rolleyes:

2. The game comes with one carset and two tracks to test. There should be some other ones so I can get a better impression.

3. For those who thought they can play it with a passable computer, it's probably not worth your time. I have a Core Duo 2.0 with 1 GB RAM and a Nvidia 6400 with 256 onboard and I can't go beyond Anti-Aliasing Level 1 on full details :rolleyes:

4. The simulation itself is really nice. Sound is great and handling physics are realistic. I wasn't very impressed by the damage model, but that could be due to the graphics.

The understeer in the Skoda that the game let me play was of course ridiculous. When I play on a circuit like the Nurburgring I'm used to F1 cars :lol:

[Ryan]

The demo I had for a while had an F1 car.

The cockpit detail was amazing.:eek:

[DanicaRules]

After reading your post jostream, Im sure my computer wouldnt handle it very well. I'll stick with my XBOX.

[Harakimi]

Hihii, just got a friend of mine hooked to the rFactor clips and he left my house straight to pc hardware shop to buy himself a racing wheel :D

[Dash]

"After reading your post jostream, Im sure my computer wouldnt handle it very well. I'll stick with my XBOX."

I have a p4 2.4Ghz, 1Gb of Ram, 6800GT and rFactor runs really, really well. Turn shadows off and you'll be fine. It's really not that taxing on your PC and you can change the graphics level to DX7 or 8, which makes a huge difference apparently.

[Harakimi]

We just bumped into little problems with my friend. He dloaded the try&buy file from the official website and begun to install it. Now he is running with windows vista, which has dx10. The game installer wants to install dx9 into it. Well I could imagine that it's ok, you can always go and install dx10 back to the machine BUT there is no downloadable file of dx10 in microsoft pages, well atleast we didn't find one. :confused: As I'm not that good when it comes to things like this, is it safe to install dx9 to vista? :confused:;)

[JoStream]

Well I could imagine that it's ok, you can always go and install dx10 back to the machine BUT there is no downloadable file of dx10 in microsoft pages, well atleast we didn't find one. :confused: As I'm not that good when it comes to things like this, is it safe to install dx9 to vista? :confused:;)

Even if you try, it won't install the DX9 files. The installer will recognize that it's a newer version and simply not overwrite the newer files :wonder:

[EIR Loe.307]

I'm running a:

P4 3.0 ghz hyperthreading
1.25 gig ram (DDR400 / PC3200 @400mhz)
Lan Party DFI 865PE gaming motherboard
ATI All in wonder 6800 video card (not sure past that)
and a 20.1" Flat screen LCD

any suggestions or changes as far as running rFactor or should I be ok?

When I bail for Costa I'm gonna get the race seat etc. and go all out as I will have sold just about everything. :lol:

[EIR Loe.307]

Runs Best With
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 processor
Windows XP
2048 MB RAM
Geforce 7900 GT or Radeon X1900 GT
256 MB video RAM
DirectX 9.0c
2.0 GB of hard drive space for installation
Internet connection required for one-time activation


System Requirements
1.4 GHz processor
Windows 98 SE, ME, 2000, XP, XP 64-bit (will NOT run in Windows 95 or Windows 98 first edition)
512 MB RAM
Geforce4 4200 or Radeon 9200
128 MB video RAM
DirectX 9.0c
2.0 GB of hard drive space for installation
Internet connection required for one-time activation

[Harakimi]

I think that you should be able to run the game Eir. Maybe 1g more ram could ease things up, eitherway it has been told that rFactor is well coded and doesnt need that much power from your system than other sim's do. But sure if you want to get the best v8's game around rFactor is your pick. :thumbsup:

[DanicaRules]

I definitely couldnt run that game.

If I get that Apple Mini-Mac, I will be able to...:)

[Harakimi]

I definitely couldnt run that game.

If I get that Apple Mini-Mac, I will be able to...:)

rFactor, like most games don't run on Apple, sorry. :o

[EIR Loe.307]

Just saw some screenshots of the V8 Supercar carset. Yea, I'm about to order this bad boy. :D

http://www.rfactorcentral.com/detail.cfm?ID=V8%20Supercars

[Harakimi]

Check this one and you might wet your pants. ;)

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[EIR Loe.307]

here's an onboard (nice sound)

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[NetOz]

Yeah, rFactor is in my opinion the simracing game, better then LFS adn gtr2....

My favorite mod is F1 1979, i love that williams... the only problem with rFactor in my opinion is:
there is no rain officialy on the game yet, so only dry tracks untill this moment :o

[Harakimi]

Nod, that's a downside there is no rain feature yet. But I'm sure that there will be in the future.

[NetOz]

Nod, that's a downside there is no rain feature yet. But I'm sure that there will be in the future.

yes there will be, i dont know when but i'd say very soon

[EIR Loe.307]

Is there a mod to convert to MotoGP??? That would be really sweet!! Like an all in one game from hell!!!

[HondaF1Fan]

rFactor is quite a good game overall, I've never been a fan of it's looks in places and stuff but it's great for online play and well good with your mates:)

[Lizardfolk]

Nod, that's a downside there is no rain
feature yet. But I'm sure that there will be in the future.

There's wet addons that comes close to rain for certain tracks (and you can do it yourself if you know how)

Livet Glen: http://www.rfactorcentral.com/detail.cfm?ID=Livet%20Glen

[JoStream]

There's wet addons that comes close to rain for certain tracks (and you can do it yourself if you know how)

Is it as good as GP4 rain though? I never saw a better rain simulation engine than the one used by Geoff Crammond in GP4 :wonder:

[F1 Ferrari]

I dont like very much that...

[JoStream]

I dont like very much that...

Sorry F1 Ferrari, you should be clearer when you reply to messages. I'm really having trouble understanding what you are referring to.

As a tip, quote the post you are replying to :)

[Harakimi]

Now after 8 hours of driving I'm keeping my little formula on the road :D. Sad part is that I'm having huge problems to have modded carsets to work in Vista, or then it's just me and my impatiency.:mad::(

So at the moment I'm just driving with cars that the game provides. I was able to dload some tracks tho and they work so maybe cars will work also (at some point). But atleast F1 1979 just gives error messages when I try to install it... :(

[Harakimi]

Today was my first shoot for online games. Did 4 short races with Megane Trophy carset. Unluckily some driver aids like abs, auto gears etc were allowed so I couldn't truly compare myself to everyone because I'm sure someone used those, I'm using only auto clutch. I managed to finish 9th at Essington park and 8th at Barcelona from the starting grid of 28 drivers. Next time I'll try to find myself a setup and score higher. :finishfirst::)

[Harakimi]

I finally managed to get F1 1979 to work! Seems that just the installer was corrupted. Driving with only autoclutch is rough! You really need to be careful on your throttle. When I was able to close the gap with the "top" drivers on Megane trophy from 15sec to 5sec, now I'm again 15 seconds behind everyone with 79's. But it doesn't matter, I like the challenge! :D:thumbsup:

I'd love to do some WRF racing in future, anyone? :D

[Harakimi]

Wheee!! I made the coolest overtaking manouver in Mexico with driving Porsche Carrera GT3's. It was a "national" Finnish race with 22 participants and I finished 16th so that wasn't great but I still consider myself a rookie in rFactor. Anyways the overtake. I decided to get fresh tyres around the mid point of race because driving got too difficult. I came back from the pits behind these two guys who didn't stop at all and I noticed that I can drive the last parabolica before the main straight way faster than they so I decided to make my move on that straight.

What was great is that the guy who was running infront of me got nice speed out from the parabolica and was going for overtake on straight. Meanwhile I was coming even faster behind them and we wen't 3 wide to the breaking area and I managed to overtake them both with one move, just like Hakkinen did in Spa with Schumacher. This time tho everyone was on same lap. Brilliant! I try to compress that file and put it on tube in near future. :D

[Dunk]

I'm about to download the demo and I have checked that it will run on my pc, but I'm not sure which source to download from ?????

[Harakimi]

I'm about to download the demo and I have checked that it will

I guess it's safe to dload any of those links from rfactor.net, just check it's compatible version for your country. ;)

[Dunk]

Thanks :thumbsup:

[JOWT Blog]

I realize I'm a little behind the times on this..but I finally picked up a copy of rFactor last week and have been using my Logitech Driving Force Pro wheel and pedals.

I've found that I'm a little less productive now. :D

[saltysurprise]

I've found that I'm a little less productive now. :D

That's exactly the reason why I haven't rFactored yet:lol::stop:

Must resist...

[JOWT Blog]

That's exactly the reason why I haven't rFactored yet:lol::stop:

Must resist...

That's good because once you start ....you can't quit. ;)

[NetOz]

lets play rfactor togheter someday, its gonna be fun ;)

[NetOz]

I couldnt connect in rfactor today is anybody else having this problem? or is this a problem here

and theres a new mod that its excllent, but i havent tried online yet.

Indy 1995 :thumbsup:

[brendonhartleyfan]

lets play rfactor togheter someday, its gonna be fun ;)

I'd be keen for that.

I was just wondering where does everybody get there mods from? i'm always on the look out for new interesting mods. i usually just get them from www.rfactorcentral.com (http://www.rfactorcentral.com) but if anyone else has any good places i would love to hear where.

[Harakimi]

I'd be keen for that.

I was just wondering where does everybody get there mods from?

I haven't been rfactoring for a while but it would be fun to race together, tho there will be some serious time zone problems. ;)

I've always used rfactorcentral, I believe it's the best place to get mods that are actually worth playing.

[NetOz]

me too i always use rfactorcentral ;)