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In the GRID series, you want to slow down a bit (to have a more manageable speed) and usually drift or powerslide through corners.
I expected GRID to be a simulation based stock racer game. In practice, the cars can drift on their own and handbraking isn't quite subtle. Not quite arcade. I do like how you can run a practice lap before racings to influence your lap position. I do wish the transition between the cinematic and the actual driving was more seamless.

ABS: Brakes usually work by physically blocking the rotation of the wheel and absorbing the resulting energy. When you brake too hard, it is possible for the wheel to lock up in such a way that, instead of slowing down the rotation, the wheel is held in place, resulting in it skidding across the road surface.
Like when a car slides in ice when you break too fast? No traction to actually stop the car?
 
I expected GRID to be a simulation based stock racer game. In practice, the cars can drift on their own and handbraking isn't quite subtle. Not quite arcade. I do like how you can run a practice lap before racings to influence your lap position. I do wish the transition between the cinematic and the actual driving was more seamless.
GRID is more arcadey and fun. Lots of drifting through corners. If you're talking about the reboot, I played that one on the hardest difficulty setting with 5x race length while also respecting the AI opponents and not making dirty moves. Lots of fun to be had. If you want to practice things like slowing down for corners, you might want to enable the racing line assist which displays colored markers, indicating the racing line and also the speed. If the markers are yellow or red, they indicate that you're going too fast and should be slowing down.

Like when a car slides in ice when you break too fast? No traction to actually stop the car?
Yeah, except the same thing can happen on regular road surfaces if you go really fast and brake really hard without any assists. Or if you have really shitty tires on.

It's an interesting thing for sure, talking about gazillions of horsepower and all sorts of struggles, but at the end of the day, all power in the world is for nothing if it can't be delivered to the surface you're trying to drive on
 
GRID is more arcadey and fun. Lots of drifting through corners. If you're talking about the reboot,
Correct. The reboot. I like the straightforward approach with progression. Here's a chart of events with races. Complete them to progress. Boom. I also like not having to worry about upgrading my car to compete. Is it me or does tapping on the accelerator while racing give you slightly more speed?
 
Is it me or does tapping on the accelerator while racing give you slightly more speed?
If you're driving on keyboard on a non-4WD car with a ridiculously huge power output without any traction control, maybe
But assuming you're doing this while keeping traction, no, it should be slower
If you drive a turbocharged car, this will have an even bigger impact as the performance of the turbocharger depends on the RPM of the engine - which will go down if you're releasing the accelerator
 
Like when a car slides in ice when you break too fast? No traction to actually stop the car?
Adding on to @XL xQgg?QcQCaTYDMjqoDnYpG's explanation, brake locking is when the brakes stop the wheel rotating too quickly. The momentum of the car - which would have been bled off under gentler braking - is forcing the car forward on the now-stopped wheel.

See this video. Note that the front wheels are stationary but the car is still skidding forward.
 
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Anyone here ever have a fondness for the old Nascar games? I distinctly remember as a kid playing through Nascar 2007 and hearing that Diary of Jane music as I was on the main menu. I wanna try some of the older ones but I'd really like it if it was more polished and had more of a 'career' for me to sink my teeth into, like the older F1 games with their career modes. It'd be nice if any of the Kiwis here have some suggestions on any games that hit that same stride (new or old, though preferably something I can emulate)
 
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Rennsport accused of unlicensed code from rfactor 2 in it. Will likely lead to an investigation by rf2.

Speaking of rennsport, arent you excited to drive gt3 cars around spa, like in dozens other games?
 
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Anyone got any recommendations for me?
Never been that into racing games (played a lot of NFS underground & underground 2 back in the day though) but been rewatching old top gear episodes so I have an itch to scratch.
Tried emulating GT4 because I liked the way the career mode is structured in that game but my PC is really struggling with it, despite that it should easily be able to emulate it flawlessly.
I don't really care about sim-levels of realism, as long as it's grounded & has a fairly open ended career mode.
 
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Anyone got any recommendations for me?
Never been that into racing games (played a lot of NFS underground & underground 2 back in the day though) but been rewatching old top gear episodes so I have an itch to scratch.
Tried emulating GT4 because I liked the way the career mode is structured in that game but my PC is really struggling with it, despite that it should easily be able to emulate it flawlessly.
I don't really care about sim-levels of realism, as long as it's grounded & has a fairly open ended career mode.
What you could do is get the xbox game pass for a month. It has a lot of racing games on it and you can pick and choose. My favorites are wreckfest and forza horizon 4&5 (although career in it feels like it has no progression at all). Unfortunately we are in a bit of drought of good racing games.
 
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Tried emulating GT4 because I liked the way the career mode is structured in that game but my PC is really struggling with it, despite that it should easily be able to emulate it flawlessly.
What are your PC specs/version of PCSX2 your are using, if you don't mind me asking?
 
What are your PC specs/version of PCSX2 your are using, if you don't mind me asking?
If you've got a 3060 or above you should be fine, even the 20 series is pretty good. The lowest you can get with really smooth framerates with emulation is a 1060. 1050TIs are a bit hit or miss if you're still operating there.
 
What are your PC specs/version of PCSX2 your are using, if you don't mind me asking?

8gig ram
AMD A10-7850K (3419 single thread performance benchmark, requirements ask for at least 1600 from what I've gathered)
GTX 1050 TI 4gig version.
PCSX2 version 1.6

I've tweaked a load of settings in the emulator, best I can manage is 60 fps on some tracks with slight dips towards 55, most tracks chug between 40&55 though.

If you've got a 3060 or above you should be fine, even the 20 series is pretty good. The lowest you can get with really smooth framerates with emulation is a 1060. 1050TIs are a bit hit or miss if you're still operating there.

If anything I'm guessing it's a CPU issue since it's peaking a lot when I try to play. GPU I've had no issues with.

I know my PC is a shitbox (made the mistake of not going for just a slightly less powerful processor with a ryzen compatible socket since those were just coming out when I built this thing) but requirements speaking it should handle PCSX2 fine.
 
Anyone here ever have a fondness for the old Nascar games? I distinctly remember as a kid playing through Nascar 2007 and hearing that Diary of Jane music as I was on the main menu. I wanna try some of the older ones but I'd really like it if it was more polished and had more of a 'career' for me to sink my teeth into, like the older F1 games with their career modes. It'd be nice if any of the Kiwis here have some suggestions on any games that hit that same stride (new or old, though preferably something I can emulate)
Nascar games between 98-10 were the games I remembered playing a whole lot
 
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There's your issue. The latest stable release is relatively old and missing some critical features. When you start PCSX2 does it look something like this?
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If so, the you are using the old wx-Widgets version of PCSX2. The (new) Qt version brings many improvements, like per-game configuration. Try the latest unstable release instead and see how you get on. If you still have a problem, then it's probably your CPU like you said.
 
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There's your issue. The latest stable release is relatively old and missing some critical features. When you start PCSX2 does it look something like this?
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If so, the you are using the old wx-Widgets version of PCSX2. The (new) Qt version brings many improvements, like per-game configuration. Try the latest unstable release instead and see how you get on. If you still have a problem, then it's probably your CPU like you said.
Yes exactly, will try that out later, thanks a bunch
 
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Anyone here ever have a fondness for the old Nascar games? I distinctly remember as a kid playing through Nascar 2007 and hearing that Diary of Jane music as I was on the main menu. I wanna try some of the older ones but I'd really like it if it was more polished and had more of a 'career' for me to sink my teeth into, like the older F1 games with their career modes. It'd be nice if any of the Kiwis here have some suggestions on any games that hit that same stride (new or old, though preferably something I can emulate)
I had Nascar 99 for the N64, I sucked at it but I enjoyed playing it.
 
The last Nascar game I've played was 2010 for the PS3
 
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