Racer Free Car Simulation...

[Timmah!]

Yo,

If anyone's looking for a decent car simulation game but doesn't want to get up off their ass to go to Circuit City and buy it, they'res a free program called Racer...fully 3D, and constructed based on real-life handling and speed physics. You can either download the latest full release (5.0) at www.racer.nl , or you can go here to get the latest release plus ALL of the current betas. http://koti.mbnet.fi/pkallo/Files/Full_Racer_v0.5.2_beta6.1.exe
Note: if you try to configure the options on the full release + betas pack, use caution. Mine will crash the game when I try full screen mode, but that's prolly coz I have a crap bucket old computer.
Now, to download cars, go here....www.racer-xtreme.com ....lots of cars to download. Note if some cars handle erratically, it's the fault of the creator. Some of them can model cars nicely but are dumbasses when it comes to making use of the physics scripting. I reccomend the Mazda RX-8...very well modeled and great physics. Also, if you have a joystick or gaming wheel, I'd use that. Driving is much harder on the keyboard because you can't go half-throttle or turn to only half-lock, etc. Once you get the game running, there will be readme files when you download cars, telling you how to install them. Really a fun little game once you master the control. If anyone feels like giving it a shot, you won't be disappointed. :D

-Tim

[Shivee]

Yeah, its a good game for being free. Ive played worse that cost money. Nice game with a wheel. And for people interested in drifting. A Norwegian team(I think) is working on a D1 mod for this game. One of them won UKD1. Go Norway :oops:

[lite]

cool game. timmah, is the multiplayer, lan or online gaming?

[FiRe_OpTiKz©]

www.liveforspeed.com

best online racing simulator ive ever played..

[Timmah!]

I don't think it's multiplayer, which sucks...but you can race against dumbass AI opponents. lol

[FiRe_OpTiKz©]

live for speed is a totally online simulator..

[Timmah!]

Live for Speed is great, too, but the only differences is that it's not free to get the whole package, and they'res no way to add-on cars yet. I like it, too, great graphics and all...but having a better selection of cars is more me. Plus, the AI car's can't gloat or act like assholes when they win. lol

[lite]

hey timmah i downloaded a few cars with dodgy scripting/graphics. here's a screenshot of the dodgy nsx.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v386/lite/nsx.gif

other problems included the 360 spyder - texture seems to be transparent. is300 - can't see wheels.

is this because of my graphics card or the scripts on the cars?

edit: i've managed to get a new .ini for the nsx which fixed the position of the wheel.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v386/lite/nsxfix2.gif

however some of the cars are still semi-transparent.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v386/lite/modena.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v386/lite/modena2.gif

[Timmah!]

Are you on the All-In-One pack? It's nothing wrong with the pack itself, but the current betas sometimes read the ini's differently, coz the car might have been designed on an earlier release. They'res probably a fix for it. I'll let you know if I find one.