Friday, April 10, 2015

Ride Premium Events




You can check out the Ride Premium events to. Just get it on Steam or Amazon thru my astore. It's really a blast and must have for any motorcycle enthusiast.





RIDE - HISTORIC SUPERBIKES


Take a look at these historic superbikes. I hope they come out with my favorite 1988 Suzuki GSXR-750 and the 1989 Kawasiki ZX-7R.








Assetto Corsa Launch Event at Vallelunga Circuit


Pretty cool vid to watch about Assetto Corsa. They really have came a long way. It's my favorite sim to play with all the realistic physics and awesome graphics. All Assetto Corsa needs now is more tracks and a custom career mode to play on with more achievements to be awarded in the custom career modes.

Get you copy on STEAM




Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Assetto Corsa at Barbagallo Raceway





So I'm a little late to modding with Assetto Corsa I admit that. It's not like I didn't try mods before on sims it's just the few I tried didn't warrant space on my hard drive. We'll I finally decided to try out some track mods from AC Mods. As you probably recognize Assetto Corsa is lacking in tracks so I downloaded a few. Well, Ok like 17 of them :)

Check out this 4 lap run at Barbagallo Raceway in western Australia. This track is known for the V8 Supercar races with it's short and really fast layout with some awesome elevation changes. It's really a blast to drive on. I can't wait to try more cars on this track.

For more cool mods from AC Mods check it out HERE and a direct link to this track Barbagallo Raceway





Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Monday, April 6, 2015

Assetto Corsa Version 1.1 Best Race Ever!


It seems with all the updates in Assetto Corsa they really have got the AI down allot better. It's extremely fun and exciting to race more then ever before.
This race is at Silverstone running version 1.1 in career mode with the Ferrari 599XX EVO.

If you don't have AC in your roster of sim racing titles then your simply missing out!

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Friday, April 3, 2015

Dirt 3 Complete Edition Out



Finally Dirt 3 Complete Edition is out on Steam and for Free for those that already own Dirt 3. Get it on STEAM . If you don't own Dirt 3 the Complete Edition will cost $23.99. It came as a little surprise to most on Steam. I logged on and noticed it in my Library for a free download. Nice April fools present!
So why get it? Well it runs smoother with solid FPS and comes with all the DLC every released all in one release. Plus if your like me I couldn't make it thru a game without the original Dirt 3 crashing on me which was really a downer. Now I can make it through a game without crashing so YES!! Winner!!

Now the downside for us that like to use our force feedback wheels from Fanatec, Logitech, Thrustmaster and the like, the game doesn't work with those or most force feedback wheels! There is a big complaint list on Steam for this. Well that's to say it works if you don't mind the wheel pulling to the right as if you have a flat front right tire. Sooooo Yeahhh.

Needless to say it's not ready to review the new (incomplete) Complete Edition at least not with my wheel and I don't care to play racing games without using my wheel. So if you have a wheel and don't already own Dirt 3 Complete Edition I would hold off until a patch comes. For all those that use the gamepads well your good to go! Hopefully the devs will HOTFIX this quickly.

Until next time. See Ya on the Track!










Thursday, April 2, 2015

Announcing iRacing Mobile!



What? IRacingMobile? What's that? 
Well yes it seems that iRacing will be coming to your phone in 2016! Sounds really exciting and surly to give games like GTRacing 2 or Real Racing 3 a run for their money. I'm pretty excited to here about this and can't wait to buy it.

I believe this will help blow iRacing up and draw people into the sim world and most likely bring customer to the PC version of iRacing. Way to go guys!!

Check out more on iRacing Blog








Just How Awesome is Fanatec!

I absolutely love my Fanatec SQ shifter! It has to be the best bang for your buck on the market today. I mean really you can not go wrong with this shifter.

So what about the new version 1.5? Well basically the new version comes with updated electronics and hall sensor for a more rugged design making setting up the shifter with your Fanatec wheel even easier and improving shifts or missed shifts from the new hall sensor. I'm sure there is more to it what is being told to the consumer, but at the end of the day it's an improved design that looks and functions the same as the first version.
If you already have version 1 and it's working fine don't worry you are not missing anything with v1.5 from what I can tell.

So here is the great part though! If you own Version 1 and it fails on you (which BTW Fanatec extended the 1 year warranty to 2 years for version 1 customers) you can send it in and Fanatec will update your shifter to v1.5 for free! Soooo I just happened to have a faulty shifter in my hands. It appears that the return spring that would recenter the shifter handle in sequential mode broke. I notified Fanatec and sent some pictures in which Fanatec service dept sent me information to send it back. Now 2 weeks later I get my shifter, but wait! It's not my shifter. It happened to be a brand new shifter version 1.5. Sweet!!!

So what I noticed between the version 1 and version 1.5 is in the included video below. Check it out! and if you want quality sim gear from a company that truly seems to care click on one of my side Fanatec banners and buy something. It also helps out the blog

Thanks. See ya on the track!










Ride SuperSport Vid along with the Intro and Settings Option Vids




I also included for the people that don't already own RIDE, the Intro and menu options of all that is possible in RIDE.  I'll be bringing more videos soon of Ride Action.