Driving Aids or No?

[Eric.]

But I automatically set every car to 0/0/0 when first trying it out.

I almost never use ASM; sometimes I'll use it on a particular car: GSX-R/4 at Super Speedway or the Dodge Ram to make it handle more like a car. About 4 or 5 cars have ever benefited from it in my expereince.

TCS on 1 for cars with excessive wheelspin, anything else is really overkill. It's quite handly for powerful FF cars.

PD made all the default settings so excessive that labelling the game a real driving simulator is an oxymoron. The race cars handle like hovercrafts and spaceships with all those settings, and road cars act like they're on imaginary warped rails in corners.

Yeah, and what is up with AWD cars having the highest default TCS? I'd say that FRs and maybe FFs should have the highest default TCS. Not that I use any aids unless I am in a OLR with something powerful enough to have wheelspin that I think is slowing me down. I don't go over 1 TCS and 0 ASM.

Grayman: Some race cars use a traction control system. All Formula 1 cars do, the Corvette C6R does, and I'd be willing to bet several other ALMS cars.

 

[F310B]

Remember too much TC will slow you down in some cars. Try using TC in a group C car, it will 'bog down' exiting slow corners and you will be slower.

On most cars I use TC 0. TC 1 if I'm feeling lazy. I don't use ASM at all.

 

[iLex]

After I read this thread (and some other threads were aids are mentioned) I switched off the aids on every car. But... Some of the cars handle terribly without the aid of driving aids.
The Tuscan speed 6 for example understeers a lot . I just can't get it around a corner. It is really hard for me to drive it stock, so I'll have to buy at least racing suspension for it and tweak that (and that doesn't help a lot, so I've read in another thread) or I'll have to switch on the ASM for understeer.... This puzzles me. Shouldn't a car like that handle well without tuning?

 

[chattimus]

In my opinion once you learn how to drive without TCS and abs at 1 and noting else on you can go alot faster all the aids do is slow the car down and make it more managable for beginners now there are cars out there that you have to have it on but IMO its more challenging and faster with better racers all around in a room without any aids cause usually the beginners or jackasses dont join or stay long in a room without assists

 

[Skython]

Nope, unless I really need to win a race

LMP: No, it's more fun without, good way to learn throttle control, only use traction at the Ring
F1: Never use them, don't really like them
GT cars: None, unless I'm at the Ring
Road cars: Almost never will you catch me driving with driving aids in a road car

Whoops, just realized this thread is ancient

 

[Parnelli Bone]

In my opinion once you learn how to drive without TCS and abs at 1 and noting else on you can go alot faster all the aids do is slow the car down and make it more managable for beginners now there are cars out there that you have to have it on but IMO its more challenging and faster with better racers all around in a room without any aids cause usually the beginners or jackasses dont join or stay long in a room without assists

I mostly agree with you, but have you ever heard of punctuation? Peroids, commas, that sort of thing? Your looong sentence would make a lot more sense with a little bit of this action.

Also, there is in ABS in GT4. You know you posted in the GT4 forum right?