Help please.

[ViXeN]

Hey guys and gals.

I have a problem on the GT World Championship race on GT4, I have a NISSAN R92CP Race Car '92 which is plenty fast enough to get out in front. But after 3 laps, my hard racing tyres have seen their day and I can't controll the car anymore... It's a 10 Lap race. lol.

Any help on my set up that may improve the life of my tyres so I can actually complete this race?

Thanks
ViXeN

 

[Robot]

Get harder tires.

 

[djaft3rb3ats]

gg robot, he said he was already using hard tires, super hards will help, but i need to see ur setups. it might be that ur tires are just hugging the floor a bit much. what im saying is that its good have traction, but iff u get pwned with ur tires, it might be that ur not that great a driver(eating grass and dirt), too much traction (camber, toe, etc) or just that u try to drift or do sum crazy things. i recommend harder tires, yes, but also post ur settings and also try bspec, they are pro at saving ur tires (with enought points)

 

[johnathana]

i forgot, is the race in proffesional or extreme events? oh well. the chapparral 2j has a very small appetite for tires, so i use it in some races.

Happy racing!!!

 

[Duke]

I suspect if you're already on Hards that maybe you need to adjust your driving style. It took me a while to learn that.

During the Grand Valley enduro in GT3 I was trying to be very smooth in order to get a few extra laps out of my tires to extend my pit interval. I was surprised to note that laps where I was very smooth - braking early, letting off as I turned in, feeding the throttle back on - felt slow but were actually the fastest laps I turned. It had the added bonus of extending my pit interval at least a lap each.

Sliding from excessive brakes and spinning from heavy throttle will badly shorten your tire life.

 

[Zardoz]

Try turning your TCS up to about 8 and setting the Brake Balance at 4 / 1.

 

[ViXeN]

Thanks Guys...

and BTW, I'm a she not a he. hehe...

Well, I changed the SHR on the rear and HR on the front and that got me through, I've now won 6 of the 10 races on the World Champs.

And Duke, I understand driving pretty well, I race and RX2 Capella 11B Rotary in real life, so my drivings not really the problem. In real life racing that I do I race like 10 races on the same tyres and don't really fiddle with the settings on the car too much... Just the adjustable shocks really...

What I love about GT4, being a real life race driver, is the realism in this game... The cars handle just like they should...

Anyway, thanks to all who offered their advise here.

 

[Duke]

Thanks Guys...

and BTW, I'm a she not a he. hehe...

And Duke, I understand driving pretty well, I race and RX2 Capella 11B Rotary in real life, so my drivings not really the problem. In real life racing that I do I race like 10 races on the same tyres and don't really fiddle with the settings on the car too much... Just the adjustable shocks really...

Hey, it sounds like a nice little car. Where do you run it?

 

[rk]

What I love about GT4, being a real life race driver, is the realism in this game... The cars handle just like they should...

Hoo HOO, I'm changing my name to "GT4" forthwith.

 

[ViXeN]

Hey, it sounds like a nice little car. Where do you run it?

I live in South Africa, Run it across the country, and yeah, she's a super little car, goes like a bomb and handles twice as good as the other cars in it's class... I'm the only rotary in my class, so I run against 2.0 and 2.5L Race cars in my little 1.1, lol...

I keep up pretty good too due to my cars lighter weight and better handling, but they kill me on the straights... hehe...

Anyway, back on topic, I finished the GT world champs, Hard Racing front, Super Hard Racing rear... I never had to pit once, and they all pitted at least once.

Got my GT40 LM car

 

[hartmaenle]

......

Anyway, back on topic, I finished the GT world champs, Hard Racing front, Super Hard Racing rear... I never had to pit once, and they all pitted at least once.

Got my GT40 LM car

Hi,

I remeber your problem, a 787B never pits in this race and i'm wonder about it.
It was the moment were i'm scrap my Minolta, after some day i'm coming bacj to this race with a Audi R8 and setup made like this : https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?t=60440&highlight=noober

It's a funny way to get a respectable setup, no perfect for every track, but its works. Ok the result was , the Audi don't wearing out, even a 787B, the tieres was R1/R1 , thas all.

Currently i'm learning more about the TCS system, this may a additional source that tieres wearing out, but the results vary form car to car.
Thy a Doge Viper / Orecca an setup all defaults, than go to Nuerburgring and try to drive, a nightmare. But remeber at may 2005 the Viper was at the second place behind a BMW M3 GTR , it shows us the real live differs a little bit from GT4.
In the last two day i'm setting up my viper, tricky but i'm at way .

 

[djaft3rb3ats]

tcs 8 is overkill, sorry to say. yeah....


djaft3rb3ats

 

[JParker]

tcs 8 is overkill, sorry to say. yeah....


djaft3rb3ats

Absolutely, I use a DS2 and only use 1 TCS and 0/0 on over/under steer. I'm almost to the point that I'm thinking of eliminating it all together. Yesterday I ran the Infineon Endurance in the Audi R8, first time I've driven it since I won it, awesome car by the way, and I was getting 0 wheel spin or TCS flicker, with incredibly good tire wear.

So Vixen, practice throttle control to help with the tire wear, it is possible with a DS2. The harder the compound of tire, the more difficult to control throttle and wheel spin.

JParker

 

[djaft3rb3ats]

jparker, for most of us who dont understand osme of the vocab, tell us what ds2 and lmp means?

btw zardoz, 4/1 brakes and tcs 8, i wonder how u play...


djaft3rb3ats

 

[JParker]

jparker, for most of us who dont understand osme of the vocab, tell us what ds2 and lmp means?

btw zardoz, 4/1 brakes and tcs 8, i wonder how u play...


djaft3rb3ats

DS2 is the Dual Shock 2 controller that comes with your Playstation 2. LMP is the classification of cars that the Minolta, Sauber, Audi R8, Pesky's etc are, or also known as LeMans Prototype.

 

[djaft3rb3ats]

w077. thanks a lot, i was ds2??~~? am i on crack? lol, thanks. i use the logitech pro force ffedback sterring wheel, its so pro

 

[Supercar_Killer]

I used the Minolta completely sotck with mediums. Pitted once each race at half way and when the rest pitted near the end, absolutely blitzed them, one every race. I've never had a problem with tyre wear, and it seems that if u pit before the AI and stick it on Bspec, ur driver absolutely kills the competition.

 

[rk]

Absolutely, I use a DS2 and only use 1 TCS and 0/0 on over/under steer. I'm almost to the point that I'm thinking of eliminating it all together. Yesterday I ran the Infineon Endurance in the Audi R8, first time I've driven it since I won it, awesome car by the way, and I was getting 0 wheel spin or TCS flicker, with incredibly good tire wear.

JParker

Man, you must have sensetive fingers. What, are you a surgeon?
(rk looks for the green with envy smilie)

 

[djaft3rb3ats]

lol, gg, he must play computer games a lot

 

[JParker]

Man, you must have sensetive fingers. What, are you a surgeon?
(rk looks for the green with envy smilie)

Well, thanks rk, I'll take that as a complement. Surgeon, no. I just play a little too much Gran Turismo.

lol, gg, he must play computer games a lot

Funny you say that. From '98 until Dec. '04, computer games is all that I did play. Since December all I have played is GT3 until GT4 came out and then nothing but GT4.

Some cars are quite easy to control the throttle in, many, or even most, are not. The Audi R8 I mentioned above, is one of the easy ones. It is such a great car to drive.

 

[sid870]

Minolta with RH on rear and RM on front, everything else as standard, pit halfway and the AI cars give up and you can win quite easy.

 

[djaft3rb3ats]

hmm, its been all the hype, i guess i gotta try out the audi r8 tooo then


djaft3rb3ats