Sim Racing important/useful for learning tracks?
10-09-2012, 09:40 AM
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Agreed. I add the "Perfect Pedal" hydraulic brake pedal replacement for the G27 available from Sim-Craft in FL. Brake pedal "feel" is extremely important for more realism and better control.
You MUST have a pretty good GPU (video card) in order to render ALL of the incredible detail in iRacing. When I am remote coaching using iRacing, I'm asking people to look for the PA speakers on the back of telephone poles headed into Bishops at Sebring, transformers on telephone poles going into T5 at Road Atlanta and the radio antenna in the distance lining up the entry into the Keyhole on Mid-Ohio Club! You won't see those (iRacing won't draw them) unless you have serious juice!
Agreed.
Scott, 4 GB RAM won't help draw the objects in the detail you need to see. You need a dedicated video GPU of at least 512 MB and preferably 1GB or 2GB. Yes, that's in a laptop.
You MUST have a pretty good GPU (video card) in order to render ALL of the incredible detail in iRacing. When I am remote coaching using iRacing, I'm asking people to look for the PA speakers on the back of telephone poles headed into Bishops at Sebring, transformers on telephone poles going into T5 at Road Atlanta and the radio antenna in the distance lining up the entry into the Keyhole on Mid-Ohio Club! You won't see those (iRacing won't draw them) unless you have serious juice!
Agreed.
Scott, 4 GB RAM won't help draw the objects in the detail you need to see. You need a dedicated video GPU of at least 512 MB and preferably 1GB or 2GB. Yes, that's in a laptop.
10-09-2012, 02:32 PM
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Other than high-end "Gaming Laptops" that spell out "X" amount of dedicated RAM, the memory the video card uses is shared system memory, which is substantially slower in speed and bottlenecked even more by having to be transmitted through the system bus. So be careful when buying a laptop, and if you see "Up to X amount of video memory".. it's shared.
The Asus G73X series is pretty good for a Wintel iRacing laptop.
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10-09-2012, 07:56 PM
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Yes, it's Intel with non-dedicated vram.
I didn't even know that they were supposed to be there. Maybe that's why I'm so slow. Once again I need spend more money to go faster. 
10-09-2012, 08:14 PM
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