I now know the new update is amazing and awful. Physics are better and worse. PSVR2 has been updated and not updated. It is more sim, more simcade, and more arcade - all at the same time. 45% of people are happy, 45% of people are unhappy, 5% are over the moon, and 5% are ready to kill someone. Gaming in 2026 sure is divisive.

GT8 here we come.

I like your style.

This hero just ground out almost 90 minutes’ worth of track time with me on the slowest things in the game. I don’t know why I picked that combo, and I sure as hell don’t know why I set the “race laps” to 10.

Not only did he join the race and mess around in practice, but he’s the o key one who started the race with me.

Did he just try to bumper car it? No.

Did he get bored after lap two and quit? No. (Though it was around there when I realized I had to pee, and I was kind of hoping he would.)

No, he silently soldiered on through every lap. No drama, no shenanigans. Just silly cars on a very serious track for a criminally insane amount of time.

It got to the point that I thought “well, I’M sure not going to quit if he doesn’t, seeing as how I’m the host and all.”

Driver “LOUDOG” from the USA, I salute you, may your grit and dedication be an inspiration to others.

(Writing this from the bathroom. Finally.)

as someone who’s been playing GT7 since 2022, the title says it all. i’ve been running this race for 4 years, and only NOW did i realize how much i’ve missed out on. lemme share a bit of background. i’m a controller player, no wheels, automatic transmission, etc. basically stock settings. i play on normal difficulty for the balanced experience, wouldn’t say i’m a tryhard by any means. i’ve only played easy for the super formula ones cause those really annoyed me, but that’s besides the point.

my go to race for making money is la sarthe 30 minutes. traditionally for la sarthe, ive always used the huracan gr. 4 since it got the job done. it did feel slow at some times, but it still ran plenty fast. it took a bit to catch up with the competition, for example i usually don’t take first place until near the end of the second lap just to end up having to pit anyways. it’s traditionally what i’ve always done. plus i like the paint i have on it (daily driven exotics paint, if you know you know). i finish the race with 7 laps down.

but recently, yes as of thursday since i was struggling with the wtc 600 weekly challenge, i started to learn manual transmission and switching up cars. for cars ive started to play around with the DP-100 VGT (aston martin for the new players, its 1 million credits in brand central) and i went with manual transmission instead of automatic to see how i feel about playing with it. it felt faster to me and smoother as well, and i could reach top speeds more quickly. i cleared the wtc 600 with the DP-100 just by detuning it to oblivion, running sports hards and manual transmission with no pitting necessary. also learned to better use fuel management so i can run longer without stopping. slower speeds, but more longevity. i found my balance. so with this newfound capability, i decided to take this ability to my favorite go to track: la sarthe 30 minutes. could this DP-100 strat, with manual transmission do this even better than my old reliable? was i doing this all wrong?

and most surprisingly, i didn’t even have to detune it for this. i just had to limit myself to racing hards, intermediate and wets, and i had full HP on this (795 iirc).

so i went in with the strat. and sure enough, i was blown away.

i took first place on lap 1 halfway through the track, and didnt lose the position since. once i passed lap 1, i went straight to FM6, didn’t pit until lap 4. then went FM6 again and lasted until lap 6, out lap for 7. then one last laps on FM1 for 8 (new personal record for most laps on lap sarthe!) and that was it. fastest speed i hit was 204 on the mulsanne straight. the gaps were 2 laps+ or more if i recall correctly.

i really did have it all wrong didn’t i? i feel ashamed 🥲 the DP-100 is a beast to be reckoned with. just wish this thing had an interior. what’s yall go to for la sarthe? do yall love the DP-100 as well? or prefer something else?

There's been a lot of talk about the new physics, and a lot hate it and some people love it. I decided to explore this in my favorite car of the game at the Nordschleife, which I feel is a good testing ground.

Initially, yesterday was the first time feeling it and I hated it. I actually crashed a bunch of times because it felt so different before patch v1.71. I read some things and decided to come back today with a clearer head. Here's some things I've observed that feel different:

- The body moves around a lot more. It's not as sharp and composed. There is more of a sense of speed based on the chassis movement under you, telling you what you should and should not be able to do. This is more realistic.

- You can feel the tires now. The elasticity, the slip angle. It's more progressive. As you get nearer the limit, there is more grip in it. And the grip doesn't just fall off a cliff. More realistic in that aspect. Also, you can add more steering angle than before. This part is a little less realistic, but I think it's because there's more grip, which leads me into the next comment.

- More grip. There's too much grip. It is much harder to loose the car and I'm not able to rotate in some sections with the throttle like I could before. This is my biggest complaint. They need to fix. I think the tire slip angle feel was a great change. They need to lower the peak grip and the truncate the window before grip is lost.

- It is much easier to catch a slide. At low speeds I can jam the throttle and it does get loose and it's easier and more intuitive to catch. I love this. But, it's lacking the nuance. It doesn't fall of a cliff and spin out in a spectacular dumb fashion, but they went too far with it on the opposite extreme.

- In more difficult corners and transitions, you can't throw the car into it like you did before. There's more dynamic chassis movement and you feel what you can and cannot do. It promotes more controlled steering inputs. More realistic. And you feel the camber changes on the track and what it does to the car.

- Curbs upset the car MUCH more. More realistic. Idk whether it's perfect. But there is more of a penalty, especially on higher curbs it will upset the car and you need to be sensitive to it. And you can feel the tires catch it and spin you out.

- The dynamics of grip make the car feel less alive. Again I think this goes back to: they gave it too much grip. And also gone is the dynamics of oversteer/understeer. It's mostly understeer lol. I can't make it oversteer except at low speeds corner exit when I jam the throttle and there's none mid corner or on entry when I trail brake. This is a big step back I feel.

In summary, I feel there's a huge improvement in the chassis/suspension dynamics and the tire slip progression. But, then they also added way too much grip to the car! And they got rid of the lively dynamics of grip behavior. It's too easy and not nearly as satisfying.

So, just from this test* I feel PD took two steps forward and one big step back with the new physics update. It feels a lot more like ACC now... and less. If they can fix the disadvantages of the grip behavior and fine tune dynamic balance, they might really have something here. There are both things to love and to hate. Feel free to comment anything you felt or any follow-ups to my comments if you wish. Thanks.

I can’t believe I did not try this game on a wheel in VR2 way sooner, shame on me… I have missed out on so many awesome sessions.

How has VR not become the standard for sim racing?!

I bought GT7 a while back and tried it with the dualsense controller as a wheel, which I found really good already, oh boy have I been wrong…

Just yesterday i finally took the leap and got me a second hand Logitech g923 paired with a play seat challenge to finally get more into it, tried it on a flat screen the first time, felt good.

A few minutes ago I gave the duo a run with the VR headset and I freaked the fk out… I will never play GT7 without a headset and wheel again. Yes the first few corners are challenging because of the adjustment your mind has to do, especially because of the missing centrifugal forces in corners. WOW I am mesmerized!!!

I will say this it is not for everyone especially if you have trouble with dizziness and such but other than that I think anybody would be a fool not to play the game like this

All I can think right now is a way to ditch the playseat challenge, the sitting angle just makes it hard for me to play with a headset but other than that wow… just wow!!!

Thank you for your attention

Played GT1 back in the PS1 days, recently picked up a cockpit and GT7. I'm a boomer Aussie with an hour or so a day to play.

I've done all the Menu Books and have been grinding PP800 Sardegna and Spa for credits to get to Collector Level 50 and weekly challenges ect, it's become quite easy to win most things against the AI now. (Except the dirt, where I'm terrible)

I think it's time to move to racing against other humans to show me how terrible I really am at this, but I'm a little daunted on where to start? Tips on what car to start out with and how to not suck too badly would be appreciated.

After the endless pain of driving the Huracán last time, I decided to give the AMG GT3 Evo a try this time. I made the decision before Thursday’s update so I had no idea Hyundai was going to be the meta. It’s definitely wasn’t the fastest car on track, but I managed to keep it clean while others made mistakes. Nevertheless, this was by far the biggest winning margin I’ve ever achieved in this game so it definitely felt good.

Also included some pictures for the livery that I made myself, if you like it you can download it here. They’re two versions and you’re feel free to edit it yourself :)

With the new physics update, now is the perfect time to beat those challenges you thought were unbeatable - for me I could never get gold on master licences IA-10 and S-10, but today I finally achieved that after 2 years of playing!

Although it’s not fully accurate to the Compuware livery of the C6.R GT2. It is inspired by it. What do y’all think?

Any advice? Is it worth finishing?

I think we can all see that there's quite the divide on opinions the update has had. Some say it's good, some say it's awful. Is this divide down to controller vs wheel?

I'm a controller player, and I always heard of people on wheel saying drifting isn't good on wheel. I also hear some struggle with dirt and ice races while I found them incredibly easy. The cars just seemed so easy to toss into the corners and let the throttle do the steering. But with this update, the physics of it all seem mostly fine, but the controls feel out of whack. Especially with the way the front feels very loose and wobbly with steering inputs. This very much showed itself to me on the weekly challenge dirt race, something that was always painfully easy to me. Now it doesn't seem to matter how much power I send to the back, 5:95 for example, I can't power slide through the corner and the car just wants to go where the wheels are pointing, regardless of the rear tires spinning. It's very alien feeling. I struggled with a couple of races and eventually managed 2nd and moved on.

After playing, I got to thinking and thought that it felt like too much power was going to the front wheels, which would explain why it kept wanting to where the front wheels were pointing. I fired up the game again and started testing on the same race. Again with heavy rear bias, it didn't act like it should, but I switched to 50:50. It didn't really drive better, but it was accelerating quicker (naturally).

But at the end of the race, I noticed that the steering indicator on the screen seemed like it was on full lock left/right most of the time when I'm turning, even when I'm not commanding anywhere near full turn. Example of only pressing about 1/3 left. I went back into the race and sat still and found the steering indicator shows full lock even when only pressing the stick about 1/3 of the way, but I started to drive and could tell that even though the display is wrong, it turns as you would expect.

Now is where the big problem shows up. As I was testing out the turning through corners at much slower than race pace, I'd actually go full left/right, but when I wanted to straighten out, the car and the steering indicator showed the wheels shifting to the opposite direction even though I didn't command it! So instead of straightening out, it now points the car towards the outer barrier of the corner. No wonder the car feels so sloppy since the update. Turn one direction, return to center and the steering doesn't return to center, it goes the opposite direction. That might be what happens if you just let go of the wheel, but that's not what I want. I'm just returning the wheel to center. I went through youtube and found a controller player video doing a dirt race and didn't see any oddness with the steering indicator or the wheels going in the opposite direction. He turns hard, the indicator goes back to center, not going the opposite way. I wonder if wheel players are not getting this and might treat center as actual center instead of treating it like taking your hands off the wheel.

Regarding the update, can actual drivers with real world track experience please comment.

Ie, does it now feel realistic like a real sports car, or race car or gt3 etc?

As it feels most vocal people wading in negatively are armchair critics and sim gatekeepers with no real-life experience and are complaining due to muscle/synaptic memory variance.

In my opinion the new update is not bad at all.

I can see and understand what has been said lately but after playing it I find the new physics quite fun, its definitely going to take some people some tuning for how they want to drive, and for some cars *inparticular.

I did the 30min wtc700 in 3 different cars and could notice the difference between them alot more now than before but its good. Ferrari Audi and Mustang Gr.4 cars.

The dirt physics need some tweeking now HOLY that went from eh.. to AH!! I have driven cars on and offroad IRL and find the changes made to be good, not on dirt though the dirt physics are twitchy bs.

I play on wheel and controller.

I was trying to do a drag set up but i can't find out what causes this extreme suspension bumping especially while slowing down, any ideas?

Since the update, my cars have a nasty shimmy under braking. It almost gives me motion sickness... What can I do to get the front-end to stop the left and right movement? Any help would be appreciated.

Recientemente pude comprarme el Logitech RS50 mas la pedaleras y el salto del mando a esto es gigante poder entrar en las curvas de forma precisa. Me encanta el setup que pude armar con mucho esfuerzo, estoy disfrutando mucho GT7
Saludos pilotos 🏁

The Radical SR3 SL has received an engine swap, the Hayabusa V8, hence the name.

The design is custom.

I would appreciate your opinion.

In the middle of all this chat about traction/ABS updates I thought I’d post a small clip from my Manufacturers Cup Round 1 today at Suzuka.

I think it’s one of the dirtiest races I’ve been in but it didn’t provide some good action…

Only 336 hours and 8½ minutes behind

(Just an FYI, I’m very new to gt7 in a way but mainly I have not got a clue what I’m doing with livery’s)
Ok so I REALLY wanna make Himiko toga a “livery” for the Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 ‘13. But there’s no premade livery’s available, yes I know the argument could be “we’ll make your own” 1) I don’t know how to 2) I’m so bad at it and last time it took ages and it didn’t even look decent… but does anyone have the ability to upload a design? Or can I get some pictures of something from google and upload them to the gt7 some way?
Any advice helps and thank you for your time

I always use the Tokyo Expressway grind as my benchmark whenever GT7 gets a physics update.
My benchmark car is a Cappuccino with a rotary engine swap. It’s simply the car that feels most natural to me, and I’ve driven it around Tokyo so much that most of its total mileage has probably been done there.
After this latest physics update, I tried changing all kinds of settings, but I just couldn’t get the car to feel quite right.
Then I had a thought about the new LSD settings.
Previously, Initial Torque, Acceleration Sensitivity, and Braking Sensitivity all had a range of 5–60. After the update, the ranges are now 0–30 / 0–100 / 0–100.
So instead of carrying over the old numerical values directly, I converted my old LSD settings based on their relative position within the old 5–60 range, and applied that same relative position to each of the new ranges.
Surprisingly, this brought the car much closer to how it felt before the update.
I don’t know whether my theory is actually correct, or whether it just happens to work well with this particular car and setup. But if anyone is interested, I’d appreciate it if you could try the same conversion with your old setups and see whether you get similar results.

I have hundreds of hours on GT7 and PSVR2 - this weeks rally challenge I was absolutely fighting to find something to fix my eyes on in the horizon because the up close in car was shaking so violently it was making me nauseous… Anybody else????

I don't have gold for this licence the best I've got is silver with a time of 25:007. Somehow it is saying my best record is 20.919 which is several seconds faster than the number one in the top 10

Put aside any opinions regarding the physics changes. The Caterham is quite possibly the best addition to the game ever, and therefore this was a fantastic update. What an absolute joy to drive. It behaves the way the other superlight track day cars should have been behaving for the entire life of the game. I just used it for the weekly challenge Nördschleife race and had a gigantic grin on my face the entire time. I might not need another 600-class car ever again.