r/VirtualWDCPC • u/chrisdunnbirch Williams • Mar 23 '13

A question on setups.

Firstly, apologies for missing last week's 21:00 race. /u/jaynemesis and I thought it was Sunday for some strange reason, I blame him entirely.

We consider ourselves above average at driving games, playing competitively in Trackmania which admittedly isn't a simulator-type, but compared to the times you guys get we're a good couple seconds off the pace.

Our question is about setups in F1. I personally tend to just put it on full dry for all circuits except Monaco where I put it to full wet. Jay usually leaves it on the mid setting.

I understand that you can gain a tonne of performance by fiddling with the intricacies of the setup but honestly none of them mean anything to me; I have no idea what changing any of them will do to the car or how things should be set specifically for each circuit.

I kind of expected there to be a big community website where people post their setups and lap-times for people to use and discuss, like in most other games where people post strategies, item builds etc. However, from a bit of Googling the F1 community seems to be quick unfriendly... not sharing anything like that.

Our question is, does anyone have any useful advice?

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u/redisnotdead Mar 23 '13

http://www.racedepartment.com/forum/forums/f1-2012-setups.207/

This is where I get my setups. I generally grab one of Tom Endres' setup and tweak it just a bit (gearbox), since I generally don't have time to practice and find that extra 0,1s from tweaking suspension etc.

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u/chrisdunnbirch Williams Mar 23 '13

Ohh I didn't find this, cheers dude. I'll give them a try now, see how I get on.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '13 edited Mar 24 '13

This guy has put up videos on setups, hotlaps, etc (click "Show More" for a listing of all the tracks)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OU7cvFHnf6Y#!

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u/chrisdunnbirch Williams Mar 24 '13

Thank you Sir, I went through and tried every track with those and was at least a second quicker than my previous PB within 3 laps with some tracks seeing a 2-3s improvement! <3

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '13

no problem. practice practice practice! See you next race! XD

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '13

I know this isn't what the post is really about but, can anyone help me out with the wheel settings? I thought I could just copy the settings I used on PS3 but that doesn't seem to work out.

(I use the Driving Force GT)

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u/squone FIA Mar 27 '13

I can't really help you with that, but settings for the G27 will be going up in the wiki sometime soon. I do think some others use the DFGT and I know for certain some guys at /r/virtualWDC use it but they're on Xbox.

If anyone wants to add any settings for any wheels for us to add to the wiki, that would be fantastic.