Two quick Q's about RBR

[Christopher Snow]

Just reinstalled it. All my old configuration files and setups are gone, so I'm starting over (but the new install will run under XP and not Win2000).

1) Can anyone point me at a "no-CD" patch (mine is the CD version-2 discs). I just don't want to have to keep a disc in the drive if I can avoid it, because I suspect I'd end up damaging it sooner, rather than later....

2) Can anyone refresh my memory on how to adjust the field of view in RBR? I recall it was a simple one-line file edit somewhere (and I'll poke around later on if no one knows, but hopefully someone can point me right at it).

Thanks for any help


CS

[davidan]

Once you install patch 1.02 you will no longer need the CD/DVD in ...
also within RSRBR 2010 there is a FOV adjustment utility you can use for each car.
I would recommend going through this guide for your install
http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.ph...ml#Post2504842

hope you can rally with us as part of the CMS/POR North American Rally Team. See applicable forum here on the site for details. We are looking to add more drivers to our stable!

David

[Mark G]

My copy will be here tomorrow. I couldn't resist after reading all the fun you guys are having.

[davidan]

My copy will be here tomorrow. I couldn't resist after reading all the fun you guys are having.

It will definitely be some of the best cheap money you've spent on sim racing!
I cant believe it's only 9 bucks right now at the CMS Store! $9.11 to be exact!

[Christopher Snow]

Well, I can't speak for anyone else, but I'll tell anyone who'll listen that I think RBR is the single TOUGHEST sim I've ever driven (or flown either, for that matter).

The guys who do this "rally stuff" in RL are/were incredibly gifted and talented.


CS

[davidan]

Well, I can't speak for anyone else, but I'll tell anyone who'll listen that I think RBR is the single TOUGHEST sim I've ever driven (or flown either, for that matter).

The guys who do this "rally stuff" in RL are/were incredibly gifted and talented.


CS

lol nice Chris! Where / what are you struggling with and maybe we can help you? It definitely as Kris Hudson said earlier in another thread is very much a GO Slower to go Faster type of game. You have to get used to listening to the pace notes and thinking ahead at all times. It's a little different mindset for sure.

DA

[Christopher Snow]

Once you install patch 1.02 you will no longer need the CD/DVD in ...
also within RSRBR 2010 there is a FOV adjustment utility you can use for each car.
I would recommend going through this guide for your install
http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.ph...ml#Post2504842

hope you can rally with us as part of the CMS/POR North American Rally Team. See applicable forum here on the site for details. We are looking to add more drivers to our stable!

David

Thanks for the help, Dave. I will check this out ASAP.

FWIW, my eight year old nephew loves RBR too...even though he holds himself back in order to finish. Top speed for him might be all of 70 mph on a long straight...but he DOES finish regularly too. All pretty good for eight.

And FWIW, he regularly kicks my A** over in Mario Kart (on the Wii*).

[* ! Aka: What happened to my force-feedback and why am I holding this silly little wheel ?!?!!!]

I guess I'll never learn how to drive the really GOOD sims...hehe.


CS

[Christopher Snow]

lol nice Chris! Where / what are you struggling with and maybe we can help you? It definitely as Kris Hudson said earlier in another thread is very much a GO Slower to go Faster type of game. You have to get used to listening to the pace notes and thinking ahead at all times. It's a little different mindset for sure.

DA

TBH, I can't really remember offhand. I do know I was several seconds off the RBR rank fastest times though, last time I looked in there.

I did also recognize a few names then, and knew how we compared in GPL, so I knew I was missing out on something (perhaps in the setup...or perhaps in terms of talent (or lack thereof)).

It's been two years now since I ran it (or even my nephew), for that matter.

[ran out of disk space, and something had to give]

I suppose I'll know more after a few new runs (probably on those first three US stages, which I know best).


CS

[Christopher Snow]

FWIW, (and I'm just waxing rhapsodic/poetic/nostalgic here...so take it FWIW) the first three US stages just blew me away with their realism--roads like those are so very similar to roads I drove myself over the years here in the desert southwest--it was just uncanny*.

[* not perfect, no...some of the background cliff-wall renderings were somewhat "painterly," sure...but the modeling and rendering of the roads and surrounding terrain themselves were VERY well done.

For example: You drive around a hillside..and you know...sooner or later...you must run into the bottom of a "wash"...a drainage. And you know that when you come out of it, you are headed upward again toward dry land (and so you can, perhaps, lay hard on the gas...).

Those things are all very subtle..but to my eye, they MADE the sim so very realistic compared to almost all the rest.

FWIW, I tried one...maybe two other Rally sims from the same era--can't remember anything good about any of them--only that I'd have put them on the shelf very quickly, due to boredom.

Nothing about RBR has ever bored me.

Intimidated me, yes...but bored me? No. Not HARDLY!


CS

[Christopher Snow]

"Life isn't a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, "Wow what a ride." "

Ok...I often miss these sorts of "post-addendums"...but I have to opine: this one is VERY good.

Just wish I had understood the REAL truth behind this 30 years earlier....


CS