Flat 6 League - Round 3 - Red Bull Ring - Reports

[Paul Swire]

Post your race reports here guys, from what I could see looked like a two horse race. The leading pack very close then the fight for 4,5 & 6 close also.

[macwoj]

I join late i wasnt sure if i can do the race because i had doctor appointment. Luckily i was back home for last 10 min of quali.

After few weeks not using VR i wanted to check if things have improved.

After few laps of practice the quality was not so bad and i decided to give it a go.
Normally i race with triples Benq 120hz.

Someone asked me to give my ipressions about VR so i will share my opinion now in few words about my experience in this race.

First of all Vr and triples is two very different experience .
If i have the same view quality in VR like in my monitors or at least close to it i will ditch my monitors long time ago .

The feeling with VR the awareness is like you are seatting in real car
and you can not get this with monitors also the racing itself with other cars is very close to reality it is amazing. Also the track itself sometimes the layout looks different . You can view and enjoy going up and down the hills compare to 2d view which is more flat.
Ofcourse if you not getting motion sickness.

The problem with VR at the moment is still bad optimization with rfactor 2 i still get random stutter and some other glitches but it is much better to what it was at the begining . With stutter its hard to be quick and consistent but it could be some track not optimized yet especially third party content .
If i get smooth experience with it i ditch monitors now.

Another problem is that it is hard to see ahead from far ,hard to see the boards with meters before you brake fo the corners.
Maybe you get used to it if you use vr more but it is hard to accept this at least fot me . Also because is on you face you do get little bit warm .
Now things i really like about it is awareness and the view you can see from the car. You can hit your apexes better you can see exactly the kerbs the lines and where the car is going .Probably you can catch those slides better as well.
I think with better image quality you can be more consistent in the future for sure with long run save you some time.
Im not consisten with it at the moment but maybe because im not used to it because i was using very little.
It is hard to use for longer races which im doing in another leauge thing like fuel calculation becomes a problem and other usefull info that you get on trackmap or dashmeter pro you dont get .
Also operating the keyboard and buttons on your steering wheel can be a problem with VR.
Thats just in few words my pros and cons about Vr .
For some they cant go back to monitors but for me i still rather race on my monitors only because VR it is still in early stage and there are some glitches .

According to racing today it was fun.
I still have to watch the replay to see that first corner incident.
I was a bit surprise later on about my pace.
In second race i have got CL not sure if it was VR related or just something else . Too bad it looks like there was good racing.

Congr all the winners and podium and see you guys next time

[gorgias1976]

Interesting reading Maciej
Looks like I will wait a bit longer until VR gets better resolution.

[deecee52]

I was having a cracking battle with someone for 4th place then my screen suddenly went black , dont know why yet as comp rebooted Ok , must be RFactor related as its run Far Cry 3 all day today no problem .