Formula 1 game

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Originally Posted by henners88

Well I had another go on it today after a break over the weekend and was shocked when I tried Singapore. The refresh rate is awful and looks worse than any other track by far. I tried a quick lap on Melbourne and thought I would film the replay on my phone. I couldn't believe my eyes when the replay renders absolutely fine and looks similar in quality to F1 2010!! Why can the graphics in-game look so bad but a replay be fine? I keep saying but this needs to be sorted out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxwqf4ajxhw

PS: Ignore my poor lap, I was just doing a quick demo and the lap was invalidated anyway.. :p

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Its says this video is private.

If you don't want me to watch your video Henners just say so. :bigcry:

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Originally Posted by Brown, Jon Brow

I've been playing on expert (no assists, Legend A.I) in a Lotus. My best race result is only 19th (altough is says I finished 16th in Malaysia even though it skipped the race for me) and I'm always faster than Trulli, Virgin, HRT's but around 2 seconds per lap slower than the mid-field teams which seems about right.

I took a McLaren round Singapore last night with 11/11 springs and it handles like a cartoon. This is putting me off from going online. 11/11 suspension , TC and ABS is going to make it a joke. It's about 10 seconds faster than real life. In F1 2010 the times with tyre sim where fairly close to real life.

Whilst the A.i race pace is good they still have really poor race-craft. They will never try to outbrake you and their pace for the first few corners of a race is embarrassing. I'm getting the Lotus from 19th on the grid to 11th on lap 1.


It's an odd game. A bit like owning an Alfa. When everything is working it is superb, but there are a few niggling issues that ruin the experience.

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Well, I'm also running no assists, manual gears and highest difficulty i.e. Expert here, and the AI seems a tad easy, but not too much. I'm playing with a Force India, and qualified 4th in Australia, finished 3rd in the race, after losing 2nd due to low fuel to Alonso. :mad: In Malaysia, I qualified 6th and barely finished 4th after being haggled by Buemi all throughout the race. I know unrealistic positions for a Force India, but I'm using an FFB wheel after a lot of messing around and tweaking, and also using race setups from F1 2011 Setups

I literally drove the crap out of my car in both races, even suffering engine failure twice in practice during Australia, but the AI always managed to be faster. And they race like hell for the first 4 positions at least. For ex. Lewis passing me in the pits. The pole times with tyre and fuel sim on, all assists off on the highest difficulty i.e. Expert are about 2 seconds faster than reality, which is not much. But of course Time Trial is another story altogether. I did a 1:19.5 with a stupid penalty at Melbourne FFS! I can easily do it again. That's 5 seconds faster than my qualifying time in career and highly unrealistic, albeit TT is supposed to be that, unrealistic, especially with tyre and fuel sim off. That's essentially a car running on fumes with super grippy tyres.

But having said all of that, I haven't seen really brilliant AI in any F1 game I have played ever. They were always easily beatable, at least in this the frontrunners are a challenge. That's why we play online anyway, to get a bigger challenge. F1 2010 became REALLY easy later on, I have around 200 victories online over a year. I won a race in Lotus in career mode on Expert FFS! I'd say F1 2011 has been a bigger challenge than that! Even though the AI has been fairly easy so far, and I expect to win my first race in a Force India soon, it's still more fun, driving wise. But I'll probably get into a league to get some real challenge going soon.

Currently 17th on the Xbox Live leaderboard for Valencia with a 1.30.6 :D

I really feel I can get into the top 10 on a 1.29 but I can't hook all my sectors up. Not bad for a controller pad player!

Nice job! Not bad at all.

Started a Co-op championship with a buddy of mine. That's the most fun I've had since iRacing was new in 2008!

We're going to take Renault back to the Championship :)

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Originally Posted by bblocker68

Nice job! Not bad at all.

Started a Co-op championship with a buddy of mine. That's the most fun I've had since iRacing was new in 2008!

We're going to take Renault back to the Championship :)

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Nice! :up:

So, how does it work really? Obviously you and your friend have to be there at the same time for the race, but I'm guessing you can qualify separately whenever you have time? Or do the both of you have to be present for all sessions i.e. practice, qualifying and race?

Good to hear positive comments, although I'll wait for the RWC to be over before I make my purchase ;) .

I can't play a 16 car online race without lagging :( (Xbox live)

I have 6.5 mbps download and 0.4 mbps upload.......

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Originally Posted by CaptainRaiden

Nice! :up:

So, how does it work really? Obviously you and your friend have to be there at the same time for the race, but I'm guessing you can qualify separately whenever you have time? Or do the both of you have to be present for all sessions i.e. practice, qualifying and race?

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I set it up and then invited him. We did a short weekend and 20% race. I beat him out of the pits and won by a slip margin. It was great.

When we went back to the Co-op screen, it was all setup and ready to go for the next race. I think we're going to race at Malaysia tomorrow. It looks like either one of us can host the next race. pretty cool!

Found a nice glitch in the game yesterday where Barrichello's car was smoking for 4 out of 6 races I did in a mini championship, and after running my HRT too low at Suzuka the game showed it too low for the remaining 3 races. Do they not test their games before release at Codemasters?

Patches are out today for all formats, though im still getting penalties for my car being hit from behind and ive found that on Singapore the car monitor in the pits is far too over exposed!

Even with all the faults im still enjoying the game, especially all the overtaking aids and the great job they have done on car/circuit modelling.