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NHRA Drag Racing

7 posts by 4 people · 21 Jun 1999 - 23 Jun 1999

Dan Belcher 21 Jun 1999#475422
I just picked up this game yesterday and I love it! But I suck at it because I can't figure out how to use my pedals on my Mad Catz Analog True steering wheel (It's 2 years old but still gets the job done) I have to use the buttons to accelerate and brake, resulting in me spinning the tires excessively and lifting off the throttle excessively. Can someone help? If you would need to know for any reason, I have a Gateway P2 400 mhz, 64 mb RAM, Voodoo2 graphics accelerator card. I installed just the program files and the program graphics I think. Thanks for any help you guys can give me! Dan Belcher Team Racing Unlimited
ymenard 21 Jun 1999#475423
Well, tweak your setup for that, of course. It is essential in drag racing. Real drag racers use their pedals mostly as an on/off switch also. But there is a patch you should download for the game at the official game site http://www.nhradragracingsim.com/ that will fix the pedal problem. -- -- Fran?ois Mnard <ymenard/Nas-Frank> -- NROS Nascar sanctioned Guide http://www.nros.com/ -- SimRacing Online http://www.simracing.com/ -- Official mentally retarded guy of r.a.s. -- May the Downforce be with you... "People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realise how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world."
Dan Belcher 21 Jun 1999#475424
Thanks for the help Fran?ois. I've been working on the setups. They're OK. Car stays in traction most of the time, but the start's a *** with full throttle as my only option for going forward. hehe. Thanks a lot Dan Belcher Team Racing Unlimited
Spee 22 Jun 1999#475664
You only want to use full throttle. YOu need to set up the clutch to slip, so that it won't smoke the tires. Once you get it figured out, you can run 4.40's at over 320 in just about any track conditions. TOm
gordo.. 22 Jun 1999#475665
After reading this, I downloaded the patch and then tried this game out again after putting it back "on the shelf" a few months ago. First off, it did not seem to handle my TSW wheel with separate throttle and brake axes, so I had to put the switch on the wheel back into two-axis mode. This now works, but I think that in some ways it worked better for me when I was using a button for the throttle. Mainly, there is less reaction time in pressing a button vs. shoving down the pedal, plus I think it gets you to 100% throttle more quickly. I only made a few runs without doing any tuning, but my e.t.'s were suddenly about .6 seconds of more slower than when I was running the 1.0 version of the sim. However, according to the readme they made some changes to make the dragsters a bit more difficult to do well in, so maybe my old tuning setup is now out-of-date and I just need to start tweaking again. -- Doug Gordon Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
Spee 23 Jun 1999#475873
Doug, Are you the same Doug Gordon that runs FM/FC out west?? Tom Braksator
gordo.. 23 Jun 1999#475874
No. I used to run an A/FD in ProComp in the midwest, but that was probably back before a lot of people on this NG were born! Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Share what you know. Learn what you don't.

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