Dan Allen
I am the Pastor Maldonado of RaceDepartment.
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So I was reading an article about racing wheels and how they affect driving over an Xbox controller and KB, and I think it's pretty apparent that you're more likely to be faster with a FFB wheel, I mean come on, that's just common sense, but there was something else that was interesting in the article, here's what I saw (I've abridged it slightly, but basically, it's about FPS and triple monitors)
Does your graphics card really have an impact on lap times? I'm running an NVIDIA GeForce 660 which came with my computer as standard.
Has anyone out there changed GPU's and noticed a difference in lap times with better FPS? If so, what were those differences?
If you want to see the full article, it's here - http://www.raggedracing.com/2014/2/3/will-more-expensive-gear-make-me-a-faster-sim-racer
So I was reading an article about racing wheels and how they affect driving over an Xbox controller and KB, and I think it's pretty apparent that you're more likely to be faster with a FFB wheel, I mean come on, that's just common sense, but there was something else that was interesting in the article, here's what I saw (I've abridged it slightly, but basically, it's about FPS and triple monitors)
You look at your FPS, adding those two extra monitors gave you a hit and you were getting 100 FPS but now it's 40FPS. That must be it! Off to your local hardware retailer you go.
With your shiney new top line card, you may be $500 poorer but now you're going to be 2.0s faster. For sure! You plug it in your PC and fire up your favourite sim. 60 minutes later your 0.2s faster. dammit! You've seen some funky cockpits getting around. Surely all the pro's use those. You know they're sponsored by some of the top hardware venders so obviously they are!
Does your graphics card really have an impact on lap times? I'm running an NVIDIA GeForce 660 which came with my computer as standard.
Has anyone out there changed GPU's and noticed a difference in lap times with better FPS? If so, what were those differences?
If you want to see the full article, it's here - http://www.raggedracing.com/2014/2/3/will-more-expensive-gear-make-me-a-faster-sim-racer