New Racer (to PC) Hello and PC rig questions

[svpracer 0]

Good Morning All,

    Although I have followed ISR's youtube channel for years, I have been racing mostly on console (xbox360). I have the Fanatec CSR wheel and CSR elite pedals on a v3 chasis. Since MS refuses to support this rig on the xbox one, I decided I would make the jump to PC racing. I have a older first gen I7 chip with 16 gigs of ram, 1gig 550 GTX video card in a PC that is not being used ( My main pc is much more updated, but is in my office). Will this set up support and run efficiently with the more aggressive PC racing sims? (Asetto Corsa, Sim Raceway, etc). I would prefer not buying a new video card for this PC if I do not have to. 

 

 

   Secondly, I notice a lot of Europeans on the forum, I am in California, hows the racing scene on pc in the states?

 

  Talk to you all soon. See you on the track

[riverajose 5]

hey bro! I'm in SoCal too! PC simracing is alive and kicking here for the specs, its alright. Processor is ok, ram is overkill. VC should be ok. Try it out first and if you feel wanting, I would recommend you upgrade your VC. If you want to run those games on high graphics setting, I recommend at least an AMD R9 270X on 1920x1080.

[ApexVGear 207]

I'm running R3E on a dual core 3 Ghz Pentium with 4GB of RAM, Windows 7 64-bit ...with an old nVidia GTX 275 for now. With most effects turned on the framerate can drop below 30fps if there's a lot going on--usually happens while making sharp turns. If I turn some of the features off (most you don't notice anyway if you're focusing on your racing line), then it stays well above 30fps. I'm actually quite impressed with how well this "old" card is running R3E.

 

Also, it runs iRacing quite well. Though I don't have everything turned on, I am running at higher settings. It usually stays around 90fps most of the time.

 

...so, being that your card is a little newer, it'll work well with some tweaking.

 

Of course I'm only running one screen at 1920 x 1080 (a 37" flat screen TV), so if you want to run triple screens, you'll need to replace the graphics card.

 

Eventually, I'll be replacing my card with something more current-gen (with 2-4GB on it) so I can enjoy Assetto Corsa and Project CARS in all their glory. I will probably also throw in another 4GB stick.

 

GTR2 and Race 07 run really well. Their graphics are outdated, but the selection and variety of tracks and cars from the modding community is astounding... and as long as the physics are good, the graphics are only secondary. There's actually enough there to deliver a good experience.

 

I'm kind've in a similar boat as you... building a $3k computer for video editing and compositing, and I can't have games on it, as it's for business, is WAY overkill for gaming, and adding gaming capabilities to such a system can often complicate things. So my gaming PC was put together on a very low budget--PC is a returned unit from Microcenter, and the GTX 275 is a "hand-me-down."

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Why didn't you dual boot Apex?  You could have a completely separate Windows install on something like an eSATA drive that could be used only for gaming, that way you wouldn't cause any possible conflicts with your business computer.

[ApexVGear 207]

Why didn't you dual boot Apex?  You could have a completely separate Windows install on something like an eSATA drive that could be used only for gaming, that way you wouldn't cause any possible conflicts with your business computer.

 

It's also a factor of the sim-rig, wheel, etc at another location, vs the workstation computer being set up for editing with multiple screens. I just need them separate for a variety of reasons. One of them being that when I'm rendering final 3D sequences or After Effects compositions, the machine is running at "full bore" (using all the cores and memory) for sometimes up to four or five hours... or more if it's a complicated project or I've queued several things to post-process.

 

While it's doing that, I can go to my sim-racing setup, as everything "cooks" on the big system.

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gotcha

 

You just reminded me of the old days when I used to render in Lightwave 3D on my Amiga.  Best computer I ever owned!

[ApexVGear 207]

I also wanted the gaming PC to be smaller and more portable, as I sometimes take my setup to events or parties for people to try out sim-racing.

 

Eventually, I'll be building at least half-a-dozen gaming PCs for demo purposes. I'm preparing to buy a CNC plasma cutter and a press brake for my "other" business that has been on hold for a while, and a few months after that, the larger multi-system demo events will start happening.

[cobraracer66 1]

For what its worth i spent the last year building my computor video rig as I had to teach myself everything past replacing a simm or power supply. That being said I learned a tremendous amount. It is right now that basically to game at 1080p on 3 moniters is very cheap. It is Just becoming doable to game on 3 -4k moniters but it requires approx 10k woth of gpu horsepower to play on reg/med hi settings. naturally if you arent Elon Musk and more like me I settled on 3 (2-k)  27" monitors that are PLS panels and 1440x2560 reslotion and 2-gtx780s in sli to run it. I am about to watercool them and overclock the monitors to 120hz but so far its awesome and your talking $1000. for video cards ,$900. for 3-1440x2560 monitors from Xstar and 300.00 for adustable tilt swivel telescopic swinging monitor arms . Its douple the resolution of 1080P and not too expensive for the average guy and is beautiful.!