Well, if it's going to be on F1 Challenge, you either use the F1 VB mod, which has all seasons but it's super duper heavy because it has ALL SEASONS, or you find mods for every season manually, which should be doable with enough searching. That and just have a lot of disk space to record stuff, that tends to be a big limitant.

The wonders of F1 Challenge!

There was back in the day. I used file editor and some other programs. I played this to exhaustion, went through four gaming steering wheels.

@@fransb8543 In 2010 I collected a lot of Porsche cars mods. Sadly I don't have them anymore. Would have loved if it was possible to mod in new Era - XXI century era. With lots of new cars.

@@patrykchlipaa257 I always wanted a physics mod- the cars all seem sluggish to respond and never seemed to be a good balance between neutral steering and spinning out

I did it using keyboard only. although I agree, analog makes high speed turning way easier.

Keyboard only completer here. Hard as hell. High Stakes career mode was awesome as well!

I've completed the game many times with just a keyboard, when I was a kid. But playing with wheel was a pleasure. Such a good game.

Oh, they get plenty hard, cars understeer a lot the faster they go, not that big of an issue with analog (at least when you learn to use it which ... I'm working on it).

I'm not used to being this high, it kinda awesome.

I literally do the opposite

I just love running super durable tyres most of the time.

*re-reads title, and the thumbnail* Ah, [REDACTED]. Thanks for the correction.

Yeah, F1C is still around and kicking, the modding community keeping it alive. I would have preferred to use Assetto Corsa, but my PC would not have liked it, would have undergone nuclear fission.

​@@jose21crisisMShaha i can relate to that, my laptop is bad too but with tweaks it runs ac at 30 fps most of the time

The basic concept is comparing modern machinery to older cars in tracks that "we've lost", tracks that won't be raced at again because, say, they don't exist anymore (like this version of Hockemheimring), wouldn't be able to take the economic hit of hosting races (like the modern Hockemheimring), are out in the middle of nowhere (like Magny-Cours), among other reasons. All in all, a showcase of modern cars in old tracks.

I ... actually hadn't thought about putting slicks on the Williams. *takes notes* That will be an interesting test which I'm also curious about.

Do you "hate" modern F1 while still watching it?? Maybe you are just a pathetic little boy complaining because the world has changed and you don't like it 😂

Absolutely. Heck, there are good street circuits out there. Adelaide is fun, even if the current cars might be a bit too long for it.

I can’t like this comment enough.

Absolutely, that's the wonders of having so much downforce despite the tiny wings.

I was actually planning, at least for future playthroughs, to try to do a scaling system like the base game. The highest rated driver there in terms of experience is Jean Alesi who (incorrectly) has 151 races (should be 135, but they counted the 1998 season). There's also Johnny Herbert, but he has less races, and other drives with similar races have less experience. After some Excel shenanigans, that comes out to 38 race blocks and ... well ... I think 40 race blocks works better and it's easier to track, like you mentioned. that's 2 seasons + 8 races. Also thought doing it based on seasons, Alesi has 9 about to be 10. I could make it easier by increasing it every 2 seasons, but I'll stick with 40 race blocks. For Test Drivers I'll just use 56 race blocks, that's 3 seasons + 8 races.

I'll try to find a way to limit the amount of rain points I use, just enough to have my guys evenly matched with Level 5 Wet Weather drivers. Because, indeed, full rain points is broken. Microprose didn't really balance that rating properly at all.

@@jose21crisisMS still too OP imo. The AI is never the brightest I'm those conditions. So often I find the very good wet weather drivers just yoloing the wet conditions on set of dry tyres and refusing to pit, or viceversa once It becomes dry these drivers refuse to make an additional stop to get back on dry tyres. They'd rather stay out 20 laps on wet tyres and lose 2 laps

Jean ended being a true hero in our times. Though I don't Ferrari like him that much anymore.

I actually considered using it, but a) My computer is not good enough to run the overlay, play AND record with decent framerate, which is why I record using replay and b) At least prior to the recording of this video, GPerso's overlay didn't work on replays. He's made a version that does work on replays, but it's still not perfect.

I usually just increase Aggression and hope for the best. It really depends on the track whenever you'll see overtakes. AI really need some solid overspeed to be able to pass as well. F1C AI just struggles to pass. I usually play with max revs, but short shift a bit to save the engine. One doesn't really need full revs most of the time in this game, but I use them in case I am in the slipstream and need a bit more speed.

Thanks. The problem is that I always play with automatic gears. But I like to play with most revs posible because I don't like when I don't suffer mechanical issues.

Yeah, the fact the race team, design team, and engine team are all doing their own thing separate from each other doesn't really help their case.

Okay, I think I know what I misunderstood. What I do at Hockenheim is to set the driver inputs as minimum acc. top speed and kerb use. Then I tried, on these settings, to compare the one stop and the zero stop, and the zero stop was overwhelmingly better. You used way different driver inputs, so what I thought it would happen, didn't materialize

It was meant to work succesfully and for Panis to win that, but his Tyre Temperature increasing by 1 points increased his tyre wear, which tanked his pace as the laps went on. There's also the fact I underestimated how much fuel he could save and had to lower his orders for him to make it. Small mistakes, one my fault, one out of my control, but it ended up turning 1st or 2nd into 4th.

Yeah, our hopes really depend on the Germany upgrade letting us catch the Top 3 and get a few wins. It would be easier if, say, Williams fell off. At least they are running enough interference that the WCC is still there for the taking.

Thank you, yeah Alain should be pretty happy with that result. I do hope these races keep getting wet weather, that's when the car (and drivers) really come alive.

There's a program called akoVCR, which let's you open the replay files. Since the replay files store all kinds of data, like lap times for all drivers, I use that to read Irvine's (or in future episodes, the pole sitter's) sectors and compare it to my own sectors.

@@jose21crisisMS Wow thats nice, thank you :)

That's just my recommendation, so that the game can assign values close to 0. Setting the same number could still result in first lap DNFs, yes, but it is just as likely to result in extremely high lifetime values that can cause 0 DNFs, even if a player mistreats an engine by overreving it and overheating it. I think those values are a better balance between early DNFs and good lifetime.

@@jose21crisisMS great thanks mate, now im gona always watch that engine have adequate values, also i dont know until i watched this video that Variance also can increase the engine life

Yeah, one of the things with F1 Challenge is that the performance gaps are a bit closer than they were in real life, so Minardi and Prost are just 2 secs off pole instead of 3 secs. It also helps that, in this continuity, Minardi has more powerful engines than IRL (The CR-1, which Stewart used in 1999, instead of the Zetec-R they actually used).

Sure thing. This video is mostly a "hey, figured out how this works, and here's what I'd suggest" and in no means a "do this or everything is wrong!11!!" type of video. I'm still around in Discord, email works just as well.

@@jose21crisisMS lovely, added you on Discord.

That's an issue with the Canada track itself. For this one I had to modify the AIW file. I used the rf AIW+CAM editor for this, and just edited the line on the 2nd chicane to be wider and not touch the kerbs, because they are very, VERY slippy on this track, even for the AIs. There's not much PLR editing I could do that helped in this case.

Thank you. It's nice to see that ISI Motor responds well and itself uses normal distributions. I'd guess it does the same when it comes to other parameters, like the brake lifetime parameters or maybe driver ratings, but this I'm not totally sure.

@@jose21crisisMS I bet wherever there a “variance” it’s for standard deviations and normal distributions

Probably Kerb Use is the other one you are thinking. That is an interesting idea that I can experiment on. I don't mind driving around with 1 Reliability point because Auto Gears compensates for that. Heat, at least with the way I set up the orders, shouldn't be a big issue in races, mostly in qualifying. So what I could do is take points away from Heat and Response to put into Rigidity (so I can keep the Top Speed high), Fuel and Weight for the race engine. Although if I lower Heat I'd have to develop better Hydraulics Reliability, as lower Heat wears Hydraulics quicker. And for the Qualifying engine, I can definitely take away points of Rigidity and put them into Weight and Heat (so I can push the engine more), or even into Response (so there's less driver errors). Definitely will be messing around with that, although I would prefer it if Renault brought an upgraded engine for me to mess about with.

Like many ideas I have: "It seemed a good idea at the time". Thought that track position would offset the extra weight of the fuel. This despite knowing well that fuel is heavily penalized on that track. Lesson has been learned (again) and the same mistakes shall not be repeated in Britain and Hungary.

Thanks for the review on Total. What I meant by "hadn't entered F1" was that, at least in this Grand Prix World save, they never became a fuel supplier option that could be selected. In some saves suppliers can enter and leave the sport (say, Toyota entering, or Bridgestone leaving), so Total could have entered, which would have given everyone another fuel option. That hasn't happened so far, which ... a bit unfortunate. Had I used, say, the 2000 or 1999 mods, Total would have been an option from the start.

@@jose21crisisMS Yeah, had Total was in the 2001 season, this would be a better option than Elf.

That's a bit weird. Did you change anything, like the F1 Challenge exe name? If memory serves, that Fixer only works when the F1 Challenge exe is "F1 Challenge Online.exe". Other than that, double check you are putting the inputs it asks. I do need to update and reupload it at some point, that one was an old version that I made for other people to test, not a true final version. There's some stuff I do need to check out as well regarding the fixer.

@@jose21crisisMS Yes. I have F1 Challenge Online.exe as name. Game runs at 32 bits and the Fixer is running too as admin. It's strange because a week ago was working great, and even now, if I download the file, stills not opening. Increasing the RainAbility for AI drivers to high values can help as alternative?