Thanks for this brief review Darren!


I am working at Simraceway, so if You guys will have any questions or troubles while using - please let me know :-)

Registered and downloaded. The website did not want to accept my gmail email account (invalid email). Had to use different account, then worked...

Does not work smoothly for me. Every third time I start it the login authentication fails for some reason... I hade nice race in Evo at Mid Ohio, but the game locks up in pitlane for me when I want to take Megane for lap at Zaandvort. Also had couple of lock ups when navigating to online races and even in website when trying to join from website...

But being public beta, this thing has potential.

I don't like graphics though. I wish they went the way GSC did with ISI code.

I'll check it out after the Sprint Cup race today.

Very odd issues Piotr... What is your hardware? Please try using fullproc for starters, so in START menu, go to Programs > Simraceway, right click the Simraceway shortcut, Properties and in Target, make it look like this: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Simraceway\SimracewayGame.exe" +fullproc


Could help with a couple issues!

Alright, so I gave it a shot.

...I hope there's more planned. A lot more.

Because right now, it's like a company that normally makes horrible free-to-play MMORPG's said "hey guys let's do a racing sim".

Of the five cars in the game, only one was available as a starter: a Mitusbishi EVO. If I want more, I can apparently pay with real money or I can earn in-game credits to the tune of 5 credits per lap. I think the next car up in terms of cost is 5800 credits? After that you're looking at 22,000 and 26,000.

You're going to be making a LOT of laps unless there's another way to earn them. Just competing in a single race didn't seem to earn me any more than what I got for completing laps.

My racing options are limited to solo practice, "quick race" where I suppose up to 8 random people can join your lobby, and "events" where it's the same old SimRaceway fare as always - run short races, the combined time of your laps goes onto a leaderboard, and at the end of the week the top player on the leaderboard wins something.

In this case, my one and only car means I am only eligible for a single event - oh, and by the way...the guy at the top of the leaderboard is apparently about 7 seconds a lap faster than anyone else. What's a good EVO laptime for Mid-Ohio? This guy is averaging 1:31's. I'm about 10 seconds back of that myself.

The track looked nice though. I'll give it that. Very detailed.

Correct me if I'm wrong here, but right now this game appears to be an attempt to cash in on the F2P market - give players a little tiny chunk of a game, and force them to either pay up to access the stuff they really want, or "earn" it through in-game credits (and if the current pace of earning credits is any indication, I'd shoot myself in the face before I got to the first car).

Firstly....

I $#*^ing want one...

Do they work with the Wii?

It's like THE perfect combination of the xbox 360 controler, the wii controls, and a F1 nob set...

But I'd probably use it more for bike sims then 4 wheeled sims... But still that looks sweet!!!

Oh and Chunx... That's exactly how I've driven for my entire sim racing carrer until this year... It's really not that hard to get used to... and these paddles have a bigger range of movement which makes driving more plesurable with it...

As far as simraceway goes I'm giving it a trial run later today or tomorrow, but with Skyrim, SCES 2012 and Saints Row I don't know how many laps I'll be putting in but I'll give some feedback on it... I do know I had to sign up with my other halfs email address though... My yahoo address is invalid apparently...

Also what is this raceplate thing on my profile about?

First impressions of Simraceway are pretty positive from a public beta perspective...

There's some interesting points to it and a lot to like, but also a lot to iron out...

Here's a few of my thoughts...

the feel of the EVO is great and reminds me a lot of the Skoda's from rFactor, which is great for the first car you get to drive...

The damage effect is really cool, and the force feedback recognises the new bent steering position, and the tyre heats up when you bend a fender too much, but the pit crew can that... Sliding off the track hurts in the ways that it should, and the barriers bite as hard as they should...

the force feedback took more fine tuning to find the right feel then fine tuning then trying to find the right sensitivity settings which was nice for a change.. But there's a few bugs in the control settings, I'm unable to map reverse gear to reverse gear on my H shifter for example...

the online gameplay is fun, with the event challenge not only giving you something to do with the game each week, but a reason to better your times... 5 lap event challenge is a good way to start off..

I did feel that only having the one car to drive out of the box a little restrictive... I'd at least like 10 cars to get things rolling... Although 0.47c to buy the next available car the BMW isn't much, and it also unlocks another event... Or I could spend months racing my way around mid Ohio trying to get the laps up for the car, but after 2 hours solid gameplay I only had 155 credits, and I need 5000+ for the BMW... 47 cents seems like the better option to increase the fun... But that's nothing compared to the McLaren which is over 20000 or 2.11 USD... Then there's the 3rd option of winning the event, which nabs you $2 in the Evo challenge... But then there is scope for people to drive the unpopular cars in the hope that smaller fields will make for a better chance of winning the prize and getting more 'free' content... Which could lead to the same small group winning that event over and over...

The servers take a bit too long to click over and doesn't like being alt/tab to desktop so you can do other things while you wait as it won't reload and I have to kill the process to get back into the game... also when people join a server during qualy it freezes while it loads the new players car, not great for mid corner..

The event servers have had a few wreckers come in, and as there's a point to racing this may force people to try and drive on quiet servers to get better times.. which kinda ruins the fun element of racing against others, but as more real drivers sign up and the part timers stick to the bigginers lounge it'll be better...

The website itself has crashed on me a few times and I've been unable to install any new tracks, which is a shame because I really want to try out the Nordschleife on this...

Is it something I can see myself spending a lot of time on...???

In time with more event options and more cars this could be a hell of a lot of fun... I don't think it will take the place of something like the SCES series in my life, but when I'm bored and want to pick up a fun race and challenge myself this could very well fill the void... Buying content is another matter, I do wish there would be more available when you first start out, but I suppose that keeps the serious racers in the events and the not so serious on the other servers... I will say this though... Buying a car is far more attractive then a subscription of any kind... As long as the event servers are up for a year I feel I'll of got my 2 bucks out of that car....