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 who uses/doesn't use TCS and ASM
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nbvr6 Crew Member Posts: 21 |
posted 07-25-2001 12:20 AM
  
I personally don't care for them and turned them off as soon as I figured out how to do it properly. The realistic handling is my favourite part of this game and the TCS and ASM ruin it. I love finessing a car around a corner or pushing it too hard and spining out. I like the handling as much or more than the graphics launching the car also takes skill but thats the point of the game, not an arcade! what are your opinions? IP: Logged |
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MustakeSVT 1st Lieutenant Posts: 117 |
posted 07-25-2001 12:33 AM
I suck bad enough with it on, I can't think of life with it off. LOL IP: Logged |
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CudaMan 1st Lieutenant Posts: 235 |
posted 07-25-2001 12:59 AM
I have much more fun with that stuff off. It slows me down. With the default settings those 'aids' just slow you down! Don't let you slide at all. I suppose when I get a really powerful car, like one o' them LeMans racers, I may turn the TCS up to its lowest level. Or I may not. IP: Logged |
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DickDastardly Officer of the Bridge Posts: 1257 |
posted 07-25-2001 06:09 AM
With the way I drive, ASM just means understeer, and there's plenty of that already. I'd rather not suddenly be pitched towards a barrier halfway round a corner. I usually set TCS to 1, just so I know when the wheels are spinning & I can back off a little. Helps to save tyres. IP: Logged |
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TransferError Crew Member Posts: 9 |
posted 07-25-2001 06:25 AM
Well, that might be a stupid question but what TCS and ASM actually stand for? (i dont even have the GT3 manual to look it up - does anybody if i can find it somewhere?) And i haven't tried turning them off to see the difference, but i think i will today... IP: Logged |
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Crazyhorse Officer of the Bridge Posts: 680 |
posted 07-25-2001 06:32 AM
"I usually set TCS to 1, just so I know when the wheels are spinning & I can back off a little. Helps to save tyres." That's interesting DD... I might have to try that approach! I've been having trouble copping-on to wheelspin occasionally in GT3 (most notably in the Skyline @ Trial Mtn - DomA License [?]). All of a sudden it dawns on me that I'm no longer moving forward... and I realise that I've missed some visual clue that spinning started (bear in mind too that I'm a 'chase' view racer - spinning SHOULD be easy to spot... it was in GT2... but it's much harder in GT3). O/T - 'Chase' view... if I had a penny for every time I've taken off the front wings of my rides I'd have £4.57!!! I miss the 'above & behind' view [sigh]. IP: Logged |
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baba 1st Lieutenant Posts: 328 |
posted 07-25-2001 09:36 AM
I use both, only because I have not had the guts to turn it off. But as it sounds I may have better results with it off???....I do run with it on so far, but generally at a lower setting for each. (Also, I havent driven anything over 500HP yet, so it should be ineresting to see the effects of taking TCS and ASM...Will try it tonight KEEP ON KEEPIN' ON IP: Logged |
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nbvr6 Crew Member Posts: 21 |
posted 07-25-2001 05:53 PM
TCS is Traction Control (system) ASM is Active Stability Management- it will break one wheel independantly of the others to correct an oversteer stiuation- too much yaw ie. it makes it harder to spin out. IP: Logged |
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XHawkeye 1st Lieutenant Posts: 119 |
posted 07-25-2001 06:15 PM
ASM = 0 TCS = 3 IP: Logged |
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Creton Crew Member Posts: 3 |
posted 07-28-2001 02:20 AM
How can you take it off??? I took it off from the opions menu and it still is active. In arcade mode its not on at all, I can burn those tires with the Team Oreca Viper in 3rd gear, but in simulation mode, no luck. Id like to take them both off, I liked the "free" feel of gt2. So far its my only gripe of the best game ever! Please tell me how I can run around this thing so I can enjoy the game  IP: Logged |
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nbvr6 Crew Member Posts: 21 |
posted 07-28-2001 09:51 AM
In simulation mode you have to go into the change settings screen before a race (where you would change spring rates etc). go to the final tab on the right which deals with downforce and computer controls. here you will see that one is 10 and one is 5 you have to do this for each car you have which is a real pain but thats the way it is. I guess the options screen one just turns it of for arcade. IP: Logged |
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Skidman Crew Member Posts: 43 |
posted 07-28-2001 02:39 PM
I would only use it if it were needed but like in GT2 I loved to use the Simulation tires cause of the challange of driving my favorite cars with those tires made the game alot better... god I feel like crap, I work at the bar in town and Didnt leave till 5:30 this morning was up drinking with the boss all night Skid IP: Logged |
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Creton Crew Member Posts: 3 |
posted 07-29-2001 02:22 AM
Aaaaahhhh!!! Thank you soo much!!! I knew Gran turismo 3 could never turn me sour... they just had to put that setting hidden somewhere.. I like it much better now Now I just got to see one of those F1 cars in action IP: Logged |
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BDYracing Crew Member Posts: 30 |
posted 07-29-2001 08:48 AM
I've always used it up to now because I, like some of the others, have felt no need to turn it off. BUT...hearing your testimonies of it's worthlessness, I too will try racing with it off. 
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overmighty 1st Lieutenant Posts: 125 |
posted 07-29-2001 12:19 PM
I set both to low. I noticed over at the GTF a thread complaining about how all the cars in GT3 are understeering, and I think these electronic "aids" and their default setting are the reason why IP: Logged |
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mcwatts Crew Member Posts: 8 |
posted 07-29-2001 03:00 PM
I turn ASM off on every car -- understeer is evil -- and doing so improves my average lap time 2+ seconds on most courses. My TCS settings vary depending on the car and how uncoordinated I am at driving it. IP: Logged |
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DickDastardly Officer of the Bridge Posts: 1257 |
posted 07-29-2001 03:14 PM
Nah, most of mine understeer with no ASM. Either that or they eat front tyres when I set them up neutrally. IP: Logged |
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