F1 2012 F1 2012 Demo

Justin Swan · Aug 15, 2012

Looks like we are getting a 1st from Codemaster! A demo of an F1 game 1 week prior to its release

I'm glad to hear that because I want to make sure my PC can handle it before I buy it.

David O'Reilly · Sep 14, 2012

chankoedo said:
I just did a 5 laps race in Abu Dhabi. Unfortunately the AI is very weak there. I couldn't find any progress to f1 2011.

AI are only Pro not Legend in the demo my friend. You have not raced the fastest yet.

chankoedo · Sep 14, 2012

David O'Reilly said:
AI are only Pro not Legend in the demo my friend. You have not raced the fastest yet.

Yeah but they are much slower than at Monza. And the very early breaking points won't change with difficulty.

Dimos Kapourniotis · Sep 14, 2012

chankoedo said:
Yeah but they are much slower than at Monza. And the very early breaking point won't change with difficulty.

after a while i will upload a video showing the braking points of AI.As i said before the AI is pretty much ok playing in hard difficulty with the demo.Pastor braked with me in the first corner of Monza and we crashed.Looking forward for the legend AI

chankoedo · Sep 14, 2012

You can easily outbreak AI and finishing 1st while starting at the very back. All that within 4-5 laps. I'm looking forward to racing against legend AI however I don't expect a great change.

Everybody who wants to do a 5 laps race at Abu Dhabi should just put all the files of the "Abu Dhabi" folder to the "Monza" folder (you can find them this way: steamapps/common/f1 2012 demo/tracks/circuits) and overwrite all the files. Make a backup of the "Monza" folder before if you like to race at Monza again later on.

Mitchell Smith · Sep 14, 2012

Just preordered it through Steam, for PC guys, pre-loading becomes available today, get on it!

Kristian Nenov · Sep 14, 2012

chankoedo said:
You can easily outbreak AI and finishing 1st while starting at the very back. All that within 4-5 laps. I'm looking forward to racing against legend AI however I don't expect a great change.

Everybody who wants to do a 5 laps race at Abu Dhabi should just put all the files of the "Abu Dhabi" folder to the "Monza" folder (you can find them this way: steamapps/common/f1 2012 demo/tracks/circuits) and overwrite all the files. Make a backup of the "Monza" folder before if you like to race at Monza again later on.

Well, it's gonna be around 30% difference. Not much, a few seconds. Maybe 2-3 seconds a lap.

downants · Sep 14, 2012

Xbox 360, wheel.
What should I change in wheel settings to get rid of the horrible twitchiness on the straights?
Loved the handling in F1 2011, I never changed anything under wheel settings there, but I have to change something here.

Roy Sutton · Sep 14, 2012

I wounder if CM released the demo so they could see how it worked for people so if a patch was needed they could be working on one and have it ready earlier than if they hadn't released a demo (makes us the beta testers lol).

Karl Fuss · Sep 15, 2012

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downants said:
Xbox 360, wheel.
What should I change in wheel settings to get rid of the horrible twitchiness on the straights?
Loved the handling in F1 2011, I never changed anything under wheel settings there, but I have to change something here.

I've been running wheel at 3% 10% 45% 0 0 0 0
feels a lot better than default

Jamie Francklin · Sep 15, 2012

Three "P's" came to mind after spending a few hours playing the demo:

Patience, Persistence and Precision

It's just sooo different from 2011, as long as it is getting truer to life then I'm happy. Not impressed with the PS3 graphics though.

What times are you guys getting in the quali at monza?

Ryan Vickery · Sep 15, 2012

I've figured out the understeer issue with a bit of close analysing.

The game has a speed sensitivity type filter on, it limits how much steering angle it allows you to apply based on your speed and gear choice. After you hit the limit for your speed the game ignores further input and you can even feel this through the wheel's FFB and see it on screen (The wheel hits a sort of squidgy dead zone feeling), in order to then add more lock you have to slow down. As the speed decreases through a corner the ammount of steering angle available increases, in a low speed 1st gear corner the squidgy dead zone is completely gone because 100% steering angle is available.

It is a strange system but its liklely responsable for both the lack of typical dynamic oversteer effects and the understeer.

Mitchell Smith · Sep 15, 2012

Just had another ago at the demo, is there anyway to turn off the look-to-apex? That really screws with me.

And anyone got gamepad settings that work half decently on PC? The wheel is too clunky to have it on and off every day for one game. I'd like to be able to drive with my controller like I could do in 2010.

James Maskell · Sep 15, 2012

Roy Sutton said:
I wounder if CM released the demo so they could see how it worked for people so if a patch was needed they could be working on one and have it ready earlier than if they hadn't released a demo (makes us the beta testers lol).

Nah i dont think so, cause apparently this build is old. APPARENTLY, unreliable sources but could be true.

Roy Sutton · Sep 15, 2012

James Maskell said:
Nah i dont think so, cause apparently this build is old. APPARENTLY, unreliable sources but could be true.

True, the twitchiness could have been reduced in a later build. Looking at video's, it seems to be less twitchy but that could be also due to changes made to the controller settings.

Has anyone played the demo on all 3 platforms?

I wounder if the twitchiness is different on any of them, i only have a PC now so can't test this out.

Paul Van Mierlo · Sep 15, 2012

Im really enjoying the gameplay,only the straightline twitchness needs to get fixed,but in the 5 laps Monza with lowest downforce settings the car feels great in my opinion,Im driving with the t500 with F1 rim on PlayStation for now but ive preordered it for the pc luckly,because the graphics on ps3 are a bit disappointing for me,i havent played the demo on pc yet but i think the graphics are much better...atleast i cant wait for next friday,Im rlly looking forward too this one.

Kristian Nenov · Sep 16, 2012

damn, why are we always f**ked up?? Game is out for Xbox already [cracked] and we'll wait 2 more days for PC!

Deleted member 115516 · Sep 16, 2012

downants said:
Xbox 360, wheel.
What should I change in wheel settings to get rid of the horrible twitchiness on the straights?
Loved the handling in F1 2011, I never changed anything under wheel settings there, but I have to change something here.

i just went back to see my f12011 settings and copied them over. seems similar.

Deleted member 115516 · Sep 16, 2012

Ryan Vickery said:
I've figured out the understeer issue with a bit of close analysing.

The game has a speed sensitivity type filter on, it limits how much steering angle it allows you to apply based on your speed and gear choice. After you hit the limit for your speed the game ignores further input and you can even feel this through the wheel's FFB and see it on screen (The wheel hits a sort of squidgy dead zone feeling), in order to then add more lock you have to slow down. As the speed decreases through a corner the ammount of steering angle available increases, in a low speed 1st gear corner the squidgy dead zone is completely gone because 100% steering angle is available.

It is a strange system but its liklely responsable for both the lack of typical dynamic oversteer effects and the understeer.

like real life.