"Tentacle, Dutchman, drives French" (Tentacle) 03/05/2018 at 09:28 • Filed to: DiRT Rally, Logitech MOMO

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About 10 years ago I played the epic Richard Burns Rally rallysim for countless hours. (And Rally Championship 2000 before that, though that one could not be called a rallysim.)

I downloaded DiRT Rally from Steam yesterday and hooked up the ol’ Logitech MOMO force feedback wheel and pedals to the PC for the first time in years.

I am happy to report that I still speak Pacenotes! Within minutes I was able to go full attack. In car camera is still the only real cam for games like this, I still prefer left foot braking to initiate oversteer over weight transfer/Scandinavian flicking, I still work up a sweat and I still get this lurid shit-eating grin when hauling Rally ass.

Oh, and I have some sore muscles in my upper arms.

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > Tentacle, Dutchman, drives French 03/05/2018 at 09:51

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I still have my old Momo in the basement. Many good memories using that wheel for Richard Burns Rally. I need to remember to rip an ISO of my RBR disk before it finally disintegrates to the point of unusability.

Tentacle, Dutchman, drives French > TheTurbochargedSquirrel 03/05/2018 at 10:22

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As amazing as RBR was, it shows its age. DiRT Rally was €9.99 on Steam, so 80% off (offer is still 3 hours valid as of writing) and that is a steal!

My first hours with DiRT Rally really bring back fond memories, so to me it’s a worthy successor. One that can properly scale to wide screen aspect ratio and do good anti aliasing. RBR can natively only do 4:3 and AA has to be set through video drivers. I haven’t kept track of all those numerous RBR mods so it might be different now.

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > Tentacle, Dutchman, drives French 03/05/2018 at 10:23

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DiRT rally is certainly a worthy successor to RBR but I still like coming back to RBR from time to time.

Tentacle, Dutchman, drives French > TheTurbochargedSquirrel 03/05/2018 at 10:39

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RBR and my MOMO, under Windows 10, don’t play nice. As in: crashes galore! So for now, it’s DiRT. A fresh install may come later.

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > Tentacle, Dutchman, drives French 03/05/2018 at 10:47

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I haven’t used my Momo since the Windows 7 days (and come to think of it the last time I ran RBR it was on Windows 7 as my Windows 10 machine doesn’t have a DVD drive) but the older Logitech drivers tend not to play well with Windows 10. I have to reinstall my G27 drivers after every Windows update in order to get it to recognize my wheel as a G27 instead of a Driving Force. Have you tried running RBR in compatibility mode for Windows 7 or XP? XP mode seems to fix a lot of games that worked on 7 but not 10.