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What is Virtual RC Racing (VRC)? |
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VRC is a state-of-the-art r/c racing sim combined with on-line competitions, championships
and rankings. VRC provides the same set-up technology as is used in ‘real’
r/c racing with different chassis, bodies, engines and pipes to choose from to optimize
performance. A choice of world renown tracks is available to race or practice on.
Practice off-line or enter the daily competitions on any of the tracks that you
own. Or register for any of the on-line competitions to compete with racers from
around the globe to get high up on the ranking tables. In VRC v.2 you can now race
with very realistic computer opponents for an even more intense and adrenaline pumping
r/c experience. |
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How does Virtual RC Racing work? |
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VRC uses our own state-of-the-art ‘3D graphics engine’ to display the
car, the tracks and all the visual and sound effects nearly to photo realistic quality.
Our advanced ‘physics engine’ simulates the behavior of the car. The ‘VRC
on-line database’ organizes all the competitions and stores competition data.
These 3 elements work seamless together to give you the best and most exciting r/c
experience next to the real r/c experience, but at a minimum cost and effort. |
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What makes Virtual RC Racing so realistic? |
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A sophisticated chassis dynamics the VRC physics engine makes the car behave exactly
like a real r/c car. For this to happen the VRC engineers have worked with industry
leading r/c manufacturers to turn a modern r/c chassis with its independent suspension,
transmission and tires, the engine and the body aerodynamics into a highly complex
mathematical model that works exactly like a real r/c car. Really every detail of
an r/c car is simulated in the physics engine. We believe that VRC is the most accurate
simulation of r/c cars on the market. All the set-up variables can be changed to
improve the handling, and to suit your driving style. Realism doesn't stop at the
physics. Add to this the possibility to race against computer controlled cars that
behave exactly like real racers and you will feel like racing for real. To give
you the best audio-visual experience VRC takes full advantage of today's 3D graphics
hardware to provide you a nearly photo realistic quality. |
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What controller to use for Virtual RC Racing? |
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VRC can be controlled with keyboard, a regular joystick or radio-like joystick,
or with your own r/c transmitter and the VRC-2 USB adaptor. Hook up the VRC-2 to
your receiver and you control the car with your own transmitter, it can’t get
any closer to reality than this! The VRC-2 USB adaptor can be purchased from the
E-shop. Special USB pistol-grip and stick radio controllers will be available from
VRC dealers which also give you the real feel of controlling a model racing car.
The older VRC-1 gameport adaptor can still be used, either connected to the gameport
of your computer, or by using a gameport-to-USB converter like the USB Adaptor of
RadioShack. |
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Why to get into Virtual RC Racing? |
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VRC lets you set up your car the same way you would do with a real r/c car: suspension,
shock absorbers, tires, transmission and clutch, and even the engine to optimize
your car's performance. For seasoned r/c racers it provides you with hands-on experience
and feed back which can be tried on your real r/c car. VRC is also the ideal platform
to get into r/c racing to learn and improve your driving skills and to discover
set-up secrets which will improve your the ‘real life’ r/c skills. With
the addition of the AI cars you can now use VRC to further improve handling
race traffic without loosing time, and build strong nerves when being chased by
a whole pack of hard charging computer opponent (AI) cars. |
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What does Virtual RC Racing cost? |
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The basic VRC game software is FREE and can be downloaded from this website under
Free Downloads. The RC Speedway and VRC Drifter Park tracks are the 2 FREE tracks included in this package. To get other tracks you can purchase either the VRC Introduction Pack at $29.00 (with one track) or the VRC Basic Game Pack at $120.00 (with 10 tracks). Track expansion packs can be purchased in the e-Shop and the tracks then to be downloaded from My Tracks in your Personal menu. For on-line racing a VRC Racing License must be purchased from the E-shop, it is available for 3, 6 and 12 months periods costing $13, $23 and $40. With the VRC Racing License you can participate in any VRC event within the license period. A 12 months racing license is included in the Basic Game Pack, and 3 and 6 months racing licenses are included with the track expansion packs!
PayPal and credit cards can be used to purchase items in the VRC e-shop. |
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After signing up for a VRC member account, the VRC software can be downloaded FREE
from the VRC website. The VRC game is the full version and comes with 2 FREE tracks.
When you first start VRC you will be notified to unlock the RC Speedway and the VRC Drifter Park
tracks. To unlock tracks you must be connected to the internet. VRC can be played
on your home pc or notebook, check the minimum system requirements. To participate
in on-line competitions you must have a VRC Racing License or have VRC Racing credits
(both can be purchased from the e-shop) and then register for the competitions you
want to participate in. The database will check if you have purchased the track
on which the competition will be raced, if not you will be asked to purchase it
first from the E-shop. |
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What are the VRC system requirements? |
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VRC requires minimum Pentium 4 / 1Ghz / 256Mb RAM computer with a Windows XP or Vista
operating system. The minimum graphics card is Nvidia GeForce 3 or similar
cards. T&L Hardware acceleration must be supported. As with all sims and games,
the more powerful the graphics card the better. For on-line competitions and software
downloads a medium-high speed internet connections is required. |
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What are you waiting for? |
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Sign up and download VRC now to find out for yourself how exciting VRC really is.
And VRC will only get better, with more chassis, engines and new exciting tracks.
Over 60,000 r/c racers from all over the world are already using VRC, so join them
to compete in the planets biggest r/c events. |
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VRC-2 USB ADAPTOR QUESTIONS |
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- Do I have to connect a battery to the receiver?
No, the VRC-2 receives its power from the USB port of the computer.
- Do I need to install the VRC-2 gameport adaptor?
No, when you plug the VRC-2 into the USB-port of your computer, Windows will look
for the driver and install the device. The VRC-2 micro processor software is fully
Windows compliant.
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