

Whatever you drive on whatever surface, AMS will let you practice sliding and recovering. It also has everything from karts to racing trucks. Mostly offering tarmac circuits it also has some drift cars plus rally events with dirt or snow. AMS will also run on an older machine (just don't use windowed mode), and the RealFeel steering is really good. I reckon the best one to get however, is Automobilista Ultimate Edition, completed in 2019. AMS - There are many titles that have been based on Image Space Incorporated's isiMotor2 gaming engine, the first of which was the original rFactor in 2005. Start RBR with the standard game's Rally School and you'll learn all sorts of tricks to use in slippery situations (that you can also apply and practice on a closed-course in the real world). In fact, even professional sim racers still rate it quite highly. If you can find a copy of the base game first, it's worth installing even without mods (and another one where wheel setup just works straight away). It's developer went defunct in 2006 and its publisher in 2009, however a strong (mostly European) modding community is continuing to update it with physics tweaks, additional cars and tracks, and a multiplayer online platform. RBR - Another title that offers training, and works on very old machines, is Richard Burns Rally released in 2004.

Once you dial down the steering feedback strength adequately as well (35 percent in-game for my T300RS) you'll get a feel for force feedback (FFB) detail that you can take into other titles (especially those with more FFB settings to fiddle with).

First released in 2003 and still being updated in 2021, it's easy on hardware (in fact, that budget PC is overkill) and setting up your wheel is easy (although I'd recommend dialing down the 'spring' and 'damper' in your wheel's control panel for all titles, in some cases to zero). You only pay for LFS if you want to unlock more content. The base program (demo basically) is a free small download, and you get three cars and one track, along with the first 18 training exercises (including a FWD on tarmac, a Formula BMW, and a RWD rallycross). LFS - If you're starting from scratch, and have never done the training exercises in any sim or game, then get Live for Speed. So let's discuss a few of those driving sims. I've mentioned previously that you can get valid driving practice from good driving simulators, and how to build a low-budget PC out of an ex-business desktop (several links provided above and below if you're reading this in the Life & Style section online).
