About Design it, Drive it: Speedboats
“Design it, Drive it: Speedboats” is a speedboat simulator with high fidelity physics that lets you design and drive your own speedboats from dozens of adjustable parameters on a Windows PC, then compete against other players via leaderboards in top speed shootouts, solo time trials on lapped or point to point courses, or just free drive as you please to explore the world and your design’s handling characteristics with no constraints. Whether you end up with boats that are slow, fast, turn well, chine walk, or tend to blow over at high speeds or not depends on what you do with the shape and design of the hull.
This is not your typical boat game. It’s more of a design tool and physics sandbox/waterbox, a serious, hardcore simulator used by real life boat racers around the world including Formula 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, offshore powerboat, and other series racers to keep their skills sharp between races and train muscle memory. Real life high performance boat driving skills such as chine walk control and engine trim management can be learned safely.
Real life marine engineers and boat designers use this to experiment with ideas and get a better intuitive feel for how various design aspects influence boat handling and performance. The force vector view (accessible with the TAB key) is useful in examining exactly why the boat does what it does (see pic in screenshots). Dynamic instabilities can be examined in real time as they’re happening, and the exact water/hull wetted contact shape and size can be viewed through the hull in real time.
Instructions
- Click the Download button below and you will be redirected to UploadHaven.
- Wait 5 seconds and click on the blue ‘download now’ button. We recommend using a download manager for faster download speeds. (You can use FDM which is free here, or any other download manager).
- Once the game is finished downloading, right click the .zip file and click on “Extract to Design it, Drive it: Speedboats.zip” (To do this you will need 7-Zip, which you can get here, or you can use the built in windows extractor).
- Double click inside the Design it, Drive it: Speedboats folder and run the setup application. Accept the EULA, and install the game. Then, launch the game through the desktop shortcut.
Design it, Drive it: Speedboats Free Download
Design it, Drive it: Speedboats
Size: 809.65 MB
Reminder: This download is completely free and won't cost you a penny. However, If you love the game and want to purchase it, you can support the developers by doing so.
System Requirements
- OS: Windows 7/8/10
- Processor: Hyperthreaded Intel CPU, AMD Athlon
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: Shader Model 3.0 graphics card (AMD Radeon HD 5870, nVidia GTX 560)
- DirectX: Version 11
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 2 GB available space
- Sound Card: Onboard integrated or Soundblaster compatible soundcard
- VR Support: SteamVR or Oculus PC. Keyboard and mouse required
- Additional Notes: Full water spray effects require a DX11 capable card with Shader Model 5 support. Product will run on a lower end card but the spray effects will be limited to rooster tails. VR requires a higher end card, but not as high as Oculus says is required. Developer is running a 680X card with this product on a DK2 and it maintains 75fps+.
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