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Post by XRF HammerPH on Dec 16, 2019 14:26:08 GMT
Please post here anything relating to tuning these cars or any general advice that may help others.
There is a general Tuning area of the forum for pCars tuning, etc. but anything I find here that I feel would be of benefit to other series as well I will also post to that forum so it's accessible to all.
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Post by Dale Rossi on Dec 16, 2019 14:46:59 GMT
Newcomers or people struggling with FOV or even Look to Apex, there are many seat adjustments that can be made.
In Options, you have to map them and it's a bit of a pain compared to how straight forward Assetto is with this. Set your FOV First and then adjust the seat.
Seat adjustments:
Forward/Backward
Up/Down
Tilt Up/Tilt Down
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Dec 16, 2019 16:31:55 GMT
Newcomers or people struggling with FOV or even Look to Apex, there are many seat adjustments that can be made. In Options, you have to map them and it's a bit of a pain compared to how straight forward Assetto is with this. Set your FOV First and then adjust the seat. Seat adjustments: Forward/Backward Up/Down Tilt Up/Tilt Down I can't remember how it works in Assetto but I think having the adjustments mapped at least means you can physically see what each adjustment is doing while in your car. |
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Post by Dale Rossi on Dec 17, 2019 0:06:16 GMT
Assetto doesn't really save, but you can do it easily at the start without having to map anything.
If just using a wheel, you may have to map a couple times to get it right since it takes upwards of 6 new buttons.
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Dec 17, 2019 0:37:33 GMT
Assetto doesn't really save, but you can do it easily at the start without having to map anything. If just using a wheel, you may have to map a couple times to get it right since it takes upwards of 6 new buttons. Yeah I think that's what I actually like about pCars tbh. The mapping enables you to view how the changes effect the view rather then hopping in and out of the setting screens. |
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Post by Dale Rossi on Dec 17, 2019 1:12:39 GMT
That's what Assetto does, you do it in the car. But yeah, it is good to be able to see them rather than guessing.
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Post by XRF Formula1 on Dec 17, 2019 3:47:59 GMT
Assetto doesn't really save, but you can do it easily at the start without having to map anything. If just using a wheel, you may have to map a couple times to get it right since it takes upwards of 6 new buttons. That's when a USB keyboard or button box comes in handy. I don't use anything fancy myself, just a simple $10 wired keyboard. I have all the seat settings, headlights, wipers, and a few other things mapped to it in case I need to use anything on the fly. |
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Dec 17, 2019 9:28:45 GMT
Assetto doesn't really save, but you can do it easily at the start without having to map anything. If just using a wheel, you may have to map a couple times to get it right since it takes upwards of 6 new buttons. That's when a USB keyboard or button box comes in handy. I don't use anything fancy myself, just a simple $10 wired keyboard. I have all the seat settings, headlights, wipers, and a few other things mapped to it in case I need to use anything on the fly. Same here.. I have a lot of things mapped to that including the seat, pit in, brake balance, arbs, etc. My only problem is I don't have it in an optimum place to use yet properly without taking my eyes off the road and need a better set of stickers for the keys. It is really handy though and makes the limit to the number of buttons we have less of a problem. |
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Post by Dale Rossi on Dec 17, 2019 14:38:04 GMT
One day hopefully I'll have a button box, or at least a keyboard. Hoped MS would updated their consoles for full peripheral support. It's ridiculous we can only use maybe half the buttons.
A couple FOV videos may be helpful for anyone tinkering with it. Accurate FOV obviously isn't mandatory. However, a sim rig setup with the monitor close to the wheel benefits massively from the right FOV. Look to Apex is a different story and is completely user preference. In PCars 2, Look to Apex is *only* available in Helmet cam.
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Post by Dale Rossi on Dec 17, 2019 14:42:45 GMT
For those ok Xbox and not Xbox One X, go through your graphics settings and turn a lot of the trivial stuff down or off in Movement/Camera (can't remember the exact name of that menu, but it is in options).
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Post by XRF Lemarrrr on Dec 17, 2019 14:47:10 GMT
One day hopefully I'll have a button box, or at least a keyboard. Hoped MS would updated their consoles for full peripheral support. It's ridiculous we can only use maybe half the buttons. A couple FOV videos may be helpful for anyone tinkering with it. Accurate FOV obviously isn't mandatory. However, a sim rig setup with the monitor close to the wheel benefits massively from the right FOV. Look to Apex is a different story and is completely user preference. In PCars 2, Look to Apex is *only* available in Helmet cam. I built my own button box from these instructions at work mate consoleracing.boards.net/thread/380/diy-button-box-build-instructions |
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Dec 17, 2019 15:12:39 GMT
One day hopefully I'll have a button box, or at least a keyboard. Hoped MS would updated their consoles for full peripheral support. It's ridiculous we can only use maybe half the buttons. A couple FOV videos may be helpful for anyone tinkering with it. Accurate FOV obviously isn't mandatory. However, a sim rig setup with the monitor close to the wheel benefits massively from the right FOV. Look to Apex is a different story and is completely user preference. In PCars 2, Look to Apex is *only* available in Helmet cam. Do you have more buttons on your wheel than you can map? My issue isn't with the Xbox but the wheel itself which doesn't have near enough buttons to accommodate all the things we can map these days. My wheel has the A, B, X, Y buttons and the 4 way D-Pad. It does have a switch as well but this just duplicates one of the other buttons (A I think) and the two buttons on the rear of the wheel just duplicates the gear levers. I think that's it. |
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Post by Dale Rossi on Dec 17, 2019 17:37:19 GMT
Yeah, quite a few as well as all the switches and dials on the F1 rim. Even if I had a box, I don't have room for it and even had to get rid of my hand brake because it was too much for my stand.  |
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Dec 17, 2019 19:19:03 GMT
And you can't map them?
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Post by Dale Rossi on Dec 17, 2019 23:19:03 GMT
You can, but they're all redundant. RT is throttle, LT is brake, LSB is shift down and so on. It's a console problem. PS4 isn't as bad, but has similar issues. Sucks lol |
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Dec 18, 2019 8:53:43 GMT
You can, but they're all redundant. RT is throttle, LT is brake, LSB is shift down and so on. It's a console problem. PS4 isn't as bad, but has similar issues. Sucks lol Ah ok that's the same for me then with duplicated inputs. The mini usb keyboard does help with that but it just needs locating somewhere easily accessible to make it really useful. I am going to try to look at securing it better as currently it's just free standing on a temporary stand by my seat so requires looking away to select the buttons. Apart form the seat movement which I only really use when standing still, I pretty much just use it for Pit In at the moment as that button is a big one and easy to hit without looking lol. |
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Post by Dale Rossi on Dec 18, 2019 14:00:37 GMT
Lol Brake bias is a good one to map. Wish you could map fuel, not sure why they left that out.
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Post by Dale Rossi on Dec 27, 2019 0:17:25 GMT
Easy exercise to practice race starts with the goal of all 16 getting though the first couple of turns/laps cleanly.
Set it to full race in Quick Race so the driver and AI have full tanks.
FULL Damage in Options/Settings.
15 AI opponents.
Starting position, Random or manually move around.
AI 100/100. The speed and aggression is important.
Practice until you can get through every time with no damage or without inflicting damage. That's the #1 Goal. After that, work on not losing spots and maybe even over taking.
The accurate saying goes: You cant win a race on the first lap, but...
It's a great exercise and you can restart it easily indefinitely.
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Post by Dale Rossi on Jan 7, 2020 15:00:33 GMT
In sound options, you can turn up the volume of the car (other than engine and tires). It will help you easily hear if you're bottoming out anywhere as the telemetry doesn't show it as readily. One or two of the TT ghost cars are bottoming in sector 2 and that will be worse with more than the 5L of fuel that TT cars have.
Trying to help since it would be cool to eventually start competing with the fastest teams online.
Some of the TT cars also have standard brake ducts. Operating temp on steel brakes is 300F to 600F.
Everyone wants to compete obviously, but anything we can do to help each other build speed and consistency is a good thing.
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Post by Owain Dafydd on Jan 8, 2020 19:51:20 GMT
Whats the best tune for a gte at silverstone (im quite new and dont have much setup experience)
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