Please, allow turning off/on the engine

I have always thought that it would be better if Assetto Corsa had a button to turn off/on the engine. Especially when you are working on a setup (in the box), perhaps is better do not have a noisy background!

Now, I have decided to write this post because I have switched to Fanatec and I'm using Fanaleds, with all the "rumbling" setted on.
It really bothers me to have a (useless) costant vibration on my steering wheel, just because the engine must stay on compulsorily!

Please, if it is not very complicated to do, give us that button!

Thank you.

 

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Turn the volume down perhaps.

 

I think there already is a MUTE button, on most computers.

 

Just put 1st (or whatever gear) and the engine will bog down, no engine sound

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Id love to see Sauber F1 team complain to all the other teams to stop running in fp2 and down tools so they can work on their setups in peace and quiet. All these noises are what makes them crappy at setup and engineering, if only everyone else could shut the eff up they would be legendary.

 

Why do I need to find a strange way to do something that can be done normally (and exists on other games)!?

 

Cant you just mute the game audio pretty easily, through windows software or through your headphone or speakers. The rattle in your wheel is specific to that wheel, most others don't do anything when you are in the pit menu.

 

If you set the fuel level to 0% the engine will stop running, that’s what I do with the noisier F1 cars. I know there’s a mute button but just leaving the car running for extended periods of time bugs me, I feel like i’m wasting petrol even though it’s not real

You could also intentionally stall the car!

 

If you came here to complain about the missing feature then I guess your point was taken. You were heard, certainly also by the devs but don't get your hopes up that it will be implemented.

If you're really just annoyed by the sound then I think solutions have been plenty in this thread and you should pick your "lesser evil".

 

What!?
So, what is for a section named "suggestions"!?

 

AC is most probably at the end of it’s development cycle, so any addition of new features is highly improbable.

 

Don't be frustrated. I would like that button very much myself But it's just pretty much what Ace said.

 

Like a suggestion box, you place your suggestion on a card, slide it in the box and continue on with your day. Seems simple and straight forward to me.

 

Automobilista turns off the engine while you are in the car setup screen although in the background are various garage and ambient sounds such as impact wrench sounds of lug nuts being removed which is pretty cool.

 

In facts!
Rfactor too.

 

Does that matter? Kunos is very likely to develop racing simulators in the future for which they could incorporate suggested features, and so far they haven't closed the suggestions subforums (thankfully).

As for the topic, it's nothing new and there has been a dev answer previously from what I remember (there are no sound recordings for start-up, engine stall, etc. for all the cars, hence why start-up and stalling is not available to us, but the functionality definitely already exists in the dev build (as Stefano Casillo demonstrated in one of his streams)). netKar had it too. I think there's definitely a good chance that "AC2" will have that functionality from the get-go if they don't just flip a switch one day to implement it in AC too regardless of missing sounds.

 

Although the odd thing is I really don't hear any of those sounds while Im setting up the car. I suppose over time my brain has simply blocked those sounds out

 

AC a good sim but a lot of such things make a game not really user-friendly. A lot of options are missed. For me some games like RF, F1 challenge, GTR2 is reference. A lot of settings, setups, options. Manual rev limiter, on/off engine, wheel or keys can be changed during session, and you don't need go out to change some of a key. A can't really write here all off small but mandatory things for me. Hope the kunos will rework it in next Sim. A special regarding night and wether condition. It shame, because even Electronic Arts who has a 20 years old game named F1 challenge has all this things.

 

Not having to turn your car on makes the game more user friendly not less. It's one less thing that can be configured wrong.