A little help driving without traction and stability control

Can I use the ever so popular dolphinscan?

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convolution_reverb

 

You know 99% of the tracks are Laser scanned right? Using LIDAR. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidar

It's a running joke on the forum to say that if something needs improvement--"it needs to be laser scanned", or got improved "laser scanned flames!"

 

Ahh alright haha. I did know the tracks were laser scanned but I wasn't sure what laser scanning meant in terms of reverb!!

 

By the way, I don't need Enhanced Understeer Effect anymore with 1.5. Feels great without it.

Also, check out this new App. This is now possible due to the FFB Post Process that came with 1.5.

G27/25 etc, the wheel force is not linear. Here is an example. The bottom scale is the force sent from the computer. The left scale is the force actually applied:








Everyone here is under the impression that is bad. Maybe, maybe not, I'm not sure at this time. I read some info from iRacing forums--specifically a Developer stated--that lower torque wheels (like G27/25) linear force isn't so good. Forces on the lower end are hard to be perceived/felt on lower end wheels if the force is linear.

One thing is for sure, that wavy a** curve isn't any good.


So Akis Kev wrote a Lookup Table Generator that will create a LUT from a curve created from WheelCheck that AC can read. AC looks at the LUT, for example "Car generating 10% force, but 10% to this wheel is actually 5%."

Right, so the bottom line is it takes your non-linear wheel response and makes it linear. I haven't tried it yet, but will soon.


https://www.assettocorsa.net/forum/index.php?threads/lut-generator-for-ac.31699/

 

^ This.
Certainly worth a shot. I tried this out recently and there is definitely a change in response and feel in the wheel (G27 here). There's also no need to use Min Force when using a LUT. I've actually setup 3 LUT's 1 at 100% in profiler 1 at 105% and 1 at the fabled 107%. The plan for this weekend is to actually spend some time driving and evaluate further over a range of vanilla laser scanned tracks. I'll probably also include the bumpy Zandvoort.

The little time I've spent so far certainly feels improved, particularly round the centre. Wheelcheck had told me previously that I should set Min Force at 13%, now it's at 0 and I'll just use the LUT and Profiler setup that feels the best.

 

I really like the results I'm getting with my T300. Much smoother and more precise feedback, I feel. I do lose a bit of weight at the very center, but the trade-off is worth it - and I was able to mitigate this somewhat by generating a few more LUTs with driver gain a bit higher at ~78%.

 

Thanks for the suggestions! I've been using wheel check and making graphs with the data since I got the wheel and also noticed how NOT linear the graphs were. I just tried out that LUC program and it does seem a lot better! I also turned off enhanced understeer and I'm fine without it!

 

Awesome! I just set up a LUT as well and I agree, it is fantastic! Much better.

 

So I decided to go ahead and try the RUF R12 RWD version with no traction or stability control. Any tips? I almost lost it at the beginning, but besides that I think I did pretty well. While driving I felt like I was going too easy, but I always feel like that until I watch the replay and see it from a different perspective. This game is weird like that.

 

Great tips thanks! I think you make a good point with the ideal line. I've grown too dependent on it. Rather than concentrate on the line I should be concentrating on the track itself. I definitely could go faster around some of those corners, but I had a couple wide entrances which made me have to lay off the gas a bit, but this was my first time driving this car without TC and SC so I was trying to take it easy a bit. I'll definitely take your advice and do some more practice! Thanks again!

 

So I turned the ideal racing line off and quickly realized how lost I am without it! Didn't realize I was depending on it THAT much! I've only driven on Magione two or three times so I don't really know the map so I decided to practice my apexes there. Disregard the last few turns in the video because I messed up, but how does the cornering look besides that? I was going a little slow because I am still learning that map.

 

Way too early on throttle which results in missed apexes or if not then you are going far too wide and have to let off in order to stay between the white lines. It's completely compromising your racing line, be patient with the gas pedal. Especially that GrA likes to understeer on throttle.
T5 - the one before back straight, you went for the apex too early. There's the longest straight on the circuit so you want to have the best speed and acceleration there so you need to drive in a bit later. You need to go as far to the left as you can before turning in, so you can carry more speed through it and have better speed on exit.

Oh I forgot about slamming the brakes. You are locking your tyres when you are braking with full pedal travel range because this car doesn't have ABS. This will give you longer braking distance and might flat spot your tyres if done couple times... or once but with big lock up.

 

Yep I'm pretty terrible without the ideal line. With the line I'm 1:21 on Magione and without it I'm 1:29....

 

Haha I'm getting a little better now my times are almost matching my imaginary line times now".

@V8_KB great tip on the braking I don't know why I've just been slamming the pedal. I don't do that in real life so I'm not sure what justified me doing that in the game.

 

Alright how's this one looking? I did see some mistakes, but I feel like I'm getting used to it a little more.