Enjoying a Sim shouldn't be that much work:-(

Hi Kunis and Team

I purchased AC with the intent of doing off season drifting practice with the belief (true or otherwise) that it is the best driving simulator out there after looking at the reviews of others and the claims of your sim. After about 2 weeks of testing, researching for solutions, I am left frustrated and floundering.

In short, I think I should be spending more time driving than setting things up to feel real. That should be the basic premise and delivery of a sim...realism...out of the box as a default. Having the ability to tweak things from there to individual "tastes" is great but the default or base should be "reality".

I drift in real life and have owned and drive a number of performance cars both as leisure and competitively So I think I have a modicum of experience. My current rig includes a G25/27 and and i7 with 12GB ram and an Nvidia 750 card. I have searched high and low for answers (settings for wheel and driver profiles, etc) and feel I am getting no where fast when I should be going fast somewhere on AC's finest tracks. Please help!!!! :-(

 

you click one button to get full realism...for ex i notice you have stability control at 50%?? dont you think that might be a problem esp if youre focusing on drifiting???

 

wait for 1.0 before complaining.. its beta

 

You have a few setting problems there Bandit. I am not a fan of the drifting but I expect the settings to be very much different than that you are using. 100 gain! 60-70 should be enough without diluting the FFB to a continuous rumble. As said above, this is an EARLY ACCESS, so if you do not want, or need, to help make it better for others, then it would be best to wait till v1.0 is released (not rude just being honest).

Good luck getting those tyres a smoking!

 

1. Turn off traction control

2. Turn the ingame ffb gain down

3. How about before complaining about the sim, try the *Kunos* recommended settings for your wheel

4. If all else fails, get a better wheel.....

5. If I can drift, you should DEFINITELY be able to.

Edit:

6. It took me ~6 minutes to get AC set up perfectly.......

 

Reason I did that (50% on traction control) was a YT video released by (I cant remember who exactly) an AC user, who I assume has more experience with sim racing and drifts well in the game. and in it, he recommended to start at 50 -100 % when learning to drift in the game. So you see, I am not assuming I know how to drift in this game and am earnestly trying to find solutions.

 

I know exactly what video you're talking about, and I'm 90% sure he said stability control. Trying to drift with TC will get you no where.

 

Tks...I appreciate the effort in responding. And yes I did try Kunos' recommended settings. It was the first one I tried and also other settings after and then back to Kunos'. I will try your suggestions and report back if it improves my experience.

 

I dunno man, I have a g27 and love the drifting in-game.
It did take me a week of tweaking before I got settings I liked though.

 

I'm sorry my error ...yes it is Stability control. let me change that in my sig.

 

Yeah, I have a Fanatec CSR with a worn out motor in it, and I can drift too....

 

Drifting is super easy in AC, you must be doing something wrong

 

NICE!!! Clearly its something I am not doing right then. I hope some of you understand that I am not flaming the game for the sake of it and it is also not for lack of effort in trying to find a solution first before posting this. Perhaps mine is an isolated experience and if so then please help me out. I want AC to work out for me as much as it does for many of you but it isnt. If AC is to be as successful as I wish it will, then it has to be able to address my issues too as I suspect there will be others who might be disappointed and not raise the issue at all.

 

Want to offer a solution instead of the obvious

 

Not only this, but your wheel settings are way messed up. Damping at 100? Gain cranked to 100? That's going to feel terrible.

Check this video out, it should explain everything about force feedback level and clipping. AC's ffb meter is the far left bar in the Pedals app.



You honestly don't need a lot, simply tune it to where your ffb bar never goes red. Set it to 100% in the Logitech profiler by all means, as that's literally the setting of the wheel itself, but in AC you shouldn't need more than 50%. My Thrustmaster T500 is running at 45%.

My settings are as follows -

Gain: 45%
Filter: 0%
Damping: 0%

Kerb, Road, Slip effects: all 0%

Gamma: 1.00 (slider all the way down)
Filter: 0.00
Speed Sensitivity: 0.00

Absolutely no fakery, no fudging, just pure, actual steering force as you'd have it in a real car.

As a side note, be prepared for differences between how your G27 reacts and how a real wheel does. When countersteering, a real wheel will spin up extremely quickly, this can be seen from any Formula D onboard. The G27 lacks that spin speed, however, so to countersteer at the correct rate you have to "throw" it a bit. You'd only get real spin speed in a T500 or upwards, so if you're serious about legit drift practice then that wheel may be worth a look. I drifted with a Driving Force Pro, a wheel that I had to "throw". When I changed to the T500, which had real spin speed, I pretty much failed hard and had to practice a lot to get back up to speed.

 

My settings - 107%/0/0/0 in profiler
60% ffb gain in AC

 

Nope, not trolling. I am using a template for that and haven't edited it to a setting that I am comfortable with that's all. Am still new to all this PC and Sim racing thing so please forgive me

 

EthanDean...thank you so much for the most constructive response thus far. Am really a noob at this. Also I take special note about the T500. If all else fails I will seriously consider upgrading my wheel. Love that spin speed in your vid!!! What about the stuff about spring settings and Logitech profiler global vs game specific settings? Do you have any comments/suggestions about that? Also which driver profile settings should I use?

 

Thanks Kristaps...will give it a shot and report my final settings . thumbs up!