Imperial ('Murican) Speedometers?

Would it be possible, at some point in the future, to allow the option (maybe an .ini file edit) that would allow our cars to display Miles-Per-Hour (MPH)?

You have to realize that I am a product of the American Catholic Schools System. I'm lucky that we had "Science" classes available, you didn't think those nuns were going to teach me the Metric System, did you? I thought the Metric System was the measuring tool of Satan until I was 15...

Seriously though...What if there was an .ini hack where at least the digital displays showed MPH for slow Americans like myself? I understand it would be a pain in the arse to have to make 2 sets of speedometers and then do conversions for the physics....but just a digital readout visual.....PLEASE!?!?!

Back me up my American brothers and sisters! Help me explain to Kunos how we need this!!

This is me trying to convert Metric while driving the Nordschleife:


Just kidding. That's me all the time!

 

Nice read. You have a good sense of humour. Oh, sorry - "humor" :-D

 

If you have time to look at the speedometer then you are going too slow

 

What is this setting?
[OPTIONS]
USE_MPH=0
I think that might be what youre looking for.

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\assettocorsa\cfg
gameplay.ini

 

This... also in the launcher options menu if I'm not mistaken. Any cars that are specced with km/h and can't be changed IRL can't be changed in-game though (analogue instruments mainly), you'd have to use digital display then. There's also some exceptions with digital displays if I remember but you can report those to be looked at. Or just learn proper measurements.

 

Here, take this app:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/zcxhv8bifvsuvjg/MPH_App.rar

 

In options there is also KPH/MPH.

 

Thank you everybody who has responded. I appreciate all of the help/suggestions/etc..

Yes. There is an option to switch to MPH from KPH "Units". So, if you're using the Kunos app "Essentials" or the other big round one, I think it's called "Gears"...yes, those will switch between KPH or MPH, depending on how you've set it. What I was talking about is when you are driving in cockpit view with no apps enabled. It's just you, your car and the road. So, there is a speedometer (usually) - especially with road cars, where it's always KPH unless it's American (I think I never paid attention to the Vette).

See this dashboard from the Aventador SV below... That 138 is KPH even though I have my game set to use MPH.


Or see the F40 speedometer below....That is always KPH:



Now, with the Ferrari F40 you could say, "Tough cookies, American scum!! This is a European model F40 so suck it!" and that's a reality I might have to life with.... And I understand that it would be a huge pain in the butt for Simone, or the other artists, having to create 2 different speedometer graphics, one MPH the other KPH. I would be ridiculous even suggesting it...but on a car like the Aventador above where it's just a little 3 digit LCD display, couldn't they feed it MPH just as easily as it's fed KPH?

Last example. Look at where the speed readout is on the Huracan GT3 - 46kph and I have Sidekick open to show 29mph which my tiny brain can understand. Would it really be that difficult to make MPH show up in that digital display? Pretty much all GT3s have some type of display like this...or the MoTeC style. In the games main Options section where you can select between kph or mph "units", couldn't it pass along a 0 or 1 to display the appropriate speed readout on these fancy digital displays?


I know I can suck it up and just always have Sidekick or something else opened up, but I figured I would ask. There is something very pleasing about turning all apps off and just driving!

Ok, I'm going to check out what Michael recommended - that app...Maybe that will solve all my life's problems! Thank you, Michael.

 

As I said above...

And don't expect analogue instruments to be modelled in mph (unless it was only imperial originally). You'll have to do with imagining that you're driving a digital replica of an European spec car.

 

That's why I said it would be ridiculous to even suggest it, let alone expect or hope for it.

 

I do have a converted MPH gauge for the Ferrari 458 and Pagani Huayra.
Drop the enclosed dds file into each skin folder for the 458.
http://www.mediafire.com/file/qrib66s7d2hbj0q/Ferrari_458_MPH.rar
Drop this file into each Pagani Huayra skin folder:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/arqj652qoiun5fg/Pagani_Huayra_MPH.rar

 

Here in the UK the dials are still MPH (KPH usually in little numbers on the same dial), so I know your frustration. I use that 'Gear' app and place it over the dials, unless they are LCD and they change to the proper way to tell how fast you are going. Funny really I use millimetres/metres for distance, grams/kilograms for weight, yet MPH for speed. Mad Dogs and Englishmen...

P.S. Thanks for the MPH app MH, will give that a go later, same with the dials. Do those dials work for all the 458, or just the 458 and s variant?

 

Metric system = communist

 

Well, if the sim changes the value in a digital screen to mph as per user setting but doesn't change the text "km/h" because it's in the texture then that's obviously off, unless the real car does the same (not very likely). Other than that though...

 

I hope to see in the future also ABS, TC e.t.c lamp, right on the gauges, not in apps

 

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Hm? You realise that the speedo is a digital display? If AC changes the measurement to mph but not the text it's obviously off and should be a digital instrument instead of texture in-game. If AC doesn't change the measurement to mph and you just changed the texture... in either case you shouldn't have to do it.

 

Thank you, again! You've been very helpful...I appreciate it.

 

I just use km/h now otherwise I struggle to compare corner speeds with YouTube videos.