Sense of speed....

I'm using triples and have set the field of view to correct settings using in game calculator but I get no sense of speed whatsoever! In every car It feels like I'm going at walking pace, I get constant 70fps so It's nothing to do with that. Anyone else feel this? I just tried the McLaren and then went to iRacing and tried it there, In iRacing it felt like I had to hold on for dear life but on AC I was looking around at the scenery...... Summit don't feel right to me.

 

I know what you mean, i need to mess with FOV etc on triples yet to try and iron it out.

 

I unchecked "Lock camera on horizon" or something like that in the options.
That did apparently nothing for cockpit view, but watching replays in e.g. bumper or hood cam did make it a lot more shaky, and thus it felt a lot faster.
Maybe a toned down effect like this for cockpit view would give more sense of speed (toned down because I think too mauch shaking would make me sick fast).

 

This...

I know there's nothing to do with the simulation quality itself, but I am also missing the sense of speed. Increasing FOV helps but not solves it.

Perhaps be the lack of movement in cockpit or something, but I'd be very happy finding out how to get more sense of speed into the car.

 

The only thing I can see is that the tracks looks wider around the car in iracing. This with correct triple screen settings. I have no idea but maybe it's a fov thing? In iR I feel like Im in the car on the track but in AC i still feel à bit disconnected, visually. Eveything else is above and beyond though!

 

FoV makes a very small difference to speed I have found. I was using a fairly wide FOV (60) when my calculated FOV should be around 45 apparently. Funnily enough I find better sense of speed now I am running 45....

 

I have correct FOV settings for my setup in both sims. Still, what makes the iR corvette at Brand Hatch a near death experience makes the AC p4/5 at Imola a stroll in the park. I cant figure it out, they look the same but iR just feels so much faster.

 

This is my only real complaint with the design of AC. Part of sim racing is to use your skills to drive as fast as you can, and the other side of it is for the thrill of speed. AC is missing the "thrill" component IMO. Unfortunately I think it's now just part of AC and there is not much the developers can do to fix this without a major overhaul.

The lack of feeling of speed has a number of negative consequences:

Firstly, you feel like you should be able to take corners at faster pace than what you actually can which inevitably ends up in severe understeer off the track - hence the constant complaining about understeer in AC. Also because of this the brakes feel far less effective. It feels like you are having to start braking in some of the cars about 100 meters before you should.

Secondly, it's difficult to notice the difference in small increments in speed. 150 km/h and 180 km/h don't "feel" vastly different in pace so some of the cars loose that feeling of difference in pace. So you end up only noticing cars on the opposite ends of the top speed spectrum being different in terms of straight-line speed.

Third, as mentioned above the game loses much of the excitement that is normally derived from the sensation of speed. When driving the 458, I feel like I'm actually driving a regular family sedan in terms of pace.

 

I think the Sense of Speed is allready fine.

Thats my Simulator.

 

You have an amazing rig, but that`s not the correct FOV you`re using there. That`s the reason your sense of speed is fine. If you would calculate your real FOV you would have a very different sense of speed.

 

Damn I need 3 monitor setup, and cpu/gpu upgrade...

Correct FOV is EDIT BY MOD, I you want sense of speed and correct FOV, you need Oculus rift

 

The field of View ist right,because the GoPro makes it looks Wrong at the Video. The Triplescreen is 3x40".

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I did a trick that helped me:
try highten up your seat and go down with pitch (for me -2 is fine). The sense of speed is much better for me then.

 

dafq I had to lower the seat almost in every car, because top of the steering wheel hides the speedometer/tachometer upper fonts.

 

Hi.

Have you tried moving the seat backwards instead of down to help with that? You may be able to get into more of a proper position that way, well, depending on how tall you are. I tend to move my seat pos back then raise it till the mirror is blocking some of my view like it does in every small car I've driven irl.

Regards.

 

No, usually I move seat forward and lower it

AC default view



My view - 60 fov

 

Well I have now tried false FOV as well as the recommended FOV and still I am missing that sense of speed, I've tried seat up and down, forward and back but to no avail. Maybe this Is limited to triple screens? I don't know. All I do know is there Is no sense of speed In whatever car I drive. For now I'm gonna go back to iRacing for thrills and spills and just hope the devs have a look at this post cos at the moment for me AC feels a bit ... flat. Not knocking the sim but to me there Is no "seat of the pants" feel.

Before anyone has a pop at me, My sim history goes back to Geoff Crammond and EVERYTHING from then to now . I'm just stating what I feel when driving AC. By the way, It's not the feel of the cars but the sense of speed I'm missing. Go figure... ? PS, Just ran a few laps with NetKar pro with the f2000 at Monte Carlo, felt fantastic. Summit Is wrong.

 

LFS suffers somewhat from the same lack of speed feel. I wonder why? I've got correct settings in all my sims and AC and LFS definitely feel slower. My first though was that the sheer detail level of iR textures made it feel faster but it seems like theres something more to it. The e30 is painfully slow compared to for example the miata in iR.

 

Hello,One thing that helps a little bit is to massively increase the volume of wind sound and decrease all other sounds. All cars are much too quiet at high speeds, especially the no-roof cars.

 

Well, I found the setting "Camera shake at high speed" under options.
Default was 1x, I have now set it to 1.5x, seems to help a lot with my sensations of speed.
As I already said, I have unchecked "Lock onboard camera to horizon", but I think that does not make a difference for cockpit view.
My FOV is 54°, which was the default apparently, I have a single 24" 1920x1080 display.