Your rig/setup

I wasnt clear how this all worked in AC. Have figured it out. It's not quite like I thought.

So you have the sequential and the gated. You can set up both the seq and the gated. Once that is done only the one that the real car is equipped with will work. So hop in the 49 and my seq wont work but the gated will. If I want to use the seq on the lotus then I need to unstick the gated shifter option in the controls.

So both can be configured at the same time and the game chooses which you can use for each car. As Ethan pointed out, you cannot map the gated shifter to also be the sequential as the game tells you the button is already mapped.

 

That is sweet. What I was hoping for. I guess I'll have to plug in my shifter tomorrow.

 

My kingdom.. ..or should I say a neverending project..

 

Nice, I would like a better wheel like you have but the prices for them in this part of the world are insane.

 

Holy ****, does this game support force back on the steering?

 

Either it does or my arms just get tense and shaky all the time. I think its the FFB though.

 

'Course! All bumps, nicks and forces sent straight from the wheels. I personally would never be able to drive without it.

 

Nope, non-laser mouse support only...........Here's your sign.

 

It's been so long since I've used my rig I forgot that the paddles on my G25 are mapped to different buttons than the gated shifter. It should work as expected. Looking forward to some more laps at old Monza in the Lotus 49 using the shifter.

 

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Great setup Tucker!
Really like the button box connected like that to the right side of the wheel ..would like to do that with my G27 but haven't found a solution other than making something myself, looks great and is useful ..nice work

 

I'm about to tear into my pedals and try to improve them. Just a G25 setup in a playseat. My left foot feels some discomfort after a while since I have to hold it up off the pedal at such a sharp angle. I'm going to see if I can do the flip mod, and while I'm there add a rubber bushing for the brake or a second spring or something.

The clutch action is so unrealistic I might just do the clutch+brake -> brake mod. To mimic the throw of a real clutch you need dead zones at the top and bottom of abouy 30%, but then the actual bite point of the clutch is ridiculously small, and identical in every car it seems. No way a Gt3 clutch and stock m3 clutch feel anything alike; they all feel like a 6 puck in the game.

Anyway, on to what everybody wants to look at: pics.




Tis a lot of fun. The screens are on swivel mounts so sometimes I'll mix it up and pull the middle screen out some, with less angle on the side screens, but usually this config seems best.

 

TIDY. That is sick.

 

With a setup that sick you HAVE to get better pedals and a better shifter....Fanatec V2 clubsports and shifter would round out your rig real nice....I am very jealous of the screens

 

I'm totally biased, but look into the Thrustmaster TH8RS shifter too...

Also, if you want to mod the pedals, what I would do with a G25/7 pedal set is get the PTR pedal mod. Having tried a friend's G27, the pedals just feel so small under my feet, whereas with my Fanatec CSR Elites the pedals are as long as my foot and it feels so good.

 

Yeah.. I'd really like some better gear, but I'm paralyzed with choice. Fanatec Clubsport stuff would be great, but honestly it's so easy to drop $1k on gear and still be fussing with graphic setups, crossfire problems and eyefinity glitches that I think I'd rather use the $1k for a couple track days.

edit: i'll check out that PTR stuff. Reasonable price!

 

track days do trump sim-gear......and as cool as those screens are it will be awhile before the graphics in games can catch up, so to speak. I love playing on my single 42" but if I'm honest my racing games look better on my 27" that I usually use.

 

Yeah, there are times that my peripheral is filled with track (good) but I'm trying to see the apex that's far away in a 200px high aliased mess (bad).

I have played with the seat back a couple feet too, adjust the FOV so there's less to see but more detail. Still, the immersion can't be beat at this screen size and I wouldn't trade to smaller screens, especially when I play a game that has poor or no triple support, like GT6 that I'm about to go try for the first time.

 

I know my screens were a bit smaller when I was using TV's, they were only 42" but I sat close and I had the screens on a good angle, around 55-60 degrees I think. With iracing and now AC we can do all the triple screen adjustments so there is no warping ad at 60 degrees you are getting a proper 180 deg wrap around with large cars.

You cant see it in AC yet but when you see a car right beside you as large as they are on the big tv's it's great, I would encourage you to at least try a much bigger angle so that the tv's at least go back to where your head is. I used to have it like this picture, I did end up putting the monitors on more of an angle and it is a little deceiving as the chair slides forward a bit.

 

I definitely would like to pop the left / right TVs out more, but this is the extent of the angle I can achieve with the mounts I have.



If I were to running smaller screens, like 42" or 37" they would be able to be offset and achieve a larger angle, but I often watch movies from the couch a fair piece back too, so this is the best compromise I've found so far.



I was thinking I could build a box behind the left / right tv so they can't recess which would also give me all the flexibility I have now plus about 20 degrees of angle. Maybe when I have a little time I'll try that.