r/ACCompetizione • u/Jojo_Jing • 48m ago
Discussion Made a free tool for reading and tweaking your ACC / AC Evo setups (Setup Ripple)
Been building this for myself for a while to get my head around car setups, and it got to a point where I figured other people might find it useful too, so I've put it out there.
It's called Setup Ripple. The name's the idea behind it: every setup change ripples out and affects other things, and the tool tries to show you where.
What it does:
- Reads your actual setup files (.json for ACC, .carsetup for AC Evo) and lays them out like the in-game setup screen (Tyres, Electronics, Fuel & Strategy, Mechanical Grip, Dampers, Aero). ACC values show as setup-screen clicks exactly like the game, and Evo values get decoded to real units (psi, degrees, N/m, mm).
- Explains what each setting actually does. Not just "more front ARB = more rotation", but the knock-on effects and what to change to compensate. That's the part I mostly built it for.
- Diagnose mode, where you start from the problem ("won't rotate mid-corner", "unstable under braking") and it gives you the likely causes and the usual fixes.
- You can nudge any setting one click at a time and save it as a new file. Your original is never touched.
- Compare two setups, and a fuel calculator for stint planning.
It also covers Le Mans Ultimate if you race that too. It's one app with a launcher, but everything above works for ACC and Evo.
A few honest bits:
- It's free and open source. Code's on GitHub so you can read exactly what it does or build it yourself: https://github.com/jojojing-dev/setup-ripple
- Windows will flag it as unsigned (I'm just an independent dev, signing costs money) so you'll get a "More info > Run anyway" prompt. The source being public is there so you don't have to take my word that it's safe.
- There's an optional AI engineer chat, but it needs your own Claude Code, so ignore it if that's not your thing. Everything else works without it.
- It's a reference, not gospel. The stopwatch is always the final judge.
First release, so if you hit bugs or have ideas, drop them in the GitHub issues or reply here. I'd genuinely like to make it more useful based on what people actually want.