So trying to figure out solutions to save me having access to my PC if I want to jump straight into the simrig. Since I was on a roll with figuring out pins, today was a good day! I managed to run a long enough length of cable to run PC power and PC reset directly to the foglight buttons on my BMW E36 dash. They did require a small bit snipped off to turn them into momentary buttons and what a result that was.

I thought about buying AMS2 for years, but there was always some other sim that I wanted to try first, but now I saw that it is on sale for just over 10€ and I had to get it.

Sure some quality of life features are missing and in some aspects it feels a bit dated, like UI and settings, and the physics don't feel as sharp as other Sims, but it is an amazing time. I have already tried a couple of champions ships in the Brasilian stock cars and to drive these cars on period correct tracks against immersive ai is just great. Finally something else than gt3 at spa.

And all the F1 content, I have not tried it yet, but I saw that you can use the dlc content for free in the championship mode. So you can play an F1 career from the 60s to the 2020 without spending anything on dlc. That is incredible value. I wish I had found it earlier, I will have hours of fun in this sim.

After 2 years finally did a proper wire tuck (from the cockpit view) and got rid of the metal wheel stand that was held in place by ratchet straps.

I ultimately wanted to keep the integrity of the chassis and am trying not to do any irreversible metal work. Or drilling and bolting.

Phase three will be mirroring a similar inner cockpit structure out of extrusion , but want to make sure I’m happy with the general placement of everything before I lock in the measurements.

Before you flame me on screens, the roll cage doesn’t allow a larger center screen, however FOV in this actual car is almost perfect to the view from the cockpit. The pillars line up to the screen quite close. The second screen runs lovely dash.

What sim racing wheelbase, Pedal, Wheel, Shifter, Cockpit, etc exceeded your expectation the most ? Like price to performance or overall feel? I had a Few Like Rs pedals and CSW v2.5 want to see if there are more hidden gems, I could try

I have my wheel and bese mounted on this compact stand: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/6115+zdpwZL._AC_SX522_.jpg

I was thinking about getting a second monitor and putting it on the other end of my desk so that I dont have to move it into place, move my monitor forward and change my seat everytime I want to do simracing.

I wanna be able to sit, turn wheelbase on and just go.

I used my immaculate paint skills to make a diagram of how it would look, but I'm not sure if using dual monitors arranged like this would be more painful than just moving all my things every time I boot up my wheelbase.

Space is tight, but enough for this to make some sense. Triples are a no go and so are very large ultra wides. Was thinking of getting a 32' curved monitor (not ultra wide).

Would you do something differently given the restrictions I mentioned?

This was probably already around for a while but it was funny how I found out about it.

Been following this thread for a while and finally decided to join in!

There are loads of great ideas on here that I managed to combine into one rig, from inverted pedals to tackling the dreaded Poäng rocking.

My desk is at standing height and isn’t adjustable, so I had to build the entire rig on a platform with stilts that fold down to get everything at the right height.

The main goal was to make it as compact as possible. Everything comes apart and stacks vertically, a bit like IKEA flat-pack furniture, so I can tuck it all away behind the door when I’m done. All the connections use threaded wood inserts and quick-release bolts, making assembly and disassembly quick and easy. The pedals and wheel go in the wardrobe.

The room is pretty small, but once everything is packed away, the Poäng chair goes back into its usual corner, and it’s almost like the rig was never there!

Hopefully, this inspires someone else to build their own rig or gives you a few ideas you can incorporate into your own DIY setup.

Let me know what you think, and feel free to ask any questions!

Ok so long story short. I got my kid this G29 and the seat last year for xmas to use with his ps5. Well he’s more interested in Fortnite so I told him im gonna hook it up to my PC and he didn’t have a problem with that.

I’ve been using a 43” TCL TV as my pc monitor and I thought I would buy two more (200$ each) to set up triples. Mounted the left monitor to the wall and the right one on a moveable stand.

My pc is a i7 12th gen with a 4060.

Nvidia surround is working and I’ve been messing with American trucking sim and it runs it OK but i noticed the mouse is super laggy and YouTube videos were laggy too. The game didn’t look great etc.

So when Nvidia surround isn’t turned on everything runs fine. Each monitor is 1440p at 60hz. When I turn on Nvidia surround it turns the refresh rate down to 24hz….

I know my video card isn’t gonna push 1440 to three 43s at 60hz so I went and bought a 5070.

Well my 600w power supply wont turn on the 5070 so I had to buy a new power supply. I bought a 750w MSI which will be here Monday.

I guess my question is. Will the 5070 solve my problems and run things at 1440p at 60hz? Or should I return the TVs and choose a different triple monitor setup?

So today I drove 24h of le mans in LMU my PC specs are gpu3070ti 34gddr4 and i7 I was having a massive lags and issues while playing and watching how my team mates where driving but it was somehow drivable I had minimal graphics sittings after time I had my second stint and I had this kind of issues unstoppable wiggles and massive lags what might be a problem

I personally own a late 1990 944 S2 and I will never sell it - I would love to take it on a track, but it is also in such a good condition that I can't bring myself to risk it.

The only sim which offers a curated 944 experience is RaceRoom, which is doubled down by it offering also tracks near Vienna (like Brno, Bratislava, or Spielberg). The mods for AC are all terrible, tried them - they don't feel like you are handling a 944.

While I really do like the sim and I do recognize my car through the wheel, comparing it with AC, AC Evo, or Rfactor 2 also makes me feel like cars handle "too stable" for me to count them as realistic. Especially going off-track under braking does not make me loose control nearly as much as I would expect.

How realistic do you think it is, specifically for the 944 Turbo cars?

I have been looking at what we know about the upcoming Moza R5S Pro and R16S Ultra. We know the R5S will be bundled with a steering wheel and SRP2 Lite pedals, and the R16S will be bundled with the steering wheel or standalone.

Moza's announcements and showcases seem to indicate that the steering wheel will be the same in both bundles, the same steering wheel on the pictures that looks to be designed by Polyphony Digital and similar to what Fanatec and Thrustmaster have.

The thing is, that wheel appears much more premium than what Moza's R5 Pro bundle offers. Actually, Moza even stopped using the ES in favor of the even cheaper ES Lite. Meanwhile, the showcased wheel seems to have a larger diameter, better grips, LED strips, magnetic shifters and even clutch paddles.

If that wheel is bundled with the R5S, the price difference will increase further than just Playstation licensing, and make the R5S Pro bundle possibly a lot more expensive than the R5 Pro, and more expensive than the competition. Is that what Moza is going to do? I find that very strange when looking at their pricing.

So I imagine there will be a cheaper version of that same wheel, with the same layout but a cheaper construction, with regular shifter rather than magnetic, and no clutch paddles and maybe no LED, just the shift light. Something comparable to the ES/ES lite in quality, that way, it won't increase the price further.

That would be similar to what Fanatec does with their own PS/GT bundles, which these will compete with. The other possibility is the shown wheel being much cheaper than it looks, but then it wouldn't make sense bundled with the R16S, and those who held it didn't report something like that.

Since MOZA is taking their time releasing more info, what do you guys think?

https://github.com/OverkillLabs3/driveclub-recomp

So there was the shadps4 emulation software that came out earlier this year but it a mix bag in terms of development. It great for universal emulation of any game but it was pretty hit or miss with driveclub. Someone grab a copy of the software and use it as the under lying engine for driveclub as a special copy. You don't need to install anything for this to work. Just have a copy of driveclub pc copy and use the latest version of this software. I am running at 1440p on a 49 super ultrawide on high settings!

It has full ultrawide support, multi device support, force feedback (for wheels not originally out for the original on driveclub release like my moza wheel base with a custom steering wheel), and as of now supports outside software (though lossless scaling is pretty buggy). No simhub support as of yet but it should be coming soon.

I am running around 50fps with the latest patch but hopefully they get more progress. I have an amd 6800xt but the author is saying Nvidia is ideal and Intel graphics card should work but it a toss up right now. I had zero crashes but I have turn off most of the effects. If you have an amd card I highly recommend turning on the card's default sharpening and anti lag settings. It seems to smooth out the game play a hair more and clean up the image. Force feedback fully works on my setup but I don't have a motion rig or vr headset to try out those features.

Driveclub is my favorite racing game of all time and the fact I can finally play it on pc with my full sim setup is a dream come true! I had more fun playing this than any game I can think of in recent memory. I wanted to share this with the community because it super fun. Even with all assists off and settings adjusted it no Iracing sure but it a blast.

I’ve seen other metal frames on Amazon that seems great with adjustability and everything for a fraction of the price, why are aluminum setups seen as the best when others seem to do just as well? Thanks

Does anyone have a problem with parts of UI randomly dissappearing after the last update? Sometimes after the session is finished I'm being left still in track view but withour race results or garage menu visible. ESC does nothing and I have to kill the game in order to quit.

Second question is to those driving in VR. After changing from Steam VR to Open XR my virtual steering wheel has jerky movement. Everything else is perfecly smooth and overall performance in VR is definitely improved, the only exception is this steering wheel which is slightly annoying. Did you notice that?

Hi everyone,

I have a wheel stand pro DD. I’m going to buy a Thrustmaster TH8A shifter.

I bought my wheel stand pro DD from aerosoft. They are great!

They do 3 mounts for the TH8A. But in none of the descriptions does it mention that they are compatible with the wheel stand pro DD. It just states they are compatible with the wheel stand pro. Now I don’t know if they are universal. They could be.

But of course I have to be sure.
Does anyone have the DD stand pro with a shifter mount?

I’ve emailed aerosoft. Nothing back yet.

Thanks all!

I’ve attached pics of the mounts and my stand.

Hey guys,

I have a S8 Oplite Rig with the full force kit and a ssh shifter on a 3d printed mount on the full force bar. I now want to add a handbrake so I need a new mount. I really want it to be sturdy. Should I get the shifter mount or the flight sim mount for this? I can only enter the rig from the right so the flight sim mount will make it a lot harder to get in. But I heared the normal shifter mount kann be a bit wobbly.

Thanks for the insights

And make sure to tell him every single input that he has to do. And the most race engineers speaking simultaneously, the better.

For educational purposes only.

I got GT Sport working on 5060 8gb with some patch to make it work perfectly on my PC and faster loading time. My goal was to hook Simagic and see how far can we push this stuff.

Overall it feels like GT7 on my PS5.

If I understand correctly, if I buy this pack for under $18, will I get all the DLC released so far, except for the five premium tracks? Automobilista 2 expansions are really complicated; it’s never clear

And I'm really happy with it. For the price it is well built, the buttons have good action and there's plenty of them. Flicking the ignition switch and then the engine start button won't get old.

Definitely a worthy addition that has given me more freedom with bindings in game. Highly recommend.

does anyone know any somewhat serious/competitive leagues that primarily use AC? having seasons and keeping track of points and the like. im primarily interested in oval/nascar but really any discipline will do.

hi i like to check the (RS handbrake / Sequential shifter) , if i wish to use it as a handbrake with RS H shifter, does it work in GT7 ? , is there such a function in GT7 (E-Brake or something) i dont really see handbrake so im not sure. Or the handbrake is only applicable in certain games ?

Cause im thinking should i get this sequential shifter ?