Round 1 Bridgehampton

Signed up for this series , unfortunately late to the party so red light at the moment. Brand new to rfactor but have already downloaded car and track. Done a few laps practice and it is great fun to drive . Need to sort FFB settings and have a play with car up set up. Hoping to get a green light some time in the series although ok if not too.
I really liked rfactor back in the day and so far I am not dissapointed by 2.
Heres hoping

 

@Karl Steeg
Default setup feels pretty good, so i think i drive this round with that. I try change some adjustments, but it went worse. But if i change my mind, and do something to setup, i let you know.

 

rFactor2 does not feel fine for me yet. FFB feel is off, feeling disconnected from the car. In VR I get nausea from the head movement although I tried to turn it off. No such thing as lock to horizon ? VR is not really smooth either. Sound is really underwhelming. Mirrors are useless as well, I see the guard rails instead of behind the car, any way to tweak that ? First I need to try to get better FFB feel.I have done the tweaks to allow rFactor2 to set the wheel lock for OSW wheel.

 

I use this ffb settings, and it work to me pretty good

Try to turn Exxagerate Yaw setting lowest as possible if that helps to VR problems

Turn to Sound Effects to maximum

Window adjustment buttons
• LEFT DOOR MIRROR
* Left Mirror Params: 0 / 0
Ctrl + Fore = move mirror outwards
Ctrl + Aft = move mirror inwards
Ctrl + Up = zoom out
Ctrl + Down = zoom in

• RIGHT DOOR MIRROR
* Right Mirror Params: 0 / 0
Left Alt + Fore = move mirror inwards
Left Alt + Aft = move mirror outwards
Left Alt + Up = zoom out
Left Alt + Down = zoom in

 

thank you.
appreciate the guidance

 

Under settings > display - bottom left there is 'stabilize horizon' with Off, Low, Medium and High settings (I have it off but maybe that will help)

 

In this car all mirror adjustments not working, so I couldn't adjust them that I could see my back. Only see woods and fences. It's pretty hard to fight without crashing, if you don't see what happens to behind you. Is there any way to fix this?

Also on this track, VR does not work as smoothly as on other tracks. Maybe it is some optimization thing, what is better other tracks.?

 

I think that won't work with VR

 

Virtual mirrors work on rF2 in VR
Check inside the player.json

"Rearview Onboard":1,
"Rearview Onboard#":"0=Off, 1=Center+Sides, 2=Center, 3=Sides (virtual mirrors only, in-car mirrors are on\/off),

"Virtual Rearview In Cockpit":true,

 

I have an oculus and rfactor2 was the only game not running very smooth or barely running rather..all other games I had no problems..I was using a 1060 3gb which was struggling with rfactor ..I just upgraded to the msi 1660ti and now it runs great even turned up the pixel density to 140% to make it look even better..the mirrors are adjustable like mentioned above but it dosent show the car in them which is weird but they do work..not sure about the horizon setting as its fine for me .

 

Karl don't worry about your lap times especially for this one. I think the slow guys may well win out here as the faster guys may find if difficult to maintain speed over an hour. This will be a race of very high attrition. One thing I do is look at the people I'm racing with. Are you new to sim racing or just finding rF2 more difficult than other sims? SRO welcomes all comers from the slowest to the quickest. When I started out driving rF1@R2P I had no idea what I was doing and considered being lapped by the leaders a couple of times a good result. Ignore the alien creatures at the front and try and race with the guys you know are roughly the same speed as you and try and keep up with them. If you finish ahead of them then good result, job done.

Have you got the Virtual Race Engineer. This taught me a lot about setups. It's still a black art to me mind you but with a bit of knowledge and, trial and error you can quickly learn what does what. If you have Assetto Corsa then read all the tool tips that pop up when you highlight the various areas you can change. There is a lot of useful info stored there. I have some screen shots of that, that I can post here if you want it.

Again I'll post my setup here before the race (for what its worth) but I'm not fast either. However using other peoples setups may not lead to faster times as people have different driving styles. So well worth sitting down and learning what everything does. Once you've learnt the basics you can apply your knowledge to any of the sims out there.

Practice, Practice, Practice and then some more Practice. Until you've learnt the mod/track don't even think about changing the default setup. Unless it's completely undriveable then only change the minimum to get a comfortable setup. If you don't know how fast you are with the default setup then how do you know that any changes you make result in a faster setup.

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Not sure what your level of sim racing is so hopefully I'm saying some useful if fairly obvious help tips here.

Remember
- Practice, Practice, Practice.
- Fast laps mean nothing. Focus on consistency and improving your average lap times.

- Practice, Practice, Practice. ​

- get virtual race engineer to learn about setups

- Practice, Practice, Practice. ​

- ask others for their setups. If they say no then fine but most will be happy to share.

- Practice, Practice, Practice. ​

- Don't worry about how slow you are now focus on those that have a similar pace as you and aim to beat them.

- Practice, Practice, Practice. Think I may have mentioned this but it's the one most forgotten. ​

For me it's a case on just how many laps I'll do during the race before I crash and burn

 

Thanks for the tips Henri and Andrew !

My FFB was really awful, I think the forces were even reversed. Right now if sort of feels good except the strength of the FFB. The road and bumps are much stronger than the resistance I feel when cornering. I'd like to have it the other way around because right now it's hard to feel when I lose traction. But nevertheless, I can start pushing the car now. 1'20.3 is my best on default setup and low fuel at the moment.

VR stuttering is not great but I suppose I can get used to it. It's a bit odd compared to AC, it just doesn't feel as fluid and I have the feeling I skip frames sometimes. Doesn't help attacking a corner. Also had a complete freeze of 2-3 seconds once.. that would be game over in the race probably

Haven't tried the virtual mirror yet. Too bad the mirrors don't work in VR for this car.. and it's official content, so strange ?!

I have to continue playing with the audio volumes as well, I almost don't hear the opponent cars.

rFactor2 doesn't feel quite as good as AC yet but I have to continue experimenting with it.

 

Alright, I'm still way of the pace then .. didn't notice there were tire choices