Search the Community

Welcome to part 1 of my sim racing setup guide. This series of videos is intended to give beginners an overview of how to set up a car in any of the modern racing sims. Throughout the next 13 videos I will be describing in detail the various aspects of car setup and how to bring all of them together to build a car setup. The first 10 videos explain the ins and outs of each setup area, trying to explain the how and the why. Then, videos 11 and 12 start to bring everything together and talk through the process of building a setup. Finally, I’ve included video 13 as a case study of an Assetto Corsa setup that I created for the Audi R8 GT3. If you're watching this video at the time it goes live, I plan to have all 13 parts uploaded within the next week. If you want to skip to any specific sections of the Sim Racing Setup Guide you can do so using the following links: 1. Introduction 2. Tyres - Pressure and Temperature 3. Suspension I - Toe, Camber & Castor 4. Suspension II - Anti Roll Bars (Coming 30/10/2018) 5. Suspension III - Springs (Coming 31/10/2018) 6. Suspension IV – Dampers (Coming 01/11/2018) 7. Ride Height (Coming 02/11/2018) 8. Brake Balance (Coming 03/11/2018) 9. Gear Ratios & Differential (Coming 04/11/2018) 10. Aerodynamics (Coming 05/11/2018) 11. Diagnosing a setup problem (Coming 06/11/2018) 12. Curing a setup problem (Coming 07/11/2018) 13. Case Study – Audi R8 LMS (Assetto Corsa (Coming 08/11/2018) Hopefully this guide will be useful for those looking to improve their understanding of setups in iRacing, Assetto Corsa, Rfactor, Project Cars, RaceRoom etc. If you have anything to add, please leave a comment, and if it’s helpful to others, then I’ll pin I to the top of the page.

Parlare di assetto di una vettura da corsa non è certo argomento semplice ed immediato, anche perchè le variabili in gioco sono numerose e gli argomenti decisamente tecnici e specifici. Il blog di FR Tecnica è riuscito però in questo articolo a realizzare una guida al setup decisamente semplice, chiara, alla portata di tutti, pur allo stesso modo assai precisa e completa. Si tratta quindi di una lettura assolutamente consigliata a tutti gli appassionati, compresi i più esperti, che vi troveranno certamente informazioni molto utili, oltretutto i vari consigli ed indicazioni su come procedere nella pratica con le modifiche di assetto, possono essere applicate a qualsiasi simulatore di guida. Nell'ultimo articolo ci siamo lasciati con la considerazione che, sebbene il pilota possa adottare svariate tecniche per correggere o sfruttare i comportamenti intrinsechi nella natura di un'auto, non è scontato che l'auto si comporti come la sua ripartizione di pesi e trazione suggerirebbe. Tra il pilota e le ruote (che scambiando forze con il suolo sono coloro che fanno si che l'auto si muova) c'è la scocca, il sistema sospensivo, quello frenante, i controlli elettronici e tanti altri sistemi che nel loro assieme definiscono la Dinamica del Veicolo.

Il geniale Nick Thissen, appassionato pilota virtuale di iRacing, ha rilasciato per il simulatore americano un comodo ed utilissimo programmino: iRacing Setup Sync permette in modo semplice di scambiare e scaricare gli assetti vettura, suddividendoli per categoria e anche per ogni singolo tracciato. We all know that setups can become an important part of your official iRacing races. And let’s admit it, most of us don’t have a clue where to start when it comes to building or tweaking a car setup. So the majority out there is counting on the goodwill of those who do master the art of setup creation. But even then, it can become a tiresome quest trying to hunt for the right setup file. So now a creative iRacing member has created a very interesting tool to help us all find de preferred setup file for your car of choice. iRacing member Nick Thissen introduces the first official version of “iRacing Setup Sync (iRSS)” This is an application dedicated to iRacing setup sharing and downloading. iRacing Setup Sync (or iRSS for short) is a Windows application that attempts to automate most of the tedious work around storing and managing your setups. It operates on a large database of setups, which is synced to most of the popular Setup Shops on the forum and therefore always contains the latest setups, even those shared on the forums. It allows you to browse setups by car, track or team and automates downloading the setups into the correct folder, and it can even automatically download setups for the car / track you are driving right now! iRacing members can follow the development of Sync Setup or provide feedback to Nick at the iRacing forum thread. Download -> http://iracingsetups.nickthissen.nl/Client/iRacingSetupSync_installer.zip This version contains a normal installer which will install an iRacing Setup Sync Launcher application. The Launcher application will automatically update to the latest version and then launch iRacing Setup Sync. You can just use the Launcher application to start the application, if there is no update available it will just launch iRacing Setup Sync. Official iRacing Setup Sync website - http://iracingsetups.nickthissen.nl/ Important features: Automatically download recent setups for your current car / track, as soon as you start iRacing. Similar to Trading Paints – except for setups! Search setups by car, track or team and download the ones you don’t have yet. Compares your local setups with the online database setups to determine which setups you already own – there is no point in downloading duplicates! Subscribe to cars, tracks and teams and quickly search setups that match any of your subscribed items. Completely customizable directory and setup naming convention with macros like the setup author, car, track, season and many more. Operates on a vast database of over 1,000 setups which is continuously updated by setups added to the various Setup Shops around the forums, and by user uploads. (Soon) Upload the setups you used in a recent session (if you want to share them) with the click of a button. Setup database website & account The setups in the application come from an online database that can also be accessed via : http://iracingsetups.nickthissen.nl/ You will need to create an account on this website and use that to login to iRacing Setup Sync. Do not login with your iRacing credentials, you need to login with the iRacing Setups website credentials. I will make that more clear in the next version. Where do the setups come from and how up to date is the database? The setups come from the online database also available at http://iracingsetups.nickthissen.nl/. You will need an account to use iRacing Setup Sync, which you can create by registering at the website. You don’t need an account to download setups from the website however. The database also contains setups manually uploaded by many different users, but mostly consists of all the setups available in the Setup Shops in the iRacing forums. Since a few months ago, most of these setup shops are being generated with another application I wrote, which automatically syncs the setup shops with the online database. That means that (at least for the cars that have an active setup shop thread) the database will always immediately contain every setup shared on the forum! How does it work? iRacing Setup Sync takes a snapshot of the setups on your computer. When you search for setups, the setups in the online database are quickly compared to your local setups (this is done by hashing their contents – I cannot read your setups), and you will see which setups you are still missing. Automatically downloading setups when you are racing If enabled in the options, iRacing Setup Sync will monitor for iRacing activity. When you start iRacing while iRacing Setup Sync is active (either visible or minimized to the background as a system tray application) it will detect which car and track you are driving and automatically search (and download) matching setups from the current season. As soon as you are connected you can go to your Garage and find the most recent setups in your download folder, ready to go. The application only very briefly checks for iRacing activity every 5 seconds so that it has a negligible impact on your racing experience. You can turn it off by closing it from the system tray when you start racing to be absolutely sure, but it should not be necessary. In a future update I will add automatic support for this. Finding setups by Subscribed items Once you have subscribed to cars, tracks, teams or groups (see below), visit the Subscribed tab to quickly search for setups that match your subscriptions. Click the ‘Find subscribed setups’ button to start searching. For example: if you are subscribed to the Ford GT – this will find any setups (that you do not yet own) for the Ford GT. Subscribe to your favorite cars and tracks to quickly get all of the new setups available. Finding setups by car, track, team or group If you want to look for setups manually by car, track, team or group simply visit the corresponding tab on the left side of the application. Use the dropdown to select your car, track, team or group and the setup list will be refreshed with matching setups. Use the Season dropdown at the top-right to filter by season. Setups that appear gray have already been detected on your computer, you don’t need to download them again. You can also see their location if you want to find them. You can still check the checkbox for these setups and download them again if you wish. Downloading the found setups Once you found some setups via your subscribed items or by searching for cars, tracks, teams or groups, you can hit the ‘Download selected setups’ button to add the selected (checked) setups to your current download list. Visit the Downloads tab to view your download list, and click Start to start automatically downloading the setups in the list. Options, setup location and naming Downloaded setups will be placed in the correct directory for each car, possibly under a further sub-directory if specified in the Options, with a name that follows the naming convention you specified in the Options. You can choose your directory under the Download Options tab, relative to the directory of the car that the setups are for. The default is ‘SetupSync’, so setups for (for example) the BMW Z4 GT3 would be placed under ‘iRacing/setups/bmwz4gt3/SetupSync/…” The name of the setup can be specified in the Setup Naming tab. You can use many different ‘tags’ or macros like {car}, {track}, {madeby} that will be replaced with the relevant values for each setup. For example, I like to call my setups by the person who made them, then the season and then whether it’s a race or qualify setup (eg “NickThissen_14S2_Q”), and I want a separate directory for each track: so I use the format “{track}/{madeby}_{season}_{type}”. You can select your favorite format from the list, or specify a custom format. What are teams and groups?A Team is a private team consisting of members and administrators. You can upload setups for your private team on the http://iracingsetups.nickthissen.nl/ website, those setups will only be visible to your team members. Create and configure your teams on the website. A Group can be used to group setups together. The setups in a group are publically accessible (if you want to control who has access to them, use a team instead). You can add multiple contributors to a group who can add setups to that group. Group support might be removed in a later update because it is almost never used. Updates Version 2.1 - Added support for automatic updates. - Added donate button by popular request (see Options page). - Added support for grouping setups. - Fixed setup naming convention save bug. Troubleshooting If there is a crash when running the new launcher, try running it as an administrator. Running as admin should not be required to just run iRacing Setup Sync, but it may be required when it needs to update. Known issues- Window shadow remains for a few seconds when you close it (click it to make it disappear). - Subscribing to teams is broken. - Nick has a very cheap shared webserver which may not be able to cope with a large demand. This post has been promoted to an article

Important: All users should upgrade to this 0.6.4 version.Due to recent server overload, I had to make some changes to the way the app fetches setups from the server. The result is shorter load time when the app looks for setups in a session and, as a result, reduce server load.Hotfix:- Fixed '.sp' (pitstop strategy ) files appearing in the file selector button for upload/update functionality This is mainly a fix for the people that kept getting a 'fetching server...' message that wouldn't go away. If you dont have any issues with the app, you can skip this update DOWNLOAD thesetupmarket-0.6.4.zip A few months back, I created thesetupmarket.com, a web app allowing setups sharing. I had back then plans to make an AC app to allow setups downloading directly from the game. After months of research and hard work (and few months of laziness), here is, at last, The Setup Market Assetto Corsa App.Features: List all setups found in The Setup Market database for the current car, with their specs (track, author, trim, rating, best laptime, downloads, AC version, setup version) Filter setups: Setups specific to the current track Setups created as a base for any tracks Setups created for other tracks Download setups directly into the corresponding car/track folder Upload or update your setups from the app. (You will need a thesetupmarket.com account and then link it with your steam account via a button in your thesetupmarket.com profile page.) Rate the setups you download How To: Extract the content of the zip file and copy the two folder (apps and content) to your '[where your steam installation is]/Steam/steamapps/common/assettocorsa/' folder (use 'extract here' when the the file is in the assetto corsa folder) Load the game and check The Setup Market in options > general Load a session, get on track and click on The Setup Market icon on the app bar on the right Download any setups you want, then go back in the pits. In the setup file selector, you will probably have to change track folder and click back to your current track folder to see the newly downloaded setups. Click on the new setup file, click load, and hopefully enjoy a great setup Make sure to cycle through the 3 types by clicking on the button on the left, right below the setups list. You will find setups that are 'Current Track' (created for the current track, regardless of the layout), 'Any Tracks' (created as a baseline for any tracks) and 'Other tracks' (created for other tracks). You can click on the 'Refresh' button if you think that a new setup was uploaded while you are on track (this will be particularly useful when/if setup upload from the app is available). The operation can take a few seconds, so be 'patient' Click the rate button beside the download icon, choose the rating you want to give and click the send button to give other users a heads up on how good you think the setup is. For uploading, just select the file you want to upload (which have to be inside the setups folder of the car/track you are on) by clicking on the button on the left of the upload section. Then you can choose the trim and if the setup you want to upload is specific to the track you are on or is good for any tracks. To update, just click on the update button, click 'select' on the setup you want to update and change its properties with the menu that will appear on the right. The 3 sections of the download section: 'Current Track': The setups you will find in this section were created for the track you are currently on, regardless of the layout. That means that setups created for the track you are currently on but for a different layout will be listed in this section too. The layout will be displayed in the track column. 'Any Tracks': The setups you will find in this section were uploaded as a baseline setup for the car, not for any tracks in particular. This is useful with road car especially since they usually have not too many setups options, so one setup can work for every tracks. 'Other Tracks': The setups you will find in this section were created for another track than the one you are currently on. This can be useful since you can search a setup for a track that shares similarities with the one you are currently on. Again, you will see the track for which the setup has been created in the Track column. fonte AC forum

Giusto per non rimanere proprio a bocca asciutta tra un comunicato e l'altro, teniamoci aggiornati con le notizie che di tanto in tanto arrivano da FB e Twitter. Questa è di Venerdì scorso: We are sorry for the lack of updates in the last week, but we were all trying hard to check a strange bug that ended up being a hardware issue. We assure you that work goes on with great dedication. Besides, we're sure the simracing community had plenty of news to deal with in the last days. Still, we translated our http://www.assettocorsa.net/ website to Deutsch and Français. We still work on more translations and we'd like to thank all the international communities for their patience.

cercate un buon assetto per la vostra vettura preferita? correte qui http://projectcarssetups.eu/#

semplice guida per la creazione di un setup base by GT Italia. Specifico che questa guida è stata pensata per aiutare tutti i neofiti, che vogliono provare a crearsi uno ‪starter‬ setup. Tutti gli argomenti trattati sono spiegati in maniera molto semplice e fruibile, la guida è di facile lettura. ‪ http://www.mediafire.com/…/j…/Guida_Assetto_by_GT_Italia.pdf guidasetup.pdf

24 Febbraio 2012 La P4/5 Competizione avvia la preparazione alla stagione 2012 e arriva nel garage di Assetto Corsa! Kunos Simulazioni è lieta di annunciare che la P4/5 Competizione entra ufficialmente nel parco vetture di Assetto Corsa! Questo prototipo, sviluppato sulla base delle Ferrari 430 Scuderia e 430 GT2, sarà riprodotto utilizzando i dati CAD e costruttivi ufficiali. Pochi giorni fa, la Kunos Simulazioni è stato ammessa ad una sessione di test privati, cogliendo l'opportunità di lavorare con il team e acquisire dati e informazioni necessarie a riprodurre fedelmente la P4/5 Competizione in tutti i suoi dettagli e caratteristiche dinamiche. Grazie all'esperienza maturata lo scorso anno dalla scuderia, il prototipo riceverà diversi aggiornamenti tecnici che ne miglioreranno la guidabilità e le performance, in vista dei prossimi impegni in pista. Assetto Corsa includerà entrambe le versioni della P4/5C, la versione 2011 e il nuovo prototipo 2012 che parteciperà alla prossima 24Ore del Nurburgring. Il team di sviluppo di Assetto Corsa: "Nell'inverno 2011, mentre discutevamo sulle licenze ufficiali da selezionare per Assetto Corsa, giunse all' Autodromo di Vallelunga, che ospita i nostri studi, un racing team per testare un prototipo da gara decisamente insolito. Dopo averlo visto (e sentito) in azione, abbiamo deciso che quell'auto non poteva mancare nel garage virtuale di Assetto Corsa. Abbiamo preso contatto con il loro responsabile progetto, e ciò che ci ha attratto non é stato soltanto il prototipo in sé, ma la filosofia che ne ha guidato la creazione, e l'approccio del suo proprietario e ideatore, un vero appassionato di motorsport che ama condividere la sua passione con il pubblico e sul web. James Glickenhaus ha realizzato la sua visione, non per vanto o per denaro, ma per sé stesso e per gli appassionati di motori. Ci ritroviamo pienamente in questo approccio, e da questo punto di vista la P4/5 Competizione costituisce un'espressione di altri tempi. Assetto Corsa offrirà l'opportunità ad una platea ancora più ampia di condividere questa visione”. Dalla prossima settimana, sarà possibile seguire giorno per giorno lo sviluppo della P4/5 Competizione, tramite la Timeline di Assetto Corsa, o sulla fan page di Facebook. 2012 – Kunos Simulazioni – www.kunos-simulazioni.com Questo messaggio è stato promosso ad articolo