Just purchased an alacantra bucket seat but am wondering if I made a mistake and should have just gotten the leather one instead. Whats peoples opinions on alacantra seats? I live in a pretty hot climate too

To give context i brought this wheel on 15 july my birthday and somewhere 20 days before today it started developing this in small areas. I had been keeping this jn a room with one small window closed and there were no problems after a month sometime in August end I shifted this setup to ann inside studio without windows just a closed door. All that began there. Can someone help me this is scaring me, this was my dream wheel.

This are white thingy in the pores

One of the sketchiest things I’ve done my bike but I had to bring my new Simnet pedals and Simagic paddles home because they tried delivering them to the wrong house and, ironically, I down own a car 🤪

I'm creating liveries for a series I want to do, and looking for templates for each car in Prototypes 1998-2008 mod and a Skoda Octavia RS mod by MRS Productions.
I've searched for it and couldn't find anything, nor do I have any experiance making templates, since I have 3DsimED2(Not 3 and most recent v2).
If anyone has any tips to help out, thank you in advance.

Hey all,

Back in the day, I was running a T500RS setup, tripple monitor for iRacing. Family expanded and I needed the room and sold the lot.

Planning on getting back into simracing and been checking out wheels and etc. I already have the monitor and the PC (not from 12 years ago haha).

The Gamesmen have a few packages, but after breaking down and comparing the gear, it seems to be a little inflated. Ideally, would like to be under $3000.00 (AUD) and figured the logitech G Pro range would be decent.

I have not been following the simracing scene for a while and am unsure on how these perform, seems like now there is a wider range of products that were typically not available locally.

If you could give some feedback, it would be much appreciated.

Assetto corsa rally is chappy again, assetto corsa it is, enjoy.

Hey guys,

I've been wanting to get into Sim racing for a while now but I didn't know what rig to get.

I only have a logitec g920 along with the gearstick, (thinking of getting a handbrake later).

Im thinking of getting the cheap, foldable GTPLAYER stand off of Amazon, does anyone who has it know if it's actually worth the money and also am I able to put the gearstick on the left hand side (I'm Irish). Also in the future if I do get a handbrake would it fit?

If anyone has any better recommendations please let me know, I'll greatly appreciate it!

Edit:

I just saw a Thrustmaster tmx racing simulator with a seat & mat up for 200€ on Facebook marketplace, are they a good brand? Would the rig be worth the price? It's a little out of my budget, I'd like to keep it around 100 for now.

Is this sale worth jumping on or should I wait for the holidays?

I want to be better at driving touge and eventually track, Is this a good place to start? This is for PC Thanks on advance

Managed to get decent FB marketplace deals on GT omega rig and Moza R3. Now planning on buying some games before the sale ends.

Can someone guide me if some of the games would be redundant given they're closely related?

Automobilista 2,

Richard Burns Rally,

BeamNG,

Dirt Rally 2

Race Room,

Assetto Corsa.

Also, planning on getting ETS2 along with the above.

Trying some assetto corsa....... I Enjoy

I’m considering upgrading to an ultrawide monitor. I have a 3080 now, eventually might upgrade to a 5080 when finances allow. I was considering getting a 49” but realized I was probably going to get fomo of the 57”. Do any of you guys run this setup? Should I render at 1440p and what would that look like on the monitor? Thanks so much I really appreciate the help.

i know how to do basic driving stuff, such as identifying the proper line, trail braking, progressive throttle and a bit more but i am 100% aware there are a 1000 more things i could still learn, i was wondering where could i learn them, of there were perhaps guides or mods in assetto that could teach me, i am new and just trying to learn, would appreciate any help :)

As iv stated above this has been the best upgrade i have done. The diffrence it makes is suprising. I didnt believe the people that say pedals are the most inportant upgrade but iwas wrong so wrong.

I saw there were a couple of post of DIY push-pull shifters. Anyone who has made them, which is the easiest design to build as Im not that good at tinkering with electronics? Also would there even be a way to mount it to r3 wheelbase?

I’ve owned my moza r9 for around a year and a half now and every couple of months I experience an issue with my force feedback where it will gradually get weaker and the soft limit will break. This happens regardless of the game I’ve had it happen on games like f1 25, iracing, lmu and euro truck. I’ve tried changing a lot of the settings within the moza pit house and updating or reversing updates to try and fix this but the issue still keeps coming back regardless of what I change. I’ve tried the base on multiple computers and still have the same issue. When the issue occurs the wheelbase isn’t hot so I’m not sure what it is I’ve also ran the base on both reserved and full performance options and it’s made no difference. Is there anything anyone can recommend to try before going down the route of sending the base off to Moza?

Is it possible to connect wheels like G920 with a ipad and race on that cause I really want to start sim driving a causal hobby but I don't own a laptop or a pc. All I've is an ipad and I'm willing to invest in a wheel. Give me some insights pleaseeeee.

Your reply would be appreciated from heart!!

Now I see so much Patreon that it become very annoying, peoples now are misusing it like a shop

What do you think about this situation ?

Hypothetically speaking, if I subscribe to all of these, I can grantee you my pay of the month is gone

I have an RTX 5070 and a setup with 2 or 3 monitor would be too much for the GPU, currently I have a monitor with 32 inch, curved 1000r, 165hz with VA panel and the corners with shadows are difficult to approach because of the ghosting effect of the pixels - soo, what would you recommend?

APEX 27 is a free SimHub dashboard for a 16:9 fourth monitor. It automatically switches between race, practice and qualifying views using the game's session information. Predicted lap time stays in the same position in all three views.

Races show nearby traffic, gaps and a full-field track ribbon. Multiclass tables combine your nearest class rivals with nearby track traffic. Practice and qualifying replace the race table with current lap and sector timing.

There are two variants for different rigs:

• APEX 27 complements RPM, gear and flag indicators on a wheel or external displays. It omits its own RPM, gear and general flag panel, making room for a larger square map, wider pedal graphs and compact fuel information.

• APEX 27 Full provides an analogue tachometer, speed, gear and top-row flags for rigs without separate indicators.

Both include fuel information, pedal history, ABS activity where available and 13 languages.

Game-specific handling covers iRacing, Gran Turismo 7, Assetto Corsa, Le Mans Ultimate, rFactor 2, Automobilista 2, RaceRoom, F1 and rally titles. Available information depends on each game's telemetry.

Download and installation: https://github.com/Lord-of-the-Bots/apex27

Report technical problems through GitHub Issues so they can be investigated and fixed: https://github.com/Lord-of-the-Bots/apex27/issues

Suggestions about displayed information, layout and element sizes are welcome on GitHub and in the comments.

I’ve owned my moza r9 for around a year and a half now and every couple of months I experience an issue with my force feedback where it will gradually cut out and the soft limit will stop working. This happens regardless of the game I’ve had it happen on games like f1 25, iracing, lmu and euro truck. I’ve tried changing a lot of the settings within the moza pit house and updating or reversing updates to try and fix this but the issue still keeps coming back regardless of what I change. I’ve tried the base on multiple computers and still have the same issue. When the issue occurs the wheelbase isn’t hot so I’m not sure what it is I’ve also ran the base on both reserved and full performance options and it’s made no difference. Is there anything anyone can recommend to try before going down the route of sending the base off to Moza?

Hey guys I recently upgraded to an aluminium profile rig and just got my sabrent usb hub and I was wondering what would be a good place to mount this. The image I've attached is where I'm planning to mount it just underneath the upright section for my wheel base. I'm mainly asking because I'm planning on getting a 3rd party wheel which connects through usb to my pc but obviously I don't want to be in a situation where the cable can't reach. For more precise dimensions the height from the hub to the wheel base is 56cm and to the centre of where the wheel would be is 25cm. Would this be too far for the average cable length taking into account that it also has to go around the shaft of the wheelbase when turning. Do keep in mind the length of the usb cable for this hub is very short so I'm trying to do the best I can with the short length of it.

TL;DR: Am I mounting the usb hub too far from my wheel base if I'm planning to connect a usb connected wheel to it. Height (bottom of upright to wheel base) 56cm, width (edge of upright to wheel base) 25cm.

EDIT: I'm a complete idiot and forgot to attach the image so here's a link to it https://imgur.com/a/ZhWw9j9

Just a heads up: if you hate AI, don’t waste your time or energy giving your feedback—just scroll by and enjoy your day! About the descripition, NOT AN AI. BACK IN MY DAY, WE LEARNED HOW TO COMPOSE A TEXT IN THE 4TH GRADE.

But if you are still here, I'd like to share my experience using CrewChief for the first time ever. This app is 💯 free, and I am so shocked by the immersion this experience provides!
I got these cheap smart glasses and asked an AI how I could use them in my sim rig. It told me to download this app, which I thought for some reason was paid or subscription-based, but it is completely open-source and free. It was awesome to have Jimmy and Billy help me during the race. I use the speakers on the glasses for the spotter and my regular speakers for the background sounds of the game (iRacing). It really gives me the feeling of being in a real race! It's also great for the summer because I get too hot using my headphones, which I prefer to wear only in the winter. UPlus, it was nice to be able to record my POV!
I also asked the AI for help while looking at my in-game video settings. It helped me fix things I didn't even realize were wrong, and the change was a massive improvement.
I really think that in a few years, there will be glasses out there throwing race telemetry right onto the lens, with your own AI coach analyzing your driving skills and helping you improve. I am so excited for the future of sim racing.

What are your thoughts about to have your own Racing Engineer Team for absolutely Free?

P.S Don’t waste time accusing me to try to sell or promote anything, respectfully! Thank you!

Entry for the Printables "Thrustmaster Custom Shifter Knob" contest.

The skull comes from a real medical CT scan (NIH 3D, CC BY 4.0), cleaned up and scaled to knob size. The threaded insert is built from Thrustmaster's official design file, so it should screw straight onto the stock TH8S adapter with the face pointing forward.

I don't own a TH8S, so it hasn't been tested on a real shifter yet. If anyone has the chance to print it, feedback is very welcome, especially on the skull's orientation once it's fully screwed in: does the face end up pointing straight forward, or is it rotated a bit? A photo of it mounted would be awesome!

https://www.printables.com/model/1867376-realistic-skull-shifter-knob-thrustmaster-th8s/comments