1.6 - Issues with grip

1.6 - Issues with grip

 

The problem is that you might have saved a setup in the past. Whatever you do, everytime you enter the setup menu it will always load a saved setup for whatever reason. You can hit reset, adjust a few values, go to the pit, the moment click on setup again - boom - the safed setup is loaded again. This is a huge issue if you still have some setup from older patches.

So with each patch that changes physics/tires it's wise to go into your documents AMS2 folder and delete all setups (I think the file type is .svm) of classes that got adjustments

 

I want to support the "reset" solution/issue here! Haven't touched AMS2 for a long time. Wasn't driving before either, but did a couple of hot laps some time ago. Has been racing a decent amount of iRacing recently.
I watched Daniel Morad's video about GT3 physics and from what he said it's that the GT3s have a decent amount of grip and the thing which happens first when accelerating on exit is rather understeer out of corner than spinning out (because the car has enough grip, front tires get less weight and here we go). That is actually how it feels after latest tyre update in iRacing. And you can steer during braking too, as long as you don't lock up completely.

I was super excited about the new NBR25 update and wanted to test it in AMS2. I hopped in and the GT3 were undrivable.

• even at light braking, losing the rear and sliding
• in fast corners at Nord I had to turn the wheel much more (like 30° more than usual) in a weird way than the racing line, if that explanation makes sense, so the tires would make a lot of noise, but this was the only way to keep the car on track.
• and then losing the rear and spinning when going on throttle almost in every corner (cold or hot tires)
• the gears were totally different to the "usual" GT3 setup too
• I remembered the FFB to be much better too, it was very weak and underwhelming

It felt so frustrating and unrealistic (especially the part with the wheel rotation (animation was the same as my wheel btw.)) that I started googling and ended up here.

I went to setup, did "reset", saved this default setup just to be sure, and it was like night and day.
I have to test it further, but the FFB alone is already super strong and full of details, and the weird wheel rotation is fixed too. The car seems much more controllable and the gears are set up as I'm used to from other sims and GT3 "default"
I think it must be a sort of bug with the setups or something! But if you don't know I try it that way, the driving is terrible. Unfortunately, I didn't manage to record this, I'll do if I come across it again.