Automobilista 2 V1.1.0.0 RELEASED - Now Updated to V1.1.0.5

The way it was done in AMS (1) is good enough for me--the specific vehicle shows up in all "pause" leaderboards. I don't need to see this info live while racing (the class is good enough), but just when pausing (offline) or back in the pits (online), so you can gauge where you are versus the identical vehicles.

I am sure there is some way to address it as an option in the on-screen leaderboards. Smaller fonts with an extra column would be one way. You could choose to show it or not based on your preference.

 

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Formula Classic G2 M3 (50% Boost Pressure / 40% Radiator Opening) - with 15min of a 20min race on a fast track like Kyalami Historic and without traffic, I think that should not happen.

Anyway thx to everyone and in the hope that this temps info will be added to the HUD quickly.

 

High altitude (at Kyalami) is harder on the engine. It would be the equivalent of running in hotter ambient temperatures.

What happens if you use a more reasonable radiator opening, like 60% or 70% (or even higher)?

 

Well with the Classic Gen 1 on 100% boost 30% rad on one lap of Nords can blow the engine and 40% usually not but again I haven't done extensive laps as frankly that's rather dull. On 100% Rad/boost it blew the engine on a 5 lap Nords race but IIRC 60% boost was fine. Now was it over revving (tricky when all the powerband as at/or near redline) that contributed to it, probably. But that is the point, without any info in game it is all guesswork and trial and error.

I know people will say well don't run 100% boost and that is not realistic - fair enough. But most of the fun of these cars is trying to tame the absolute madness of the turbo which wants to kill you even on straights and to me the fun of these sims is driving the extremes in motorsport especially from the past and how utterly bloody nuts you had to be to drive those tracks and cars.

I suppose you could analyse the telemetry or use Simhub but again that is using 3rd party apps. Also each car is different and so remembering and testing each possible combo makes it a PITA without real time info. Are other factors simulated? For instance does track/ambient temperature and altitude affect the engine cooling and by how much?

The other thing I noticed is that AMS2 seems to simulate gearbox damage so it would be great to have a visual indication of that also. This is not intended as a moan just it would be more enjoyable and less frustrating if this was shown on the hud.

 

THIS is a great suggestion. We have already run out of (decent) colours for all the series and some are difficult to distinguish.

 

Totally agree. At some points all this must be part of the HUD. It is just simply not there yet. The "full" setting for the tacho is not there and that clearly hints at something that is not yet there.
Until then it is a bit of trial and error if you want to use mechanical damage and go to the limit with radiator opening.

 

It's relatively simple: when you do practice before the race you test the car. If Crew Chief tells you the temperatures are raising you know you have to open a bit more the radiator. Once you have done a few races in a car you will have a better idea of what values are typical for that model. Agreed it should be there at some point but in the meantime it is not that terrible to do a bit of trial and error in practice... After all that is what they do in the real world

 

I'd also like to see the current tyre condition indicator revisited.

With some current cars (namely the M1 Procar), the tyres lose grip rapidly after 4-5 laps to the point of resembling driving on ice (even when my tempts are steady at 85 C), yet the tyre indicators remain bright green with zero wear reported. What's the point of even showing the condition when it bears no resemblance to what is actually experienced when driving?

 

Agreed. (loss of grip) maybe not some much ice but very delicate throttle and brake req to maintain pace.
Yes this was very apparent last night online, large drop off in grip in race. with its more than slightly snappy off throttle oversteer made worse.
Fully off throttle will send the rear round with a little excess.
@LugNut and Steve put in some top times in q and race but the grip loss in race was high. Hud as above post

 

Agree. The indicator of wear does not really show how much life is in the tire. You can drive some cars till there is no more green with almost no loss of performance and some others lose a lot of performance after few laps when the indicator is almost fully green...

 

I also agree. I'm driving the M1 a lot recently and I wonder why after 4 or 5 laps the rears seemed to be dead, because all is green and no wear in the hud

Driving carefully then, rears seem to recover after a couple of laps, so I think it's a tyre temperature problem which is not represented in the hud correctly instead tyre wear ??

 

Madness engine may have great physics, but apparently (for us the users) the UI side of it is a huge gambiarra.

 

i liked RS-Dash ( formerly pCARS dash ) with pCARS2.
Unfortunately the developer of this app didn't update to AMS2. Maybe later

 

I use RS-Dash with AMS2, works quite good, it just thinks AMS is PC2