General & Small Questions-topic

Previously in AMS 2 you could got to Options > Gameplay > Authenticity and you could set Tire Blankets to Always On. Apparently this ability was removed for some reason. I personally don't care about realism in connection with my tire temperatures. I want them to be in the Green when I start any session. Is there a way I can adjust a particular settings file to always have tires up to temperature for both Practice and Qualifying? This would be most helpful.

 

Hi,
What are the differences between these two settings – safety car and full course yellow (FCY)?
I've done several races with the FCY setting and I understand how it works.
I've only done one race with the safety car setting and I don't see any difference between the two.

 

Thanks Marius for directing me to the right thread t post my question or request. I appreciate your assistance.

 

I am struggling with the description in the setup for "Steering Lock" .





I understand "steering lock" to be

The total rotation of the steering wheel from the far left position to the far right position - so typically some where in the range 360/450/540/750/900 etc or there abouts

but the in game range for steering lock is only from 14 to 28, normally

So is the in game setting not actually the "steering ratio" being as I understand it

The ratio of how far the steering wheel turns compared to the actual turn of the road wheels

Am i right ?, and if so can the terminology not be changed

[Disclaimer - for asking basic questions] - I am not in any way shape or form a real world car techie and have no knowledge of setup's and have only picked up knowledge through interacting with sims.

 

By the way, I'd like to know if it would be possible in the future to choose a separate date for practice, qualy and racing. Like, free practice on Friday afternoon, qualy on Saturday morning, race 1 on Saturday afternoon and race 2 on Sunday.

 

Hi there,i dont know if its my fault but i cant use my seq shifter in game.
I can calibrate and configure upshift-downshift in control settings but in game my seq shifter is dead.
thanks for your great work here

 

@Marius H ,
thanks for your quick response ,i will try your guide and respond.
Strange though that my aftermarket H shifter works and my setup is Fanatec 2.5

 

Is there a way to fully edit game settings like in AMS1? There was Controller.ini for example and I could change many more settings and fix what I needed.
I suspect the counterpart for AMS2 is default.controllersettings.v1.03.sav, but I would need help how to open those file types.
I hope, there will be aditional settings game physics or something.

Update: I had problem with automatic countersteer, but I have realized, that when I disable the opposite lock assist, countersteering behaves as I want (steering lock of countersteering is restricted already from the steering help.) . So it is only the arcade style game physics that make the car oversensitive to micro corrections, when the car is slightly drifting.
AMS2 physics make the wheels disconeted from the surface.
In AMS1 (and Race07/GTR EVO) I can feel the car innertia and suspension travel perfectly and do very controlled drifting.

Update: Nevermind, the steering help is only a cosmetic option in the menu. It doesnt matter if I switch it on and off with a keybind between corners, nothing changes.
Maybe in those encrypted .sav configuration files could an option for real physics? Please?

 

idk if there is a correct thread for this, but regarding car setups, all my setups used to be saved for specific tracks... now there are no "track name" sections in the setup selection screen.

meaning all my setups are mixed up regardless of track. I used to name the setups based on laps and temps, not on track name since there was already a folder for that. now all my setups are mixed. huge confusion. is this a bug or working as normal or are we expecting a fix or ... whatever is this?

 

Normal as of a few updates back. Best explanation I've seen had something to do with having things separated by track causing issues. Definitely a pain in the butt. Luckily I had been naming all my setups per car such as P911GTEDaytRd R. With the DaytRd meaning Daytona Road Course and the R meaning race setup. I then use the same naming scheme with a D, Q, W and T. The D is just the default setup, Q = qualifying, W = wet and T = time trial. I wish we could use a folder structure to organize the setups neatly. As it stands right now, it will bring up all setups for the particular car you've chosen. It's not every setup you've got for all cars, just the ones for the car you've chosen. If when saving the setup you make sure you've typed in the track name in there, it will make it easier to pick your setup.

 

This is true... however, when you get to the stage, as I have, of having over 100 setups for a particular variant of a car, the load and save times become exhausting... I'm now experiencing wait times of somewhere in the region of 10 seconds for each save and load.

Additionally, and perhaps even more pertinently, the setups don't seem to be saved in any particular order, currently, meaning that the more setups for a particular car you have saved, the harder and harder it gets to locate the correct setup from the dis-ordered list.

 

As a workaround I do the following, This does help with loading times and organisation of setups but requires planning before you start the game as you only have access to setups for one car/track in game. To use a different car or track setup you have to exit game, do file management and load in to the game again.

Photo or note your setup for car and track so it can be re-created, or re-develop track specific from a baseline.

Find the setups folder in documents/ams2. Rename it to archive setups.You'll have to copy this back later to access the saved setups contained inside.

Load game (this creates a new setup folder) and create setup(s) for only the car/track you choose. Exit game, find setup folder again.
Create a folder for car and, inside that, track. Cut/paste setup files to your newly created track folder. They won't load when you restart the game but you now have isolated setup(s) by car and track. Copy save file back to root folder to reuse.

In game you create a new setup for differing car/track, with setup root folder empty to identify the file. Setup files can't be renamed, or opened, they are encrypted. Use the folders.

I find it helpful but it's an admittedly nasty hack to solve the issue. I hope the devs will find a better solution to the saving/loading and naming because the current implementation is really user unfriendly when you have many setups for car and track combinations. Even a transparent, un-encrypted, user defined save file name system (as in game) would be better, at least the user would know which file related to which car/ track. Save date is the only clue we currently have!