Race Specific Setups

I've set steering lock to 24.0 deg. Brake bias is pretty even, the ducts fully open and I've increased the tyre pressure slightly. This all helped a bit, but I'm still in the yellow zone after like ten laps and the crew chief is not at all pleased with me.

Maybe I just need to adapt to a different driving style and be smoother. I don't have this issue with the old-school, more sliding cars.

 

How many degrees does it show when you calibrate your wheel? Or are you driving with a controller?

 

900 degrees (G29).

 

I just found this thread: are the links on the front page updated to 1.3.7 or are they in the thread somewhere?

 

Wow, tolle Arbeit aus Stahl, weil man nicht mehr viel rumschrauben muss. Perfekt

 

@steelreserv
First and most important... thank you for all your hard work, your vision and dedication to this sim through the years.
It always fascinated me how to setup a car, and now that i m able to spend some more time on this sim that is starting to reach a certain point of development i d like to come forward and ask some basic questions.
I ve watched your videos and thank you for making them..
Since the time you ve made the onces explaining all of the setup tabs, many updates and developments have taken place, so i d like to know if some basic parts are still handled the same way.
Since i m starting from the beggining i d like to know if the tire temps IMO, still operate in the same window as explained 5 - 7 on the fronts and 3 - 5 on the rears, or if this window is smaller now.
Also if it s better adviced to start by adjusting the ride hight and the rake after finding the optimal temp spread and the camber, or is the rake cosidered more or just as an aero feature. Should the ride height always be revisited after any setup change or is it handled to be adjusted automatically by the game calculations?
I do hope i make sence... trying to start slowly and see where that gets me... right in the abyss I guess!!!
Thank you so much.

Edit. I m talking about GT3 cars.

 

Having just stumbled across the Steelcast YT channel last weekend, I can't say how thrilled I am to learn that he's now working internally continuing work on the AMS2 setup and vehicle tuning.

Over the past couple months AMS2--along with a T300 & my first VR headset--has managed to command & retain my interest, rekindling a love for race sims lost to me since early the 2000s.

So that said, a huge "thank you" to you both and all the other folks working behind the scenes to bring this steady churn of improvements and polish to AMS2 with a level of enthusiasm and dedication that continues to impress, but I digress...

So I had noticed some, possibly even the majority of AMS2 vehicles I've driven so far feel pretty well "on-point" driven with default setups, but some just feel like they're wallowing about with excessive chassis movement, or others that feel like they're on an ice rink.

So since finding the channel, I've been working my way through the custom defaults series focusing on some favorites (GT1, GTE, P[#],Classic BMW/Porsche) and experiencing some notable improvements in some areas despite the deprecated setup specifics featured in the videos. So I was wondering if it would be at all possible to share a progress list of some sort for which cars have had their default setups reworked. I'd hate to be wading into a reworked car and messing around where it has already been re-tuned per the new tire models. Or can we presume that are car with a major physics or tire model update in the patch-notes has also had it's default setup reworked?

Anyhow, sorry about the wall of text and thanks again for all the hard work on what seems to be a never-ending stream great updates!

 

Mate i dan t thank you enough for all this!!!
It covers so many aspects and connects so many dots in just a few words.
Gives me a reall boost to dive into all this!!
Cheers!!

 

Hi Steel thanks for your work on the YouTube channel and now on the game!

I'm trying to follow along with your videos but I have found that often with the default setup my rear tyre temps show no difference IMO and reducing camber even to the max doesn't change this. I've seen this with a couple of different cars. Are the videos still valid since the new updates? Thanks again!

 

Kinda new-ish to all of AMS2. Mainly got into it as hopefully a better version car wise for the new F1 cars. I think they are way more manageable.
Just finished watching the set up series. Gonna see what I can do to put into those Formula Ultimate Gen 2s

Great work Steel

 

How does AMS2 work with anti-Ackermann setups? I was never well succeeded using this and always have to go back to negative toe-in to have the fastest times, specially with modern F1 cars. Not only that, even the default setups of modern F1 cars, contraire to reality, don't use anti-Ackermann. Some of the fastest LB lap times use sploit-level of toe-out on front wheels, as if "the more the merrier".

Cheers!

 

I don't think think it's possible to change Ackermann steering geometry in AMS2. I think you might be confusing that with front static toe. They are not the same thing.

 

Right you are, but them, how does AMS2 work it?

 

He is back!

 

Also got hooked by this channel and the work @steelreserv put into it. Never done really much in terms of setups (laziness and also never understood how to approach properly tbh.) but since yesterday I run lap after lap with the GT1 Porsche at Daytona and juggling for tweaks.
By default the original Low Downforce setup for this car leads to bottoming a lot at the steep curves. It's a special challenge I think.
If you already tested this and/or feel motivated to do a setup incl. explanations why this does it for you @steelreserv it would be amazing to see. It already helped me a lot and I will rummage through the videos to learn more about it. Thanks