Simulator Controller with AI-based virtual assistants (race engineer and race strategist)

Major feature for todays release: You no longer have to create a strategy in advance for short (sprint) races with some required pitstops. Instead, supply the race rules in "Race Settings" and the Strategist will create a strategy on the fly.



IMPORTANT for AMS2 users: The pitstop request is no longer done automatically after the Enginerr planned an prepared a pitstop, since this can lead to confusion, if done more than once. There is a setting in the "Session Database" to restore the previous behaviour.

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Main feature for this Release: The Driving Coach can now give you immediate feedback once you have passed a corner and the following section. The feedback will include a detailed comparison of your performance compared to the previous lap incl. hints where you can still improve. See the following video for a very short demonstration:

Beside that the new rule-based strategy handling introduced with the last release got tweaked a bit. Also we have fixed the iRacing track mapping, which is also required for the Driving Coach and the list of rFactor 2 GT3 cars supported by the "Setup Workbench" is now complete.

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The main focus of todays release is quality for the most part. Many fixes and small improvements, especially we found the AMS2 session startup issue, that has been around for some time now. Beside that, there are several improvements for the Race Engineer, which now can give you many information like remaining fuel or tyre temperatures with much improved actuality and accuracy.

The list of changes in the Release Notes is long. please take a look...

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I am new to this thread as I have not been able to play AMS2 for some time. In a few months I'll be back at it. Thanks for your efforts with this application over the years. I hope this continues. I am curious why there are no other posts. This seems like a great replacement for Crew Chief. Once I have my equipment back and I have AMS2 re-installed, I will definitely give this a try!

 

Thx. It is a lot more than CC, as you will see, once you get into it. In the forums typically there is not much traffic. Join our Discord, where the party is

 

I definitely need to get Discord!

 

Once again many fixes and small additions this time. But there are also some cool new features included:

- You can now supply the names of corners when defining the sections of a track. These names will be used in various places throughout Simulator Controller then, most notably for the Driving Coach, who will reference upcoming corner by name rather than by number, when giving you driving instructions.
- deepseek-r1 can now be used in thinking mode without problems.
- The Race Engineer now prevent preparing a pitstop while you are already in the pitlane, thereby reducing the risk to release the pitlimiter in some simulators.

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Release 6.2 is a major step forward for voice recognition. I have integrated Whisper, an open source neural network based voice recognition engine, which fully runs locally on your GPU. Whisper is capable to recognize free speech in high quality, which is necessary to interact with the Driving Coach. If you can spare some memory and processing power on your GPU, there is no need for using Azure or Google cloud based voice recognition anymore, something which was a typical hurdle to overcome for beginners.

And we have a new download mirror provided by @Caleidosttk (thank you so much), so that update problems seen lately should be fixed now.

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We had a tough last week, because suddenly several AV programs were reporting false positives for some of the Simulator Controller executables. With todays release, most of the problems should be a thing of the past, since I changed the code patterns a bit in the compilation process. But if you still encounter problems, let me know in our Discord. It still might be necessary to declare folder exceptions in some of the more picky AV programs.

Of course, this release also comes with some interesting new stuff.

- iRacing IBT files can now be imported into the session database.
- New settings in the "Session Database" allow you to handle private practice and qualifying sessions in a way that ghosted cars will not be mentioned by the Spotter.
- The new DLC cars of Le Mans Ultimate have been added to the "Setup Workbench" of course.
- An all new News system will bring you important information and updates from time to time.
- The "Basic" configuration is now much better integrated in "Simulator Setup".

And many other changes. Give the Release Notes some love.

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