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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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My messy corner. And my somewhat compact rig. I've never posted before so unsure what information to include but I'll give it a go.

T300RS
R838 Mod wheel
ebay arduino handbrake
TH8A shifter
Heusinkveld Ultimate+ pedals
Next Level Racing Wheel Stand 2.0
Some pieces of wood
Acer Nitro 37.5" QHD+ 3840 x 1600 display

I'm a bit insane... so I drive all the displays with a Radeon W6800 Pro which works surprisingly well for gaming despite not being intended for it.

I use Linux exclusively and have for over 10 years now. Racing is a more recent hobby but I've been gaming much longer than that. Despite what all the youtubers say it all works mostly fine. Though I found hid-tmff2 to be the most mature of the wheelbase drivers outside of logitech which is why I haven't picked up a used DD wheel base just yet.

EDIT: Dunno why the pic won't upload, maybe a bug with Lemmy 0.18.1? Anyway I added an imgur link instead.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Firefox + DDG. Whilst sat on an Aeron. Nice!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Haha yeah, I stole the chair from my office. I'm not sure they know I have it...

[–] AzPsycho 2 points 1 year ago

I love a good sim rig. I once built a full enclosure for my Elite:Dangerous addiction. It was extremely enjoyable. Wish I had taken pics before tearing it down.

[–] rauldojenkins 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The real question: how are the ultimate+ in that setup? Is it good enough? What’s your setup like for the pedals?

I feel like everyone is obsessed with 80/40 rigs for these types of pedals, but does this work well enough?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

They are good enough for me is I think the best answer I can give for that. There is some flex in the plate but that's mostly a design issue with this particular wheel stand. I'm relatively tall and have pretty long legs so to mount the plate in a comfortable position I have to mount it backwards and all the way back. This means there's a lot of overhang where the pedals are mounted. I've thought about fixing this by welding up a support bracket to go between the pedal plate and the base structure. It hasn't bothered me enough to actually walk out to the garage and do it though.

I also run the softest rubber in them and replaced one section of the rubber with a valve spring from a 1991 Ford Escort. I experimented with various combinations of rubber and other materials and this was what ended up feeling the most like my actual car (which is not a 1991 Ford Escort).

So to sum it up, they are fine in my opinion, but I also don't make the brake as stiff as a brick wall like some people do, so it's possible the rig matters more if you like that.

Here's a picture:

EDIT: I just tightened that jam nut... didn't realize it was loose until I looked at this picture.

EDIT2: Here's the configuration, nothing special. Just in case that's what you meant by setup:

I tuned the "catch point" for the clutch in the EEPROM so I didn't have to do it in every game.

[–] rauldojenkins 2 points 1 year ago

That’s a fantastically creative solution. Thank you for the response. I think this is great for someone who finds those pedals on a crazy sale or gets stuck in a situation when moving to a new place where a rig just isn’t an option. We have almost no stories of people using super high end pedals on a desk rig. Was a fun read.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honest question. How is automobilista? How does it compare to ACC (ACC is my main sim at the moment)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

(I'm op, just using this account since federation is broken on my instance)

In my opinion as someone who's really rather bad at sim racing but tries to have fun, ACC "feels" better to me. I don't use VR, so that's not a consideration and I have no experience with that. There are on the other hand a lot more interesting cars and tracks in Automobilista2 than in ACC in my opinion. You can't go slide around a 60s era mini cooper on Nordschleif in ACC for example.

However, because I'm really bad, I tend to mostly want to do a quick 1v1 against my friends instead of competing in a big online race with lots of pressure, and for that Automobilista2 is better. ACC requires a dedicated server as far as I can tell and I have not yet gotten it running. It's not too bad, but more work than clicking "create new" and telling your friend the lobby password.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is really nice explanation. I like AC with content manager but felt the 3rd party content would eventually bite me in the ass one day. Definitely will look into automobilista 2! Hopefully I can get a few friends to play that sim. Wondering if it is on steam sale…

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Funny you should mention that. I just tried to get rain working in AC using Proton. I sunk so many hours into it unsuccessfully that I decided to just buy ACC instead because it has rain built in.... After that experience it was very satisfying to select rain in the drop down and it just... rains.

EDIT: Automobilista2 has rain too. I was just angry at everything and ACC was my "throws hands up in exasperation" impulse purchase.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I mean ACC is very very good. I’m finding it a high ceiling to have pace but the game is so enjoyable. I know I have to tweak my online settings to have more variety with weather tracks and so on. I’m still working on that. You eventually get tired of the monza speed runs.

Again AC with content manager is incredible in its own right, but in terms of how the game is set up the learning (and download) curve is much less with ACC.

[–] serpineslair 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry for bumping an old post haha, but as a fellow linux user, how does AC run for you (that is, if you play it)? How about Content Manager? Do you know of any incompatibilities? Sorry for the list of questions, I have heard it can be a bit of a nightmare to get running on linux. I have a triple boot atm, Arch is my main OS, Ubuntu in case I mess up on Arch and Windows. I am using AC on Windows atm, so I wondered how much hassle I would have to go through to get it and all of my mods working. Thanks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No worries! So I followed, roughly, this guide and it works pretty much flawlessly for me. With the exception of rain, (I'm a patron on x4fab so I tried it, fought with it a lot, and couldn't get it working).

That guide is aimed at the steam deck so I just skipped all the steam deck specific stuff. Pretty much install GE-Proton7-55 like you normally would for any other steam desktop game. Then go through the install process like they suggest, letting it crash, setting the launch options, etc.

The one caveat I suppose I should mention is that I use sway (wayland) and have to run everything in gamescope to make it play nice with tiling and wayland in general. This works mostly fine, except that the content manager window can be resized, and resizing windows in gamescope makes them fill the screen at whatever size they currently are. So if you mess up you might end up with a tiny tiny window and need to launch it outside of gamescope to get it back to a reasonable size. Also the button tool tips are a little flickery, but I just deal with it.

Give it a try! I'm curious to hear if you run into any issues, and let me know if you have any questions.

[–] serpineslair 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the in-depth reply... That actually doesn't sound too difficult. I might have a go later in the week once my new wheel arrives. I shouldn't have any issues with tiling as I am using i3 with Xorg. I'll let you know how I get on, if I attempt it :) .

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