Sim Racing Force Feedback Review

[Nick Rowland]

I have been wanting to make this for a while but I have created a review of Force Feedback across 5 simulators. Quality isn't great as I am very much learning the settings but enjoyed doing it.

 

[Jan-Moritz Kammann]

Well done Nick

 

[Tomas Beha]

Great review!

On the "rf2 looks like crap" -subject I'd recommend you to look at this in your Player.JSON:

"Texture Sharpening":5,
"Texture Sharpening#":"Sharpen textures using MIP LOD bias - 0=Off, 1=+2.0(very blurry), 2=+1.0(blurry), 3=-1.0(sharp), 4=-2.0(very sharp), 5=0.0(auto)",

And possibly trying to force a sharper setting (3 or 4), it looks like your graphics is choosing a really low quality MIP-level of the textures - causing the blurry lines amongst other things.

rf2 with proper settings CAN look brilliant, also remember to always use HDR as the graphics engine is designed to do so, HDR-off is simply a work around option for clients with puny PCs and it will eventually be removed.

 

[Nick Rowland]

Thanks Tomas,

These are my current settings:

 

[Tomas Beha]

Which looks great, but the option I pointed out is only available through editing the Player.JSON manually - it's for forcing the driver/game to handle the graphics as you wan't it to.

The file is located inside your /rFactor2/UserData/player/ -folder. Just open it with notepad or similar to edit.

Also I recommend using windowed mode to prevent getting stuck on desktop if using ALT+TAB or conflicting softwares (Adobe Photoshop is bad while having ALT+TAB'ed to desktop!)

 

[Nick Rowland]

Yeah found that out today. Also in Q with a lot of cars I kept getting huge FPS drop around the track. So something needs optimising.

 

[Tomas Beha]

Yeah found that out today. Also in Q with a lot of cars I kept getting huge FPS drop around the track. So something needs optimising.

I'd start by clicking down Shadows and Special Effects, then possibly Visible Vehicles to say 15 or so