David O'Reilly
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Why
There have been some very good and some exceptional set up guides written for ISI Motor (and other) sims in the past including the Racer Alex Advanced F1 set-up guide which was written 13 years ago for the EA F1 2002 Challenge game. A lot of water has passed under the bridge in sim-racing and simulation engines in those 13 years! More stuff works like real life and so there is more to know.
Our goal in writing this guide is to respect but also build on such guides and to bring them up to date with some more contemporary information on what works in the current build (Build Max 998) of RF2.
We also see an opportunity to bring into the picture the knowledge base and skill of some race winning drivers and engineers from what is the highest level open wheeler competition available in the R factor 2 environment, Formula Sim Racing.
It is aimed at saloon as well as open wheeler racing.
This guide is unnoffical but has been endorsed by ISI who linked it on their homepage and rated it "awesome".
This is Version 1.0 If you spot any errors or ommissions feel free to say so (but thats a given really!!)
V1.1 added. Some corrections (such as Degna not Lesmo!), enhanced guidance on camber post "phase one" of the process, more info on differing brake disc sizes in the brake cooling section and grammar and spelling tidy ups. Thanks for the feed back.
Edit: we got a full 5 min blog in the Simpit
[video]http://thesimpit.com/en/news/commen...Advanced-Setup-Guide-by-David-OReilly[/video]
The links to the guide have been deleted for commercial reasons. Thank you for those who have expressed their support and appreciation, David
UPDATE 5TH MARCH 2016
After getting into a minor diplomatic crisis at home from spending £1,000 on a new OSW wheel I have made the decision to move this guide to a sales model to at least defray some sim racing costs.
IE It will be something people can buy.
Some people will find this really upsetting, I can understand that.* The divine right of players to get stuff for free being one of the gaming commandments in many cultures.
Others might feel that for the roughly the price of.......
1. a high street cup of coffee or
2. one print edition of Autosport or most magazines.
3. 1/10th the annual Xbox live subscripton
4. (or possibly more relevant) 10% of the price of the RF2 sim itself.
Is it fair?
It is the fruit of between 800 and 1000 hours of my personal testing and set up work and draws on the knowledge of some of the world top sim racers. Its been endorsed by serious Simracing journalists and by ISI themselves.
It will have a shelf life of several years. (The last really good one was written 13 years ago!)
It will help my family understand this affliction of sim racing addiction.
The simpit video review should give you a fair taste of the contents. I will add here the contents page.
1) Introduction and scope. Page 3
2) Set Up Parameters explained. Page 4
3) The set-up Process. Page 27 (where we show you how to take any car from defaults to race ready)
4a) Developing a race strategy. Page 40
4b) Set -up for qualifying. Page 44
4c) Set -up for Endurance Racing. 4d) Wet Set up. Page 44
5a) Problem solution matrix/table. Page 45
5b) Tyre wear impact/solution table. Page 46
6) Bibliography, credits. Page 47
7) Index to content (and abbreviations). Page 48
So if you feel that it will make Rfactor2 (or your favourite sim) 10% more fun then its probably a fair price.
All the revenues will be directly re invested in sim racing, unless we suddenly become a global top seller and I cant soak it all up with triples, £500 pedals, more graphics cards etc etc in which case It will buy a real world racing car.
I will be setting up a site to download the guide. In the meantime you can send me a PM and I will organise it for you.
The price includes free updates as and when they are published.
If you are a registered and licensed Formula Simracing driver you get it for half price.
The price:
£4.00 or €5.00
To purchase the guide please send €5 to paypal address davidporeilly@hotmail.com
Put your email address in the seller instructions.
Upon receipt I will email you the guide.
Thanks for reading.
Some unsolicted feedback;
It should definitely belong here as well, so that it's clearly visible to anyone visiting the rF2 section! For this reason, I have also pinned the thread to the top of the forum. Great work David O'Reilly and co. This will almost certainly come in handy to even the most experienced of sim-racers. :thumbsup:
Daiman P, staffmember and team owner.
Fantastic work David, thank you and your contributors. This is essential reading or anyone who actually bothers to tinker with setups. I have had a quick read and already you have opened my eyes to some flaws with some of my setups.
Thanks once again, your place is assured in sim racing heaven. This is already helped take of some downforce from the Corvette C6R and improve cornering and throttle application on exit of medium speed corners. Thanks again for 'THE' reference tool.
Lazarou
Excellent work! Many thanks. This will really help a lot.:thumbsup:
Stenne-Ajka S
David....I came across your guide just last night and downloaded it. It's very long and extremely well put together. I plan on reading every word of it , probably a few times. Thank you so much for putting that thing together!
Jeff H Nov 2015
Maybe I haven't been really looking around enough for good information but that guide posted by David is the first guide to very simply and quickly explain to me what the Bump settings actually affect and why you should use them.
I also appreciate the comments in it like The first misconception we need to dispell [sic] is that stiffer is better or Rule #1. Change only one thing at a time and make a substantial change.
P*Funk Jan 2016
EDIT Jan 2018
The guide has been updated and expanded. It's now called
"The Sim Racers Performance Guide"
More content on finding driver performance, some bespoke video support and some links to existing videos.
More details here
https://forum.studio-397.com/index....ced-car-set-up-guide.49984/page-5#post-925328
Why
There have been some very good and some exceptional set up guides written for ISI Motor (and other) sims in the past including the Racer Alex Advanced F1 set-up guide which was written 13 years ago for the EA F1 2002 Challenge game. A lot of water has passed under the bridge in sim-racing and simulation engines in those 13 years! More stuff works like real life and so there is more to know.
Our goal in writing this guide is to respect but also build on such guides and to bring them up to date with some more contemporary information on what works in the current build (Build Max 998) of RF2.
We also see an opportunity to bring into the picture the knowledge base and skill of some race winning drivers and engineers from what is the highest level open wheeler competition available in the R factor 2 environment, Formula Sim Racing.
It is aimed at saloon as well as open wheeler racing.
This guide is unnoffical but has been endorsed by ISI who linked it on their homepage and rated it "awesome".
This is Version 1.0 If you spot any errors or ommissions feel free to say so (but thats a given really!!)
V1.1 added. Some corrections (such as Degna not Lesmo!), enhanced guidance on camber post "phase one" of the process, more info on differing brake disc sizes in the brake cooling section and grammar and spelling tidy ups. Thanks for the feed back.
Edit: we got a full 5 min blog in the Simpit
[video]http://thesimpit.com/en/news/commen...Advanced-Setup-Guide-by-David-OReilly[/video]
The links to the guide have been deleted for commercial reasons. Thank you for those who have expressed their support and appreciation, David
UPDATE 5TH MARCH 2016
After getting into a minor diplomatic crisis at home from spending £1,000 on a new OSW wheel I have made the decision to move this guide to a sales model to at least defray some sim racing costs.
IE It will be something people can buy.
Some people will find this really upsetting, I can understand that.* The divine right of players to get stuff for free being one of the gaming commandments in many cultures.
Others might feel that for the roughly the price of.......
1. a high street cup of coffee or
2. one print edition of Autosport or most magazines.
3. 1/10th the annual Xbox live subscripton
4. (or possibly more relevant) 10% of the price of the RF2 sim itself.
Is it fair?
It is the fruit of between 800 and 1000 hours of my personal testing and set up work and draws on the knowledge of some of the world top sim racers. Its been endorsed by serious Simracing journalists and by ISI themselves.
It will have a shelf life of several years. (The last really good one was written 13 years ago!)
It will help my family understand this affliction of sim racing addiction.
The simpit video review should give you a fair taste of the contents. I will add here the contents page.
1) Introduction and scope. Page 3
2) Set Up Parameters explained. Page 4
3) The set-up Process. Page 27 (where we show you how to take any car from defaults to race ready)
4a) Developing a race strategy. Page 40
4b) Set -up for qualifying. Page 44
4c) Set -up for Endurance Racing. 4d) Wet Set up. Page 44
5a) Problem solution matrix/table. Page 45
5b) Tyre wear impact/solution table. Page 46
6) Bibliography, credits. Page 47
7) Index to content (and abbreviations). Page 48
So if you feel that it will make Rfactor2 (or your favourite sim) 10% more fun then its probably a fair price.
All the revenues will be directly re invested in sim racing, unless we suddenly become a global top seller and I cant soak it all up with triples, £500 pedals, more graphics cards etc etc in which case It will buy a real world racing car.
I will be setting up a site to download the guide. In the meantime you can send me a PM and I will organise it for you.
The price includes free updates as and when they are published.
If you are a registered and licensed Formula Simracing driver you get it for half price.
The price:
£4.00 or €5.00
To purchase the guide please send €5 to paypal address davidporeilly@hotmail.com
Put your email address in the seller instructions.
Upon receipt I will email you the guide.
Thanks for reading.
Some unsolicted feedback;
It should definitely belong here as well, so that it's clearly visible to anyone visiting the rF2 section! For this reason, I have also pinned the thread to the top of the forum. Great work David O'Reilly and co. This will almost certainly come in handy to even the most experienced of sim-racers. :thumbsup:
Daiman P, staffmember and team owner.
Fantastic work David, thank you and your contributors. This is essential reading or anyone who actually bothers to tinker with setups. I have had a quick read and already you have opened my eyes to some flaws with some of my setups.
Thanks once again, your place is assured in sim racing heaven. This is already helped take of some downforce from the Corvette C6R and improve cornering and throttle application on exit of medium speed corners. Thanks again for 'THE' reference tool.
Lazarou
Excellent work! Many thanks. This will really help a lot.:thumbsup:
Stenne-Ajka S
David....I came across your guide just last night and downloaded it. It's very long and extremely well put together. I plan on reading every word of it , probably a few times. Thank you so much for putting that thing together!
Jeff H Nov 2015
Maybe I haven't been really looking around enough for good information but that guide posted by David is the first guide to very simply and quickly explain to me what the Bump settings actually affect and why you should use them.
I also appreciate the comments in it like The first misconception we need to dispell [sic] is that stiffer is better or Rule #1. Change only one thing at a time and make a substantial change.
P*Funk Jan 2016
EDIT Jan 2018
The guide has been updated and expanded. It's now called
"The Sim Racers Performance Guide"
More content on finding driver performance, some bespoke video support and some links to existing videos.
More details here
https://forum.studio-397.com/index....ced-car-set-up-guide.49984/page-5#post-925328
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