Simucube 2 Discussion Thread

I agree it’s not expressly based on the simulator’s physics, but it is based on physics that it perhaps neglects: the inertia and deformation of and play in the various components of the steering linkage. I don’t think filter values of inertia = friction = damping = 0 is the ideal, realistic scenario.

To be clear, I am definitely not saying that it shouldn’t be added, I am just trying to understand why you think it would be useful.

SleipnirRacing,

No worries, never understood your questions otherwise.

I will be happy to go to more details on why and for which cars and Sims too at another time.

Sleep needs to happen for me now, I’m afraid 8)

Good night all!

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First hand experience using Gamma and LUT functions in AC.
For sims like AC and ACC on DD they are not needed, and were put in to help fix nonlinearity of consumer wheels.
But it’s there, free, why not try it out instead of hypothesizing.

Are you a developer working in sim industry, what titles?

Andrew,

As stated I am not hypothesizing. Please read the posts in full when responding.
You’ve used the gamma in those titles, I have used the gamma(called Lfb) in ams2 and programming custom ffb files for ams2 and PC2.

I did games for 20+ years, but I am not a Sim dev in other ways than by hobby coding those custom ffb files.

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Reading this a bit with your thoughts on the way it should work the SimuCUBE actually has a firmer that you can use that may do wha you want to a degree that you may not have tried… and that is to Raise the force of the wheel to the point that you feel the on Center steering is where you want it and then adjust the Static Force reduction filter to the point whee cornering feels closer to what you want… The Static Force reduction was in a way developed just for what you are talking about with this comment “You can set the gamma low to have low forces at center and a huge difference in the force feel VS when cornering and you can set it higher to make the center stronger and the force on cornering less, relatively speaking. This makes for a much more realistic feel to me.”

Hey bsohn,

Right, it def. can help, I actually implemented that, with exactly that idea, in to the custom ffb files for ams2 and pc2.
But while it helps a step in that direction, it comes with both side effects that you might or might not want and is also only able to help it partly.
The gamma is able to make the exact strengthening of low forces much more pronounced and with a different set of side effects.
Overall I would say that the gamma is much better at adjusting this on its own.

We have a 2021.1 release candidate ready for testing, with some minor fixes to bumpstops and adjustments to servo drive tuning parameters. Anyone willing to test it?

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True Drive 2021.1 (stable, no online beta features) release has been now officially released.

We will gather and listen to any feedback on the motor audible noise changes we’ve made in this release.

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hi Mika, I updated to 2021.1 stable but now I can’t launch the online beta anymore, it tells me my firmware version is too new…I also lost all the new profiles I made in the last period

The stable version is “older” than the beta that has the online features. If you want to use the stable version again, you need to downgrade to it.

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ok thanks, downgrade works the same as always by adding it in the command line?

yes, the same way as before.

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What is SimuCUBETuner2.exe?

Oh, I might have left the internal name of the app there. Will fix this :slight_smile:

and a fixed zip file is now up in the wiki. There was a very last minute addition/adjustment of the change log text in the popup that comes once, no other changes.

I can still see SimuCUBETuner2.exe there.

Most likely the wiki is serving a cached version still, or you extracted to a directory that already contained that file.

I have tried hard refresh, nothing, the downloaded zip is exactly the same as before.
May be you need to create new entry on the wiki for corrected file.
I can see that you have made some changes at 11:06 but those are just release notes fixes
https://granitedevices.com/w/index.php?title=Simucube_2_True_Drive_releases&action=historysubmit&type=revision&diff=7450&oldid=7449

Your download link address https://granitedevices.com/w/images/3/30/Simucube_2_True_Drive_2021.1.zip

https://granitedevices.com/wiki/File:Simucube_2_True_Drive_2021.1.zip

shows the updated version

Don’t know, downloaded current and previous one form 10:56, exactly the same file bit by bit.
And you also have some leftover personal shortcut link in the zip pointing to your personal user directory.
“Simucube 2 True Drive.exe - Shortcut.lnk”