SimuCUBE Open Source Firmware Development Update Thread 2

If installing from scratch can 1.0.23 installed directly or has 0.11.2 to be installed first?

1.0.23 has been tested to work when installed from scratch.

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At firstā€¦many thanks Mika for your efforts! :+1:

At the moment the Simucube works with Version 0.11.2 perfectly.

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Update on Version 1.0.23 was now succesfull!!!

Great support Mika! :+1:

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So it could be the cable problem, not the firmware 1.0.23.

I might hold off for a little while as some having issues with the latest.
You are not missing much if you think the new FW will transform your FFB.
Any improvements are subtle.
Stay on 0.11.2 until Mika irons out these kinks, and stay ā€œvery satisfiedā€ until then would be my advice.

Too late, I just updated it hehe. Everything works great for me :slight_smile:

IĀ“m really happy with my profile, feels great, but would be possible to feel harder kerbs modifing any option or filter in Simucube Configuration tool?

Thank you very much guys.

For what gameā€¦ ?

Sorry, for Assetto Corsa Competizione :grinning:

I had an issue last night (v1.0.22) in AMS2 with the FFB only working to the right, nothing at all to the left. I then noticed that the bump-stops were missing too. I closed the game and power-cycled the SimuCube system and everything worked normally again.

Iā€™ve since updated SimuCube to v1.0.23 and that works fine so far with AMS2.

Anyone noticed any changes in feel with the loss of being able to choose fractional values for the main sliders in the new SC firmware that most of us used prior to these new firmware versions?

If you use old profiles from 0.11.2 or 0.54 firmware versions that you like with sliders values that are in between whole numbers, understand that if you change the sliders you will lose the ability to keep those more granular values which I feel make a noticeable difference in my small MiGe motor, and looking back, Iā€™ve always used values that fall between whole numbers.
In fact if you look at all the community shared profiles, at the very least they almost always had 0.5 changes (0.50 or 1.50 etc).
Thereā€™s a reason for that - these more granular values just feel better on most SC1 setups.
Something in the feel is lost when only given whole numbers to play with.

Mika has stated that unless thereā€™s significant SC1 community pushback to have more granular adjustments back in place, thereā€™s no intention to offer SC1 those options again, so you will be stuck with whole number values, or going back into the ā€˜dark agesā€™ of sifting through highly technical and mostly alien values in Granity. No fun.
The problem is that itā€™s unlikely thereā€™s enough SC1 users around to make enough ā€˜noiseā€™ to have Mika feel the justification to invest the time to do this, so I wouldnā€™t count on this changing.
Itā€™s important to understand what you are giving up if you plan to keep your SC1 a few more years, especially if you have no intention to buy wireless wheels.

@Mika - itā€™s admirable that you continue to support SC1 users, the users that played a big part in the early formative years that helped you guys at Granite get to where you are today.
The option for using wireless wheels is fantastic for those who use them, yet many do not.
Perhaps if you were to offer the same updated UI ā€˜lookā€™ that SC2 has (instead of the functional, albeit very boring ā€˜Windows 95ā€™ style gray box UI we have for SC1), that would be a more valuable retention/repeat customer strategy as SC1 users looking to upgrade to SC2/SC3(x) would be used to using a familiar UI when new features arrive that offer valid reasons to retire their SC1 builds.

Software user experience is often the #1 reason people stay with a brand, as itā€™s what they ā€˜seeā€™ and use on a daily basis. Think Windows and MacOSX or Android and iPhone. Almost identical UI regardless of hardware models and new tech bells and whistles.
If you truly want to unify the software across SC generations, at least make it look the same albeit a couple of options changing from generational iterations.

Again, thank you for all you do and trust this feedback is taken as constructive.

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I rather have functional boring GUI than a flashy bad one.

pretty sure you will have your wish :slight_smile:

PS - donā€™t think the SC2 interface is bad/broken etc, and essentially has the majority of the same features.

Iā€™m in favor of having more granular settings (variability) for SC1. If it should come down to that or having an updated UI, the settings are more important imo.

I am also in favor of having more precision / liberty in the settings of our software. That said, i have not tried the latest firmware myself yet. The issues mentioned like the one of having the FFB lost on the left or right portion of the wheel seems to me like there is more fixes to be done before the software could be called of being as perfect as 0.11 or 0.54, etcā€¦ And for me being more of a casual driver (not an hardcore sim-racer), i would either not run into those issues or find new ones anytime soon. Anyway the most important part is that SC1 software is still going on and being supported and i would like to say big Thanks to all GD team for that. Everyone here is appreciating it. I will try the new firmware/software once i feel the timing is good.

I donā€™t mind either way but if there was a vote I would keep the granular option for settings. I also prefer the smaller change numbers with the old firmware.

Shame, precission geeks are minority here:

You still have the same level of precision, the range of adjustment has been changed. 100% now is the same as 10% was before. So 0.5% is 5%, 1.5% is 15%, etc.

Yes, if memory serves, Mika mentioned he will update the scaling similar to the SC2 one. So indeed, if it has been done, it is ~the same scaling-resolution as before.

1.1% SC1 = 11% SC2, 2.7% SC1 = 27% SC2, ad infinitumā€¦

Mika, please confirm :slight_smile:

That is correct. If someone used 0.01% adjustments before, then that granularity is not possible in lost in the new version.