Advice on sim racing gear

[anonymous-user]

I thought I'd give VR sim racing a go. I've got a 2700X, 16GB, M.2 SSD and an RTX2070.

I'm thinking the HP Reverb VR headset looks like a good start?

As for wheel a G920 with either logitech or thrustmaster H pattern? Is the fanatec kit really worth so much more (granted it looks the nuts)

Any advice appreciated, cheers

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Many thanks for all the advice chaps. Although having just read a review of reverb vs index the one thing i was decided on now im considering the index Leaning towards fanatec; if for no other reason than it will probably stand up to my kids better!

What game do you all play? I love Dirt Rally but ridiculously have only ever played on keyboard... looking forward to trying a circuit based sim though

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Bullett said:

It's the classic 'all the gear and no idea' scenario'.

Doesn't stop me with real cars!

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Well I took on board everyone's advice and ordered the Fanatec Elite wheel and pedals and clubsport box. Now time to dig out my MIG and knock up something that will fit both me and my little guy. I can't decide on the VR headset yet so will leave it till Christmas and see how things shake out between all the newer ones.

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All my goodies finally(!) arrived out here in the further reaches of the empire. Lovely kit it is too. Far nicer controls than most real cars; the 'gearbox' is awesome! Thinking I need to make a proper open gate for it though. And get a buttkicker. I haven't even plugged it in yet. Oh god this isn't going to end is it?

Making my own frame so that it is quickly adjustable between me and the little people...

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Speckle said:

Anyway, that's a great start - be sure to post pics of the rig when it's finished.

Finally got some spare days to finish my setup. Couldn't be ar5ed doing metal in the end so it's all scrap 3/4 ply. Pretty happy with it to be honest especially the seat and pedal adjustment so my little guy can play too, he only just turned 5 so it needed a huge amount of movement to fit us both well...



and for when they go to bed...

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Hoofy said:

Amazing. I'm jealous. I just had a crap pedal gokart with plastic wheels.

Funnily enough their go karts (there's one in the background) have plastic wheels on the back so they drift. They're naturals at holding huge slides. It's definitely one of their favorite things to do after school, my 6 year old daughter included. Makes me laugh when people say kids aren't interesting in cars or driving any more! She chose the colour by the way... Rosso Corsa!

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Speckle said:

That's a brilliant rig you've put together! I must admit, I looked at the first photo and thought you must have tiny legs before reading the bit about adjustability and kids

Thanks, it took a little bit of thought to get it to fit us all and so it looked good enough that it'd be allowed in the house! To keep it strong the wheel and screen don't move and you can't really see underneath but there's like a whole triangulated reinforcement keeping it all solid. The pedals slide back 18 inches and up about 4 and the seat moves forwards, up and tilts forward too on unequal length arms because I found the kids really need to sit more over it to have the strength on the pedals. I found some rubber vibration mounts that the a/c guys left behind too so the seat is mounted on those ready for the butt-kicker speaker. It's been a fun distraction with my daughter doing lots of the drilling and sanding. And then me fixing it when she's not there!

Edited by anonymous-user on Thursday 13th February 16:53

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Hoofy said:

Can't beat physical/actual driving even if it's human-powered.

For sure!

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Whose stupid idea was this anyway? Seems I've lost my computer for ever.

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Got a super cheap deal on a buttkicker gamer2 in the US a few months ago, finally hard mounted to the seat and running simhub. Only played an hour or so and disappointingly I'm not yet convinced by it to be honest. It shakes the seat pretty well but I guess I was expecting a satisfying rumble when ever you clip the curbs but it doesn't seem very accurate, might just be PC2 track map detail, telemetry data, or simhub setup, not sure. It's going to take quite a bit of messing about with I think.

Edited by anonymous-user on Friday 29th May 01:14

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skinny said:

You might be able to get a head start at race department forum, there's loads of stuff there and people all sharing their simhub setups. For example:
https://www.racedepartment.com/threads/simhub-and-...

Excellent thanks. The setup has an infinite number of possibilities! Had another hour on it today after registering simhub and really got into it this time with slip and skid enabled. I think you just have to accept the physical limitations of the shaker and that the feel isn't 'right' but after a short while you start to associate the sensation with what the car is doing. It's quite absorbing.

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After a few months enjoying Project Cars I took the plunge on iRacing at the weekend... wow! After the initial disappointment of having so few cars and tracks to enjoy, and then spending for ever navigating the menu's to find a car and track you actually own; who knew chasing 100's of a second in an MX5 round Lime Rock could be so utterly addictive. I was really rather impressed with myself setting a 1:04.7 thinking I might get pole only to be behind half a dozen people in the 1:03's! I have no idea how I'm going to make that up; as luck would have it though with a +CV19 test in the house we're in isolation for at least another week... right, back to it.

By the way, iracers, I'm assuming the MX5 cup rotates to a new track at some point; is there a track schedule anywhere?

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Thisonepotato said:

Near the top of the Iracing webpage you should see a menu bar, Find Official Races then Race Guide.

Thank you. I'll check it out once the kids let me back on.

Had my second MX5 race at limerock last night and was coming second when the fanatec box registered the wrong gear and I hit 2nd instead of 4th. Came in third in the end which was a nightmare (but some seriously tense fun) with the box registering a bad gear every other lap... really disappointed with the fanatec though, it feels so well made and it's only had 3 months real use, recalibrating didn't fix it either... seems this is not an uncommon problem with several fixes, so it looks like I'll be tearing that apart tonight instead of racing.

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Thisonepotato said:

I love Lime Rock. That is a shame re the Fanatec, I have had mine for 1.5 years and any miss gear is def user error.

It's my excuse and I'm sticking with it.

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Well the good news is the shifter fix (insulating the sideways motion pcb from the metal body ) appears to have worked, for now at least. Even better got promoted out of rookie on my 3rd race.. totally addicted to iRacing now

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Holy thread resurrection. A sim addict friend of mine recently brought his ps5 round and tried it on my (now) old fanatec csl elite setup... he smashed his personal best on his second lap and 1/2 an hour later offered to order me a csl dd and clubsport pedals if he could take mine there and then... Long story short I've been using his old G29 wheel and pedals the last month and, to be kind, it's a childs toy. If anyone is contemplating which to get just stop and get the fanatec setup. If someone is thinking of upgrading but not sure it's worth it, it absolutely is, there is no comparison. This has been a public service announcement!

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Si1295 said:

You've cost me money

I was on the fence (more a knife edge) about pre-ordering the gt dd pro to replace my G29, but I've just gone for it. I'll be thankful to get rid of the horrible deadzone in the G29

You're welcome! Seriously though there is no comparison and I only had the csl elite base (non dd) and the g29 pedals are worse than the wheel.

Of course I just found out today that my csl dd is delayed till January so I have another month with the g29 ughh

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Darinz said:

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Any thoughts on a loadcell mod vs just getting some "proper" loadcell pedals? The rabbit hole is open at this point :P

I noticed the fanatec CSL pedals are now ''just'' 200 euros. No idea how much your mod is or how good it will be but the fanatec stuff is excellent. So long as the mod measures pressure not pedal travel, gives you a proper firm pedal and has some decent firmware/drivers I imagine it will be a huge improvement on what you have.

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24lemons said:

Just to wade in with my dilemma, I have an Xbox one x and thrustmaster TX wheel and pedals I desperately want to try VR racing and that doesn’t look to be. a possibility on Xbox in the near future.

The PS5 looks tempting because of the prospect of PSVR 2 however nothing is confirmed yet and my thrustmaster gear won’t be compatible on the PS5

Am I just better off getting a pc, and how much would I need to spend to get a decent rig for VR aim racing?

At the moment an absolute fortune, I mean probably not much change out of 3 thousand; the price of graphics cards is just absurd. My 2070 gfx is 3 years old and costs 1000 quid now or 3 times as much to buy today as it did in 2018 and twice as much on ebay used and that's probably the bottom end you want for a semi good vr experience, then you need the rest of the box, psu, mb, cpu, memory etc plus vr headset, screen... . Not sure I could bring myself to pay that for what today wouldn't even be that high end.

I've always found this site really useful https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/guide/

Edited by anonymous-user on Friday 17th December 21:12