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mranderson17
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I try to spread things out as much as possible among the games I have. AC and EA WRC right now but I have lots of hours in DR2.0 and AMS2 as well. AC and AMS2 are the fastest to get from startup to driving in single player, so I lean towards those if I'm time constrained.
Yeah that's fair, I do think that a big UI/UX redesign that makes it magically user friendly in a single release cycle would be next to impossible with the funding the project has though, and unfortunately a long drawn out redesign (what's currently happening with, say, RT's UI improvements) would likely have a lot of the problems that got us to this point as well. UI/UX benefits from a closely integrated team working towards a singular goal in my (limited) experience.
Now that I'm thinking about it a bit more, the project moves very slow and is for some reason extremely cautious about contributed core code so when things do need to be improved they become workbenches or addons and splinter the workflow even more.
This PR for example was a massive hurdle for some transparent overlays and went quite quickly in comparison to other features https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/pull/7888
FreeCAD is the way it is mostly because it's not optimized by multi-billion dollar companies with teams of developers and UI/UX engineers. It's very much the do-all-the-steps-your-self CAD package.
That said, there are loads of bad or outdated video tutorials out there, and generally people tend to find one way to do a thing and then market their video as THE way to do it. Treat FreeCAD like Linux, there are lots of "correct" ways to use it, and also don't expect it to be something it's not.
If you feel comfortable with it, it would be cool for you to make a short video of where you are stuck, or where you feel you are doing unnecessary steps, and maybe we can help you reach our goal in a simpler way?
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Summary left out a quite important bit.
In this picture I used a valve spring from a 1991 Ford Escort. I'm not sure this is ideal for this purpose, but I had a small pile of them in my parts bin so I figured it was worth a try. Since brake feel in sim-racing seems to be more about personal preference than reality (read some threads on that subject... it's a rabbit hole) I would guess you'll need to buy many springs and experiment a bit.
Maybe you could find a local to you industrial or hardware supplier and pick up a few?
Not sprints, but I did something similar with my ultimate+ set. I didn't replace all of them, only 1, and the other spring is there in the original set. This produces a feel more like what is in my real street car with a brake booster where there is some pedal travel and then sudden increase in resistance.
Not quite what you're asking about but figured it might be helpful.
I don't think AC is ever going to work without some workarounds to get it to start. AFAIK the only one required right now for vanilla AC is protontricks 244210 dotnet472 corefonts and then I think it will start. GE might implement a fix for that I guess but honestly the vanilla game isn't worth playing without content manager at this point and that's a whole multi-step process to install inside the wine prefix and in the game root outside of steam, and not something GE can do anything about.
Anyway the process is much simpler than it used to be. Here's my notes from last time I did it about a month ago or so. I race (badly) in AC pretty much daily.
Install game
select GE-Proton8-25 (get it from github if you don't have it)
run game and let it crash (takes like 15 minutes)
protontricks 244210 dotnet472 corefonts (about 20 minutes)
add fonts from here https://files.acstuff.ru/shared/T0Zj/fonts.zip (readme)
Install Content Manager in .steam/root/steamapps/common/assettocorsa/
set launch options to c="%command%";sh -c "${c::-17}Content Manager Safe.exe'"
mkdir -p $HOME/.steam/root/steamapps/compatdata/244210/pfx/drive_c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/Steam/config
ln -s $HOME/.steam/root/config/loginusers.vdf $HOME/.steam/root/steamapps/compatdata/244210/pfx/drive_c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/Steam/config/loginusers.vdf
protontricks 244210 winecfg, then add library override for dwrite.dll (native, builtin)
Run game, will launch CM
echo 'Z:\home\'$USER'\.steam\root\steamapps\common\assettocorsa' then paste that in the AC location when prompted
install your key for the full version
install CSP, then upgrade to 0.2.2 (will say Can't find INIReader::cache when launching if you don't), then upgrade to the preview if you want.
install anything else you want like SoL, pure, etc.
Drive!
I'm currently running AC in GE-Proton8-25... a little out of the loop I guess, what is broken?
This is.... exactly my setup too. Works great. The brio is a tiny bit weird in that it appears as two independent video devices in Linux, but choosing the right one is all that's necessary and it works fine.
TIL the Cammus C5 works as a generic HID Force Feedback device in Linux. That really makes up for the weird marketing.