VR Specific Assetto Corsa Competizione Hotfix Released

[Paul Jeffrey]

Kunos Simulazioni have released a new hotfix update for ACC, paying particular attention to addressing some VR related issues with the new Blancpain GT Series simulation.

Updates and hotfixes are always welcome in sim racing, and as such it is very nice to see that Kunos Simulazioni are not resting up with Assetto Corsa Competizione following the big 'Release 2' build deployment of October 10th. With that new release came the inclusion of VR gameplay for the very first time, and as can be expected with a new game, on a new engine platform, some things have still to be addressed before the latest version of the title can match the exceedingly high standards of the original Assetto Corsa simulation.

Not content to hold off until the next scheduled update, Kunos have today deployed a small fix to the simulation that has much attention to the world of VR gameplay, although it must be said that the latest hotfix release also works to address other issues of the title that have cropped up since the latest build, of which the details can be seen below:

Hotfix Update Notes
We are now online with a VR users dedicated hotfix introducing keyboard controls, fixed VR camera scaling (now 6DOF works properly) and some customization settings for your VR gaming experience.

To edit your HUD and camera preferences, head over to vrsettings.json, default location Documents/Assetto Corsa Competizione/Config/vrsettings.json (edit with notepad).

For further support and technical info, please go here ---> https://www.assettocorsa.net/forum/index.php?forums/acc-general-discussions.62/

• Enabled basic keyboard controls for UI (up, down, left, right, enter, back, pgup, pgdown)
  
• VR: Fixed wrong camera scaling that made 6DOF appear to not work correctly
  
• Added possibility to look left/right on current car and during replay (not only for the player car)
  
• Added possibility to centre view in VR by holding look left or right or back (or cycle left or right in the UI) keys for 2 seconds
  
• Fixed HUD not updating electronics values after car setup
  
• Fixed filter on Car Selection page
  
• Fixed pitstop casually affecting the wrong car
  
• Fixed gamepad vibrating when paused
  
• Different loading mode for some sound assets
  
• Fixed ambient sounds not paused during slow motion / FFWD in replay
  
• Better timing for start/stop music
  
• Events poliphony optimisation
  
• Tweaked sound distance attenuation for some events
  
• Fast Rolling start is now default in every Realism preset
  
• Fixed slow AI in very wet condition due to wrong detection of puddles
  
• Flames and Sparks are now not rendered in internal cameras in the focused car to avoid unwanted flashes
  
• Fixed offset values not refreshing when the camera is changed while in View Settings page
  
• Tweaked mandatory pitstop request timing
  
• Added minimum pit window length (5 mins)
  
• Fixed possible crashes after 30 minutes

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Happy with the new hotix? Does the latest build address the outstanding VR functionality of the title? How do you rate ACC in VR? Let us know your thoughts in the comments section below!​

 

[Celestiale]

I use this premade:
https://www.racedepartment.com/media/videos/assetto-corsa-competizione-the-epic-win-vr-fix.32143/

and then change one number: r.Tonemapper.Sharpen=3

Ingame Details Mid, Resolution Scale 100 and Sharpness 300

Yeah i have CV1

Thanks for posting, i am definitely going to try these as soon as lock to horizon is implemented

 

[Pedro Lebre]

Sorry for off topic.
Then sim racers were adult gentleman. The problem now is that Kunos seem to attract kidos from PCars, Grand Turismo and other simcade titles.

 

[Frank Alexandre da Silva]

Can anyone with a HTC Vive try the new motion smoothing for SteamVR with ACC?
https://steamcommunity.com/games/250820/announcements/detail/1696061565016280495

 

[pumpkineater23]

So, what are people's thoughts re the VR? Will there be a vast improvement as time goes on or is it seen by the developers as something that isn't that important?

 

[Giando Fraschini]

I use this premade:
https://www.racedepartment.com/media/videos/assetto-corsa-competizione-the-epic-win-vr-fix.32143/

and then change one number: r.Tonemapper.Sharpen=3

Ingame Details Mid, Resolution Scale 100 and Sharpness 300

Yeah i have CV1

Thanks man.

 

[Unionjackstar]

So these are my settings in engine.ini for a good, crisp view. I added negative r.mipmaplodbias=-0.8 and r.streaming.mipbias=-0.8. Because of more crisp textures dew to mipmaplodbias, i was able to reduce tonemapper.sharpen to 2, but that`s up to you.

To reduce ghosting a added r.TemporalAACurrentFrameWeight=0.2

Here are my full settings:

[ConsoleVariables]
r.TemporalAACatmullRom=1
r.TemporalAACurrentFrameWeight=0.2
r.TemporalAAPauseCorrect=1
r.TemporalAASamples=4
r.Tonemapper.Sharpen=2
r.SeparateTranslucency=0
r.HZBOcclusion=0
r.MotionBlurQuality=0
r.BloomQuality=0
r.EyeAdaptationQuality=0
r.AmbientOcclusionLevels=0
r.SSR.Quality=1
r.DepthOfFieldQuality=0
r.SceneColorFormat=3
r.TranslucencyVolumeBlur=0
r.TranslucencyLightingVolumeDim=48
r.LensFlareQuality=0
r.SceneColorFringeQuality=0
r.FastBlurThreshold=0
r.SSR.MaxRoughness=0.1
r.RHICmdBypass=0
r.DetailMode=1
r.RefractionQuality=2
r.MaterialQualityLevel=1
sg.ShadowQuality=2
r.MipMapLODBias=-0.8
r.Streaming.MipBias=-0.8

 

[Theodore 2019]

↑↑↑↑↑ THIS is what you should expect for a 2018 PC title standard. Something that Sony does with half of 1080ti and a third of a i7 8700K power in PS4-GT Sport. They call this make full use of hardware resources.

 

[2stains]

↑↑↑↑↑ THIS is what you should expect for a 2018 PC title standard. Something that Sony does with half of 1080ti and a third of a i7 8700K power in PS4-GT Sport. They call this make full use of hardware resources.

More like a third of a 1080Ti !
I wish more titles would push the visual realism as much as the physics and tyre model .
I play Sim racers to simulate real racing and having the visuals not realistic certainly doesnt help . I do use a Rift for all my sim racing so thats already a visual hit but when games look great in 2D it does come through to the Rift as immersion . When it looks cartoon like it makes it feel like it's a game .
This make sense to me , lol

 

[Zoltan76]

↑↑↑↑↑ THIS is what you should expect for a 2018 PC title standard. Something that Sony does with half of 1080ti and a third of a i7 8700K power in PS4-GT Sport. They call this make full use of hardware resources.

True, but in GT Sport the physics/realism is nowhere to iracing, rfactor, AC or R3E. And one must accept that since that's a fact. So the CPU don't have to calculate with so many variables.

 

[DowntownSIX]

↑↑↑↑↑ THIS is what you should expect for a 2018 PC title standard. Something that Sony does with half of 1080ti and a third of a i7 8700K power in PS4-GT Sport. They call this make full use of hardware resources.

It's worth pointing out that GT Sport was developed on a static architecture which affords developers a lot more opportunity to extract every bit of performance. AC, ACC, R3E, PCars, RF2, iRacing...they're all built to work on a broad spectrum of hardware, software, firmware and drivers. It's not fair to expect the same results.

 

[Deleted member 197115]

Big portion of AC and ACC CPU usage is not physics calculation but rendering thread, this is where systems get usually bottlenecked esp. in VR. You can easily monitor it in AC rendering app (MAIN T)

 

[Sim Strata]

I am having a Cartman style hissy fit over the lack of TrackIR support. We are an oppressed minority!

 

[Ricoow]

It's worth pointing out that GT Sport was developed on a static architecture which affords developers a lot more opportunity to extract every bit of performance. AC, ACC, R3E, PCars, RF2, iRacing...they're all built to work on a broad spectrum of hardware, software, firmware and drivers. It's not fair to expect the same results.

This. Also do never forget that screenshots are not real-time rendering

 

[Steve Worrell]

Mod Edit:
Check this out. I disliked this guy's comments about acc being garbage (even though it's in ea) and he has disliked all of my comments...

 

[Kenny Paton]

Check this out. I disliked this guy's comments about acc being garbage (even though it's in ea) and he has disliked all of my comments...

If he wants to act like an idiot why let it bother you, why give him any satisfaction.
And we have a report button if you have an issue.

 

[Zoltan76]

Mod Edit:
Check this out. I disliked this guy's comments about acc being garbage (even though it's in ea) and he has disliked all of my comments...

Pathetic...

 

[Butzemann]

Mod Edit:
Check this out. I disliked this guy's comments about acc being garbage (even though it's in ea) and he has disliked all of my comments...

Do you take him seriously?

 

[Steve Worrell]

Do you take him seriously?

Honestly never seen anyone do that before. Not sure who's the saddest him? Him for being so petty or me for caring hahaha

 

[2stains]

Mod Edit:
Check this out. I disliked this guy's comments about acc being garbage (even though it's in ea) and he has disliked all of my comments...

lol , maybe he just disagrees with every word you utter
I would be a bit embarrassed if that was my name

 

[Steve Worrell]

lol , maybe he just disagrees with every word you utter
I would be a bit embarrassed if that was my name

Maybe, but I already get that from the wife so could do without another person feeling like that haha