Still no steering lock options in Assetto Corsa?

[Erik]

rFactor 2 has it. iRacing has it. Automobilista has it.

Every other sim let you set the steering lock in the car setup screen. Why is this still not implemented in Assetto Corsa?

I understand it's not realistic for the road cars, but for the race cars this is a must have. Going through hairpins with the Lotus Exos is still terrible because the steering lock is way to small.

[Mr Crisp]

Steam/steamapps/common/assettocorsa/system/cfg/ and edit assettocorsa.ini by scrolling to the bottom and changing [SOFT LOCK] to 1.

You're welcome.

[Dagestan Coach]

The problem in ac with soft lock is it can damage your wheel.

[Mr Crisp]

Originally posted by TomasytosLTU:

The problem in ac with soft lock is it can damage your wheel.

Is that anecdotal or evidence based?

The reason the developers did not make the option visible is because some wheels don't like it- I have never heard of it damaging anyones wheel as far as I know.

[bondyboy]

Steering lock via Content Manager is awesome, much better than kunos softlock

[Phil Mabole]

I have been using softlock since it first appeared and no damage to my wheel here at all...CM now has an experimental Hardlock feature...but just set your wheel rotation in AC control options and if it doesnt match your wheel on-screen then just set the wheel rotate limit (set it to half of your wheel rotation...ie wheel=500 rotate limit=250) in the view options somewhere.
It's really annoying when they make something configurable rather than a ton of presets eh?

[Manwith Noname]

I kinda feel like everyone missed the actual request and are talking about something completely different.

"Softlock" is something your FFB wheel does to prevent you from turning it past the "steering lock" when the degrees of rotation are lower than the maximum of the wheel. As in, you have a FFB wheel with 900 degrees rotation but the car you are driving only has 540, soft lock will try to lock the motors when you reach 540 degrees.

"Steering lock", as in the opening post, is a car setup option that allows you to decide how far your front wheels can turn at full input. In this case, you set a steering lock of 20 degrees and when you reach full lock on your FFB wheel, that's how far the front wheels of the car have turned.

[Erik]

And If you set softlock to 1, where in the game can you set your desired steering lock? I'm not talking about degrees of rotation for my wheel, that doesn't relate to the problem.

Originally posted by Manwith Noname:

"Steering lock", as in the opening post, is a car setup option that allows you to decide how far your front wheels can turn at full input. In this case, you set a steering lock of 20 degrees and when you reach full lock on your FFB wheel, that's how far the front wheels of the car have turned.

Excatly, different tracks require different steering ratio's. It's completely beyond my why this options is still not in the game, some cars really suffer on certain tracks because of it.

[Mr Crisp]

Originally posted by Erik:

Excatly, different tracks require different steering ratio's. It's completely beyond my why this options is still not in the game, some cars really suffer on certain tracks because of it.

I think you mean `steering rack ratio`- something that is changed per car in setup menus and no AC does not have any adjustable steering rack ratios for cars.

[Simon said EAT DUST PLAYER_1 !]

Originally posted by Mr Crisp:

Originally posted by Erik:

Excatly, different tracks require different steering ratio's. It's completely beyond my why this options is still not in the game, some cars really suffer on certain tracks because of it.

I think you mean `steering rack ratio`- something that is changed per car in setup menus and no AC does not have any adjustable steering rack ratios for cars.

I remember this option from past games and sims. Nice to have but a necessity back then when 240° of rotation was all you could get in a consumer-wheel, or any wheel for that matter.

Example given: anyone playing through the "driving-school" of true-vanilla Richard-Burns-Rally on a modern wheel with full rotational-window will suffer the default-setup's steering lock-stops, which were set up quite narrow for the above reason. You actually have to tune the front suspension-setup to give you all available steering in that game unless you replaced the defaults with something more sensible earlier from outside the game.

[Manwith Noname]

Originally posted by Mr Crisp:

I think you mean `steering rack ratio`...

That's what it is but it's never been handled in a game (that I've played at least but they've mostly been ISImotor derived) like a gear ratio. It's been handled as "steering lock" and the numbers are the angular degrees the front wheels can turn.

[Bigbazz]

One thing that it could definitely use on some cars, a few of the F1 cars can't actually make it around the hairpin at monaco due to this.

[Erik]

Steering rack ratio, steering lock, steering ratio, many sims use different names for the same setting. My point is that's it's crazy that AC never implemented this simple feature. As Bigbazz says, some cars aren't able to take a hairpin at Monaco. (Lotus Exos as an exemple)

Changing the degrees of rotation of your wheel doesn't relate to the problem, you will still get the same default lock.

[Dagestan Coach]

Or in ac settings set rotation to lowesr and in wheel settings change rotation based on a car