iRacing: Find a second with simple legal brakes hack

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The curse of iRacing is the inability to modulate brakes with the lower end controllers (Logitech and cheaper Fanatec kit), for many brakes on iRacing are like an on and off switch – the pain may well be over!

Brake pressure adjustments for controllers seemingly non-existent in the most popular organised virtual racing community. Both Assetto Corsa and rFactor 2 provide brake pressure adjustments.

This allows drivers to mimic the percentage of input required through the brake pedal and modulate how the pressure is delivered, allowing for more effective and realistic trail braking.

Aliensimracer explains how there is a workaround if you fiddle around with some files as explained in this video, which for now appears to be a perfectly legal tip that most sim racers will appreciate.

He writes in the intro: “Are you struggling with braking? Always locking up your wheels? Can’t trail brake? Then WATCH THIS! …Ok it’s not literally a hack but you do have to change some figures in a notepad file, so it’s kinda cool? Improve lap time by one second per lap GUARANTEED.”

9 Responses

  1. Holy God in heaven… “FFB only slows you down”

    How does the poor owner of this site deal with these comments. I’d have off’ed myself by now. Here the guy goes… posts a nice little trick to help almost anyone without load cell brakes. This is what he gets in return.

  2. You are the most insufferable type of person I come into contact with. The rare combination of the braggadocios/cynic/narcissist. I don’t even know why I am bothering to type this because I know it will change nothing as your type doesn’t even know what the word “introspection” means… but when I read comments like yours and can hear the “AKCTUALLLYYYY…” in my head…

    …its beyond grating and I just had to let you know a couple truths I almost can guarantee to be true about you:

    1.) You aren’t as good as everything as you think
    2.) The comments you think show how witty and clever you are make people wince internally.

  3. My controller works on any analog brake (not for optical encoders), on any game, fully adjustable anytime, including turn by turn with digital readout. Was $50 when i built it, now with aliexpress, under $20. With slight modification, also a gas controller. Here is my Momo wheel with leo controller, got rid of force feedback, it just slows you down. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/07572426ef91db9192efa4c975e1ff79896e1b05e24362b6bd24da4029229bde.jpg

  4. I found a second and I have been on the service a while. The adjustment should be in the iRacing controller options
    Simple add which they refuse. Maybe pressure from high-end wheel/pedal manufacturers?

  6. I designed a electronic braking controller in 2003, works well and is adjustable on the wheel, your only 17 years behind, lol.

  8. So I’ll go from about .75 off the aliens, to the fastest in the world by a few tenths? Wow! How have I never heard of this?

    Seriously, there might be a second to be found in braking if your braking is poor, but there’s only a tenth or two in it at the pointy end.

  9. Did the end of the article get cut off? That was not a complete sentence! FML I’ll have to watch the damn video! I hate watching videos on my phone!

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