Assetto Corsa PC Mods General DiscussionPC

[24H]

a proper DTM2002 and PMR models coming to AC? really hope for the G82 GT4
looks like a bright future for AC

 

[Cote Dazur]

Excellent car with totally insane details. It's free from real specs. https://www.patreon.com/posts/143613469View attachment 1497690View attachment 1497691View attachment 1497689 View attachment 1497692

Thank you for sharing this amazing mod.
This mod is a VR enthusiast wet dream.
It demonstrate clearly that AC is, still in almost 2026, in many ways, superior to any other title available today.
the driver is PERFECTLY animated down to every details.
shifting, hands and feet, even activating the light lever in a perfect way when putting lights on, when activating four way flashers, when activating left and right flashers, when lowering down the door window! Just amazing.
This level of detail and accuracy is one in a million in AC modding.
How does he do it?
Why is not more common?
Thank you again for sharing this amazing work, please, someone, give that modder a medal.

 

[jac0]

I am working on the BMW M3 E92 MMK Engineering Widebody , adding extra skins mostly, but I also wanna fix this gap in the rear rims :

I know of the suspension.ini method to move the entire rim (as explained here)
but in this case to close the gap I need to move only 1 of the 2 rim meshes...
Luckely they are 2 seperate meshes , and I can select the inner part seperatly.
So can it be done via ext_config.ini then, changing the position of a single mesh instead of the entire rim?

I tried adding this in the skins config file:
[MESH_ADJUSTMENT_...] ;move rear rim
ACTIVE=1
MESHES = bbslm_center_lr_002
POSITION = -0.9, 0.326, -1.45

but the mesh doesn't budge...

 

[sDmD13]

a proper DTM2002 and PMR models coming to AC? really hope for the G82 GT4
looks like a bright future for AC

jk has something,, and yes u know there is more

 

[Rivanov]

@Peter Boese Yesterday I was just hotlapping the Nordschleife and enabled Fog. My FPS immediately went down from 157FPS (capped) to 60/70FPS. Even when I enabled Heavy Rain my FPS was around 130/140FPS. But Fog is hammering on my FPS.
Any idea why? I'm running triple 32" 1440p monitors (7680x1440) with a 9800x3D, RTX 5090 and 64GB DDR5.
Using PureLinear with latest CSP (preview) and Pure.

CPU usage was around 30% and GPU usage around 70%.

 

[xedos6]

@Peter Boese: What do you pay Lando's father for the advertising?

 

[Peter Boese]

@Peter Boese Yesterday I was just hotlapping the Nordschleife and enabled Fog. My FPS immediately went down from 157FPS (capped) to 60/70FPS. Even when I enabled Heavy Rain my FPS was around 130/140FPS. But Fog is hammering on my FPS.
Any idea why? I'm running triple 32" 1440p monitors (7680x1440) with a 9800x3D, RTX 5090 and 64GB DDR5.
Using PureLinear with latest CSP (preview) and Pure.

CPU usage was around 30% and GPU usage around 70%.

Maybe you set the quality settings to very high in Pure Config?

Those quality settings are just there for the groundfog shader, because this is very very CPU and GPU hungry in very high settings!
If you set this, please just set it to medium...

 

[Rivanov]

Maybe you set the quality settings to very high in Pure Config?
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Those quality settings are just there for the groundfog shader, because this is very very CPU and GPU hungry in very high settings!
If you set this, please just set it to medium...

I presume I have it set to very high because i thought that applied to Pure in general. And if the best CPU there is right now, can’t handle this… what can? 😉

Will try the medium setting!

 

[Pilot3331]

is it better if you reduce this in Pure Config?

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Hi. Any updates on this feature? It is overexposed on my system to. This slider does nothing for me.

 

[Vintagedriver]

I never noticed those shimmers in AMS2 ... what I did notice and ruins AMS2 for me is the drivers dissapearing after too short a distance and no way to change that , making karting a no-go in AMS2 .. other then that its almost a perfect VR implementation

There are definitely still shortcomings, one of which you have highlighted. The addition recently of blur factory TAA might have helped with that although the overall image softening TAA method means I avoid it. But all things considered the performance in all conditions and with any number of cars is what makes AMS2 my choice for VR in our hypothetical best sim.

Copy/paste from AMs2 okt 2025 update:
The TAA implementation aims to tackle some of the sims long-standing problems with jagged or shimmering edges, particularly in VR for some users.

Not saying TAA is THE solution but as it seems I was not the only one here who did face the shimmer thing, looking at the okt 2025 update. 😎 Btw I did not face the jaggies.
Think its all very personal as a sample with FPS (or better frametimes) I do prefer a straight low 60/72FPS more then high but fluctuating 90FPS in VR.

 

[Peter Boese]

Hi. Any updates on this feature? It is overexposed on my system to. This slider does nothing for me.

actually it is not in my space. Does it work in default weather script?

I presume I have it set to very high because i thought that applied to Pure in general. And if the best CPU there is right now, can’t handle this… what can? 😉

Will try the medium setting!

Actually the thinking "the best CPU" is not working for AC btw. AC just uses 2 cores and everything must be calculated on those. So it all depends on the CPU speed you use. But it is very limited for AC.

Esp. with the groundfog shader and the turbulences it depends how many cars are on the track and in sight. It will need a lot of calculation to do those turbulences.

 

[Pilot3331]

actually it is not in my space. Does it work in default weather script?

ok. thanks for looking in to it. probably csp or pp bug. it did not change when selected default weather controller. but it was ok when choosing default weather style.

 

[Peter Boese]

ok. thanks for looking in to it. probably csp or pp bug. it did not change when selected default weather controller. but it was ok when choosing default weather style. View attachment 1497831View attachment 1497832

I‘ll have a look…

 

[Perico Lospa]

Hi. Any updates on this feature? It is overexposed on my system to. This slider does nothing for me.

Now that you mention overexposure; ever since I updated CSP and switched to Pure, the background images I see while the game is loading look really overexposed, and I have no idea what's causing it...

Another thing that's gone wrong with the update is the "Photo Mode" application; with so many filters and adjustments it's hard to get the same look I have on screen while playing, and sometimes it does weird things, like misaligning the image... I guess I'll just have to get used to it.

 

[Pilot3331]

Now that you mention overexposure; ever since I updated CSP and switched to Pure, the background images I see while the game is loading look really overexposed, and I have no idea what's causing it...

Another thing that's gone wrong with the update is the "Photo Mode" application; with so many filters and adjustments it's hard to get the same look I have on screen while playing, and sometimes it does weird things, like misaligning the image... I guess I'll just have to get used to it.

Strange bugs. Background images are fine for me. Photo mode i use not very often, but it was ok some time back.
Im sure Peter and Ilja will make it work with an updates.
Maybe it will help Peter to find out what's wrong, maybe not, but i post some pictures with pure gamma 3.04 and with default weather style. PP filter is pure default one.

 

[24H]

Excellent car with totally insane details. It's free from real specs. https://www.patreon.com/posts/143613469View attachment 1497690View attachment 1497691View attachment 1497689 View attachment 1497692

anyone tried their other cars? are they good as well?

 

[Jezza819]

ASSETTO CORSA section in settings IS AC settings but thru CM.
Also everything at 0% yeah, its going to be buttery smooth, here's my setting

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That's a lot better. Thanks for that. I kept wondering why every recommended setting had all of the effects at 0. I drove Road Atlanta this past April in a Lexus LC500 and you could hear the tires on the pavement and feel the surface through the wheel as it turned through each corner. It wasn't numb and you just felt the pull like you're stretching a think rubber band. And that was in a road car.

 

[FrustratedUse]

anyone tried their other cars? are they good as well?

Their cars are fine, Nothing to write home about personally. Their 348 however isn't something i'll recommend.

 

[Longmont]

Could use some help here. I've been having a problem with Fat-Alfie's Battenbergring track where every time I bump into the hay bales that are in the first hairpin section of the track. My graphics driver taps out and the game crashes. This is the only part of the track where this happens and it never happens anywhere else. The CM error screen shows this.

 

[CrisT86]

Could use some help here. I've been having a problem with Fat-Alfie's Battenbergring track where every time I bump into the hay bales that are in the first hairpin section of the track. My graphics driver taps out and the game crashes. This is the only part of the track where this happens and it never happens anywhere else. The CM error screen shows this.
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Which CSP version did you have?

 

[SpeedStar2000]

a proper DTM2002 and PMR models coming to AC? really hope for the G82 GT4
looks like a bright future for AC

TOCA Race Driver 1: Assetto Corsa Edition (since the 2002 season was on the PC/Xbox release of the game)

edit: we get to do this all over again...23 years later.

 

[Longmont]

Which CSP version did you have?

I'm on 0.3.0-preview140. It runs fine outside of this problem though. The error.txt in my crash folder says "
ERROR: MULTIPLE KEY FOUND IN FILE [Material_Fabric_v2] Reflectance STILL USING OLD VALUE: 0.02"

 

[CrisT86]

I'm on 0.3.0-preview140. It runs fine outside of this problem though. The error.txt in my crash folder says "
ERROR: MULTIPLE KEY FOUND IN FILE [Material_Fabric_v2] Reflectance STILL USING OLD VALUE: 0.02"

Did you tried downgrade CSP? Just to see if it's an isolate case of CSP itself? I had a similar issue with an older version which was causing crash whenever i was hitting rails, haybals or anything around the track. Solved by updating CSP version

 

[Longmont]

Did you tried downgrade CSP? Just to see if it's an isolate case of CSP itself? I had a similar issue with an older version which was causing crash whenever i was hitting rails, haybals or anything around the track. Solved by updating CSP version

Everything seems to work fine with no crashes when I downgrade to 2.11. It's just strange that it seems to be only one track with this issue as I tested it with other tracks like Fonteny, Feldbergring and Deutschlandring with no crashes

 

[CrisT86]

Everything seems to work fine with no crashes when I downgrade to 2.11. It's just strange that it seems to be only one track with this issue as I tested it with other tracks like Fonteny, Feldbergring and Deutschlandring with no crashes

So that's the same issue i had with a older version 0.3.xxxsomething...

 

[Aaron Green]

I do use CM but I've never seen that page before or if I have it's been so long ago I don't remember it. I thought the FFB settings were controlled within the game itself. When I got this PC I remember going into the game itself to do FFB settings.

The problem I'm having is that a few days ago AC was being praised for having just the greatest FFB of any game and I thought "Really??" then I must be missing something. Because for me out of the now 6 games I have I would put AC at the bottom. It's just so neutral and numb. I run over curbs and I barely hear them or feel them. Every track feels buttery smooth. Yes you get the up and down undulations of the bumps but there's no road texture feel. Maybe there isn't supposed to be, I don't know. That got me to maybe trying to look at the game settings in case I'm missing something.

This is what my page looks like which kind of looks like yours

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Well this makes me sad to read.

 

[RMi_wood]

PMR fires everyone.
meanwhile...

 

[racinjoe013]

In my series of totally worthless mods, I bring you my next one. Once again it is a mod for the stock Monza track from Kunos to try to give it a little more race day feel. A month or so ago I did a mod to add more crowds to the seats. This time I added a few live display cameras around the track, plus a couple of other small things. Credit to the makers of the melbourne2019 track for the display objects I used.

It's a pretty harmless mod that can easily be disabled because it is all done through track skins. You will need to do a little leg work yourself though, but even that won't mess with your current track setup in any way. If you care to try it, follow the directions below.

1.) Download the attached zip file and extract it.

2.) Open the models.ini file and add these lines. Change the number to the next one in your sequence:

[MODEL_9]
FILE=monza_displays.kn5
POSITION=0,0,0
ROTATION=0,0,0

3.) Open the ext_config file in the extension folder and add these lines to the bottom of your file:

[MESH_ADJUSTMENT_...]
ACTIVE = 1
MESHES=Tv_Stuff_Monza?, displayboard?
IS_RENDERABLE = 0

;;;;; SKINS ;;;;;

[INCLUDE: ../skins/default/livedisplays.ini.dds]
ACTIVE = 1

[INCLUDE: ../skins/default/3dtrees.ini.dds]
ACTIVE = 1

[INCLUDE: ../skins/default/2025.ini.dds]
ACTIVE = 1

4.) Activate whichever skin you might want to use.

-- The Live Displays skin will allow the TV objects to be rendered. If you are in a practice session and don't want to see them, leave it disabled. To make adjustments to the display brightness, you will need to edit the livedisplays.ini file in the extension folder.
-- The Hide 3D Trees skin will disable all of the tracks 3D trees. I would use this if you plan to use the Live Displays because some of the 3D trees block the cameras. It can be used by itself though if you hate the 3D trees as much as I do.
-- The 2025 skin (it's a dumb name so feel free to rename it) gets rid of the last bridge before Variante Ascari. I noticed in some newer racing games that this bridge is no longer there. Since those games are based on newer versions of the track, I decided to eliminate it for myself for when I drive newer cars. For realism sake, you can disable it when you drive older cars and want a more accurate appearance.

 

[Jezza819]

Well this makes me sad to read.

Why?

 

[MrLonguinha17]

Several months on many sims, without playing AC1 that much. This is my conclusion how we could get the perfect sim.

Best driving simulator: Assetto Corsa (and it's not even close)
Best force feedback: Assetto Corsa, Automobilista 1, rF2/LMU
Most annoying flaws/issues: Assetto Corsa (lack of blue flag/outlap ai, lack of modern F1 rules, bad oval physics, no rolling starts etc)
Best kerb physics: Le Mans Ultimate
Best F1 game: F1 2020 (I absolutely love that game, superb, GOAT of all F1 games)
Best AI: F1 2020 (people argue that F125 but its rain AI is broken)
Best features in a sim: Automobilista 2 (rolling starts, good oval ai etc)
Best graphics: ACC / EVO? (actually I don't even care, they all look good enough)
Best driving GT3 cars: Le Mans Ultimate
Best rally game: Richard Burns (AC Rally when 1.0 is out?)
Most fun to play rally game: Dirt Rally 2 (my personal favorite, I know it's a bit arcadeish but it's so much fun)
Best online sim: iRacing
Most promising new sim: AC Rally
Most revolutionary sims: Geoff Crammond F1 games and RF1 set the standards for 10 years. RBR and AC1 set the standards for the next 10-15 years (still the standards which is sad).
Worst GUI/menus ever made: rF2 (I love the driving but can't use it because the menu system is horrendous)

Forgotten decent sims:

Raceroom (it's free now and after the update it's pretty good), Live For Speed (nobody remembers this classic, it drove well)

Conclusion:

If we could combine AC1's driving feel and FFB and modding possibilities with AMS2's features and iRacing's online system, AI from F12020, we'd have a perfect sim.

I'd love to praise EVO but I'm not feeling it... it's not bad but driving feels too much like ACC... AC1 driving feels so much more natural to me.

*disclaimer: Some people claim that F12021-2024 had even better ai, but those games were bad so I haven't played and tested them excessively. Either way, the ai is on completely different level in those games and all "hardcore sim developers" should be ashamed how atrocious the sim ai's generally are. AMS2 and LMU have half decent ai's.

What do you think? Is my list even close?

Making a similar analysis to our friend "Apocalipse211", for me it would be the following:

*Most complete simulator: Assetto Corsa (we can drive practically any car, from any category, in any era of motorsport), even with the minor problems mentioned.

*Best F1 game: of the modern era, I also agree with F1 2020 (it was also the last one with classic cars), but in my point of view (who knows, maybe in the near future), an official game with all seasons (or that would be added over time), even with licensing problems (driver, car, circuits, something similar to AMS 2).

*Best Rally Game: from what I've always read, it was or is "Richard Burns", but I believe Assetto Rally (could replace it soon), Dirt Rally 2 (almost complete), EA WRC (could be "the game") but it was a disappointment for me. I still partly prefer (WRC Generations), to fill the gap (diversity of cars/stages), we fall back on Assetto Corsa.

*Most Revolutionary Simulator: certainly the series by "Geoff Crammond" is still glorified.I remember very well when we did championships/races (me, my brothers and some friends), in the famous "hot seat" mode... which was also present in some rally simulators, but never in other games that followed (they emphasized the online mode)... but the "hot seat" mode was quite interesting.
Nowadays what we do (are "time trials" modes)... usually at my house (... the pressure of trying to find a fast lap), knowing that the opponents are behind your chair (cheering? for you to crash into the wall)....

*Worst GUI/menus: without a doubt, this award goes to Rfactor 2, even though it's a very good simulator.

*Race Room: very good (with frequent improvements and updates), new packs are offered regularly (but few participate) when compared to other simulators.

*Automobilista 2: For me, we could say it's Project Cars 2 (of the modern era). A multitude of content could still be included. In my opinion, the versions of the classic tracks are unbeatable.

*Assetto Corsa Competizione: has always been a game (that requires a lot of hardware to run minimally) somewhat similar in this respect to Le Mans Ultimate (in my case, I can play much better).

*Best online simulator: from what they always say, iRacing has a guaranteed spot, but it's not for my "pocket, $$$$".


Result: To take the place of ASSETTO CORSA, it will be very difficult in the coming years, only if something similar happens with Assetto Evo (migrating the official and mod content to that title).