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I've watched this through about 4 times trying to make sure I didn't miss anything, only one question arose, why did you have us measure width across the three screens? I didn't see us use that measurement. Now for the good news you are probably not going to believe.. this works on an old low budget system! I have an i5 3750k intel processor, on an old Asus motherboard w/ 32 gigs of ram, and a Nvidia 1660 Super card, triple 27 75mhz monitors and this runs at mostly high graphics settings in game and I actually gained a few fps, (now @65 to 70) ...and this is with world plane distance set to 30..... I, like so many others have said, feel more connected to the car, I normally don't run much road course racing but tested at Laguna Seca because I have it memorized the best and I could hit apexs like never before and loved how the rumble strips felt real and in the right place as I drove over. My usual is oval tracks and I tested at South Boston in the Late Model Stock, I feel like I am driving the car instead of being at it's mercy with it driving me is best I know how to explain it. I have a feeling that if the iRacing R&D folks find out about this video it is going to make for some busy days! 4 years now in iRacing and this is the most useful info I have seen yet!

Fantastic video. Informative and Fun. Any chance we the people can get you to apply this knowledge to other sims? I’m sure some of the other heavy hitters (AC, ACC, AMS2 & RFactor2 just to name a few) would greatly benefit.

Amazing video! I am running a single 45” (39”wide) R800 Curved. Would your course still apply? I assume that the changes to the files are applicable but what about the updates to the Monitors parameters? I am 790mm instead of your 635mm from screen. Should I start with a Nearplane of 30 like you did or higher?

Wow. This was awesome. Thank you. Questions: do you have any schematics or more measurements documented about the assembly? Also, what dash you are using in your Lumirank replica? The one I found only shows the flags, nothing else.

I rarely comment, but thanks for putting in the effort! Way more connected to the car and much better at hitting the apexes!

This has totally made the ffb match the image. Love your work

Just to be clear, for people with Flat screens, do we select curved monitors in the monitor settings too?

Sorry for a perhaps stupid question, but is this method for triple screens only? Or can it be used with a single Odyssey G9 (49", 1000R). Thanks.

I'm struggling with the decision between curved and flat 32 inch monitors. I like the idea of greater immersion, but the distortion on the sides is off-putting for me. I'm currently leaning towards the flat ones.

Here is an idea for a project or video... I never did track days, never was in a gt3, i cannot tell what feels "right" all that well. You could try to explain to me (us), how to train our senses in a simulator (iRacing). My eyes are mostly focused on the middle screen, and thats where i get 95% of the ques from. When i look around, i nofice my general awareness go slightly up, but id have no idea how to maximize it, as im too focused on the middle screen.

27:36 FOV 😅😅😅😅😅😅 Took me so long to pause it just in time 😅😅😅

im not getting the near plane value change... what am i looking for exactly? ffb difference? visual difference? some other feel difference?

I used the NASCAR truck as my test vehicle at Algarve. The league I’m in races stock cars on road courses. The fov literally feels perfect in the truck but when I switched to the street stock at USA National oval it feels as though I’m sitting too far back in the car. Should I leave the fov static & just adjust the X-axis in the camera tool to compensate?

I’ve watched this a couple of times to try to implement it into the sim I race. Do you have your fov ~186?

Too many unnecessary things are explained just to make the video longer .........

Hello Sense of Speed! After following your instructions and driving several parade laps to configure Near Plane I noticed an immediate change in the way I receive FFB from the sim. Not only does the FFB activate in time visually, but it also feels less compressed and slightly lighter than before. Until now the FFB has always felt somewhat disconnected and I've never really felt like I was fully in tune with how the car was reacting. I ran a single hot lap test with my old FOV setup and your new FOV setup. Following the same hot lap drive, and same line with no mistake that I felt would invalidate the honest attempt and validity of the comparison, I ran 7 tenths faster with the new FOV. As you explain in your video I honestly believe this setup change has completely changed not just the FOV, but the way I interpret FFB and I'm more capable and confident in the car. Thank you for your work on this so far and I'm thrilled to see the next video!

in relation to vr headsets?

Sorry forgot to ask @Sense of Speed but what is the distance between you screen and the front of your wheel rim? And what angle is your wheel base set too? I’m finding it hard to get it so my arms are closer to my sides like yours and have the screen at 63cm from my eyes so this measurement should help me greatly. Cheers and sorry to keep asking things in different messages I just didn’t want to overload one comment lol

@Sense of Speed off topic but do you have a link to the brake bias knob please I’ve been looking for so long to get one that size but no luck

Having owned a serious triple rig for half a year and always intuitively feeling that my, and other rigs are somehow off with fov/perspective even after rigorous adjusting and measuring - finally with your work applied I feel the road flows similarly in the simulator, as it does in normal IRL street or track driving. So Much Better. Thank you

pretty good! can you do this adjustment for other sim titles? AC? rf2/LMU? raceroom? AMS? ACC?

I have a single 49" ultrawide following your advice the setup felt a little strange for a little while but I was very quickly hitting every apex. You easily earnt a click on the like and subscribe buttons. I can't wait to see where this goes.

I have to say i was skeptical on trying to change these setting you spoke in this video but i decided to try out. Wow what difference. I followed your video set by step and it was easier than i thought it would be. Thank you so much!!!

I really love the narration style however the background music is a little grinding while trying to concertrate on what you are saying. Lighten the music a little while talking detail. Will subscribe fs

Quick question do you adjust the color of the screens at all or are they just stock colors ? And if so what settings do you run? I use to turn up the vibrance in nvidia to 80 but I have va panels and I think oled monitors would be a big game changer for me

This was great. Thank you guys. I always wondered about whether or not my POV was right. Already tried a lot of other things with some good results, but this really made the driving feel more natural. I'll let you know if the lap times improve as a result. Can't thank you enough.

No. My iRacing folder looks completely different than yours. And those files aren’t anywhere on my windows PC. Also when I setup an AI race my interface looks completely different. Any ideas? Not asking you to do any more work you’ve done a ton already, but happy to send screenshots if you want to provide an email.

I thought this was a scientology video after a while. Very little cohesion between points, and they are being made just to immediately drop into something unrelated, then brought back without any connection to anything. iRacing renders perspective poorly is the only outtake I can gather, and all the hacky values are just to deal with that and have nothing to do with FOV, perspective or rendering

I don't even have a setup that will allow for tweaking things to this degree (yet) but this has been incredibly insightful and very thorough. Especially the breakdown of how we perceive things in 2D space in relation to real world scale. I'll be sure to come back to this the instant I have the gear to support the full baseline you've established.

Wow! Hats off to you my friend. Took me a few times watching the video til i fully understood everything involved. (Not a knock to you, im just slow and stoopid) Simply amazed how everything feels alive from the tracks to the wheel and FOV adjustments. Its like a brand new game for me. (iracing) Something here for everyone to learn. Thank you for a deeper understanding for a hobby we all love! #FakeRaceCarLife

Hi great build glad to see your back. I can't for the life of me get crew chief to workwith my stream deck just trying to assign a button to start it up any idea hiw I can get a icon on my desktop can only get it to my task bar

Nice job researching this!

Hello, not sure if anyone has commented to this head-scratcher, but my iRacing folder looks nothing like yours and the rendererDX11Monitor file and the app file do not exist for me.

Im curious wich wheel is the one u use?

complimenti dall'italia per l ottimo lavoro

Great video. Will you be doing this for other sims like ACC?

been playing with the settings, but cant see any different when changing point size or near plane. Looks exactly the same

Great video. I am hitting apexes much better now. And riding close to the wall in NASCAR is so much easier now. Thank you for your work. Question? Curious how you came up with adding 50 to the width and putting “12’s” in front of the width and radius numbers? Is it arbitrary or is there a reason? Also, what is the purpose of measuring the 3 monitors width than dividing by two? You came up with 656, but you never used it anywhere?

Hey mate, thankks for this amazing video. i just wanted to know why it is important to stay at X 0. What should i do if i want to move the seat to not see the ear of the bucket seat anymore?

It's strange.. I seem to get a little motion sick when I drive with these settings. My usual setup is 32", 630 eye distance, 60 degrees angle. FOV 177 Doing this I end up with 191 fov, 1200 radius (140cm between my monitors, so 700 to begin with, adjust distance in game and then switch to 1200). They look extremely similar, but the new one it feels sliiiightly more natural to hit the apex, but I get quite a bit of motion sickness..

Shoot. amazing

Thanks!

Thanks

Great work, thank you. I tried this on a 24" triple setup on a motion sim. Eye distance is 460mm, Screen Angle is about 45deg. Really helped reduce the "Stretched" apexes, and I feel more natural at turn in points. Only thing I had to change was the bezel width. Had to increase it from 4 to 12mm after applying the 12 factor on the screens. Looking forward to more.