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Still on the hunt for a Fanatec wheel base, and steering wheel. Right now I am looking at these two options: Base: https://fanatec.com/us-en/racing-wheels-wheel-bases/wheel-bases/csl-elite-wheel-base-v1.1 Wheel: https://fanatec.com/us-en/steering-wheels/csl-elite-mclaren-gt3-v2 Thoughts? I have the Fanatec peddles, is there anything else I would need?
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I said come in! posted:Still on the hunt for a Fanatec wheel base, and steering wheel. Right now I am looking at these two options: That looks good and yes they're compatible. I have the wheelbase, it's great.
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Jan 25, 2021 17:37
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I said come in! posted:Still on the hunt for a Fanatec wheel base, and steering wheel. Right now I am looking at these two options: Those (along with the CSL loadcell pedals) are exactly what I have on the way. There's been some turbulence with Fanatec's support and communication, I preordered the wheel in December and there were conflicting reports from Fanatec themselves about whether there were stock and shipping delays. But thankfully that seems to have been sorted out by now and they're set to be delivered later this week. Taborcarn fucked around with this message at 18:53 on Jan 25, 2021 |
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Jan 25, 2021 18:18
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Thank you for the feedback everyone! Unless there is something really negative about the 1.1 wheel base, i'll be ordering that once the Elite McLaren GT3 wheel is available. I am going with this one for the price, and that I can clamp it to my desk.
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Jan 25, 2021 18:33
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I have the 1.1 wb and like it
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Jan 25, 2021 18:40
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I have it and it's a good base. I can't imagine wanting more power in my ffb.
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Jan 25, 2021 18:43
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May I also suggest, the GT Omega Apex wheelstand? https://www.gtomega.com/products/apex-steering-wheel-stand
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Jan 25, 2021 19:58
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Fanatec shipping seems to be getting better. Ordered on the 8th and everything arrived yesterday (25th). When I ordered one was marked out of stock until the 29th and another until the 16th. Haven't had a chance to play with them yet but I did take everything out of the box and looked it over, certainly looks like a massive upgrade to my g27.
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Jan 26, 2021 13:29
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I decided differently on what I wanted. Beep boop ordered. 
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Jan 27, 2021 00:23
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I said come in! posted:I decided differently on what I wanted. Beep boop ordered. Nice! I plan on picking up that wheel sometime later this year.
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Jan 27, 2021 00:31
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I want the formula v2 wheel for all the new buttons but I have the v1 and its not worth the money just to upgrade I really need to get around to building a button box
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Jan 27, 2021 01:38
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I want a csl but just can't ever pull the trigger. I need less hobbies. I dropped $400 on brewing poo poo in like 3 weeks time but just can't bring myself to put up the $500 for a wheel. Some day I will. Maybe I'll get one for myself from my bonus this year. Maybe because I just don't seem to find time to do iRacing.
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Jan 27, 2021 01:48
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Zaphod42 posted:I want the formula v2 wheel for all the new buttons but I have the v1 and its not worth the money just to upgrade Unless you want/need a "real" button box (for the haptic immersion or VR) I solved all my button needs for forever with an Elgato. It's a bit pricey for sure but very versatile, I've been using it for other games as well. GhostDog fucked around with this message at 17:03 on Jan 27, 2021 |
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Jan 27, 2021 16:59
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If you're doing vr it won't help much.
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Jan 27, 2021 23:17
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I think I saw a post somewhere recommending a $10 usb numeric keypad, and slapping some stickers on the keys. Feel like that would work ok with VR as well as be a lot cheaper.
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Jan 28, 2021 16:16
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My Fanatec order got updated with a tracking number last night. Now hoping FedEX picks it up today. The delivery is suppose to be this Saturday, I sincerely doubt that is going to happen though since its coming from California, to Seattle and this is FedEX.
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Jan 28, 2021 16:42
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GhostDog posted:Unless you want/need a "real" button box (for the haptic immersion or VR) I solved all my button needs for forever with an Elgato. It's a bit pricey for sure but very versatile, I've been using it for other games as well. Elgato Stream Deck is cool! If someone would like a cheaper alternative, they do an iOS/Android app as well that is $25 a year.
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Jan 28, 2021 16:44
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speaking of fanatec I heard they're coming up with lower cost wheels and bases for PS5.. is there any other news on this, will it work with PC? any idea for costs? I keep tyrign to pull the $500 trigger for CSL but keep wavering... esepcially since the base wheel isn't avaliable currently so I'd have ot up to the WRC for 30 more
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Jan 28, 2021 17:08
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The WRC wheel is significantly better with the new modular quick release, nicer buttons, and removable paddles if you want the fixed paddles for rally poo poo. It's with it over the base CSL rim IMO
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Jan 28, 2021 17:35
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So I'm paying this forward since House of the Dad did the same for me. I have a 3-month subscription code to iRacing if anyone wants, just reply. New accounts only.
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Jan 28, 2021 18:30
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I said come in! posted:Elgato Stream Deck is cool! If someone would like a cheaper alternative, they do an iOS/Android app as well that is $25 a year.
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Jan 28, 2021 18:31
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Taborcarn posted:So I'm paying this forward since House of the Dad did the same for me. I’ve been looking into trying iRacing recently (I’ve been posting in the new thread trying to figure out if the game is right for me) so having a little trial to try things out would be rad.
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Jan 28, 2021 20:42
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V for Vegans posted:I’ve been looking into trying iRacing recently (I’ve been posting in the new thread trying to figure out if the game is right for me) so having a little trial to try things out would be rad. Sure no problem, I just sent you a PM. Also if you haven't checked it out, here's the new dedicated iRacing thread. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3957190
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Jan 28, 2021 20:46
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FedEX picked up my wheel from Fanatec, i'll get it on Tuesday if all goes well.
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Jan 29, 2021 02:20
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I said come in! posted:FedEX picked up my wheel from Fanatec, i'll get it on Tuesday if all goes well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1ABjs0dFD8
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Alright Goons time for questions (maybe better in the SHSC thread somewhere but it's racing related). It's "give tater a little reward for his hard work this year" time. Eventually I'm going to get back into PC sim racing and iRacing, on the other and my PC is also used for non racing gaming a majority of the time. My budget has 2 options, I was going to upgrade my GPU from a 1070 but L O L that's not happening. 1: 1440P Monitor(2) (in budget category of like 75hz or so) Currently using some 24" 1080p monitors. This will NOT impact racing as I use VR 2: Upgrade my wheel from it's current G920 to a Fanatec CSL elite with WRC or Standard wheel (For the 50 bux it seems like the WRC is worth it) tater_salad fucked around with this message at 15:39 on Jan 29, 2021 |
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Jan 29, 2021 15:36
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Upgrade your wheel instead, that will be the better option overall in my opinion. Since you're doing VR, save up your money for when you can eventually buy a RTX 3080, you'll still need it even for iRacing, that sim is pretty system demanding in VR. Even on my RTX 2070, I have to turn a lot of settings down or just off altogether in VR. It's still a superior experience though and completely worth it.
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Jan 29, 2021 15:41
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I said come in! posted:Upgrade your wheel instead, that will be the better option overall in my opinion. Since you're doing VR, save up your money for when you can eventually buy a RTX 3080, you'll still need it even for iRacing, that sim is pretty system demanding in VR. Even on my RTX 2070, I have to turn a lot of settings down or just off altogether in VR. It's still a superior experience though and completely worth it. I was shooting for a 3070. I've found that my bottleneck was my CPU for iRaing honestly. I went from an intel 6600 to an AMD 3600 and ended up being able to pretty much turn on way more stuff and still get decent framerates at most tracks.
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tater_salad posted:I was shooting for a 3070. I've found that my bottleneck was my CPU for iRaing honestly. I went from an intel 6600 to an AMD 3600 and ended up being able to pretty much turn on way more stuff and still get decent framerates at most tracks. Nice! It might also depend on your VR. I use the Reverb G2 and it at least comes close to rendering 4K but it does it in 2 lenses, so the system requirements for it are steep as gently caress.
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I said come in! posted:Nice! It might also depend on your VR. I use the Reverb G2 and it at least comes close to rendering 4K but it does it in 2 lenses, so the system requirements for it are steep as gently caress. I'm using a Lenovo WMR one which is 2880x1440 (I think the 2880 is total not each panel but don't remember)
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Dan Suzuki did a lot of reviews about the best cards/hardware for iRacing in VR and not VR a while back. Didn't it turn out that even without SPS the Ryzen 5s were better for VR users?
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I said come in! posted:Nice! It might also depend on your VR. I use the Reverb G2 and it at least comes close to rendering 4K but it does it in 2 lenses, so the system requirements for it are steep as gently caress. Unless you've manually reduced the rendering quality in SteamVR, it actually is rendering roughly 4K pixel counts per eye to account for distortion of the image. To steal and tweak my recent post in the VR thread: By default, the rendering resolution with every headset is much higher than the resolution of the panels. "100%" rendering resolution in SteamVR, for example, automatically applies 1.4 supersampling (i.e. 40% increased resolution). You can look up technical explanations of barrel distortion, but basically your system renders a larger image and then fucks with it to make the center of your view display at the intended resolution, cramming in more pixels to offset the distortion of the lenses. For example, using the Valve Index, in order to see a clean 2880x1600 image (1440x1600 per eye), the PC has to render 4032x2240 (2016x2240 per eye), so a 40% higher resolution, which roughly doubles the pixel count (2880x1440 = 4.6MM pixels, whereas 4032x2240 = 9MM pixels). For reference, a standard 4K monitor displays about 8MM pixels. If I manually set SteamVR rendering to 1440x1600 per eye (as a lot of people do under the mistaken impression that the higher rendering resolution is a bug), then it'll look noticeably worse in the center of my view (where I typically look), as the center effectively won't display as the correct resolution, which is why the baseline supersampling is necessary. The Index isn't alone in this; every headset, including the old Rift and Vive, has done this by default (in SteamVR at least). It's one of the technical quirks of VR rendering. This is why VR games are so much more demanding than people would think by looking at the panel resolution: the rendering resolutions for the Index and Vive Pro are higher than a 4K monitor, despite lower total panel resolution than a 4K monitor. Assuming the G2 uses the same baseline 1.4 supersampling as other headsets in SteamVR, you're looking at 6048x3024 (3024x3024 per eye) something like 18MM pixels at 100% SteamVR rendering, roughly double that of a 4K monitor.  I don't have a G2, but there are some folks in the VR thread saying that you can reduce the rendering quality in Steam by quite a ways and still get a clean image, so maybe try that if you're having performance issues. Slash it down to like 75% and see if it looks notably worse, and go up or down from there. Shine fucked around with this message at 19:42 on Jan 29, 2021 |
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tater_salad posted:Alright Goons time for questions (maybe better in the SHSC thread somewhere but it's racing related). It's "give tater a little reward for his hard work this year" time. Eventually I'm going to get back into PC sim racing and iRacing, on the other and my PC is also used for non racing gaming a majority of the time. Do you have Gsync/Freesync?
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Zaphod42 posted:Do you have Gsync/Freesync? NVidia 1070 supports Gsync (and some freesync stuff depending on monitor I think). Generally As I understand Gsync is $$ compared to Freesync tater_salad fucked around with this message at 19:26 on Jan 29, 2021 |
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tater_salad posted:NVidia 1070 supports Gsync (and some freesync stuff depending on monitor I think). You need your monitor and graphics card to both support it. Generally nvidia is gsync and AMD is freesync. You also need to switch from HDMI to display port. But if you can, its suuuuuper worth it. If you're considering buying a new monitor I wouldn't buy one without it, seriously.
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I use a 144hz Freesync monitor that is "GSYNC Compatible" (so either AMD or Nvidia cards are fine) and god drat does Monster Hunter look silky smooth now. It was a wonderful upgrade from my old 60hz monitor.
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Zaphod42 posted:You need your monitor and graphics card to both support it. Generally nvidia is gsync and AMD is freesync. Yeah which is why I keep leaning more towards wheel. Monitors are going to cost me 700-1,000 if I go with "totally worth it on 2 monitors. I'd be looking at 1440 27" monitors with Gsync which are like 350/screen. Otherewise I'd have a 1080 and 1440 monitor and that doesn't seem like a real good move.
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Jan 29, 2021 19:34
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tater_salad posted:Otherewise I'd have a 1080 and 1440 monitor and that doesn't seem like a real good move. I run this exact setup and have no issues FWIW. One is even freesync and the other is 60hz HDMI sync, and still no issues. But I would say probably get the wheel anyways 
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Zaphod42 posted:I run this exact setup and have no issues FWIW. One is even freesync and the other is 60hz HDMI sync, and still no issues. Hmmmm.. I figured it'd kind of be a pain in the rear end and visually displeasing. I mean realistically I dont need 1440p for discord / websites. Food for thought, I guess i'll noodle it a little bit since 1440p gaming would improve all my games while wheel would only be improving my iracing/trucksimming.
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I run a 1440p main screen and then a 1080p secondary rotated into portrait, it's great.
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