Racer

Game name

Racer (Freeware racing simulation)

Genre

Racing simulation

Publisher

cruden

X-Sim plugin author

SirNoName / GUI frontend by cruden

Screenshot

  racerscreen5

HowTo: Install plugin

There are some setup steps to do, read the instruction below.

Type of export

Network protocol by cruden

race start detection

yes

Simulator output:

 

lateral acceleration

yes

vertical acceleration

yes

longitudinal acceleration

yes

gear switch force

yes

Gauge output:

game is in developement to the release date of this plugin / contact forum

current speed

no

current rpm

no

current tank fuel

no

current gear

no

current lapnumber

no

current possition

no

current tire informations

no

temperature of water

no

temperature of oil

no

last laptime

no

best laptime

no

flags

no

altimeter

no

airspeed

no

vertical velocity

no

attidude

no

heading

no

fuel flow

no

fuel on left side

no

fuel on right side

no

temperature of exhaustgas

no

oil temperature

no

oil pressure

no

turncoordinator

no

ambient temperture

no

ampmeter

no

Special output 1

none

Special output 2

none

Special output 3

none

Special output 4

none

Special output 5

none

Special output 6

none

The GUI frontend was delivered by the programer itself and shows you the lateral and longitudenal forces with pointers in the dialog. Because this simulation is still under developement, the used stable version used in the development of x-sim was 0.50 . You can download the whole racinf simulation from: www.racer.nl

Racer1

To get the plugin working there have to be done some additionally steps:
Choose the racer plugin out of the menu list in the force-profiler, the above dialog should appear.
This game has one differemce to the other plugins. You cannot run the plugin on the same computer, because it blocks its own network port. Sou you have to run the force sender on a seperate, second pc. Normaly the pc with the profiler installed.
Now open the game ini file named “racer.ini” and exchange the below shown section:

chair
{
  ; Controlling external G-force equipment old racer
  enable=1
  ; Output type:
  ;   0=pneumatic/hydraulic chair (G-force emulation)
  ;   1=force feedback data (Mz) (FCS/CS, Mainax)
  output_type=0
  ; Time (ms) inbetween each update
  time_per_update=1
  ; Where to send the data to
  host=192.168.0.46
  port=25030
}

replace the host entry with the ip address of your force-sender pc.
The ini file is not user friendly, so you have to open it not in the editor but with the wordpad of windows.

Hint: The “chair” section could be present from another installation. Remove it before inserting the above section.