Jar... Ur not aware of the camera obstructing some details on the screen? On next video could u make it smaller or move it completely down or up? When u explain tires u say: "...u want to do this..." and u changing something but i cant see it because of your camera :(
its people like you that i cherish, you are the pinnacle of good sportsmanship. Its a competetive scene but still you are selfless in your thinking. While other people keep their tips and tricks hidden in a vault. You choose to make everyone else better. I appreciate you and i hope that the community appreciates you! Thank you for being a good lad!
@@marcodolci15231.9 nerfed the neg. toe cheat (max turn in with zero stability reduction). Now it still works, and there are other hacks too which can gain you .5 -2 ecs per lap IF you know about it....if you don't your just scratching your head thinking how the heck?
I can't describe how grateful I am. I struggled with Zolder for two days, tried a bunch of different setups and I just couldn't go below 1.29.800. I applied the tips you said and I went 1.29.120 just 5 minutes ago. I can't believe it. I appreciate your work so much and the fact that you try to help other pilots to is awesome. Greetings from Hungary!
You've opened Pandora's Box with these secrets. Straight away I've beaten my PB's on Watkins and Nurburgring. At one point 1.56 around the Nurburgring was a barrier for me but now getting consistent low 1.55s. On this track especially it's made a huge difference on sector 1 where in the Macca I never had confidence in the rear end as it always wanted to oversteer but feels so much more planted now with these base settings. Thanks Jards!
I just started playing again a couple days ago after taking some time off right after the 1.9 update released. I was all over the track and not having fun at all. All I did was follow your generalized suggestions and this is a whole new game. Thank you for giving me an easy to follow starting point to dial things in. Learning to drive all over again.
I have been sim racing and a subscriber for nearly 3 years , i am 64 years young, and this is the best info video i have seen, using this i managed a 1:16.3 at SPA, you certainly know how to make an old man happy ;D
Good explanation and will give anyone a good starting point for making setups in 1.9. Learning everything can be very time consuming and seem impossible almost but i also think it's rewarding to drive something you made yourself and finally be able to fine tunes things. It takes alot of time on the track and changing things just a few clicks at a time to really build up that knowledge. But after having a good understanding it's easier to take bigger steps if the car feels wrong
I agree totally. Like Jard can just go min or max in tuning experiments "for science," as he said, but it seemed totally helter skelter to me... I couldn't do that. I wouldn't know what happened or how or why. I would have to do incremental changes for each and every tunable item one at at time just to learn what it does... Sucks to be a rook.
@@virtualawakening2299 yeah exactly, been there. It takes alot of time to have understanding of what everything does and why, but more importantly what to try and when. On paper it just says more oversteer but raising the rear by two clicks can change the whole balance of the car while one click stiffer rear arb and two less diff preload made it perfect. Needs alot of attention also while driving to pick up these differences when making small changes
This is the content WE NEED from you brother! Thanks! Any and all things like this coming from people like you are what we need out there to put other rumors of setups to rest.
2k hours spent in ACC, but only of late have I started messing with setups. Releasing something like this means so much to not only me, but I imagine so many others. This will be a go to video when working on setups
As someone who is new to ACC, this is fantastic. Great overview of what each area does to the car, can't wait to get in and get practicing and fine tuning!
I was HARDSTUCK at 1:42 on Kylami and now I can do 41s so easily. It's insane, I feel that many people understand the physics enough to tune setups but this knowledge of silly game mechanic metas is what's missing. Thank you for revealing these secrets
I was driving Porsche at Suzuka at felt like i had hit a brick wall. I watched this video and immediately on the next lap i had improved by 2 SECONDS! mad, youre a legend my guy
You are doing god's work with this video. The feeling that others know setup "meta" in the current patch that I don't know about drives me crazy. Thank you so much for this!
Yeh. I remember when 1.9 came out, and Jards was just min-maxing things seemingly at random, "for science!" as he called it. lol. But he could pull information from it that I couldn't. lol. I'd have to use Motec and ACC Engineer and then explore onwards!
I have 1200 hrs on acc and in top 10% of LFM drivers always using setups ive found on YT. This is giving me the comfortability to start pursuing selfmade setups more tailored to my driving style. This is by far the most informative and helpful video explaining ACC setups ive ever watched. Ive learned a lot. Thank you so much for this!
Jardier, thank you so much for sharing this information. I had been stuck in the mid 2:16.2s at Spa in the Maclaren Evo until I gained some very helpful advice from you. Only hours after watching, I turned a 2:16.000 in a public server Qualifying Session using two of the tips you shared. Two and a half tenths of a second is a huge jump and I owe it to your knowledge and willingness to benefit others by using your platform to teach. Again, thank you, Jardier!
@@Jardier - Using your tips, I have continued to develop my set and turned a 2:15.522 at Spa. I routinely qualify in the 15s now and run race laps down to the 15.7s. Thank you, again, for sharing this information. I am a better racer because of you!
Just found this video yesterday. I have followed your advice and it has changed my world. All the frustrations of track limits, slow lap times and poor SR are gone. Thank you Jardier. Legend. ❤
You have basically just gone and updated the default aggressive preset now. When I'm making a new setup now I'll just go and instantly change these things and then start making my setup from there. Thanks a lot Jardier!
ummm... You might want to try starting from the default aggressive setup and then use ACC Engineer to help with the tuning. You won't have the extreme setup that Jards recommends... On the other hand, you can start from Jard's extreme settings and then use ACC Engineer and Motec to help tune your car!
VERY useful, Thanks, Jardier!! I tend to be an intermittent ACC player, and hadn't really kept up with the latest info on the newest update, so this is 100 percent the video that I needed.
Monza is my home track, and with these tips, I've modified the aggressive preset and so far gained about .3s and I can feel room to improve, thank you for this video man. I'll definitely be playing with some settings with much better understanding of what they do now.
@Jardier this video helped so freaking much!! Was having a hell of a time with understeer and no traction, applied these steps to my setup now and won my first race last night and got a top 5 in the second one!! Much love and respect bro!!
Thanks @Jardier, nice and useful content. I tested in 8 laps, and it gave me ~0.3sec, but most importantly with more stability. I prefer low wing higher rear ARB. But the fun part, i loaded safe setup in Imola, and in 4th lap i had just +0.2sec gap until last two corners, where i collected +0,4sec :D. I was surpliced how well the safe setup performs with a small driving style adoption.
This tips help me A LOT! I was never able to do Blanchimont (Spa turn 17) at full throtle. Understanding theses tips I was able not only to make my car better but also understrand what I was doing. Thanks from Brazil!
This is such a useful video. I did a quick test and I gained about 2 seconds in SPA, and I barely scratched the surface, I didn't even go that extreme on the suspension and dampers. Thank you so much sir! I fully agree with the other comments, kudos to you for the good sportsmanship and helping everybody else enjoying the game, where many others guards even just the tips and tricks.
One thing that I would really like to see, would probably be very long though, but like a explained video about each item, like wheel toe, what it is and how it affects the car, then the dumper and wings and so on, most of the time we just have the "bars" and you move it left or right, until it "feels nice"
great video. only peice of advice is move your self camera. everything you did on the left rear was hidden. Only if you repeated it on the right was it visible. there were several times where you said "you do this here" and did not say the numbers out loud so, it could not be seen. Thanks again for your hard work!
Thank you so much Jardier! Just the basic setup guidelines you showed mad me like a whole 2.5 seconds faster around Kyalami in the NSX! I am so happy right now! Thank you!!!
OMG 😊 Thank you so much. I have been playing around with settings to find a stable base to build from and you’ve only gone and supplied it. First run out at Nurburgring and I managed to find 3 seconds. I’m so grateful… keep sharing your tips, we love them. 😉
Thanks so much for this. I just started getting back into ACC with the Ferrari 296 and I was struggling for pace. After watching this vid and making changes to my setup, I instantly cut down my lap times.
I'll scribble some notes here. Optimal tyre pressure - high 26's. Negative camber - always maximum, little less in rain. Full negative toe on rear for max rotation, or at least more exaggerated than default. But use this less often than previous update/version. Highest caster - allow more rotation. Full negative toe on front. Minus 0.05 on negative toe if you want to be conservative, especially on endurance race. Low TC. Higher on the newest McLaren. Low ABS. Even 1 in rain. TC2 on zero. Maybe 1 in rain. Brake pads at level 1 in 90 minute races. Level 2 between 2 and 12 hour races. Level 3 for 24 hours. Lowest steer ratio for most responsive. Middle for some cars like Ferrari, porsche, bmw, audi. Lowest setting on front and rear mechanical grip for best grip and tyre life and allow turning on throttle. Rear bump stop range at 20. Very low front bump stop range allows responsive steering but understeer on throttle, and more understeer overall. Higer or highest front bump stop range lets you rotate on throttle! Increase rear wheel rate a little bit if you still need more oversteer. Front anti-roll maxium for Ferarri and very low on rear roll bar. Or increase rear roll bar on Nurburgring, especially in McLaren. Low preload for more turning off throttle. Higher preload for stability off throttle but more oversteer on throttle. Bumps on zero and rebounds on MAX! Perhaps 1 front bump for stability or 1 rear bump for oversteer. Brake ducts at 3. If track temperature is hot as 50 degrees have high ducts. If temperature is low as 15 decrease ducts. Very low or lowest front ride height. Experiment yourself on rear ride height and wing. Thank you Jardier! Oh and fast rebound has been my best friend when it comes to curbs even in the older updates. I really can't remember a single situation at all that having fast rebound set too high has been detrimental to my driving.
OH MY GOD, I'm enjoying the game so much more after this, I went from qualifying towards the back of the pack and finishing in the same place, to qualifying in the midfield and starting to get my first top 10 finishes in LFM races, thx man
Hey Man, it did not feel long and definitely not exhausting! Great to hear opinions based on experience - super valuable! As a followup to this it would be fascinating to see you put this on a random car/track and watch you test/adjust as you go, maybe showing how to feel when something is "too much" or "not enough"
OMG!!! He can't do a methodical "test" 🤣 There was a live stream when 1.9 first came out, and he was just insane min maxing different settings, "FOR SCIENCE!!!" but like for reals, it was just insanity! He was changing settings so extreme and totally min maxing stuff at random, and I thought, how can he get any info from this chaos??? There was 0 scientific methodology to it. I think he would go insane and stab someone if he had to do one click at a time on settings... 😅🤣
for our last league race on suzuka i had a peek at your setup for the 720 evo and could not believe you actually run the dampers like that... until i tried it. now i just default my dampers everywhere to that setting and it works a lot better than what i can manage with motec. you can probably get even better results with motec if you have an actual engineer looking at your data but for us normal amateur drivers the min/max dampers work like a charm. i've adapted a lot of your setup into my way of thinking, like the anti rollbars, preload, tc settings... before this i was running tc on 5 or 6 on the 720 evo and it was so boring out of slow hairpins. yesterday i played around some public lobbies with some friends and got these laptimes with a quick setup: suzuka 2.01.1 spa 2.18.2 nurburgring:1.56.1 all with those dampers and that mentality in the setup work. obviously you can only do so much with a 15min qualy and a 20min race and jumping around to other tracks after every race, so i'd probably be even faster if i was focussing on 1 track for like a 2hr league race.
Im so happy mate it works good for you! If you work around it more and find good values its soooo easy if you create like a base setup you can use anywhere almost :D
Thank you so much for the explanation for what each setting does. I'll watch it a few more times to fully digest though. Question: Is there a certain percentage you look for on the front aero variation? You could almost do a video for each section for us setup handicapped people like me.
heh heh heh! I believe Jards is just as setup handicapped as you! He just has skillz that make him fassst! No really! Watch some of his live streams when 1.9 came out. His tuning method was not scientific at all, but mad scientist gone insane! It was funny, but totally opposite of confidence inspiring! You have to watch and like!
I used this as a base and changed a few things around as they felt better and I swear even with a lap with less than good lines I took 3 seconds off my best at COTA. You’ve got my subscription now. Epic stuff
Thank you very much. I tried adjusting the base line setups but reached a point where I felt that the setup was limiting me. Following standard advice was always "don't go too soft or the car will be sluggish or unstable". I started with your recommendations and now have a setup for the Nordschleife where I am the limit. The car can do more and is still as stable as my previous attempts while turning much better. Thank you for this guide1
I've been struggling to get back to lap times in 1.8 version and just tried your setup tips, spent an hour practicing on Spa in Mclaren 720s EVO and have beaten my previous best by 0.5s . Thank you very much , brilliant advice.
As a novice to simracing setup I think incredible can't be enough to describe how good this guide is to a beginner like me. Setup is scary and confusing but with this explanation I can finally understand the most important part for a good handling car. Thank you very much, your kindness is inimitable
Thank you for this. I play single player and only want to challenge myself in my Nissan GTR, which is great fun to drive. I just need to not have a job or a family so I have enough time to try your suggestions out and tweak things per track!!
This makes great sense from a meta perspective, really appreciate you sharing these tips. For us people lower split 1, we trying so desperately to find that 1s were off pace, and this just got us a lot closer. Ty!
This has changed acc for me 100percent,i watched lots off you're videos,and i said too myself he's very precise with his driving, iv just tried you're settings, omfg i can drive really good now,thank you for sharing
I so much appreciate you taking the time to go though this! I haven’t run 1.9 yet but going to soon. Always before I really struggled w ACC, th car Never felt planted, hoping this will help. Thanks again so much for sharing this info with us!!!
I am back after 2 years, and will continue to do sim racing, and Jimmy and Jardier are two faces I see are still around and even stronger and with even bigger enthusiasm. It is amazing. Great video bud!
I had to watch this video a couple of times to get all the information, but I really like this kind of "exausting" video! :D Tried this changes yesterday and it was mindblowing! The car is behaving a lot better now!
this completely revolutionised my game man. i applied these changes to my aston setup and although i didn't immediately gain any time, i'm able to lap very close to my PB (still not very fast lol) so consistently and it feels so much better to drive. definitely agree the setups feel a bit less "passionate" with just min/max dampers and bumpstops but i always found them very tedious as someone who doesn't get much time to race, so this video was a godsend. thank you so much
Thanks for the intel! I can’t wait to try this. Great to have you break it down so simply and easily to what does what. That has always been my problem not knowing what to change when the car does Xxx. Thanks again! great video!
Thank you, Jardier, I hope this helps me. Audi was my car until 1.9, so I hope this info helps me figure it out again. It has become a very unpredictable car.
Im going to test this soon. I like sim racing, but life takes too much time, so I get to race maybe once a week so I dont have time to setup and test cars. I would really like some servers with locked setups so People would be on same starting point. Of course driving styles suite some setups more than others, but it just frustrating to give up 2s a lap just bc you dont have time to test all setups. So thanks for this. Ive tried some TH-camr setups before and gotten 1-2s of my lap with them, but they were much more conservative. Looking forward to driving yours.
Thank you for this video. It somehow shows how weird the ACC physics are. I would have never come to the idea to run such extreme values, for example on anti-roll bars and dampers. But if it works, it works...
Hey man, I know it’s an old video but I just watched this and implement some of these set up tips and im knocking off over 1 second on every track. So just want to say thanks for the tips and sharing your knowledge with everyone, great work!
the higher the caster, the more camber you create while turning the wheel, look videos of old mercedes S classes running high caster the front tire always sits like this /. So the main idea is, the higher the caster the less static camber you need to take to reduce inner wear on straits. Also the higher the caster the "force" with the wheels want to go straight again is much higher, thats why lots of the drift cars use high caster to make the wheel rotate faster to 0° 🙂 Also negative toe in front makes the inital turn when moving the wheel quite response, wether in the middle of the corner you will miss feedback. negative toe on the rear makes the car very oversteery as the tires are like this \ / now when you turn the chassis rolls on the outer tire and this wants to go to the outside of the corner so thats the most carefulpoint on that ;D
Then you buy a setup from a reputable company for the AMG Merc in ACC and they run with max caster, max neg camber, max etc. It works but makes no sense and leaves no room for adjustment
Thank you for a great video explaining all these things! I just got myself ACC after playing around in free roam in AC, and I much prefer ACC. And now I got an idea of how to set up the cars as well! So far I have been driving them as they were, so it will be interesting to see if I can improve.
Thanks a lot for this material. I was finally able to move from 16th to 11th position. After hundreds of hours of frustration with the ACC, satisfaction has finally arrived. :)))
Thanks brother, this helped a bunch. Great basic starting place. Made it so much easier to dial in. Although I’m still playing with those dials, this got me so much closer than I’ve ever been to a decent setup. Ya got my sub, keep up the content. Great job
didn't think this would help so much, genuinely just having listened has given me some ideas to solve so many issues I've been having in my setups, massive W
Just wanted to say thank you Jardier, im just getting in to simracing(first/second week) and this helps immensely since ive understood already how much car setups matter, even though i dont fully understand how to. So thank you and i hope you keep doing these as the game(s) changes! :)
I have just started with ACC and found your videos very resourceful. Will definitely play with this goulash of parameters the way u insist :) Thank you!
I like this kid. He has an honest enthusiasm for racing. Unlike some of the boring self opinionated whelks on TH-cam. Watching him race is a great way to learn how to approach races. Keep them coming pal.
I felt the car is improved as a whole with your basic setup suggestion right out of the box. I had to do some 10-15 laps to get used to it without any improvement but the potential was there, you can feel it. Finally I made lots of pace and within a couple of laps after that initial weirdness, i gained like 1 full second. The car feels like you can push more and more in any given place of the track.
this is great information. thank you, Im very new to sim racing and know a little bit about cars, but this information will help me map out the effects of each setting, stability vs control vs speed. thanks again @Jardier
Hey buddy, nice very nice interesting video !! I was / am fighting my own battle against the big C... But trying to pick up hobby's like simracing and this video helps a lot with ACC and other sims
I have been using almost the same setup lol. I am not as skilled as you but found very similar setup on TH-cam. Seems to work on almost every car. R8 and 911 just little different in rollbar . Then I tweak little things to damper but the tow I'm trying your setting and love it. Thanks
Absolutely enjoyed this vid, it has made me get back into acc again, as I was getting frustrated trying to figure things out at times, being an person who only has time here and there to play, this is a great base for me to start off with while making the adjustments you mentioned… thank you, thank you thank you. Happy holidays to you and your family!
Just wow. Thanks Jardier! I quite literally gained 1.5 seconds at Watkins using these pointers. im down to 44.9 after being stuck at 46's for about a week of practice.
Jardier! You are a legend mate. Thanks so much for sharing this. Setups is where I've been struggling to fully understand and I know it's been holding me back. Using your advice here and tweaking it for my own style has helped me find tenths where I haven't been able to for months. Huge fan mate. Love all your content. Thanks again.
Protect this man at all costs! I was too fast and felt AI had nothing to offer on normal, but on Hard they were taking me to the cleaners. After using these tips in setting up my car, I'm now enjoying a much more responsive car and battling for podium position every race. Truly appreciated Jardier!!!
late to the party, but pretty interesting how "broken" setups still works in ACC. I already noticed myself that with 1.92-95 patch ABS works much better with lower values, as well soft suspensions. What made the real difference it's the smoothness on corner exit with low TC and being more aggressive on high kerbs. No more happy tailing even with a Porsche. Even in countersteer they're much more controllable. If paired with ACC Engineer for obtain optimal tyre pressure, those tips are a blast. Many thanks. 🍻 Maybe it was Imola, but i kept at bay for 5 laps behind me 4 cars way more faster than me. 😋
Hi Jardier, Experimenting with your recomendations. Oh my goodness this is taking a bit to get used to. I made a bit of a hybrid set-up using Coach Dave Set Up as starting point, then modified as you recommend. After practising at Suzuka, my consistency has gone up and I'm about 3/4 of a second faster. Car is much more stable and predictable. I drive the McLaren EVO, mostly, and am running near my PB time consistently. This is huge! Thanks for sharing!
Thx Jardier for this Video 👌. I am quite new on ACC (312h with T300 RS GT), but i think this will helps me very much to kreate a setup for my driving style.I test it on Imola with a Ferrari for the trackmedals and it works 100%.Next test at Donington with McLaren was a little bit tricky, but it works. Now i have to find the breakpoints, cornerspeed and turning points 😉. Best regards from Germany and keep racing🤙🖖
Let me know if this was useful for you! Setups are always hard work but I think since 1.9 some stuff got a bit easier :) What do you think?
thanks for the explanation🙏👏💯
thanks i learned soo many new things
Jar... Ur not aware of the camera obstructing some details on the screen? On next video could u make it smaller or move it completely down or up?
When u explain tires u say: "...u want to do this..." and u changing something but i cant see it because of your camera :(
Really good, short and not overloaded with info that one forgets.. haha
thanks a lot that is very helpful, specially since the new patch.
its people like you that i cherish, you are the pinnacle of good sportsmanship. Its a competetive scene but still you are selfless in your thinking. While other people keep their tips and tricks hidden in a vault. You choose to make everyone else better. I appreciate you and i hope that the community appreciates you! Thank you for being a good lad!
Thank you mate!!!! :)
It's the philosophy that if you tell everyone how to cheat, you level the playing field! Kudos, Jards!
why cheat ? where is the cheating ?
@@marcodolci15231.9 nerfed the neg. toe cheat (max turn in with zero stability reduction).
Now it still works, and there are other hacks too which can gain you .5 -2 ecs per lap IF you know about it....if you don't your just scratching your head thinking how the heck?
+1
I can't describe how grateful I am. I struggled with Zolder for two days, tried a bunch of different setups and I just couldn't go below 1.29.800. I applied the tips you said and I went 1.29.120 just 5 minutes ago. I can't believe it. I appreciate your work so much and the fact that you try to help other pilots to is awesome. Greetings from Hungary!
And here i was getting comfortable with a 1:35😢. Maybe is the McLaren 650s gt3 slower than the amg or 720s gt3?
yes i wasted a lot of time with the 650s before i started a championship with a 720s and my times inproved by several seconds @@sleepypixie8828
You've opened Pandora's Box with these secrets. Straight away I've beaten my PB's on Watkins and Nurburgring. At one point 1.56 around the Nurburgring was a barrier for me but now getting consistent low 1.55s. On this track especially it's made a huge difference on sector 1 where in the Macca I never had confidence in the rear end as it always wanted to oversteer but feels so much more planted now with these base settings. Thanks Jards!
I just started playing again a couple days ago after taking some time off right after the 1.9 update released. I was all over the track and not having fun at all. All I did was follow your generalized suggestions and this is a whole new game. Thank you for giving me an easy to follow starting point to dial things in. Learning to drive all over again.
Hey mate thank you im happy I can help :)
I have been sim racing and a subscriber for nearly 3 years , i am 64 years young, and this is the best info video i have seen, using this i managed a 1:16.3 at SPA, you certainly know how to make an old man happy ;D
LETS GO
I'll Go! My record is :26!!! 🤣😭
@@virtualawakening2299 I am single, so have lots of spare time 😀
Good explanation and will give anyone a good starting point for making setups in 1.9. Learning everything can be very time consuming and seem impossible almost but i also think it's rewarding to drive something you made yourself and finally be able to fine tunes things. It takes alot of time on the track and changing things just a few clicks at a time to really build up that knowledge. But after having a good understanding it's easier to take bigger steps if the car feels wrong
I agree totally. Like Jard can just go min or max in tuning experiments "for science," as he said, but it seemed totally helter skelter to me... I couldn't do that. I wouldn't know what happened or how or why. I would have to do incremental changes for each and every tunable item one at at time just to learn what it does... Sucks to be a rook.
@@virtualawakening2299 yeah exactly, been there. It takes alot of time to have understanding of what everything does and why, but more importantly what to try and when. On paper it just says more oversteer but raising the rear by two clicks can change the whole balance of the car while one click stiffer rear arb and two less diff preload made it perfect. Needs alot of attention also while driving to pick up these differences when making small changes
This is the content WE NEED from you brother! Thanks! Any and all things like this coming from people like you are what we need out there to put other rumors of setups to rest.
2k hours spent in ACC, but only of late have I started messing with setups. Releasing something like this means so much to not only me, but I imagine so many others. This will be a go to video when working on setups
Jardier is always so helpful and willing to share top tips with the community.. keep it up much love!👍
Thank you!! :)
As someone who is new to ACC, this is fantastic. Great overview of what each area does to the car, can't wait to get in and get practicing and fine tuning!
Would like to see a video like this after every big update, it really helped me get almost a second of laptime off my regular laptimes..! :)
Thanks for what you are doing for the community mate! Always nice watching you race, always smiling. Keep it up.
Thank you! :)
I was HARDSTUCK at 1:42 on Kylami and now I can do 41s so easily. It's insane, I feel that many people understand the physics enough to tune setups but this knowledge of silly game mechanic metas is what's missing. Thank you for revealing these secrets
I was driving Porsche at Suzuka at felt like i had hit a brick wall. I watched this video and immediately on the next lap i had improved by 2 SECONDS! mad, youre a legend my guy
You are doing god's work with this video. The feeling that others know setup "meta" in the current patch that I don't know about drives me crazy. Thank you so much for this!
As a new player the whole setup aspect is super daunting. Thanks Jardier!
Yeh. I remember when 1.9 came out, and Jards was just min-maxing things seemingly at random, "for science!" as he called it. lol. But he could pull information from it that I couldn't. lol. I'd have to use Motec and ACC Engineer and then explore onwards!
I have 1200 hrs on acc and in top 10% of LFM drivers always using setups ive found on YT. This is giving me the comfortability to start pursuing selfmade setups more tailored to my driving style. This is by far the most informative and helpful video explaining ACC setups ive ever watched. Ive learned a lot. Thank you so much for this!
Jardier, thank you so much for sharing this information. I had been stuck in the mid 2:16.2s at Spa in the Maclaren Evo until I gained some very helpful advice from you. Only hours after watching, I turned a 2:16.000 in a public server Qualifying Session using two of the tips you shared. Two and a half tenths of a second is a huge jump and I owe it to your knowledge and willingness to benefit others by using your platform to teach. Again, thank you, Jardier!
LETS GO!
@@Jardier - Using your tips, I have continued to develop my set and turned a 2:15.522 at Spa. I routinely qualify in the 15s now and run race laps down to the 15.7s. Thank you, again, for sharing this information. I am a better racer because of you!
2:15 is almost alien and you only make it into the top 15s? i go low 16 and were in the top 5 constantly on lfm
@@Luvro_U77 You misunderstood...I routinely qualify in the 2:15s...2:15.620 is my best online Q lap.
@@tracywhite3846 but we talking with lfm bop right?
Just found this video yesterday. I have followed your advice and it has changed my world. All the frustrations of track limits, slow lap times and poor SR are gone. Thank you Jardier. Legend. ❤
Thank you so much for this video. as somebody who is really bad at making setups and all the time confused of it this explained a lot
You have basically just gone and updated the default aggressive preset now. When I'm making a new setup now I'll just go and instantly change these things and then start making my setup from there. Thanks a lot Jardier!
ummm... You might want to try starting from the default aggressive setup and then use ACC Engineer to help with the tuning. You won't have the extreme setup that Jards recommends... On the other hand, you can start from Jard's extreme settings and then use ACC Engineer and Motec to help tune your car!
VERY useful, Thanks, Jardier!! I tend to be an intermittent ACC player, and hadn't really kept up with the latest info on the newest update, so this is 100 percent the video that I needed.
Jards! Make more of these for more subs!!!!!
For the first time in my life a set up video finally clicks in my head, my lap time for monza went from 1.51 to 1.48.5. Great video jardier
Thanks for sharing your thought process, I am slowly getting there with setups, this has definitely helped. Live long and prosper
Monza is my home track, and with these tips, I've modified the aggressive preset and so far gained about .3s and I can feel room to improve, thank you for this video man. I'll definitely be playing with some settings with much better understanding of what they do now.
@Jardier this video helped so freaking much!! Was having a hell of a time with understeer and no traction, applied these steps to my setup now and won my first race last night and got a top 5 in the second one!! Much love and respect bro!!
One of the best ACC set up guides I have ever watched. I might actually start playing it again. Thank you for making this, great work.
Thank you!
Thanks @Jardier, nice and useful content. I tested in 8 laps, and it gave me ~0.3sec, but most importantly with more stability. I prefer low wing higher rear ARB. But the fun part, i loaded safe setup in Imola, and in 4th lap i had just +0.2sec gap until last two corners, where i collected +0,4sec :D. I was surpliced how well the safe setup performs with a small driving style adoption.
This tips help me A LOT! I was never able to do Blanchimont (Spa turn 17) at full throtle. Understanding theses tips I was able not only to make my car better but also understrand what I was doing. Thanks from Brazil!
This is such a useful video. I did a quick test and I gained about 2 seconds in SPA, and I barely scratched the surface, I didn't even go that extreme on the suspension and dampers. Thank you so much sir! I fully agree with the other comments, kudos to you for the good sportsmanship and helping everybody else enjoying the game, where many others guards even just the tips and tricks.
Man I just started ACC,came from the F1 series and GT7...you are my mentor on this one 🙏 thanks for your efforts!
One thing that I would really like to see, would probably be very long though, but like a explained video about each item, like wheel toe, what it is and how it affects the car, then the dumper and wings and so on, most of the time we just have the "bars" and you move it left or right, until it "feels nice"
great video. only peice of advice is move your self camera. everything you did on the left rear was hidden. Only if you repeated it on the right was it visible. there were several times where you said "you do this here" and did not say the numbers out loud so, it could not be seen. Thanks again for your hard work!
Thank you so much Jardier! Just the basic setup guidelines you showed mad me like a whole 2.5 seconds faster around Kyalami in the NSX! I am so happy right now! Thank you!!!
OMG 😊 Thank you so much. I have been playing around with settings to find a stable base to build from and you’ve only gone and supplied it. First run out at Nurburgring and I managed to find 3 seconds. I’m so grateful… keep sharing your tips, we love them. 😉
Just moved up to ACC from AC, and this was very helpful. Thank you!
AC is hard mode, and ACC is fucking easy mode. But maybe AC is hard because it isn't realistic? Like the early GranTurismos?
Thanks so much for this. I just started getting back into ACC with the Ferrari 296 and I was struggling for pace. After watching this vid and making changes to my setup, I instantly cut down my lap times.
I'll scribble some notes here.
Optimal tyre pressure - high 26's.
Negative camber - always maximum, little less in rain.
Full negative toe on rear for max rotation, or at least more exaggerated than default. But use this less often than previous update/version.
Highest caster - allow more rotation.
Full negative toe on front.
Minus 0.05 on negative toe if you want to be conservative, especially on endurance race.
Low TC. Higher on the newest McLaren.
Low ABS. Even 1 in rain.
TC2 on zero. Maybe 1 in rain.
Brake pads at level 1 in 90 minute races. Level 2 between 2 and 12 hour races. Level 3 for 24 hours.
Lowest steer ratio for most responsive. Middle for some cars like Ferrari, porsche, bmw, audi.
Lowest setting on front and rear mechanical grip for best grip and tyre life and allow turning on throttle.
Rear bump stop range at 20.
Very low front bump stop range allows responsive steering but understeer on throttle, and more understeer overall.
Higer or highest front bump stop range lets you rotate on throttle!
Increase rear wheel rate a little bit if you still need more oversteer.
Front anti-roll maxium for Ferarri and very low on rear roll bar.
Or increase rear roll bar on Nurburgring, especially in McLaren.
Low preload for more turning off throttle. Higher preload for stability off throttle but more oversteer on throttle.
Bumps on zero and rebounds on MAX!
Perhaps 1 front bump for stability or 1 rear bump for oversteer.
Brake ducts at 3. If track temperature is hot as 50 degrees have high ducts. If temperature is low as 15 decrease ducts.
Very low or lowest front ride height. Experiment yourself on rear ride height and wing.
Thank you Jardier!
Oh and fast rebound has been my best friend when it comes to curbs even in the older updates. I really can't remember a single situation at all that having fast rebound set too high has been detrimental to my driving.
OH MY GOD, I'm enjoying the game so much more after this, I went from qualifying towards the back of the pack and finishing in the same place, to qualifying in the midfield and starting to get my first top 10 finishes in LFM races, thx man
Hey Man, it did not feel long and definitely not exhausting! Great to hear opinions based on experience - super valuable! As a followup to this it would be fascinating to see you put this on a random car/track and watch you test/adjust as you go,
maybe showing how to feel when something is "too much" or "not enough"
OMG!!! He can't do a methodical "test" 🤣 There was a live stream when 1.9 first came out, and he was just insane min maxing different settings, "FOR SCIENCE!!!" but like for reals, it was just insanity! He was changing settings so extreme and totally min maxing stuff at random, and I thought, how can he get any info from this chaos??? There was 0 scientific methodology to it. I think he would go insane and stab someone if he had to do one click at a time on settings... 😅🤣
Thank you!!!!! :)
for our last league race on suzuka i had a peek at your setup for the 720 evo and could not believe you actually run the dampers like that... until i tried it. now i just default my dampers everywhere to that setting and it works a lot better than what i can manage with motec. you can probably get even better results with motec if you have an actual engineer looking at your data but for us normal amateur drivers the min/max dampers work like a charm. i've adapted a lot of your setup into my way of thinking, like the anti rollbars, preload, tc settings... before this i was running tc on 5 or 6 on the 720 evo and it was so boring out of slow hairpins. yesterday i played around some public lobbies with some friends and got these laptimes with a quick setup:
suzuka 2.01.1
spa 2.18.2
nurburgring:1.56.1
all with those dampers and that mentality in the setup work. obviously you can only do so much with a 15min qualy and a 20min race and jumping around to other tracks after every race, so i'd probably be even faster if i was focussing on 1 track for like a 2hr league race.
Im so happy mate it works good for you! If you work around it more and find good values its soooo easy if you create like a base setup you can use anywhere almost :D
Thank you so much for the explanation for what each setting does. I'll watch it a few more times to fully digest though. Question: Is there a certain percentage you look for on the front aero variation? You could almost do a video for each section for us setup handicapped people like me.
heh heh heh! I believe Jards is just as setup handicapped as you! He just has skillz that make him fassst! No really! Watch some of his live streams when 1.9 came out. His tuning method was not scientific at all, but mad scientist gone insane! It was funny, but totally opposite of confidence inspiring! You have to watch and like!
I used this as a base and changed a few things around as they felt better and I swear even with a lap with less than good lines I took 3 seconds off my best at COTA. You’ve got my subscription now. Epic stuff
Thank you so much Jards!!!
I have paused playing ACC for over 2 years and just getting started again. That massively helps me! ❤
Thank you very much. I tried adjusting the base line setups but reached a point where I felt that the setup was limiting me. Following standard advice was always "don't go too soft or the car will be sluggish or unstable".
I started with your recommendations and now have a setup for the Nordschleife where I am the limit. The car can do more and is still as stable as my previous attempts while turning much better. Thank you for this guide1
You're a credit to the sim racing community 👍
I've been struggling to get back to lap times in 1.8 version and just tried your setup tips, spent an hour practicing on Spa in Mclaren 720s EVO and have beaten my previous best by 0.5s . Thank you very much , brilliant advice.
As a novice to simracing setup I think incredible can't be enough to describe how good this guide is to a beginner like me. Setup is scary and confusing but with this explanation I can finally understand the most important part for a good handling car. Thank you very much, your kindness is inimitable
Wow thanks! I had gained 2 seconds in spa doing exactly the opposite setup (get more harder on suspension) but now i will try it, thanks for all!
Jardier, this is great. Thank you for all the time you put into this. You rock!
Thank you for this. I play single player and only want to challenge myself in my Nissan GTR, which is great fun to drive. I just need to not have a job or a family so I have enough time to try your suggestions out and tweak things per track!!
This makes great sense from a meta perspective, really appreciate you sharing these tips. For us people lower split 1, we trying so desperately to find that 1s were off pace, and this just got us a lot closer. Ty!
This has changed acc for me 100percent,i watched lots off you're videos,and i said too myself he's very precise with his driving, iv just tried you're settings, omfg i can drive really good now,thank you for sharing
LETS GO !!!!:)
I so much appreciate you taking the time to go though this! I haven’t run 1.9 yet but going to soon. Always before I really struggled w ACC, th car Never felt planted, hoping this will help. Thanks again so much for sharing this info with us!!!
Thank you!!! :)
Very helpful and much appreciated. Lower laptimes, stabler car and improved 'funability'. Used on the Frey Jag . Thanks.
Thank you for the great explanation. I’m new to ACC and car setup has been a mystery to me thus far without help.
I am back after 2 years, and will continue to do sim racing, and Jimmy and Jardier are two faces I see are still around and even stronger and with even bigger enthusiasm.
It is amazing. Great video bud!
I had to watch this video a couple of times to get all the information, but I really like this kind of "exausting" video! :D Tried this changes yesterday and it was mindblowing! The car is behaving a lot better now!
this completely revolutionised my game man. i applied these changes to my aston setup and although i didn't immediately gain any time, i'm able to lap very close to my PB (still not very fast lol) so consistently and it feels so much better to drive. definitely agree the setups feel a bit less "passionate" with just min/max dampers and bumpstops but i always found them very tedious as someone who doesn't get much time to race, so this video was a godsend. thank you so much
Im glad mate!!! ENJOY! :)
Thanks for the intel! I can’t wait to try this. Great to have you break it down so simply and easily to what does what. That has always been my problem not knowing what to change when the car does Xxx.
Thanks again! great video!
Thank you, Jardier, I hope this helps me. Audi was my car until 1.9, so I hope this info helps me figure it out again. It has become a very unpredictable car.
Im going to test this soon. I like sim racing, but life takes too much time, so I get to race maybe once a week so I dont have time to setup and test cars. I would really like some servers with locked setups so People would be on same starting point. Of course driving styles suite some setups more than others, but it just frustrating to give up 2s a lap just bc you dont have time to test all setups.
So thanks for this. Ive tried some TH-camr setups before and gotten 1-2s of my lap with them, but they were much more conservative. Looking forward to driving yours.
Thank you for this video. It somehow shows how weird the ACC physics are. I would have never come to the idea to run such extreme values, for example on anti-roll bars and dampers. But if it works, it works...
Yeh, wait until update 2.0, and a whole new pandora's box will be opened! E-sports Aliens will always find the unnatural min-max (not)exploits!
Hey man, I know it’s an old video but I just watched this and implement some of these set up tips and im knocking off over 1 second on every track.
So just want to say thanks for the tips and sharing your knowledge with everyone, great work!
Yeah still works! Dont use max negative toe anymore otherwise its fine :)
@ Ohhh really? What seems to be the normal these days? Thanks
@@jonnyrcmad Just less, we use between -0.2 to 0.0 negative toe depending on car/track :)
the higher the caster, the more camber you create while turning the wheel, look videos of old mercedes S classes running high caster the front tire always sits like this /. So the main idea is, the higher the caster the less static camber you need to take to reduce inner wear on straits. Also the higher the caster the "force" with the wheels want to go straight again is much higher, thats why lots of the drift cars use high caster to make the wheel rotate faster to 0° 🙂 Also negative toe in front makes the inital turn when moving the wheel quite response, wether in the middle of the corner you will miss feedback. negative toe on the rear makes the car very oversteery as the tires are like this \ / now when you turn the chassis rolls on the outer tire and this wants to go to the outside of the corner so thats the most carefulpoint on that ;D
Then you buy a setup from a reputable company for the AMG Merc in ACC and they run with max caster, max neg camber, max etc. It works but makes no sense and leaves no room for adjustment
Thank you for a great video explaining all these things! I just got myself ACC after playing around in free roam in AC, and I much prefer ACC.
And now I got an idea of how to set up the cars as well! So far I have been driving them as they were, so it will be interesting to see if I can improve.
Not only did it improve my times, but the car feels so much more satisfying to drive! This is so helpful!
Great to hear!:)
Thanks a lot for this material. I was finally able to move from 16th to 11th position. After hundreds of hours of frustration with the ACC, satisfaction has finally arrived. :)))
Thank you Jardier for this Video i will try it tomorrow when i start to practice Brands Hatch for the Sunday race.
Thanks brother, this helped a bunch. Great basic starting place. Made it so much easier to dial in. Although I’m still playing with those dials, this got me so much closer than I’ve ever been to a decent setup. Ya got my sub, keep up the content. Great job
didn't think this would help so much, genuinely just having listened has given me some ideas to solve so many issues I've been having in my setups, massive W
I'm really bad when it comes to setup the car in any sim game...this is so helpful
Thank you so much !!! Great Tutorial Jardier
this is by far the best explanation about acc setups on youtube! Thanks a lot! appreciate your work!
Thank you very much!
Your setup guide just made me improve almost a second and I am driving way more consistently too.
Subscribed, just got into ACC and this is by far the best set-up tutorial I've ever seen
Just wanted to say thank you Jardier, im just getting in to simracing(first/second week) and this helps immensely since ive understood already how much car setups matter, even though i dont fully understand how to. So thank you and i hope you keep doing these as the game(s) changes! :)
I have just started with ACC and found your videos very resourceful. Will definitely play with this goulash of parameters the way u insist :)
Thank you!
I like this kid. He has an honest enthusiasm for racing. Unlike some of the boring self opinionated whelks on TH-cam.
Watching him race is a great way to learn how to approach races. Keep them coming pal.
I felt the car is improved as a whole with your basic setup suggestion right out of the box. I had to do some 10-15 laps to get used to it without any improvement but the potential was there, you can feel it. Finally I made lots of pace and within a couple of laps after that initial weirdness, i gained like 1 full second. The car feels like you can push more and more in any given place of the track.
It did help. From the base to within 30 mins having a car that was spot on for me. And easy to tweak. Ferrari 488 GT3 Evo.
this is great information. thank you, Im very new to sim racing and know a little bit about cars, but this information will help me map out the effects of each setting, stability vs control vs speed. thanks again @Jardier
i like that you touched on the FULL NEG TOE still working, espesically on nurnburgring etc, i went from 55s/54s to 53s by using full neg rear toe
It works but it has a lot of wear
@utkarshchaurasia2233 lots of wear yes, but on macca it's still so much more driveable at higher degs
Brilliant mate. Thanks very much. Faster straight away and more stable. More fun to drive.
okey, I was just searching for guides about setups, and here you are. Thank you
Hey buddy, nice very nice interesting video !! I was / am fighting my own battle against the big C... But trying to pick up hobby's like simracing and this video helps a lot with ACC and other sims
I have been using almost the same setup lol. I am not as skilled as you but found very similar setup on TH-cam. Seems to work on almost every car. R8 and 911 just little different in rollbar . Then I tweak little things to damper but the tow I'm trying your setting and love it. Thanks
Thank you so much for this! You have no idea how much you've helped out of the frustration I always face in this game. You absolutely rock!
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Absolutely enjoyed this vid, it has made me get back into acc again, as I was getting frustrated trying to figure things out at times, being an person who only has time here and there to play, this is a great base for me to start off with while making the adjustments you mentioned… thank you, thank you thank you.
Happy holidays to you and your family!
You too mate im glad you liked it :)
Just wow. Thanks Jardier! I quite literally gained 1.5 seconds at Watkins using these pointers. im down to 44.9 after being stuck at 46's for about a week of practice.
Jardier! You are a legend mate. Thanks so much for sharing this. Setups is where I've been struggling to fully understand and I know it's been holding me back. Using your advice here and tweaking it for my own style has helped me find tenths where I haven't been able to for months. Huge fan mate. Love all your content. Thanks again.
Protect this man at all costs! I was too fast and felt AI had nothing to offer on normal, but on Hard they were taking me to the cleaners. After using these tips in setting up my car, I'm now enjoying a much more responsive car and battling for podium position every race. Truly appreciated Jardier!!!
late to the party, but pretty interesting how "broken" setups still works in ACC. I already noticed myself that with 1.92-95 patch ABS works much better with lower values, as well soft suspensions. What made the real difference it's the smoothness on corner exit with low TC and being more aggressive on high kerbs. No more happy tailing even with a Porsche. Even in countersteer they're much more controllable. If paired with ACC Engineer for obtain optimal tyre pressure, those tips are a blast. Many thanks. 🍻
Maybe it was Imola, but i kept at bay for 5 laps behind me 4 cars way more faster than me. 😋
Hi Jardier,
Experimenting with your recomendations. Oh my goodness this is taking a bit to get used to. I made a bit of a hybrid set-up using Coach Dave Set Up as starting point, then modified as you recommend. After practising at Suzuka, my consistency has gone up and I'm about 3/4 of a second faster. Car is much more stable and predictable. I drive the McLaren EVO, mostly, and am running near my PB time consistently. This is huge!
Thanks for sharing!
Wow man. You’re a Sim Racing Legend bro. Thank you man. This helped me so much with my Porsche!
Thank you kind sir. I struggle with trying to set up my car... I will try this for sure!
Thx Jardier for this Video 👌. I am quite new on ACC (312h with T300 RS GT), but i think this will helps me very much to kreate a setup for my driving style.I test it on Imola with a Ferrari for the trackmedals and it works 100%.Next test at Donington with McLaren was a little bit tricky, but it works. Now i have to find the breakpoints, cornerspeed and turning points 😉. Best regards from Germany and keep racing🤙🖖
Thanks Jardier great video as someone who is now getting into ACC and struggles with setting up the car it was very interesting and informative 👍
Really good video, and explained well, no mucking around, just starting out with LFM, this helps.😎👍
Thanks a lot! I don't know anything about setups but this made the cars way more drivable