Been iRacing for about a year now.. consistently decently fast at street stock rookies on asphalt. Just smashed my USA International record by 2 tenths by changing field of view. Insane - thanks for this video!
I’m a believer. I came down from a 100 to 78 FOV. I did not like it! but I stuck with it and kept practicing. Now I see that I’m more Consistent. Which means better Qualify times and keeping my lead. Thanks for the tip!
I have single 27 inch monitor my eyes are two feet from the monitor and I feel that the correct FOV setting gives me plenty of vision. Get in your real car and drive and think about what you can see and make out with correct depth perception and it fits perfectly in that same box that your monitor would take up, so using my look left and look right buttons gives me pretty much the same area of vision as in real life. You don't need triple screens or VR, they are beneficial luxuries that do help but you still have to move your vision to the side with them in order to judge proper distance, so essentially you are doing the same thing with the left right button. Now you do not get the benefit of catching something out of the side of your eyes, but if you really pay attention to where your eyes go when looking at traffic from the side or in your mirrors you will notice that it moves much like the camera moves when using your left and right button. Now having good sound is what's important in a single screen monitor, because you don't get the benefit of your peripheral vision to see someone coming from the side, you need to hear them but especially with headphones this is not a problem once you get used to it. I never struggle knowing when someone is to the side of me, even in sims with no spotter because I hear their engine, and tires. So if I need to judge space going into a breaking zone it's a simple quick look to the side I hear them coming from, a glance I would need to take in real life,with triple monitors, or VR because you cannot properly judge distance and depth with peripheral vision anyways.
Also, once your FOV is set open replay, go to the cockpit view, press Alt F12 and slide the camera back until you feel comfortable. It’s the very first setting on the top row. Note, the max you can move back is -0.250. However, what this will do is allow you to run with a proper FOV while still being able to see like with a higher FOV.
That's true. Yet when sims started out with GPL, a lot of aliens got insane results on 4:3 CRT monitors with 74 FoV... Records that still can't be beaten even on triples. If somebody has a good widescreen monitor or triples, then not having a proper FoV is a sin. But on a single small screen, you will never have proper FoV anyway, so higher values are more usable. Not seeing the apex and track out points sucks at hairpins.
Thanks for the videos! Wish I would have watched them the first time around--had a 42" TV about a foot in front of my face the first time I played. Surprisingly immersive. Upon renewing subscription, got a Rift. Hopefully it works better!
Sadly I just realized this today. I have triple monitors that are set way to far forward from my eyes. It’s a GT4 cockpit that is very limited in adjustability. I weld and fabricate for a living and could modify it I suppose. But I think I’m going to upgrade. I was thinking today how it’s as if I plateaued in my racing ability and it’s frustrating considering what I’ve spent and how much I love racing and find myself becoming more disinterested in iracing because of it. So….I came home today and watched your recent video in the Arca car at Iowa and looked at your field of view and adjusted mine very similar just using my center monitor. Went out and ran with the change, then put it back to where I had it for the last year and a half and holy shit! I lopped off 3 1/2 tenths within 5 laps. Unreal! I thought maybe my flatline happened because my ratings got better and I was racing with better competitors and that is true. I just couldn’t understand why they are so much faster no matter how much I practice. Well….now I know and not only that, but it’s just more exciting now. Great vid! Sorry I rambled here lol. But your information is spot on with this.
Yeah its one of those things that people don't understand well, they think that they can adjust, but it doesn't work as you are still costing yourself with the feel as the car rotates.
@@kneebon5 Yea…exactly. The car feels more real in a way. I react to what the car is doing in an entirety different way. Glad it finally happened. Now I just need my monitors closer and I should be set.
@@t.sewell1513 yeah i laugh when i see all these big dollar rigs and the monitor is by the persons feet... such a waste. Really VR is the only way to go, but too FPS hungry and having something on your face that long doesn't sound fun.
Ya sorry a field of view of 22 will never allow me to be faster than something like 60. Being able to see the corner is far more important than immersion.
You might not be able to see the corner or be faster, but that's probably more to do with ability. FOV of 22 vs 60, 22 is faster all day and more consistent.
Wylie28 It’s not about immersion. It’s about sense of speed. The whole point of running a proper FOV is so objects on the monitor correlate to their actual sizes in real life. That’s why a larger monitor and sitting closer allows you to move the FOV up while still maintaining 1:1 correlation to the real world. With a higher FOV you lose sense of speed and everything appears faster than it is. When you reduce the FOV you gain a better sense of the speed you are going and it allows you to react better. It’s more of a mental thing than anything. It’s all in how your brain reads everything and allows for a better reaction time.
Been iRacing for about a year now.. consistently decently fast at street stock rookies on asphalt. Just smashed my USA International record by 2 tenths by changing field of view. Insane - thanks for this video!
good job Gunnar
I’m a believer. I came down from a 100 to 78 FOV. I did not like it! but I stuck with it and kept practicing. Now I see that I’m more Consistent. Which means better Qualify times and keeping my lead. Thanks for the tip!
I have single 27 inch monitor my eyes are two feet from the monitor and I feel that the correct FOV setting gives me plenty of vision. Get in your real car and drive and think about what you can see and make out with correct depth perception and it fits perfectly in that same box that your monitor would take up, so using my look left and look right buttons gives me pretty much the same area of vision as in real life. You don't need triple screens or VR, they are beneficial luxuries that do help but you still have to move your vision to the side with them in order to judge proper distance, so essentially you are doing the same thing with the left right button. Now you do not get the benefit of catching something out of the side of your eyes, but if you really pay attention to where your eyes go when looking at traffic from the side or in your mirrors you will notice that it moves much like the camera moves when using your left and right button. Now having good sound is what's important in a single screen monitor, because you don't get the benefit of your peripheral vision to see someone coming from the side, you need to hear them but especially with headphones this is not a problem once you get used to it. I never struggle knowing when someone is to the side of me, even in sims with no spotter because I hear their engine, and tires. So if I need to judge space going into a breaking zone it's a simple quick look to the side I hear them coming from, a glance I would need to take in real life,with triple monitors, or VR because you cannot properly judge distance and depth with peripheral vision anyways.
Field of view is literally everything
Keep up the good work, Nick. I reckon these videos will help a lot of new drivers on iRacing.
Also, once your FOV is set open replay, go to the cockpit view, press Alt F12 and slide the camera back until you feel comfortable. It’s the very first setting on the top row. Note, the max you can move back is -0.250. However, what this will do is allow you to run with a proper FOV while still being able to see like with a higher FOV.
That's true. Yet when sims started out with GPL, a lot of aliens got insane results on 4:3 CRT monitors with 74 FoV... Records that still can't be beaten even on triples. If somebody has a good widescreen monitor or triples, then not having a proper FoV is a sin. But on a single small screen, you will never have proper FoV anyway, so higher values are more usable. Not seeing the apex and track out points sucks at hairpins.
Thanks for the videos! Wish I would have watched them the first time around--had a 42" TV about a foot in front of my face the first time I played. Surprisingly immersive. Upon renewing subscription, got a Rift. Hopefully it works better!
Al RedAye rift is amazing, i dont have the PC to run it, but i tried my brothers and its the best thing you can have
Sadly I just realized this today. I have triple monitors that are set way to far forward from my eyes. It’s a GT4 cockpit that is very limited in adjustability. I weld and fabricate for a living and could modify it I suppose. But I think I’m going to upgrade. I was thinking today how it’s as if I plateaued in my racing ability and it’s frustrating considering what I’ve spent and how much I love racing and find myself becoming more disinterested in iracing because of it. So….I came home today and watched your recent video in the Arca car at Iowa and looked at your field of view and adjusted mine very similar just using my center monitor. Went out and ran with the change, then put it back to where I had it for the last year and a half and holy shit! I lopped off 3 1/2 tenths within 5 laps. Unreal! I thought maybe my flatline happened because my ratings got better and I was racing with better competitors and that is true. I just couldn’t understand why they are so much faster no matter how much I practice. Well….now I know and not only that, but it’s just more exciting now. Great vid! Sorry I rambled here lol. But your information is spot on with this.
Yeah its one of those things that people don't understand well, they think that they can adjust, but it doesn't work as you are still costing yourself with the feel as the car rotates.
@@kneebon5 Yea…exactly. The car feels more real in a way. I react to what the car is doing in an entirety different way. Glad it finally happened. Now I just need my monitors closer and I should be set.
@@t.sewell1513 yeah i laugh when i see all these big dollar rigs and the monitor is by the persons feet... such a waste. Really VR is the only way to go, but too FPS hungry and having something on your face that long doesn't sound fun.
thanks for all these videos - feel less like i need a dirt coach now haha
Cant wait to try this i feel like the car is super loose and suddenly hooked up and sends me to the wall
Hope it helps
I just wonder if it's possible to use 2 screens, 1 for the left view (as you don't need a right screen on ovals).
AxemaN Racing i haven't tried it
Thank you for this quick response, I already had a look at the graphics settings, you only may choose from 1 or 3 displays.
There's guys that are running on 2 screens in windowed mode...look it up on youtube.
VR FTW
Yeah, sadly vr is too hard to watch on youtube
tricks when on gravel
how come i cant find p1
What is the point in it even going back that far. Lol
Shame you told everyone..lol
Ya sorry a field of view of 22 will never allow me to be faster than something like 60. Being able to see the corner is far more important than immersion.
You might not be able to see the corner or be faster, but that's probably more to do with ability. FOV of 22 vs 60, 22 is faster all day and more consistent.
Wylie28 It’s not about immersion. It’s about sense of speed. The whole point of running a proper FOV is so objects on the monitor correlate to their actual sizes in real life. That’s why a larger monitor and sitting closer allows you to move the FOV up while still maintaining 1:1 correlation to the real world.
With a higher FOV you lose sense of speed and everything appears faster than it is. When you reduce the FOV you gain a better sense of the speed you are going and it allows you to react better. It’s more of a mental thing than anything. It’s all in how your brain reads everything and allows for a better reaction time.
@@nicksmackers 'this arbitrary number is always faster' absolutely not. i run SKs in iracing and have top25 times on every track ive ran. 85fov.