Changing Your Gear Ratios In Assetto Corsa

[SteveMack]

Hi,
I found something out in Assetto Corsa that you might want to know.
If you find yourself going to your car setup and are not able to change
your transmission gear ratios individually and only being able to change
the final drive there is an easy way to do it without the hassle of making gear
sets or individual gear changes.

You do need the free Content Manager for Assetto Corsa.

Use the content manager to unpack the cars data file.

Go to the setup.ini file in the data folder and change:

[GEARS]
USE_GEARSET=1

to:

[GEARS]
USE_GEARSET=0

You will then be able to adjust the individual gear ratios in the
gears section of the setup and then save the setup.

I should add if that does not work rename your cars data.acd file to
data.acd_OLD

I am aware that you can change ratios in CM, it doesn't work if the data file
is set to 1.

 

[ZiggyM]

I'm not sure how or why, but if I have the switch set to "0", I am NOT able to change the gear box. When "USE_GEARSET=1", I can change the gearbox.
This *might* be something ("0") that allows the individual gears to be changed but not the gearbox itself or it could be that I do not have an .rto assigned to each gear, but instead have different gearbox options set in the setup.ini (txt below the screen shot).
Either way, thank you for this information because I spent the last 14 hours trying to figure out why my gearbox options were not showing up in-game setup and came back here to double check which led me to flip the switch and now I've got the option to choose which gearbox I want, and there was much rejoicing!




Here are the lines I added to the setup.ini to get optional gearboxes into the in-game setup screen. The gearbox options do not appear in the CM setup screen. That might be a bridge I'll have to cross another day or maybe some knowledgeable, enterprising and generous person will share that knowledge?


/////////////////////////////////////////////////////
;GEARS
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////

[GEARS]
USE_GEARSET=1 ; this appears to be an on/off switch to tell the game whether to use the gear-set options listed, not a selector of which gearset to use

[GEAR_SET_0]
NAME=Toploader Close
GEAR_R=-2.32
GEAR_1=2.32
GEAR_2=1.69
GEAR_3=1.29
GEAR_4=1.00


[GEAR_SET_1]
NAME=Toploader Wide
GEAR_R=-2.78
GEAR_1=2.78
GEAR_2=1.93
GEAR_3=1.36
GEAR_4=1.00


[GEAR_SET_2]
NAME=Borg Warner T-10
GEAR_R=-2.26
GEAR_1=2.20
GEAR_2=1.64
GEAR_3=1.31
GEAR_4=1.00

[FINAL_GEAR_RATIO]
RATIOS=final.rto
NAME=Final Gear Ratio

POS_X=0.5
POS_Y=7.5

HELP=HELP_REAR_GEAR