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Rival Messenger - Avatar/Thumbnail selection now working! No longer are you required to meticulously craft your local vCard to correctly populate your Rival profile! You can now just click on the thumbnail under Profile within Preferences, and choose your thumbnail via the picker!
Updates propagate in realtime to your friends, and the new image is reflected everywhere!
Anonymous asked:
I just ordered the extra actuator and mounting kit from simexp directly. Just ask them to add it to the quote.
Figured out how to make this work on my rig, details coming soon!
Gaming Rig - Multi Camera test
I got myself a new gopro and head mount, and I have been playing around with a better way to take videos.
mysimrig.com - Rig editing under way!
mysimrig.com - Signup / account management and public profiles are now working! Give it a look, give it a go https://mysimrig.com/owners/dchote
Website to share your Sim Racing/Flight Sim hardware setups with others. Rigs, Build Logs, Guides, and lots of photos!
Gaming Rig - Dirt Rally. It’s pretty damn immersive!
Gaming Rig - Speaker Upgrade (part 3)
Follow up from my prior posts: http://projectable.me/post/137684124761/gaming-rig-speaker-upgrade-part-2-followup and http://projectable.me/post/136896495676/gaming-rig-speaker-upgrade-part-1-so-as-i
Finally found a matching center channel on eBay and got it installed! It is a Paradigm Cinema CC v.3, got it for $75 (not a steal, but not terrible). It came in fair condition, with a bit of cleaning it is totally fine.
Audibly these things are amazing, and the Z906 is doing a very good driving them, no ratable distortion or peaking. I spent some time in windows tweaking the EQ for the soundcard to get the full range out of these things, it was a little flat compared to what it could be.
Overall I am really happy I spent the time and money to do this, it is a worthy upgrade, and these speakers will be great if I ever decide to drop in an actual receiver and separate sub.
Gaming Rig - Speaker Upgrade (part 1)
So, as I mentioned in my last post, Im not all that impressed by the bundled satellite speakers with the Logitech Z906. I mean, they’re fine, especially for the price point of this 5.1 solution, but they lack range, they have no highs and no lows.
There were pieces of info scattered in various forums about people swapping out the satellites, so I decided to give it a shot. I am a huge Paradigm fan, I have an amazing 9.1 set of Paradigm Studio Series speakers for my movie room, so I found a nice pair of Paradigm Cinema 70′s on eBay for cheap ($35ea).
With a slight modification to the speaker mounts to accommodate the extra weight of these, I think they look pretty nice, and with the extra screw, the stands are a little more rigid than before.
I am super stoked with the result, driving the Ferrari F40 in Assetto Corsa, I can once again hear that wonderful turbo whine (which I first heard through my movie room speakers), everything else is a lot more precise sounding, unfortunately, the fun is all in the rear! I will definitely be investing in 3 more to replace the front speakers as soon as funds permit, so I can have some fun in the front too….
Since the full release (non Early Access) of Dirt Rally, I have been playing with slightly “off” POV, today I spent the time to go in and adjust the eyefinity_cameras_adjustments.xml file to finally get things right. You can read the original post here: http://tmblr.co/ZI30Hu1rcN8_C
My new settings are as follows:
<CameraAdjustment class=“Head”>
<Fov angle=“180” />
<Tilt percent=“-60.0” />
<Position x=“0.0” y=“2.0” z=“45.0” />
</CameraAdjustment>
The game preference FOV is set at 0, and the seat position reset. This seems to work across all cars, with only needing slight adjustment of seat pitch for some cars.