Crew Chief

Tips and Tricks

Disable Spotter - VR, TrackIR, SimHub Awareness Overlays

• You can manually disable the spotter in Crew chief under a profile's properties
• When you run VR, TrackIR, or use Awareness overlays, like those SHO XD Style SimHub Overlays, managing your situational awareness becomes easier and this is when it might be beneficial to disable the spotter

Realistic Mode

• See "Realistic mode" explained for latest details
• I decided to disable spotter as I run TrackIR and use Awareness overlays from SHO XD Style SimHub Overlays so it's easier for me to manage my situational awareness
  • Alternatively, I could have chosen Realistic Mode

In version 4.6.6.1 we have introduced “Realistic Mode” to the Crew Chief. You can enable it in Preferences window.

When realistic mode is enabled, Crew Chief behavior changes in the following ways:
* Spotter is enabled only in oval races. This is determined by “isOval” flag for each track in trackLandmarksData.json file.
* Crew Chief checks "useHundredths" value for car class defined carClassData.json. If value is true, gaps and laptimes are reported with hundredths precision, otherwise tenths are used.
* Each car class defined in carClassData.json file has list of message types enabled. List of supported message types:

TYRE_TEMPS, TYRE_WEAR, BRAKE_TEMPS, BRAKE_DAMAGE, FUEL, LOCKING_AND_SPINNING, ALL, NONE

The idea behind different message type sets is that different series have different information available to spotters. For example, older vehicles did not have sensors to report brake and tire temperatures back to the pits. In 70's, there was no hardware to measure gaps in hundredths. In Karts, there’s simply no radio communication at all. Lastly, as part of emphasis on the driver skill vs electronics (fly by wire), not all modern series allow telemetry data to be available to the driver during the race.

Voice volume levels too quiet

• My center channel (where voices come out of) was about half as quiet as every other speaker
• So I ended up having to set all other speakers (except sub) to 50% and leave the center at 100%
• That seemed to fix my issue of the Crew Chief/Spotter voice volume seemingly starting off at the right volume but then getting quieter and quieter

-Shovas 240531