QoL Mods

Race Essentials is a comprehensive, all-in-one head-up display (HUD) for Assetto Corsa designed to replace multiple individual apps with a single, streamlined data bar. It is widely considered a "must-have" for serious sim racers who want a minimal screen profile without sacrificing critical performance data. 

Key Features

• Engine & Transmission: Real-time display of Gear (with a red-line indicator), RPM (graphical and numerical), and Speed (km/h or mph).

• Tire Management: Monitoring for tire pressures (psi), core temperatures (Celsius), and a scaled wear indicator that changes color from green to red as health declines.

• Race Timing & Delta: Current, last, and best lap times, including a high-accuracy delta bar that shows exactly where you are gaining or losing time compared to your fastest lap.

• Vehicle Systems: Visual indicators for active driver aids like ABS, Traction Control (TC), and DRS, plus KERS/ERS energy deployment bars.

• Fuel Strategy: Essential fuel data including current tank levels, consumption per lap, and the number of laps remaining based on your current pace.

• Physics Feedback: Includes a real-time Force Feedback (FFB) clipping bar to help you tune your wheel settings on the fly, alongside clutch, brake, and throttle input bars. 

Why it’s a QoL Must-Have

The default Assetto Corsa UI is notorious for being "cluttered," requiring you to open five or six separate windows to see your speed, tires, fuel, and lap times. Race Essentials cleans up your screen by condensing all that vital telemetry into a single, high-visibility bar.

It eliminates the "information overload" of having boxes scattered across your monitor, allowing you to focus on the apex while still having every critical data point—like tire temps and fuel remaining—just a quick glance away. For racers who want a professional, "GT-style" data display without the headache of managing multiple apps, this is the definitive solution.

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Sidekick is a sleek, ultra-minimalist "micro-HUD" designed by the creator of Race Essentials. It consolidates the most critical driving data into a tiny, unobtrusive bar that fits perfectly above or below your dashboard. It is widely preferred by racers who want essential info without the clutter of a full-sized HUD. 

Key Features

• Dynamic Data Sections: Features five customizable areas that you can click to cycle through different data types on the fly.

• Intelligent Tire Monitoring: Displays tire pressures, temperatures, and wear using a color-coded system that scales based on the "ideal" values for your specific car.

• Lap Timing & Delta: Shows your current lap, position, and a highly readable delta progress bar that turns green (gaining) or red (losing) relative to your best lap.

• Fuel Management: Provides real-time fuel levels and calculations for laps remaining based on your current consumption.

• Advanced Systems: Includes visual alerts for DRS (with zone detection), ERS/KERS energy bars, and a Force Feedback (FFB) clipping indicator.

• Extended Version Features: Many users now use Sidekick Extended, which adds a second row for track conditions (ambient/track temps, wind), an odometer, and in-game time.

Why it’s a QoL Must-Have

Sidekick is the ultimate solution for "HUD minimalism." In the middle of a race, your eyes should be on the track, not hunting through five different windows for info. This mod shrinks your entire dashboard into a tiny, smart bar that only shows what you need, exactly when you need it.

The real magic is its color-coded intelligence: instead of reading raw numbers for tire pressure or temps, you just look for "Green." If it’s blue, they’re cold; if it’s red, you’re overheating. It removes the mental math of knowing the "ideal" range for every car, allowing you to focus entirely on hitting your marks. It’s the "set it and forget it" HUD that makes every car feel like it has a modern, high-tech display.

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CarRadar is a highly customizable proximity app for Assetto Corsa that provides a top-down, real-time visualization of the cars surrounding you. It is widely used to prevent "blind spot" collisions, especially for racers using a single monitor who lack peripheral vision. 

Key Features

• Dynamic Visuals: Displays actual car shapes on a mini-map, including their real-time rotation. This is particularly helpful in hairpins where seeing the angle of an opponent's car is crucial.

• Proximity Alerts: Uses a color-coded system—typically starting at white or yellow and turning bright red—as another car gets dangerously close to your door.

• Smart Blind-Spot Detection: It can be configured to "fade in" only when a car enters your blind spot and "fade out" once they are safely in your mirrors or ahead of you, keeping your screen clear during clean air.

• Traffic Intelligence: Advanced versions can specifically highlight blue-flagged cars, helping you distinguish between a car you need to let pass and a direct competitor you are racing against.

• Customization: Unlike the older HeliCorsa, CarRadar allows you to change the app's size, background colors, and HUD style to match your car's interior (e.g., making it look like a modern BMW LED dash display). 

Why it’s a QoL Must-Have

The biggest challenge for single-monitor sim racers is the "tunnel vision" caused by a lack of peripheral view. CarRadar solves this by providing a "sixth sense" on your dashboard. It replaces the primitive, vague arrows of the stock game with a precise, top-down visual of exactly where your opponents are.

It’s a lifesaver for door-to-door racing, allowing you to hold your line with confidence because you can see if an nose is tucked into your quarter-panel or if you're clear to squeeze toward the apex. By eliminating the guesswork of "is he still there?", it drastically reduces frustrated mid-race collisions and makes online racing significantly cleaner and more professional.

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FFBClip is a critical utility for Assetto Corsa that manages Force Feedback (FFB) levels to prevent "clipping." Clipping occurs when the game’s physics engine sends a signal stronger than your steering wheel can handle, causing the wheel to feel "numb" or "flat" during heavy cornering and losing all fine detail. 

Key Features

• Automatic Gain Adjustment: The app continuously monitors the FFB output and automatically adjusts the in-game gain (per car and track) so the signal stays within your wheel’s physical limits without sacrificing strength.

• Real-Time Telemetry: It provides a live graph showing the FFB signal. If the line turns red, it indicates clipping; the app then calculates a new, lower gain setting to bring that signal back to a "safe" green or yellow zone.

• Dynamic Mode: An optional feature that boosts FFB during low-force moments (like slow corners or straights) and lowers it during high-force moments. This is especially useful for entry-level gear-driven or belt-driven wheels (like Logitech G-series) to make them feel more alive.

• Profile Saving: Once it finds the optimal "sweet spot" for a specific car and track combination, it saves that setting and loads it automatically the next time you drive that combo.

• Manual Overrides: Users can set target "Newton Meters" (Nm) if they have high-end Direct Drive bases or choose between "Light" and "Heavy" presets to determine how aggressive the clipping protection should be. 

Why It’s a QoL Must-Have

Without it, you have to manually adjust the FFB for every single mod car you download, as modders often set internal force values differently. FFBClip automates this tedious process, ensuring that whether you're in a lightweight kart or a heavy GT3 car, your wheel is always delivering the maximum possible detail without "bottoming out".

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The LUT Generator is a powerful calibration tool that creates a custom Look-Up Table (LUT) to "linearize" your steering wheel's Force Feedback (FFB). It is widely considered an essential QoL upgrade for owners of entry-to-mid-level gear or belt-driven wheels (like the Logitech G29 or Thrustmaster T300). 

How It Works

• Correction of Non-Linearity: Most consumer wheel motors do not respond to game signals in a perfectly straight line—for example, the wheel might feel "mushy" at 10% force but suddenly "spike" at 40%. The LUT Generator maps these discrepancies and provides a correction file so the wheel responds exactly as the game intends.

• Deadzone Removal: It is highly effective at eliminating the "dead center" feel common in Logitech wheels by forcing the motors to react even to the smallest, subtle forces that they would normally ignore.

• Custom Calibration: Rather than using a generic preset, you use a secondary tool called WheelCheck to physically test your specific wheel's motors. The LUT Generator then converts that raw data into a .lut file tailored to your individual hardware. 

Key Benefits

• Enhanced Detail: You will feel more "nuance" in the road surface and tire grip, particularly in the lower-force range where wheels typically feel "numb".

• Consistency: It ensures that 50% force in a GT3 car feels proportionally identical to 50% force in a street car, making your muscle memory more reliable.

• Improved Precision: By tightening the center of the wheel and smoothing out sudden spikes, it makes it easier to catch slides and maintain a steady line through corners. 

Integration Note:

• Once generated, you simply import the file through Content Manager

• Settings > Assetto Corsa > Controls > Feedback. 

• It works perfectly alongside FFBClip as the LUT ensures your wheel is linear while FFBClip ensures it doesn't saturate (clip)

Why it’s a QoL Must-Have

The LUT Generator is essentially a "digital tuner" for your steering wheel. Most entry-level wheels have a massive "deadzone" in the center where you feel absolutely nothing, making the car feel disconnected from the road. This mod fixes that by force-mapping your wheel's specific motor strengths to match the game's physics perfectly.

It transforms a "notchy" or "vague" steering experience into one that is linear and predictable. By removing that center deadzone and smoothing out erratic force spikes, it allows you to feel exactly when the front tires are starting to scrub or when the rear is about to slide. It’s the single most effective way to make a $300 wheel feel like a $1,000 professional setup.

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Comfy Map is a modern, high-performance track map and navigation tool for Assetto Corsa that significantly improves on the default in-game map. It is particularly popular on "Free Roam" and "Track Day" servers like Shutoko Revival Project (SRP) because it allows for real-time navigation and fast travel. 

Key Features

• Click-to-Teleport: Its standout feature is the ability to click on specific icons on the map to instantly teleport your car to that location. This is essential for quickly getting back to the pits or meeting up with friends in large open-world maps.

• Advanced Navigation: Unlike the static default map, Comfy Map supports zooming and dragging, much like Google Maps. You can lock the map to your car (middle-click) so it follows your movement as you drive.

• Social Integration: It highlights players on your Content Manager friends list and displays player names directly on the map, making it much easier to find and follow specific drivers in a crowded lobby.

• Dual-Window System: It includes a secondary window for a compass, helping you stay oriented on complex road networks like Tokyo's highways.

• Customization: You can adjust arrow sizes, change color schemes, and even set up your own custom teleport points via a built-in config helper. 

Why It’s a QoL Must-Have

The default Assetto Corsa map is often criticized for being hard to read and non-interactive. Comfy Map transforms the map into a functional tool for social racing, allowing you to instantly find "traffic" or "meets" without wandering aimlessly around a 100km+ track.

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2Real Traffic Simulation (also known as the 2REAL App) is a comprehensive tool that transforms Assetto Corsa's empty maps into living, breathing environments. It is built upon the original CSP Traffic Planner but adds advanced scripting for more complex and realistic vehicle behavior. 

Key Features

• High-Density Spawning: Allows you to spawn and simulate up to 2,000 traffic cars simultaneously with minimal impact on CPU performance.

• Realistic AI Behavior: Traffic cars can change lanes, wait at intersections, and respond to traffic lights.

• Interactive Gameplay: You can interact with traffic by challenging cars to a race or experiencing a Police Chase mode, where AI police will actively pursue you.

• Advanced Physics: Features rewritten crash physics and dynamic destruction models, meaning traffic cars show visible damage and react realistically when hit.

• Live Customization: An in-game UI allows you to adjust traffic density, speed, and vehicle types (e.g., trucks, Japanese, or European car packs) on the fly without restarting the session.

• Environmental Life: Includes a 3D-walking pedestrians mod to populate sidewalks and city areas. 

Why It’s a QoL Must-Have

While Assetto Corsa was designed for circuit racing, 2Real is essential for "Free Roam" enthusiasts who want a believable city driving experience. It bridges the gap between a racing sim and an open-world driving game, making solo practice on massive maps like Shutoko Revival Project or Mulholland Drive feel significantly more immersive.

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The CMRT Essential HUD is a highly popular quality-of-life interface mod for Assetto Corsa (not Combat Mission: Red Thunder), designed to provide a clean, all-in-one racing overlay. It consolidates critical racing data into a sleek, customizable package that helps reduce on-screen clutter. 

Key Features

• Modular Design: Includes 9 independent, movable apps (modules) that you can position anywhere on your screen.

• Essential Racing Data:

  • Leaderboard: Shows standings and intervals between drivers.

  • Radar: A superior proximity indicator for close-quarters racing.

  • Tyre App: Displays real-time temperatures, pressures, and wear.

  • Gearbox & Telemetry: Shows current gear, RPM, fuel levels, and pedal inputs (throttle/brake).

• High Customization: A dedicated Settings app allows you to adjust the scale, size, and opacity of every individual element.

• Performance Optimized: Designed to be lightweight with minimal impact on frame rates. 

Why It’s a QoL Must-Have

The CMRT Essential HUD is a definitive quality-of-life upgrade because it replaces Assetto Corsa’s cluttered, dated stock interface with a sleek, all-in-one modular system. It solves the problem of "information overload" by condensing vital telemetry—like gear shifts, live tyre pressures, and fuel levels—into a single, high-definition overlay that clears up your field of vision. Its standout feature is a superior proximity radar that provides much better spatial awareness during close-quarters racing than the default game apps. Because every element is fully scalable and movable, you can build a professional, distraction-free cockpit tailored exactly to your screen size and racing style.

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