What are your stability and stiffness settings for a more realistic experience?

[Interstate Nomad]

Howdy truckers,

 

In my search to improve the simulator settings for a more realistic experience, I came across this and this post, which I would like to use to adapt my settings.

 

But what are your settings?

 

Or do you use a physics mod that you can recommend?

 

Please share below.

[RedNub]

Hello there, @blabberbeak

 

First of all, thanks for creating thus topic. 

 

In case make your game more realistic I use this: 

 

- Decreased stabillity of Truck 

- Decreased stabillity of Trailer

- Use reshade (Keep in mind it might decrease your FPS) 

 

Then I use some external softwares like VTC World, Trucky. 

 

I recommend you to try the reshade it's amazing.

 

Kind Regards, 

RedWolf [CZ] 

TruckersMP Patron Master Trucker Veteran Driver IV I MCG Expert Driver

[FernandoCR [ESP]]

I would trust the "best answer" in the first post you linked, from Steam Community. It comes from a real truck driver who clearly knows how it feels to drive a truck and has worked through the game settings to make the simulation feel the closest possible to reality. But I find those settings a bit "extreme". So I just go with 0.0 in stability, suspension stiffness and braking intensity. Other than just some "new" truck in ATS, I don't like using mods, so I can't tell about any of them. Regarding graphics, the same can be said, I use max values in the graphics options in the game and that's good enough for me.

[L-DR@GO]

Truck stability --------------100%. Or 75%

Trailer stability -------------100%

Suspension stiffness -------10%

Cabin suspension stiffness -11%

Uneven surface simulation -161%

 

This are my own settings..

U can play with it till your satisfied with the stability/stiffness your getting 

[Granite [SVK]]

1 hour ago, FernandoCR [ESP] said:

I would trust the "best answer" in the first post you linked, from Steam Community. It comes from a real truck driver who clearly knows how it feels to drive a truck and has worked through the game settings to make the simulation feel the closest possible to reality.

I wouldn't, because that post is 4 and a half year old when the 1.35 version came out.

The game changed a bit since then and the physics too, the default and maximum values of some settings (namely stability) changed as well.

Don't know about you, but for me the trucks feel much less stable today than back then, even at maximum settings.

Tested the setting from first link and they turn your truck to jelly with just a little bit too sudden change of direction, I wouldn't recommend those, or even any negative values.

 

These are my preferred physics related settings:

 

uset g_cabin_suspension_stiffness "0.2" (20%)
uset g_suspension_stiffness "0.2"  (20%)
uset g_trailer_stability "0.125" (25%)
uset g_driveshaft_torque "0.3" (30%)
uset g_truck_stability "0.125" (25%)

uset g_camera_horizon_lock "0" (0%)
uset g_cam_physics_value "2" (200%)
uset g_cam_physics "2" (enabled)

 

[L-DR@GO]

4 minutes ago, Granite [SVK] said:

I wouldn't, because that post is 4 and a half year old when the 1.35 version came out.

The game changed a bit since then and the physics too, the default and maximum values of some settings (namely stability) changed as well.

Don't know about you, but for me the trucks feel much less stable today than back then, even at maximum settings.

Tested the setting from first link and they turn your truck to jelly with just a little bit too sudden change of direction, I wouldn't recommend those, or even any negative values.

 

These are my preferred physics related settings:

 

uset g_cabin_suspension_stiffness "0.2"
uset g_suspension_stiffness "0.2"
uset g_trailer_stability "0.125"
uset g_driveshaft_torque "0.3"
uset g_truck_stability "0.125"

uset g_camera_horizon_lock "0"
uset g_cam_physics_value "2"
uset g_cam_physics "2"

 

I think I will try urs..

Nice way of putting it 

Straight from the source ( config.cfg )

[LUPO (ITA)]

Hello @blabberbeak,

 

I usually really like to play with almost all the settings available at 100% Especially the stability of the truck and trailer, but sometimes I lower the percentage to 80/90%. 

 

Regards, 

ROMANISTA [ITA] 

TruckersMP Veteran Player 

[Davina]

I have things in the mist 'unstable' therefore realistic settings, forcing realistic speeds during cornering. Road to simulation & all that.

[FernandoCR [ESP]]

17 hours ago, Granite [SVK] said:

I wouldn't, because that post is 4 and a half year old when the 1.35 version came out.

The game changed a bit since then and the physics too, the default and maximum values of some settings (namely stability) changed as well.

Don't know about you, but for me the trucks feel much less stable today than back then, even at maximum settings.

Tested the setting from first link and they turn your truck to jelly with just a little bit too sudden change of direction, I wouldn't recommend those, or even any negative values.

 

These are my preferred physics related settings:

 

uset g_cabin_suspension_stiffness "0.2" (20%)
uset g_suspension_stiffness "0.2"  (20%)
uset g_trailer_stability "0.125" (25%)
uset g_driveshaft_torque "0.3" (30%)
uset g_truck_stability "0.125" (25%)

uset g_camera_horizon_lock "0" (0%)
uset g_cam_physics_value "2" (200%)
uset g_cam_physics "2" (enabled)

 

Thank you for noticing and bringing it to my attention, I really had missed that detail.

 

Regarding the settings, I'll have to check, because I remember setting those values of 0.0 long ago but I don't remember "re-visiting" them later and I never felt the truck going too soft, it's true that I haven't almost played for months, but last time I did, the game version was higher than 1.35, that's for sure. My only guess is that the config file was changed/updated when the game's physics did, to "adapt" the values to the new ranges.

[Davina]

I am trying those stability settings from the Steam post on my single player profile.

 

It is insane.

 

I have been playing ETS for over 10 years & I had to recover twice before even left the departure town. 

 

Shows how tight the 'normal' corners are at ETS's scale. A normal curve you did at 70 you now have to do at 40. Sometimes 20 is too fast.

 

Gamechanger. 

 

 

[OmSaL]

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