ULTIMATE Beginners Guide to Assetto Corsa 2024! (CM, CSP, Pure, PPfilters, Rain)

so you're new to a set of Corsa and don't know where to start to get it configured and looking as amazing as those videos that you watch on YouTube well this is the video for you because I'm going to be showing you how to install a set of Corsa how to configure it I'll also be showing you how to take a set of courses to the next level by installing things like content manager custom shaders patch pure and the pp filters and all the links to everything you're going to need are down in the description below so now that's out of the way let's get to it so I recommend buying the ultimate edition which comes with all of the DLC content included but don't buy this on Steam because at the time of recording this the price on Steam was just over 30 pounds or 37 US Dollars now there are plenty of sites that sell the digital steam key cheaper than Steam and at the time of recording this CD Keys was the far cheapest because for the ultimate edition that came in at a cost of four pounds 99 which is just over six US dollars so to install a set of core so make sure you have the steam client already installed on your gaming PC and you've created an account for Steam and you're signed in with that account and then what you're going to do is you're going to click on at the top you're going to click on games and you're going to click on activate a product on Steam then you're going to enter the activation code from your CD Keys order page and once that's done the game will then appear in your library ready for you to download So once it's downloaded through Steam an icon for a set of course is going to be placed upon your desktop now we're not going to launch a set of corset just yet the next thing we need to do is install content manager now content manager is a custom launcher for a set of Corsair and what that means is it gives you complete control of your experience out on track you can pick and choose what car and what track to drive on you can see that car inside a virtual showroom a 3D virtual showroom you can choose if you want to do a hot lap if you want to do drifting if you want to do a race or a practice you can customize your opponent's cars and their skins you can choose the track conditions the time of day you can configure all of your Hardware you can configure button mappings video settings audio settings and you can even save these presets so you can quickly reload them to and there's just so much more now there's a free light version of content manager which has some restrictions or there's a full version which is a paid full version now you can choose how much or how little you want to pay for the full version of content manager the minimum amount is a pound or just over one US dollar but I would strongly recommend buying the full version of content manager so click on the link to download the light version if you have paid for the full version you will get an email with your key in download the zip file to your desktop and extract the contents of it you will just have two files to your desktop now click on the content manager icon and content manager loads and before we can get into content manager we have to fill in a bit of information now if the aceto Corsa root folder field is blank and it's just showing a question mark like mine what you can do is you can just open up steam find a setup courser in your library you can right click it and then you can choose properties click on installed files and then click on the browse button just at the top right there and what that will do is that will open the root folder and you can can just copy and paste the full path into this field now you can also here you can also change the name here you can add a gamer tag which shows when you're racing in game now towards the bottom you can see there's we can choose to install a number of utilities install seven sip only is what I would recommend the others are not needed so click OK and content manager will open now we can see here at the top right it says switch to full version and if you click on that this is where you can enter the app key that you got emailed if you purchased the full version so if you paste that into there and then click OK you'll see that content manager now unlocks you'll see that the switch to full version will disappear from the top right so the first thing we're going to do is we're going to click into our settings button at the top and if we click on a set of Corsa on the left hand side at the top and then into video so these are my video settings that I use for VR you can see at the bottom down on the bottom right this is saved preset for VR now there's one setting in here which doesn't change it doesn't matter whether I'm using my 49 inch curved or VR or playing replays and that is anisotropic filtering and you can see that I've got it switched off here and there's a very good reason for that so in the Discord channel for custom shaders patch and I will leave a link down in the description below they have a pinned document on how it is best to configure content manager to get the most out of it so essentially it's a huge performance benefit to have anisotropic filtering done by the hardware by the graphics card as opposed to having it done by the game so software so this is why I have it turned off and in in my Nvidia control panel I have the graphics card set to 16 times anisotropic filtering it's why it's turned off here in content manager so next we're just going to check the wheels and the pedals and just make sure that they're working and are seen in content manager obviously it goes without saying you need to have the wheels and the wheelbase powered up before launching content manager or just won't find them check in here that your wheel and your pedals have been detected that they're functioning when you press on the throttle on the brake or on the clutch and check that you can see the wheel turning as you would do in your wheel and pedal software so next we're going to install custom shaders patch or CSP and this extends the capability and the functionality of a set of course Way Beyond what the original authors of a set of course it did it adds so many effects to really bring it to life including things like Sparks when the car bottoms out on the road you can see the sparks flying off it adds lights in lighting improvements dirt on the windscreen uh rain if you pay for a certain version of CSP it has enhancements for VR for triple screens it has Graphics enhancements and it just just so much more and as I just mentioned if you want rain in a set of Corsa then this is through a paid version of CSP of custom shaders patch but again you can choose how little or how much you want to pay I think the minimum again is one pound just over a dollar but it's well worth it now once you've signed up to ilya's patreon page scroll down to the first article with the zip file that's attached and you'll see a link there which says a link to automatically install the build using content manager so we're going to click on that link and that's going to open this tab up in the web browser if I just click cancel here I'll just show you what this install button does it does pretty much exactly the same thing you can see we've got content manager open then if I just click install this pops up we're going to click open content manager this pop-up open says do you want to install the preview build we're going to click yes and as you'll see on the top right there's sort of a green sort of download bar button if you click on that it'll show you what's happening there you go it says installing custom shaders patch I'm just going to click remove completed just to keep it nice and tidy and next what we're going to do is we're going to click on settings we're going to click on custom shaders patch we're going to click on about and update at the top left there and as you can see the installed version is the preview version that we've just installed so we're all good with custom shaders patch next up is pure by Peter Bose and as we can see here it is a weather custom weather and Graphics mod for a set of course so now as we click it on the membership Tab and scroll down you can see here that the minimum that you can pay is one pound a month just over a dollar a US dollar a month so once you've joined Peter Bose's patreon site what you're going to do is you're going to scroll down to the first article that has the zip file attached to it as you can see here this is it's pure 1.90 here I'm just going to expand the article it shows you how not to install it and how to install installation it's very very simple you just download the file extract it to your desktop and run the install pure batch file it's it's that simple but as you can see here there are high res 16k Sky domes and low res 4K skydomes there's a note here that says that the high res the 16k versions don't actually have any impact on your FPS your frames per second at all in fact all it does is it just takes up more virtual RAM and it only takes up 128 Mega virtual Ram so I'm gonna download and install the high res domes and as it's a large file I'm going to speed up this part of the process so here's the downloaded file on my desktop I'm going to right click this and I'm going to extract it to my desktop using 7-Zip which we installed previously so I'm just going to double click on the folder and I'm going to go into the pure folder and I'm just going to click on the install pure.bat file now what this is going to do is going to ask me to find the aceta Corsa root folder so I'm just going to navigate to that mines on the E Drive click OK and because I have an older version of pure already installed it's already removed that version for me and reinstalled the new one so I'm just going to press any key key to continue and that's it pure is installed and finally we're down to just installing the pp filters now the pp filters are what make a set of corset look super super realistic now there are a lot of pp filters available for a Seto Corsa and a lot of this is going to come down to personal preference so what might look really really good for me might be too light or too dark or over saturated for you so I would just recommend trying a few of them I've left links down in the description below to two Free PP filters that you can find on Race department and if you haven't created an account for race Department yet go ahead and do that it is free and once you've done that and you've logged in with that account on Race Department then you'll see the download button so the first PP filter that I'm going to show you is the C13 Aegis PP filter and the second one is Horizon Shades now both of these are very very good in my opinion download both of these you can just easily switch them in and out it's very very simple but the one that I prefer is NV photorealism from night Venom this is a paid for mod it does cost three pounds or just short of four US dollars but in my opinion it is the best I've tried a lot of pp filters as you'll see a little later on when we're choosing them now to install any of these just drag and drop these into content manager and you'll see the green sort of installing icon there you go it's telling me that I already have it and it's going to update it so I'm going to click install and that is it as simple as that now to choose the pp filters to select them you're going to go into settings we're going to go into a set of Corsa and then we're going to go into the video tab on the right hand side you can see it has post processing and filter now as you can see mine is set to NV photorealism here but simply just drop the arrow down and choose the pp filter that you've installed old and that is it now before we can jump in the car and get out on track there's one very important thing to do to just check so we want to go into settings we want to go into a Seto courser and to python apps and we just want to make sure that these two options at the top enable python apps and developer apps are enabled and then one last check is just wherever we've got sold just make sure that they are ticked and that they are enabled now we're ready to jump in a car and get out on track right so I've just jumped in a Seto courser for you to show you what we do next and very it's very simple because we've chosen the car we've chosen the track we've chosen the weather conditions the time of day opponents whether we're practicing or whatever it's going to be and to just and to Simply drive all you want to do is just scroll up here to the steering wheel and just click on it and that's it you're now free to drive now let me just I just wanted to show you Seoul and how you can change weather certain weather conditions when you're in a Seto course and now what you want to do is now I am in VR but it's exactly the same with the Abba screen or not you want to just scroll to the to the right hand side of the screen and up Pops this menu system and you want to click on these four boxes there to show you a list of all of the apps now if you remember in when we enabled all the python apps this is where they will show on the screen so here's the pure config app that we can see here let's just drag it over to the center we've got a lights night sky clouds and everything else and close that down come back over to the right hand side and what we want to do is we want to look for soul planner here it is right here so if we click on that what you can see here is here's the weather planner for Seoul so basically it's put us in the afternoon because that was the time of day that we chose 15 10 in the afternoon we're going to do is just click here and here's all your weather conditions and these are all the settings for that what for the weather condition so we've got overcast checked at the minute so if I click light rains you see here light rain you can see here that the amount of rain starts to increase as the clouds form above us with some dark clouds there rain will start to drop shortly there you go you can see some rain clouds here let's close that off again should be able to see let's put it on Heavy Rain actually oh certainly got very dark and very cloudy above us so here we go here comes the rain you can see it dropping on the car but what we want to do is if we want to make it completely sunny there you go and what will happen is the rain dries up slowly as you can see it's like in in real conditions I'll go all the way back to zero and eventually it will just stop raining you can see the droplets on the car there as I as I just show you how to just look around and to change the time of day it's very very simple you can just click evening and there you go we have the sun setting if we go to Sunrise there you go sun's coming up and back to morning so that's how we change the time of day the weather conditions and you can have a number of weather slots in here so you can determine whether you know you start the race dry in 10 minutes you get rain it's completely customizable and that's that's completely all for you right anyway so enough of that let's get driving that's why we're here so hopefully this video has been of some use to you let me know down in the comments below and if you're new to sim racing check out the video that's on screen right now which talks about what SIM racing Hardware to buy in what order and what mistakes to avoid

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Length: 15min 32sec (932 seconds)

Published: Sat Sep 02 2023