@@ryancampbell735 I turned most of the messages off, apart from the timings. I found the `rants` too much (I`m slow). I had to leave a job I was in (after months on sick leave and no support from senior management) due to some serious bullying and those continuous critical messages were causing flashbacks. I use CC because the overlays in Raceroom multiplayer don`t function properly and Webhud causes a framerate drop of around 20fps.
You can also change the trigger word for voice recognition! The thing that bothers me the most is that CrewChief can read out custom names in Multiplayer but I have to choose a certain name from a list for my own name (my real name isn't in the list). I wish they made it a text box where you could just type in a name because the software can clearly pronounce words like other AI voice software.
After seven years on iRacing, I took a few months break to upgrade my PC, and subsequently forgot all the important details that ensure a great experience. Watching a few of your videos, and everything's come back, with more besides. I'd always viewed Crew Chief as requiring too steep a learning curve to get much use out of, but this video succinctly highlighted what it can do, and as the title states, how to get the most out of it. All your tutorial/tips & tricks videos have been incredibly helpful, and I really appreciate your efforts!
After hearing you talk about Crew Chief in another video I simply started it, started Iracing and found all the spoken info already great. Seeing all the endless other options.. what an awesome program it is. Also thanks for the Iracing Manager tip :)
@Hatchback Zac Ah, well you know what I mean, "they" being an all encompassing thing regarding whoever works on the project. Totally understand though, no disrespect meant!
I always like to start the race with "pitstop clear tyres" amd "pitstop clear fuel" (for D class and below) so I don't forget if I need a fast repair. I also like to ask "What's the strength of field/sof" just because I do. I like the idea of practicing pit stops with Crew Chief so it can calculate where you will come out if you pit now helping you to decide if you want to do an early pit or not :) I've only ever used this feature once and I didn't use it properly but I can see it would be useful for IMSA and ILMS races. That's 'Time this stop' and 'where will i be after a stop'
you can also change the voice files to change from a annoying beep to another word command he uses. i have changed the beat to a "yes" so when i call him he says yes instead.
Your informative videos are excellent and put you a step or two above most of the other sim racing streamers. I've learned a lot from you and now know a lot more about Crew Chief. Thanks. Any chance you could do a short video of how to set up and perform pit stops in iRacing without Crew Chief?
Thanks a lot and really glad it helped. I really love Crew Chief and just want to make sure everyone gets the most out of it. Best of luck with the race!
Fantastic app. Great videos mate. You have really helped me get started in iracing. The sim is not beginner friendly and I have so much to learn. Thanks for making it much easier.
Hello @sampsoid great video!! I used it when I started using crewchief, however now that we are all a bit more experienced I'm finding it hard to get the correct frequency of messages so that we get a much clearer picture of the race without asking, it would be greatly appreciated if you could do a follow up video on the frequency of messages (gap ahead, gap behind, multi-class frequency messages etc) it seems that if you put the frequency to high it starts to mix messages or not report on time cars pressuring you or gaps all around (slow car ahead or faster cars closing or on your tail) it would be great to have that sweet spot of frequency to get the correct reports and get them on time, thx and great videos!!
Brand new to SimRacing, coming from flightsims so wont be to bad of a learning curve hopefully, just wanted to say thank you for you're videos, real helpful for us newbs, going to try a 1 month at first on iracing, added you're Referred mail :)
Fuel Calc is still a must, I have been using this feature, and I was still a bitshort after refuling cause of another yellow right after we started before the end.. Im here to try to find out how to get Jim to tell me the ratingof the guy in front of me
Thankyou! I've been looking all over for what setting fixes his shitty attitude. I realy don't need an application to remind me how bad I am. Now I just wish there was an "Encourage" setting to oppose the "Rant" one.
David , great video about crew chief, but i hate to be such a nube, but i can't even get to the first step, i can open it, but almost everything else is grayed out, all i can do is stop, clear console and open command macro editor, i'm sorry about asking you this way but i can't find anywhere to start, manual or anything, no clue how to get started, thanks for your time , mike
great stuff!! one quick question: I just saw on a stream someone had the crewchief counting down the time before pace car went off at the race start... pretty useful but I cant find that option, it might even be a separate app or something like that... please let me know if anyone has any idea of how to enable that, thank you so much.
My chief says “pit lane open all clear” when I’m leaving pits and there is traffic coming. But randomly says “traffic coming” when no one’s on the straight at all. How do I fix that?
Hello! Ia there an option so i can record my own rally pacenotes without the Windows Voice Recognition? My native language is Greek and WVR doesn't support it.
Dave, love your videos. I’ve watched your video on Crew Chief but still can’t get “Chief” to hear me. I get all the messages fine, but when I want to ask a question, he never responds or “Chief”. What am I doing wrong?
The hardest part of this otherwise excellent software is trying to figure out how to install the voice command function. Perhaps while you were showing us "how to get more from Crew Chief", you could have explained how to install this stupidly difficult portion of it.
Just check "prefer Microsoft voice recognition" or whatever the setting is. I found Crew Chief is very sensitive to background noise so I put a sock on my microphone and now it picks up rather consistently
Hi mate im having trouble launch it. I can only find it in my downloads and when i click it it just gives me options to change were installed repair it or remove it. Can you help
Great app!!! Thanks for the detailed tutorial. Only issue I am having right now is that when a pit stop is complete, I do not hear anyone say "go go go" to leave the pit. Does this need to be enabled somewhere? Thanks.
David, Is Discord the only other form of social media youll use to chat with people ? Im not familiar with Discord and would have to set and learn the program just to be able to speak with you which I guess if its the only way of speaking with you its what Ill do but just wanted to ask before I went that route if there were any other options possible to contact you? I have facebook, twitter, and unlimited worldwide texting on my cell phone so Im not opposed to texting with you as well if thats a avenue you ascertain. Let me know please and thanks. Im a cherry newbie to iracing less then four months here. Just starting second season and Ill be in Class C in all four divisions. I love uour videos and have learned so much more just from your videos then anything or anyone else on the iracing platform and google period. Thanks again and hope to hear from you soon with another possible way to contact you if not then downloading Discord and learning it to be able to contact with you. Cheers Mate!!!!!
Hi ....one question. .. how do you manage the flags and incidents..... for me... it's seen that it's not reporting the cars involve in enough time.... sometimes I enter a corner and a car it in the middle. ...and had no warning at all and no flags....only the blues
I notice when I record a game using crew chief/ crew chief doesn’t sound during video playback. When I’m playing during the recording I hear CC during the entire race. But not in video playback. Any suggestions?
Have used crew chief autofuel in probably 50 races, today for the first time it underfueled me and I ran out. And I even have 0.3 laps extra in the settings
@@Sampsoid thanks David for the vids and the reply. I finally got everything working even the voice command. Still working things out though. Thx Mate !
Just reinstalled Nascar Racing 2003 Season, and modded it up to look like a modern game. Was just wondering if there was a way to make Crew Chief work with it as I've had no luck as of yet.
Hi David. Thanks for this video. Is there a way to customize the voice commands? For example, "What are my tire temps" is way too wordy. I've got my current voice command software configured so that all I say is "tire temps". It would be a huge plus if I could change all of Crew Chief's voice commands to match what I am used to.
Is the program literally called "Crew Chief"? Do you need discord or anything else in the background for it to run if I'm just playing and not streaming?
hi from italy: two questions. yesterday raced with nascar and i see that Chief do not give me real position but less 10 (i was in 15th position...but chief give me 5th) it is possible set this? in graphic iracing?......other question...it is possible to set chief in pit stop to set new tyres and fuel in quantity to finish race without that i set with my hands on keyboards? ths
I love crew chief but it "can't hear me" like 90% of the time, "give me deltas every lap" is impossible to get working sometimes mid race, got any advice?
i am having problems where i try to use the Voice recognition mode and I get your system is missing a dependency for speech recogniser to work. How do i fix that?
David, Ive been on the forum and ive tried everything to get the chief to talk back to me. He can hear me sometimes out of Iracing, but once in the game he cant hear me. Tried everything even the Audicity and still he cant hear me. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks :)
I’m just working on getting this app going. When I click on voice recognition it prompts me to download another app to make this possible. Is this other app really needed?
Hi there, great App. New to AMS2 here, I was just wondering if it ues a lot of resources on a PC? My PC isn't that powerful and I had to dial down some graphics etc... to keep game smooth, especially in online play. I love the App though and would love to use it.
Hi David Thanks for the awesome videos! Regarding crew chief, how do I mute the iRacing “default” spotter, in order for me to only hear the one from Crew Chief? I keep hearing both and that’s just not practical. Thanks and best regards