Dick, could you put it on a "doilie" of some description? That might allow you to give vent to your creative urges?

It's done by the numbers. It will never be an exact science, with different guys, different cars, different tracks. How I'm doing it now is how it's going to be done for the rest of the season.

Wait until ballast comes in and then the grumbling will really start

I overdrove the car in race 1 and 3 - results show the outcome - a disaster! Not being used to being in a pack makes it hard to just settle into your own pace.

Race 2 got lucky and drove straight through the mayhem and ended up 3rd. Once in clean air just stuck to keeping it on the track - had 'Guyrush' up my 'whatever' for about 5 laps until I 'let' him through since he obviously had a faster car then me

A full grid at Castle Hill should be really interesting!

Really don't mean to be 'that guy' But I thought 5.1 died in the late 80s? let alone quadrophonic?? you are missing out on a whole bass speaker Gratulin! Let alone another 2 mids..
I love you passion to get the right sound! but you can go out and get 7.1 speakers for around $70 and they have all been plug and play for years. I can't remeber the last time I ever heard 'stereo' let alone needed to do work arounds.

   Or am I totally missing something here?

Ha ha! Do I still listen to LPs as well?

I am after directional sound not better quality sound. Wally is correct. The quality of sound will dramatically improve (we hope) with the new sound subsystem. In the meantime I just want to hear cars coming up behind me and be able to tell which side they are on before I see them AND hear which tire is squealing to help with finding the limit and with threshold braking. So sound quality doesn't really matter at the moment just directional sound. Quadrophonic just happens to be the setting name used in Windows Sound control panel

BTW you do lose directional information with a subwoofer particularly a cheap computer speaker system since you cannot control the crossover frequency. Too much midrange can be sent to the sub in some cases. By defining just 4 speakers you can ensure only back left sounds come from the back left speaker etc etc.

EDIT: just read Wally's comment. While I agree with the 5.1/7.1 comments I am trying to point out that the 4.0 speaker support in AC is actually already excellent.

EDIT: I think you may need to adjust your levels in Windows.

1. Go to Sound Control Panel
2. Select "Playback" tab and select your default Speakers playback device from the list. (should have Green tick)
3. Select "Configure"
4. Make sure "5.1 Surround" selected as Audio channels.
5. Test levels of each speaker by clicking on each speaker icon. If not correct then continue.
6. Select "Next" and make sure "Full-range speakers" are not selected. (in my case I have selected them since i don't have a sub)
7. Go back to "Playback" tab and select "Properties".
8. In "Speaker Properties" select "Levels" tab. You should see volume controls for Side, Center, Subwoofer, Rear, Front. These should be set to 100 already.
9. Your rear speakers will either be controlled by "Rear" or "Side" volume control. Mine is "Side"
10. If you rear volume is too low but everything is already at 100 you need to reduce the volume of "Front" and "Center" speakers.
11. Go back to the "Configure" panel in Step 3 to test the volume levels until you get it correct.

Assetto Corsa should now be balanced correctly. You may need to adjust the relative sound levels in AC Launcher if your own engine is now too loud. For example I reduced Wind noise level for the Formula Abarth since it was really annoying in the rear speakers.

Wally, Apologies for confusion re my making Round 1 - only now realise from your question last night on TS. In my defense I did include my planned absence for Round 1 in my sign-up reply but should have also put a reply here. However, I have been overseas with only spasmodic access to the Internet.

So if your main FFB damping is set to 5% then in-game FFB damping set to 10% means 5%*10%=0.5% damping?

Have you tried raising the pedals?

Did you get the sound levels sorted?