Rear View Mirror

Bobby Pennington · Mar 10, 2017

I've looked, googled, binged and fondled, but I cannot find out if it's possible to turn the in car rear view mirror off. I just want to use the Virtual Mirror.
Any help would be much appreciated.

Ian Cameron · Mar 10, 2017

Think it's F11

Michael Stead · Mar 10, 2017

Ian Cameron said:
Think it's F11

That's to turn the virtual mirror on/off. The OP want to have that on but remove the real in-car mirrors, which I don't think you can do.

Ian Cameron · Mar 10, 2017

Michael Stead said:
That's to turn the virtual mirror on/off. The OP want to have that on but remove the real in-car mirrors, which I don't think you can do.

Oh right, seems an odd request.

Brandon Wright · Mar 10, 2017

Not possible in AC as far as I know.

Cote Dazur · Mar 10, 2017

No, you cannot, not sure it is possible in any SIM. Not sure why some one would want that either!
Most people have the reverse of that issue, they are unable to see the mirrors because their FOV adjustment cut the mirrors off their view.

Brandon Wright · Mar 10, 2017

Cote Dazur said:
No, you cannot, not sure it is possible in any SIM. Not sure why some one would want that either!
Most people have the reverse of that issue, they are unable to see the mirrors because their FOV adjustment cut the mirrors off their view.

I know at least one or two other sims have this option, I believe iRacing is one of them. Rendering mirrors takes a lot of processing power so by turning the car mirrors off and just using the one virtual mirror it frees up some processing overhead. So for someone with a lower-end system this could be very helpful in gaining a bit of performance.

UMC 22 · Mar 10, 2017

Cote Dazur said:
No, you cannot, not sure it is possible in any SIM. Not sure why some one would want that either!

In addition to the performance improvements Brandon mentioned, it can be distracting having unused mirrors too. For example, the eye position, FoV and mirror resolution can make them all but useless sometimes, and having objects popping in and out of them can draw your attention when you'd rather it didn't. I'd like more sims to offer the option to use virtual mirrors and turn the real ones off.

Bobby Pennington · Mar 10, 2017

Thanks Guys.
Ross has hit it on the head again. It's distracting to me to have 2 rear view mirrors. I can go into the .ini files and disabale the mirrors, but of course this kills the wing mirrors too and that's a no go for me.
I don't usually use the virtual mirror, but since my first race @ RD is tomorrow I want to make sure I can see everyone that's coming up behind me so I can let them through cleanly if they are about to lap me. I hope this isn't the case, but better safe than sorry.

Emery · Mar 10, 2017

Cote Dazur said:
No, you cannot, not sure it is possible in any SIM.

The ISI family of sims all support turning off real mirrors and having only the virtual mirror active. It's an assignable toggle, default usually F3 as I recall, that cycles between real, real + center virtual, real + triple virtual, triple virtual, none.

Bobby Pennington · Mar 10, 2017

Emery said:
The ISI family of sims all support turning off real mirrors and having only the virtual mirror active. It's an assignable toggle, default usually F3 as I recall, that cycles between real, real + center virtual, real + triple virtual, triple virtual, none.

Thanks Emery. Maybe one of our App / Programmer Whizzes will find a way to do this in AC.
Also be nice to move the Virtual Mirror position.
I know I would like it, but I'm probably in the minority.

Stereo · Mar 10, 2017

Brandon Wright said:
I know at least one or two other sims have this option, I believe iRacing is one of them. Rendering mirrors takes a lot of processing power so by turning the car mirrors off and just using the one virtual mirror it frees up some processing overhead.

AC renders one mirror image and uses it in all locations, virtual or real, so there's no performance difference in showing just 1 mirror or all of them. Drawing the objects takes the same time whether it uses that mirror texture or any other texture.

Brandon Wright · Mar 10, 2017

Stereo said:
AC renders one mirror image and uses it in all locations, virtual or real, so there's no performance difference in showing just 1 mirror or all of them. Drawing the objects takes the same time whether it uses that mirror texture or any other texture.

Didn't know that. I was just repeating what I've heard but apparently that was referring to other sims.