SimXperience has released Sim Commander 4 to all motion simulator and SimVibe owners. This latest update to the software is currently in a beta, and will bring enhanced support for all SimXperience products, as well as enhancing your sim racing experience.
Sim Commander 4 software now features support for a wide variety of older titles (check out the list HERE), including the entire backlog of SimBin titles. The software will also allow for you to create a custom Heads Up Display to be superimposed onto racing titles. It can also translate race data into telemetry, to be analyzed to improve your driving. A track map can also be generated with data from your driving, similar to a MoTeC or AiM system.
One of the features that is forefront in Sim Commander 4 is the ability to cater your settings to fit your driving styles. The software will enable the ability to tweak your motion cockpit, SimVibe, and eventually AccuForce settings on a per-car basis. The new in-game interface will also allow you to modify your settings without exiting the sim.
If you own a SimXperience product, you can now download the Sim Commander 4 beta software via the Owner’s Club, and check out the new features for yourself! Have you tested out the Sim Commander 4 software? What are your thoughts?
I keep seeing this system or program, but I am not sure I want to complicate my system and then there is the set up time for each car in all the games I have. I would never have time to get to racing. I own a lot of cars in a lot of games. Plus I am not sure how much more hardware I would have to add. I have a Buttkicker2 and I really like it. I can see room for improvement on my cars and games. I seemed to have better response off of the tv outputs than off the PC itself. I am definitely interested.
I get that it is a solid program and sounds vital to get the best out of a buttkicker, but what I find hard to swallow is the extremely high pricing of the simvibe software. $89 is excessive and while nobody would deny the author deserves revenue, why does he not price it at an appropriate level ? $49 or even $59 would be a comfortable and fair price. Surely the increase in sales and word of mouth would be much better because I have read comments in many racing forums of people who stop short of picking up simvibe due to the high price.
I think $89 is fine. I think people underestimate the amount of work it takes to program something like this.