How to get more from Crew Chief

[@bobskimaxx]

Crew Chief talks to me more then my wife! PERFECT!!

[@ryancampbell735]

Sarcasm? The thing never shuts up. It's ridiculous.

[@gomezthechimp1116]

@@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.

[@DeFausti]

Crew Chief talks to my wife more than me.. Bastard

[@theoldhenk7531]

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!

[@TheDriftingStig]

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.

[@Darksignstudios]

they're recorded, full word samples

[@Brunnen_Gee]

The pit box is crazy useful when you're in VR and the pit lane is crowded.

[@MrEDET]

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 :)

[@Brunnen_Gee]

I wish they'd come out with new chief voices. Having a selection of spotter voices is nice, but I'd like some different chief ones too.

[@Brunnen_Gee]

@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!

[@derekcampanile-dadwithapan6073]

had no idea crew chief did more than just talk to me! Great stuff!

[@Sampsoid]

Thanks a lot, glad it helped. Crew Chief is for sure amazing!

[@Mr_Jimbo]

Crewchief is awesome mate, thank you so much - it really adds to the immersion of all the sims I race in so big big thanks.

[@tokonjudo]

Einstein once famously said that everyone is a genius, but only in their fields (im paraphrasing). You found your field on this one dude. Bravo

[@ModKijko]

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'

[@lebojay]

Try "pitstop clear all." You're welcome!

[@ModKijko]

@@lebojay I thought that would clear Fast Repair settings too?

[@lebojay]

mod prime oh, hrm, not sure...

[@kellylaw]

This comes in handy! I use the pit countdown feature. Working on communicating withCrew Chief, but didn’t know about the auto fuel.

[@oddjobs5516]

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?

[@c.j2527]

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.

[@Yannick-TV]

Thanks for the great content David, especially the How To guides helped me out a lot.

[@bobsantos1372]

Great Video David! I am only using a fraction of what is available from Crew Chief. That will soon change. Thanks for another awesome how to video!

[@Sampsoid]

Thanks a lot Bob, you are more than welcome and thank you for all the support!

[@kevingraham2733]

Thanks for the helpful tips David, never knew how much was involved in crew chief

[@Sampsoid]

You are more than welcome, glad it helped and thanks a lot for watching.

[@LuckyDucky85]

Man. I had no idea crew chief was a separate thing.. lol thanks.

[@Sampsoid]

No worries, glad it helped mate. Thanks for all the support!

[@firwatr]

David, absolutely loving your videos man. Keep up the great work!

[@Sampsoid]

Glad you like them! Thanks a lot :)

[@FlowState.Racing]

Mate awesome video! I was looking for this kinda stuff in Crew Chief earlier ready for my first IMSA race at Lime Rock tomoz ! Thanks alot

[@Sampsoid]

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!

[@FlowState.Racing]

@@Sampsoid Thanks v much mate! Ive been using CrewChief since i came back to iracing but had no idea where these other options were lol

[@ficachi]

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!!

[@mattycdj555]

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.

[@sherfillouisy]

Thank for all the information

[@Sampsoid]

Your more than welcome

[@vibezeee81]

Very informative video , thanks David !

[@Sampsoid]

Your welcome, thanks for the support!

[@ZvonECR0]

The lollipop man! The guy in the pits holding that thing is called the lollipop man :D

[@gabrielcastlebary2836]

Thanks for the video. Useful for actually making crew chief work with me.

[@MarkRiddellRacing]

Really useful cheers, used CC for years but didn’t know most of this.

[@silviutudorescu8114]

For the refuelling portion you forgot to mention that you have to change some parameters in the .ini app of iracing in order to let CC manage fuel!

[@sharkeu8758]

what are those parameters can you inform us plz

[@jankristiansen3146]

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 :)

[@Sampsoid]

Thanks Jan, welcome aboard and look forward to seeing you out on track

[@fredburmer7306]

Another great video, very informative. Keep them coming!

[@kennyrodg]

Thanks David.

[@Sampsoid]

More than welcome, hope it helps.

[@skaven6663]

Wow thanks for this. I didn’t know this program did all this.

[@Sampsoid]

You are more than welcome, glad it helped and thanks for watching.

[@VZBOYY]

hell yea im using the sweary messages haha

[@Sampsoid]

Haha, enjoy!

[@VZBOYY]

@@Sampsoid recently made a smart pass and jim was like "YESSSSS fuckin nailed him"

[@sgtgoody0461]

thanks for the video. Very easy to follow instructions.

[@Sampsoid]

You're welcome!

[@connorminniss1682]

Fantastic video, thank you!

[@Sampsoid]

Glad you liked it!

[@chuongsullivan-kemple6617]

Great video! Thanks for the help!!

[@marksutherlandjr.2121]

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

[@mrwayneoinsano]

Thank you so much that’s a huge help

[@mattihelenius2]

Thanks! Just setuped Chief.. seems better now =) Thank once again!

[@Sampsoid]

Great to hear! I love Crew Chief and have been using it long before I was on iRacing.

[@tonygee3284]

Thanks for this info on crew chief helps a lot

[@aabe4327]

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.

[@Sampsoid]

You are welcome, I love Crew Chief

[@Peteski510]

thanks! really helpful information

[@Sampsoid]

Glad it was helpful, thanks for the support

[@jimmyeger123]

Hi David - thanks for ur videos

[@Meadie69]

Cheers for this mate

[@Sampsoid]

You are welcome

[@LJSR07]

This needs to be updated

[@mikesmith7722]

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

[@evelyngrove]

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.

[@sergiopioneer3621]

Cool Patrick's shirt 😉

[@Sampsoid]

Thanks

[@PhilDiasPJD]

Great Video David!

[@manuelbatterman4232]

Ita a lot …😅thanks for helping me on the way ..👍

[@steam-SMOKEY]

Appreciate the info mate 👍

[@mathieudegryse3873]

awesome, that was helpful !

[@Sampsoid]

Thanks, really pleased it helped.

[@briancalibergbmd]

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.

[@MLJ7424]

Great video and information 👍 Thank you very much. Does crew chief turn off iracings spotter ?

[@robertlee42770]

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.

[@KoalaTContent]

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

[@adriangabba]

Thank you very much. Thumbs up.

[@bobbaker1253]

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?

[@mrmidnight32]

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?

[@Dylan-180]

i cant get it to pick up "chief" when i say the word

[@deronshank75]

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!!!!!

[@BakerGermany]

Thanks for the info, I’ve clicked the auto start button but can’t stop now the app to check for the other options ? Any suggestions?

[@motodv8moto531]

and thanks for the video

[@algenovex]

OMG, Matteo Salvini!!

[@steve196134]

should i disable the crewchief in Iracing when using this ?

[@Sampsoid]

Yeh Steve, disable the voice but leave the iRacing spotter text on screen as it's always helpful.

[@steve196134]

@@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 !

[@nrf91]

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.

[@juniorlelis8010]

the best app ever

[@craigbennett6388]

Great video! I've tried selecting a number of different options and when saving and restarting it reverts back? Any ideas on how to overcome this?

[@Sampsoid]

Hi Craig, make sure iRacing is selected and that you picked a name. Also in the properties page make sure you click the save button.

[@jasonpedu4269]

THANK YOU!!!

[@SixxiePlays]

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?

[@bobbaker1253]

I’m not sure how to get IRacing and crew chief working together. What do you do after downloading crew chief?

[@francescobortot4929]

Does the crew chief app decrease iRacing fps?

[@clem3nt253]

Not really

[@francescobortot4929]

@@clem3nt253 ok thank you

[@motodv8moto531]

How did you get the circles with representation the track, yourself, and other players?

[@lancetaylor6647]

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

[@user-uz2fp6ei4e]

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.

[@gregfronek3252]

What is the link for crew chief?

[@GamingWithGeo]

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.

[@STEPPENWOLF411]

The live hud won't startup on its own. For SDK what did you do to fix it? For the iracing manager

[@zerozero335]

how do you make so that he says "car on the right" and stuff like that?

[@yanisselly]

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

[@jukkaaho7962]

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

[@amovids]

what do you use to get the track map up which is showing on the top right of your screen , i only joined iracing 3 days ago so this is all new to me

[@arekdbz3]

Dunno why but crew chief gives me wrong data. Says that I am in a different position then I really am and has wrong read outs of fuel.

[@RyanLoeffler_]

I know this is an old video, but how do you use iRacing Manager? I cant get my apps to open and close with the iRacing UI shortcut on my desktop

[@lebojay]

If I'm using the automatic fuel thing that you suggest, does it just ignore what I put in the fuel black box, or what?

[@123marytodd]

Where can I find thr down load for crew chief? And the iracing task manager you clicked on? Thank you

[@VR46_R2D2]

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.

[@RandomFactz121]

Bro I play assetto corsa without gpu with crew Cheif on it still works perfect with 50-60 fps which i get even without crew Chris

[@stsaarikko]

I set refuel to add 2 extra laps worth. Cost me a win once and never again.

[@Sampsoid]

Agreed, I usually have it set to 0.2 laps. Sorry to hear that.

[@mikemorgan8895]

I am running crew chief V4. But iracing manager doesn’t recognize it. How do I get it to recognize the app?

[@hogdude1234]

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?

[@frosty70322]

how did you get the race order in the top left?

[@Flyboy0985]

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

[@chevfan88]

In the sound settings of iracing, uncheck spotter to turn off the Iracing version

[@jeanmarclevy9413]

Hi can we map a voice fonction like voice attack for action like ignition or wipers....

[@adamsmith4953]

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?

[@justinwebb4128]

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?

[@drorzy_0485]

My Crewchief constantly keeps reporting my wrong position everytime I cross the line. I have 64 cars drawn 🤷🏽‍♂️

[@jasons4745]

Empty box (Matt Or) top feature of crew chief?

[@pakipoli4895]

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

[@Pops1970]

Crew Chief is fantastic. I don't use it currently because I can't stand Jim. If they get rid of him, and/or add a few more voices I'd use it more. It is also all about road racing, It works fine in ovals, but it obviously is focused on road. The "watch the white line" comment every single time I leave the pits (there is no white line in ovals). Petty? yes. But room to improve for sure. And reminders about my penalties are way too frequent. 12 seconds after the flag he is telling me I still haven't served my penalty, repeatedly

[@hellobooom]

I don't know if they'll be doing that as they is Jim and he's had done it all himself.

[@TheJamesEarly]

iRacing Manager seems like such a useful tool, I never knew it existed!

[@Sampsoid]

Yes really handy, I covered it in my Tip and tricks video and have been using it ever since.

[@davidlove1089]

Where do I go to download iracing manager?

[@charleslambert7936]

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?

[@christoforospaphitis4090]

Well two things made me uninstall crew chief 1. No matter what it can't understand my accent so voice recognition was not working for me 2. I was in a very prolonged fight with 3 other cars running very close to each other lap after lap and it started to get too chatty telling me all the sector times of the car ahead and behind all the time in a relatively short circuit, telling me the guy behind is catching and i need to push, while i was on the absolute limit, telling me my times are dropping off just because we were in a fight, and that i have to send it to pass. It was extremely distracting especially when I really needed to focus, I think everyone who raced in a very heated and equal battle needs some quiet to focus, it caused me to crash and I immediately uninstalled it. Heck I almost ripped off my headphones that day (Reminds me of Kimi Raikonen on the radio yelling - Just leave me alone, I know what I am doing) i.e. what the only thing that could benefit you apart from the novelty which wears off eventually is really the auto-refueling, but tbh usually on solo races you only need only one stop and you can approximate the fuel needed before the race starts and using a fuel calculator just adjust it a click or two while refueling. As for where you are faster or slower than the other guy there is a neat application which is not very distracting and is called racelabs which compares your sector time from the guys ahead and behind lap by lap, and has a fuel calculator as well. The standings however I do find them distracting as it blocks full view on a single screen monitor.