Games
RigReady knows a set of games. For each one it can find the install, read its version, launch it, and name the files worth backing up. For some it goes further: it reads the bindings as the game's files hold them, matches the controllers the game knows to the ones connected now, and repairs or copies binding files. Any other game can be added on the Games page, or still works with a setup of its own.
This section covers every game other than DCS World, which has its own section: this page lists the games and what each gets, describes Configure > Games and the Racing page under it and the checks a racing setup gets, and the pages that follow cover each game and the Fanatec wheel.
Support by game
| Game | What RigReady does |
|---|---|
| DCS World | The deepest: installs, the Saved Games folder, screen setup, Export.lua, bindings with editing, cleanup, device ID repair, copying between aircraft and snapshots, cheat sheets, kneeboard pages and binding guides. See DCS World. |
| iRacing | Detection, launch, files to back up, a page with the controllers and bindings from controls.cfg and joyCalib.yaml, a device ID repair, quick backups, checks for a racing setup. |
| Le Mans Ultimate | Detection, launch through Steam, files to back up, a page with controllers, force feedback and bindings from direct input.json, a repair for a renamed controller, quick backups, checks. |
| BeamNG.drive | Detection, launch through Steam, the versioned user folder, a page with one binding map per controller, copying bindings from an older version or to a replacement controller, quick backups, checks. |
| Assetto Corsa | Detection, launch through Steam, files to back up, a page with the controllers, bindings and force feedback from controls.ini, quick backups. |
| Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 | Detection of the Steam and Microsoft Store editions, launch of the Steam edition, files to back up. |
| Assetto Corsa EVO and Assetto Corsa Rally | Detection, launch through Steam, files to back up. |
| Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020), X-Plane 12 and 11, IL-2 Sturmovik: Great Battles, Falcon BMS | Detection (Steam, and the Store, standalone or registry install each game has), launch, files to back up. |
| Assetto Corsa Competizione, rFactor 2, Automobilista 2, EA SPORTS WRC, F1 25 and F1 24, DiRT Rally 2.0, RaceRoom | Detection in Steam (DiRT Rally 2.0 also from the Store), launch through Steam, files to back up. |
| Ace Combat 8 | Detection, launch through Steam, files to back up, and a starting profile for flying it with your own stick through a virtual controller. |
| Any other game | Add a game on the Games page: its program, settings folders and kind, and it is found, launched, offered in new setups and backed up like the others. Or a setup for "Another game" with a launch target you give. |
The four racing games with a bindings page also supply their bindings to the cheat sheets, the trainer and the input tester, so a cheat sheet can show what every button of a wheel does in iRacing or in BeamNG.drive. The wheel is drawn for the Fanatec bases RigReady has layouts for; any other wheel gets a labelled list of its controls.
How a game is found
RigReady looks in the places a game installs itself and never asks you unless it has to:
- Steam. Every Steam library on the PC is read (from Steam's own library list), and a game counts as installed when its manifest says so and, for most games, its program file is there. Steam games are started by asking Steam, with
steam.exe -applaunch, so anti-cheat and sign-in work. When Steam has an update queued for a game, the page says "Steam has an update waiting" and the Racing overview marks it, because the game may not start until the update is done. - Standalone installs. iRacing is found through its entry in Windows' list of installed programs, or in
Program Files (x86)\iRacing. DCS World standalone installs are found through their own registry entries (Installs and aircraft). - Microsoft Store. Flight Simulator 2024 and 2020 and DiRT Rally 2.0 from the Store are recognised by their package folders.
- The game's own records. Standalone X-Plane installs are found through the install list X-Plane keeps in
%LOCALAPPDATA%, and Falcon BMS through the registry key its installer writes (More flight and racing games). - Choose folder. When a game is not found, its page offers Choose folder…. You pick the game's folder; RigReady checks that the game's program is in it and refuses a folder without it. The choice is remembered and can be forgotten again with Forget.
A game is "running" when one of its known programs is in the process list. For iRacing that is the UI or the simulator; for Assetto Corsa it includes Content Manager.
Configure > Games
The page lists every game RigReady knows and every game you added, found games first with where they were found (Steam, Standalone, Microsoft Store), the version, "update waiting" when Steam has one, a Running chip, and how many settings files are worth backing up. A game you added is marked Added by you. Games not found are listed under Not found on this PC.
Add a game adds one RigReady does not know: its program and settings folders, chosen in Windows' own pickers, its kind and the programs that mean it is running. See Add it to the Games page.
Above the list, a card for each page RigReady has about a game you have: DCS World (its screens, Export.lua and SimAppPro; see DCS World) when DCS is found, and Racing (below) when iRacing, Le Mans Ultimate, BeamNG.drive or Assetto Corsa is. These pages have no entry of their own in the menu, so the menu stays the same whatever games you have, and Games stays marked in the menu while one of them is open. Without the game there is no card; the game's own page still leads to its page.
Each game's page has the same sections:
- At a glance: each install with its folder, the version (or "Version not known"), whether the game is running, what Launch starts, and facts about this PC such as "Last run as 0.38.5" or "Also in your Steam library: that entry only starts this install of iRacing."
- Settings folders: where the game keeps its per-user files.
- Worth backing up: the files and folders RigReady suggests tracking, each with its path. These are what the Backups page offers for the game; see backups. A game that was found but has not been run yet says "No settings files were found yet; start the game once."
- Good to know: plain facts about what RigReady can and cannot do for this game.
Launch at the top starts the game from its first install and reports "Started <game>" or "Asked Steam to start <game>". It is disabled while the game runs. For a racing game with a page of its own, Bindings and controllers opens that page; for DCS World, Set up DCS World opens the DCS World page.
Configure > Games > Racing
The Racing page is the overview for the wheel and the racing games:
- Wheel: the wheel base of any brand RigReady knows, its mode where the USB ID shows it (Fanatec PC or compatibility mode, the Logitech G29 switch, a Thrustmaster wheel the driver has not switched), how many game controllers Windows makes of it and what it is connected through. It leads to the Wheel page.
- Games: one card per racing game with its version, "update waiting in Steam", a Running chip and one line about its bindings: "17 bindings · controllers connected", "1 controller has a new Windows ID", "1 controller not connected", "No bindings yet" or "Default bindings". A card with something to look at is marked. Installed games open their own page.
- Helper apps: Fanatec Service, SimHub, Crew Chief and the trophi.ai coach, when they are installed or running, and whether each is running now. To have a setup check or start them, keep them when you create the setup from the rig.
Checks a racing setup gets
When a setup is created from the rig (Creating a setup from the rig) with a racing game chosen, the capture screen proposes, besides the usual devices, apps, monitors and audio:
- Wheel base in PC mode (required): the Fanatec base is connected and not in compatibility (yellow) mode.
- Each helper app found, selected when it is running now. Fanatec Service is left running at Stand down; the others are closed.
- For iRacing: iRacing helper service (the Windows service iRacing needs) and iRacing knows the wheel (warns before iRacing asks you to calibrate again).
- For Le Mans Ultimate and BeamNG.drive: wheel settings as recommended (optional), which compares the force feedback settings RigReady can read in the game's files with the recommendations on the Wheel page.
A setup can also expect one particular set of bindings, restored by Make ready: see Use in a setup on the game pages. Every check is described under Checks and fixes, and everything else about setups under Setups.
- iRacingHow iRacing is found and launched, which files are backed up, the controllers and bindings page, the device ID repair, and the checks a racing setup gets.
- iRacing bindingsEvery action in iRacing and what it is bound to, for all cars and for each car with custom controls, with search, shared inputs and the controllers.
- Le Mans UltimateHow Le Mans Ultimate is found and launched through Steam, the UserData files to back up, the controllers and bindings page, and the renamed controller repair.
- BeamNG.driveHow BeamNG.drive and its user folder are found, what is backed up, the binding map per controller, and copying bindings to a new version or a new wheel.
- Assetto CorsaHow Assetto Corsa is found, launched and backed up, the controls.ini bindings page, and the repair for controllers Windows now lists in another order.
- Ace Combat 8How Ace Combat 8 is found, its settings and saves, and flying it with a stick it does not support, through a virtual controller.
- Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024How the Steam and Microsoft Store editions of Flight Simulator 2024 are found, how the Steam edition is launched, and which files are backed up.
- Assetto Corsa EVO and Assetto Corsa RallyDetection, launch through Steam and the files worth backing up for Assetto Corsa EVO and Assetto Corsa Rally; neither has a bindings page yet.
- More flight and racing gamesHow RigReady finds, launches and backs up MSFS 2020, X-Plane, IL-2, Falcon BMS, ACC, rFactor 2, AMS2, EA WRC, F1, DiRT Rally 2.0 and RaceRoom.
- Any other gameAdd a game RigReady does not know on the Games page, so it is found, launched and backed up like the others, or give one setup "Another game".
- Wheel (any wheel base)The Wheel page: a wheel base of any brand, its pedals and axes, the maker's software and profiles, and for Fanatec the tuning presets and recommended settings.