ForzaShiftTone v0.78

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ForzaShiftTone

Windows GUI application to provide a shift tone in Forza Motorsport and Forza Horizon 4/5.

TL;DR

• Per gear: Drive around on flat tarmac until you hear a double beep
  • Maintain fixed speed if it has trouble locking the gear ratio
• On a flat straight: Hold full throttle starting from low rpm until you hear a triple beep
  • Use a gear with low/no wheelspin but able to hit revlimit before the end of the straight
  • Try again if you hit the rev limiter for several consecutive seconds with no triple beep
• Be aware that false positives exist: not every beep is an upshift.

Enable remote telemetry / Data out in Forza Motorsport / Forza Horizon 4/5

To enable remote telemetry in Forza Motorsport 8 on Steam for this application:

• Head to Settings -> Gameplay & HUD -> scroll down to the bottom (HUD and Gameplay in Forza Horizon 5)
• Set Data Out to On, enter 127.0.0.1 as Data out IP address and Data out IP port 12350. You may have to restart the game.
• The Data Out Packet Format should be set to 'Car Dash' for Forza Motorsport
• The Microsoft Store version may require a 3rd party Loopback Utility
• It is unknown whether the Data Out functions on the consoles at all

Current release

ForzaShiftTone.vbs: to launch the application (Preferred)
ForzaShiftTone-debug.bat: to launch the application with an additional commandline window that shows debug information

Changes:

• Moved from displaying absolute drivetrain ratios to relative ratios between gears
• Removed zipped PyInstaller executables; they are considered a virus to due over-zealous machine-learning detection algorithms.
• Added statistics to power graph: Peak power, power at respected revlimit, 90% power range, relative ratio for >90% power
  

Known issues

• Application will on rare occasions crash: related to the UI library and cannot be fixed
• Due to noise in the power curve it is not always possible to derive a correct peak power value in terms of rpm. It can be off by 50 or 100 rpm.
• The application assumes at least one frame of negative power as the first frame of shifting
  • Some cars shift so fast that power never goes negative: dynamic shift tone will not function properly

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This discussion was created from the release ForzaShiftTone v0.78.