For reference, I’m playing on Xbox Series X, on Manual with Clutch, using a Logitech G920 with the G Driving Force h-pattern shifter. I’ve been playing Career mode and race starts have been fine - I drop the clutch pedal, select 1st, give it some revs and bring the clutch up when the countdown finishes and the race starts. No problem, behaves exactly as I’d expect.
However, when trying to do the same in any multiplayer race, the car just doesn’t move and there’s no power - it’s almost like some kind of anti-stall has kicked in and I usually end up getting rear-ended by several cars behind me. If I hold down or modulate the throttle, the car does eventually start moving, but by then I’m miles back and so it makes the races pointless.
Has anyone else experienced this and can you tell me what I’m missing? Why am I able to do standing starts fine in Builder’s Cup, but not in an online multiplayer race?
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At the start full throttle without clutch, eventually dose the throttle
Thanks for the reply, but I’m not quite sure I understand.
You’re saying to apply full throttle (which I’ve tried) and no clutch, so you mean have the clutch pedal completely up, like not touching it, as if I was already driving in gear?
And when you say “eventually close the throttle”, what do you mean? Like, release the throttle? If so, when? At the point of the race countdown completing, before, or after? And then I reapply to throttle after that?
Just for the start in a race, if wheels are spinning release a bit the throttle untill you get grip
My issue isn’t wheelspin - I should have been more clear in my OP. When I apply throttle after the race starts, revs just stay low (they would be high if I was spinning the wheels) and it’s like the car has no power, or the gear hasn’t engaged or something.
I’ve tried every combination of clutch pedal and throttle positions I can think of, and still the car just wont move at the start, bounces around 2k revs and no higher, until I either wait several seconds, or press and release the clutch several times in combination with some throttle, but it feels nothing like a real-life car, nor does it behave this way in Career, only in Multiplayer.
I’ll grab some videos later to hopefully clarify, but I can’t believe no-one else seems to be having this problem - they behaviour is totally different in Multiplayer vs Career, even when using the same car.
I told you how to do man, full throttle untill the countdown reaches zero, forget about clutch at the start
And I explained I’ve tried that - full throttle and no clutch (pedal completely up, untouched), and no matter what I do after the race starts, the car just bogs down and goes nowhere. No high revs, no wheelspin. And it doesn’t do this in Career, only in Multiplayer…
full throttle is the pedal complettely down banging overrevs
Yes, I understand that, and as I’ve said, I’ve tried that, but still have the same issue. I’ve got a ticket logged with support about it anyway, so I’ll see what they say (probably nothing based on my experience so far with support), but was just surprised I didn’t see anyone else having this issue, as it was immediately evident to me, trying to do race starts exactly as I did in Career, but finding it a completely different experience.
Here are two attempted Multiplayer race starts from last night which show the issue:
Here I try just holding the throttle wide open - as you can see from the telemetry in the tacho, I then keep the throttle held after race start, but the car just creeps forward, despite 1st gear clearly being engaged.
This time I try a lower throttle level, but experience the same issue. In both cases, it’s only when I get rear-ended by another car that I finally get moving and power is delivered.
Both times, I had 1st gear engaged on my shifter and wasn’t touching the clutch pedal, as has been suggested, but I experience the same behaviour even if I do the start the way I’d expect to in real life, with the clutch depressed until the race start, then brought up to start moving from the start.
I see, very strange, i use wheel too but i’ve never had this issue…
Yeah, it’s super odd, especially as I only have this issue in Multiplayer. Admittedly, I’ve not tested the exact same car in both, as I’ve not yet reached any of the Career cups which use a car which also has a Multiplayer lobby (I stopped playing Career because of the progression bug).
Multiplayer zeigt bei Rennstart Ausfahrt von der Box an. Unmöglich einen Rennstart zu beginnen. Jemand auch solche Probleme? So ein Spiel mit so viele Fehlern als FH 5 !
Is your controller besides that also turned on? Did you try to turn it off? Maybe the console is irritated: wheel tells him full throttle, controller tells him no throttle at all. 
Sometimes weird stuff happens in new games…
I thought this too, but no, my controller is off at the time.
Once I’ve found out, it’s pretty easy:
Do NOT engage 1. gear on the H-Shifter!!
Once on the starting grid, engage 1. gear with the paddel on race start.
Then you can use the h_Shifter for the remaining race.
Question to the officials:
Fix, when?
Thanks, I’ll give this a try and see how I get on, but yeah, that’s really odd if that’s what we have to do, and needs fixing.
I have had the same issue, standing start races, I can rev engine but when race starts the car does not go, press the gas pedal down (fanatec csl dd set up) and nothing. Eventually, a car will smash into me and then the gas works sometimes but so by that time I am in last place and race is pointless. Hoping for a fix, made game unplayable for me and this was my most anticipated game this year.
Are you playing manual with clutch? Otherwise that’s pretty weird. Even just maxing out the rev limiter makes the car go from a standing start.