SimHub’s license and telemetry rates
No. SimHub is free, and the plugin works without a license.
What a license changes is the telemetry rate. For games the plugin does not read directly, the numbers arrive through SimHub, and without a license that feed runs at 10 Hz. Every effect is built from those numbers, so at 10 Hz they arrive in visible steps and the feel comes out coarse. A license lifts it to 60 Hz, which is a large step up.
Assetto Corsa, iRacing, the Forza titles and Farming Simulator can be read directly by the plugin instead, at their own rate, and a license makes no difference to those. Two of them need setting up first:
- Forza only sends its telemetry once Data Out is switched on and pointed at the plugin. Until then the plugin falls back to SimHub’s feed, license rate and all.
- Farming Simulator needs the TF4ALL Enhanced Telemetry mod installed, for the same reason.
Assetto Corsa and iRacing need nothing for this: both are read directly as soon as they start.