Every sim racing venue knows the moment: six guests, one track, and a rig that was updated last month and nobody remembers how. VenueChief started as sim racing center software, with rigs that report what they really have installed.
Sim racing center software starts with knowing what is installed
It is Saturday at 6 p.m. A group of six wants to race the same car on the same track. Five rigs have it. The sixth was updated last month, and nobody remembers what changed. Someone walks over, checks, apologizes, and the group waits.
VenueChief began as software for racing simulator centers, and this is one of the problems it solves. The answer is not a spreadsheet kept by the one person who knows the rigs. It is letting every rig tell the cloud what it actually has.
What is new: every rig reports for itself
Each rig runs Sim Commander, the on-rig app that VenueChief works with. Ask for a content scan and the rig sends back its real inventory: vehicles, liveries, tracks and layouts for Assetto Corsa and rFactor 2, plus rFactor 2 mod components. VenueChief merges the answers into one catalog. That is racing simulator content management without a clipboard.
From the Content Library you can:
- Browse every track, layout and vehicle in the Content Library, with pictures.
- Open a coverage matrix that shows which rigs have which content, and a report of missing tracks and vehicles.
- Sync one rig, or press Sync All Simulators.
- Set a nightly sync for a time that suits the venue. Rigs that are offline, in a session or in maintenance are skipped rather than interrupted.
- Keep guest preferences such as shifting, assists and difficulty as venue settings that are applied at launch.
New cars, tracks and layouts arrive unpublished. You publish the ones guests should see, and the Tracks page flags anything that is only half published. By default VenueChief also hides store content that a rig reports it does not own. If you would rather not, you can turn that off in Venue Settings.
Thirty minutes, your numbers, no slide deck.
How the kiosk offers only what can run
The kiosk offers a game only when it is installed on every rig the guest picked, and only when the next picker has something to show. A track with no layout that all the chosen rigs can load is hidden. If there is no playable game at all, the guest is told before the waiver and before payment, not after.
The same readiness rule runs when you schedule a session and again when you launch it. If a rig is missing content, the message names that rig. A rig that simply has not synced yet gets a warning. An Assetto Corsa rig whose car or track files do not match blocks the launch, which is what you want.
For rFactor 2 you can leave the default shared content mod in place, or opt in to a generated mod for an event that pins the versions every rig agrees on. If anything goes wrong with the generated one, VenueChief falls back to the shared mod.
One screen to launch every rig
Content is only half of running sim racing venue software. Session Control is where the night happens:
- Pick the rigs, the drivers, the game, the track layout and the car, down to the livery.
- Set laps or time, AI opponents and weather.
- Launch from an existing booking, or create a walk-in booking when nobody booked.
- Watch live standings with gaps, sector times and a track map.
- Extend the session by 5, 10 or 15 minutes if the race runs long.
If one rig fails to load, it is marked Failed and you can choose Retry this simulator without touching the other three. Afterward every lap is stored with its sector times, and with fuel and tire wear where the game reports them. Personal bests are kept per track layout, so a reverse layout is its own record. A walk-in who raced without an account sees Claim Laps & Prizes on the rig and can attach those laps later.
Who it suits
This sim racing center software suits dedicated centers and racing cafes, karting tracks that have added a few simulators, and entertainment centers with a sim corner. If you have Assetto Corsa on multiple rigs and a technician who is tired of walking the row with a checklist, this is for you.
What it changes on a busy night
- The question “which rigs have this car?” is answered by a screen, not by walking the floor.
- At the kiosk, a guest is not offered a track the chosen rigs have not reported.
- A bad launch is one rig to retry, not a restart of the whole session.
Availability and fine print
Sim racing is part of the Platform plan with the Sim Racing Ops add-on. See pricing for the current plans.
Content flows from the rigs to the cloud. VenueChief does not install cars or tracks for you, and rFactor 2 answers a scan only while the game is running. Online booking reserves a rig and a time; the car and track are chosen at the kiosk or by staff in Session Control.