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So I've got myself a fairly basic pc with a graphics card that should do the job for now but I've to get a new PSU tomorrow. What mods would you recommend as must have?
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Course Play and Seasons for sure. As far as maps, tractors and equipment that all is up to what you like. The Livestock Manager and Buy Bales on FS-UK is pretty nice too, though I haven't played too much with them yet.

Edit: I forgot Vehicle Group Switcher, makes it so much easier than tabbing through your vehicles and speed player i you don't like how fast the default walking speed is. Very handy on 4X maps :mrgreen:
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I like Drive Control and the Compass mod. The Compass mod allows me to make straight lines when doing field work. The drive control gives the game a bit more realism. As for tractors, equipment, and maps, just find stuff you like and download it :lol:
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and its me again:

first group aka must have:

drivecontrol by upsidedown - https://www.modhoster.de/mods/drivecontrol--2
gives you more control over your the vehicles (4wd, differential lock, soft gas, implement control , ...)

gps by upsidedown - https://www.modhoster.de/mods/gps--2
implements a grapfical ddirectional steering support to allow working and driving in straigth lines

fastforward by upsidedown - https://www.modhoster.de/mods/fastforward
adds key combination to fast forward time (12000x) good to move to the next harvest or just past the nigth

AIvehicleextensions - http://www.farming-simulator.com/mod.ph ... tle=fs2017
enables a aihelper to drive in circles and follow the grown crop instead of just drioving in lines over the field + some options

Autosave - derSchreiner - http://www.farming-simulator.com/mod.ph ... tle=fs2017
will save your a** on ragequits and minimizes loss of time on gamecrash


second group aka immersive gameplay

keyboardsteer by mogli - http://www.farming-simulator.com/mod.ph ... tle=fs2017
greatly improves the steering (customizable) with keyboards in my opinion

Courseplay - https://github.com/Courseplay/courseplay
most know mod i guess, takes some trial and errors and youtube videos to get into, but helps a lot in singleplayer games

FillTypeMassAdjustment - modelleicher - https://www.modhoster.de/mods/filltypem ... degewichte
should be in group one if you like it more realistic, adjusts the weigth of all fruits to its real weigth -> the hill next door will be your greates enemy

engine brake - s4t4n - http://www.farming-simulator.com/mod.ph ... tle=fs2017
little improvement to driving

realisticfuelusage - TyKonKet - http://www.farming-simulator.com/mod.ph ... tle=fs2017
fuelusage depening on type of work and takes rpm for hydraulic operations


third group aka helpfull

Glance - Decker_MMIV - http://www.farming-simulator.com/mod.ph ... tle=fs2017
customizable hud overlay with lot off information, compatible with seasons

FollowMe - Decker_MMIV - http://www.farming-simulator.com/mod.ph ... tle=fs2017
selfexplanatory, great mod but not always usable

auto unload of roundbale - Decker_MMIV - http://www.farming-simulator.com/mod.ph ... tle=fs2017
your finger will thank you

DrawMixerWagon - Heady - http://www.farming-simulator.com/mod.ph ... tle=fs2017
simple overlay to help filling mixer wagon

SpeedControl - Heady - http://planet-ls.de/board/index.php?pag ... adID=21459
alternative cruisecontrol, 1=10km/h, 2=20km/h, 3=max. speed, customizable


P.S.: sorry for german language selection but didn't want to go through all the links again


edit:

And ofcourse the 4real modules by Giants, personally i onyl use tiredirt and ground response, as crop destruction made some problems in rare cases and since i don't drive through the crops i don't need it anyway.
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Finally got my graphics card up and running, it's only a GTX 460 but the game auto set itself to very high and no complaints so far.
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It's good to see your PC up and running.
If you like, you can add these lines in the game.xml in the farmingsimulator2017 folder, thiswill increase the viewdistances and make the game look way better, ou will notice thecirclearound the player, where yousee the crop lessoften, as it will be way larger, it cost some of your gpu power but not su much, so it's worth a try, especially if the graphicsettings is set to very high bydefault:
You have to add these lines under the "scalability" chapter

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            <viewDistanceCoeff>4.000000</viewDistanceCoeff>
            <lodDistanceCoeff>4.000000</lodDistanceCoeff>
            <terrainLODDistanceCoeff>4.000000</terrainLODDistanceCoeff>
            <foliageViewDistanceCoeff>4.000000</foliageViewDistanceCoeff>
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Thanks. I'll have a look tomorrow and I'm sure ill have more questions.
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Don't worry we turn that pc "noob" into a pro in no time ;-)
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since i'm new to pc ver of fs what is courseplay?
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Official description (including manual):
https://courseplay.github.io/courseplay/en/

Crappy description:
Courseplay (CP) is mod which has been around the FSseries for a long time. It gives the option to create driving courses, custom field courses, temporary field courses.

With CP a Player can let the combine do its job, then drive a course with a tractor and a trailer behind it which leads past the field the combineisworking and over either a sell point or the silo storage place, when finished ,you can let the tractor do that job while you do some other work.

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If you want to use it, you can download it here: https://github.com/Courseplay/courseplay (this is the only official download sit for it), click the green button "Clone or download", select "download ZIP", you will get a "courseplay-master.zip", unpack it, navigate into the "courseplay-master" folder, and create a new zip-archive out of the content inside the folder, this is your mod then.

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I generally don't like youtube HOWTOs, but for this mod it's best to chekc some of the videos to getinto it.
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its a time saver then Meow...
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I used courseplay a TON in 15, I just never got around to downloading it this year. Thanks for the link! How much has it changed in terms of setting routes for 17? Also what do I name the ZIP file? Courseplay?
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The best thing abput this is that it has cost me peanuts lol
Desktop and monitor cost me €50, GTX 460 €25, 500w psu was €20 and I had to get a Molex to 6 pin adapter which was €3. I already had a mouse and keyboard and need to get speakers which is another €11 so all in only €109.

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Not bad *thumbsup* How did you get a desk top for that cheap? Did you just by a cheap one and upgrade the graphics card? Also your card is a 430, mine is a 730 so It should run on very high :hmm:
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A friend of mine was selling a few old office computers so I got it a little cheaper than what he was looking for. It's a Dell optiplex 390. Got the card second hand too. Haven't Had a chance to really test it yet but I'm sure the ram will be a problem sooner or later but that cheap too.
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