Driving Force Pro vs. Grand Prix Legends

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Well, curiousty got the better of me this evening, and I hooked up my newly acquired DFP to the PC.

I've got the current version of the Wingman software, which immediately recognised the wheel as a Driving Force (the 'old' Logitech PS2 wheel with the buttons on the face.

I fired up Grand Prix Legends, and immediately had my usual issue of forgetting to set the Wingman software to recognise the accelerator and the brake as separate axes. Jump out, reset the software, restart.

I was recalibrating the wheel, and thought, 'hey, let's try the 900 degrees mode'. It got recognised, and I calibrated the wheel for one turn lock-to-lock, which as it turns out exactly matches the wheel and arms in the cockpit view!

So I wheel out of the pits at Monza, and what a revelation! It takes all the sting out of initial turn-in, so it's still good, but I don't feel like I'm going to spin instantly on turn-in.

Steering reaction is much more linear in both initiating turns and countering oversteer - it's much easier to drive the car on the throttle, with much smoother, flowing steering.

...and I can use the gear-stick! I've got the paddles set to look left and right, and use the buttons on the wheel for other functions.

Fantastic! I'm rapt.
 
vat_man:

As a mac user i miss most of the good PC games out there. My wife has an old PC with no graphics or sound card as such so any game with '3D' graphics doesn't run. We will be purchasing a new PC some time soon and I would like to play GPL on it (if i can sourse a copy) - do you know if GPL will run on a new PC operating system? - i bought NASCAR 2003 a while back (because it was cheep and i knew i'd get a PC soon) but noticed that on the system requirements on the back that it won't run on a PC with an OS over Windows 2000 - is this the case with GPL?
 
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do you know if GPL will run on a new PC operating system? - i bought NASCAR 2003 a while back (because it was cheep and i knew i'd get a PC soon) but noticed that on the system requirements on the back that it won't run on a PC with an OS over Windows 2000 - is this the case with GPL?
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I play GPL fine on XP. Just make sure you get the patches for it. (1.2 and the one that lets it run on 1.7mhz processors and above)
 
You know.. I was actually coming into this forum to ask this very question.. hehe. My DFP should be here next week, and I was wondering whether it would work with GPL.

I guess my question was answered. :) Cool beans. :)
 
I installed GPL 2 weeks ago and my Logitech Driving Force ( the regular, not the pro model ) works great. So I would expect the pro model to work even better.
All my PC and Playstation2 racing gemes/sim workfine with the Logitech Driving force except ... GranTurismo3. For whatever reason I dislike the way Gt3 handles it there is no way to adjust the sensitivity or the deadzone with GT3, just some 3 predifined wheel configuration with no explaination or information about these predifined settings. I hope PD will fix that flaw/bufg for GT4
 
I cn'at get any force feedback even after doing the file edit in GPL

using DFP w/ the profiler software.
could anyone help please?
 
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vat_man:

As a mac user i miss most of the good PC games out there. My wife has an old PC with no graphics or sound card as such so any game with '3D' graphics doesn't run. We will be purchasing a new PC some time soon and I would like to play GPL on it (if i can sourse a copy) - do you know if GPL will run on a new PC operating system? - i bought NASCAR 2003 a while back (because it was cheep and i knew i'd get a PC soon) but noticed that on the system requirements on the back that it won't run on a PC with an OS over Windows 2000 - is this the case with GPL?
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Was it Nascar Racing 2003 (from Papyrus) or was it Nascar Thunder 2003 (from EA)?
I have WinXP and Nascar Racing2003 runs fine (as well as GPL :D :D ) and I'm 99% sure that Nascar Tunder 2003 also runs on WinXP (otherwise it wouldn't make sense, does it? ).
 

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