Fanatec CSL throttle input different between calibration menu and on-track

[DigitalRelay]

Has anyone seen this, know why it happens, or have a fix? I noticed in game that when I lifted the throttle to what I expected to be 50%, it was actually dropping to near zero. So, I taped my throttle halfway down so it couldn't move. In the GT7 calibration menu, it shows 54.6%, but when I go on track, it shows roughly 15%. I calibrated in the Fanatec app first and both it and the GT7 menu seem to be the same - a linear correlation between throttle position and input. But it's like when you're on track, it goes from linear to some sort of curve.

 

[DigitalRelay]

I just stumbled on this video that confirms that at least in GT Sport, throttle input is on a curve, not linear.



So that's super fun. 🙄

 

[Skinny McLean]

Yeah, the throttle response curve is nonlinear. The other day I had to recalibrate my pedals because the game when on track only registered 50% input on full pedal. On the calibration page it registered 78% also on max pedal. So the last 22% of pedal movement corresponds to the upper half of the in-game throttle range, pretty much as the curve in your post shows.

If I’m not mistaken the response curve was linear on release, almost four years ago. I don’t know when - or why - it was changed, but I suspect it had something to do with how easy the RWD cars spun out back then. You barely had to look at the throttle pedal and around she went.

Sadly I don’t expect this - or something as essential as FoV - to ever be user configurable. Per a recent interview it seems like Yamauchi thinks of GT players as a bunch of easily confused people that’d be overwhelmed by more options.

(There are pedals where the response curves can be changed by the user allowing a linear response by applying an inverse curve, but on the console side they are a rarity - I only know of Logitech’s - and they also require a PC to perform the adjustments.)