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How to be master of driving with Logitech wheels on GT 6/S
Unleash your hidden FFB potential
Never again miss a catch from slide or lockup your wheels with noABS.
Unleash your hidden FFB potential
Never again miss a catch from slide or lockup your wheels with noABS.
You might think at this is bit bold promise, but it's not, if you now can keep your car on track with Logitech wheel after this you keep hardest cars without any helps on track.
I have been running GT series FFB/controller settings on practically the same position since GT5, until recently when I got a kick to investigate "what if I'm just doing it wrong". And just because I tried another developer's game where basic FFB was on default settings, which was just pure utter
to drive, banging my head
on the wall for several hours with it and finally I figured out from my old sayings, "overlapping center spring effect" and bang, I got that game work pretty well and was bit amazed from the level of feedback that I could get from it.Okey you might wonder how this helps on the GT series!? Well, a lot, the other game was using only two main FFB settings for "all needed", overall force of FFB and multiplier value for those direct FFB signals what will be then multiplied to wheel using canned FFB effects (direct FFB + canned FFB as multiplier), so these two factors had to be on perfect match to get everything clearly out on wheel feedback, meaning you have to have pretty much on standard FFB signal to keep it clear over canned FFB effect, then I balanced those two to match as first canned effects are sensible on dead top center of wheel turn (±2mm) and those aren't hiding any of actual FFB signals.
So that's on another game, but I was curious how similar things were to the GT series FFB settings, named totally different but I recalled something very similar with their effects on the FFB, I had to test and get it dialed in ~1:1 values in GTS. I was more than surprised by the results, this was going in a really, really good direction. I fine tuned those best as I could and jumped behind wheel of Lotus Evora N300. The results of full stock first time driving is shown in the above video. It was just impossible to miss a catch from a slide, I felt all wheels individually plus had a perfect sense of their rolling direction, slip angle, everything was on my hands and I was enjoying it.
Then a big sledgehammer hit on my head. What if this was already on GT6 but I only missed it!? So I powered up my PS3 and dialed same values that I had just used on GTS and jumped behind the wheel of the R8 LMS ULTRA. After few different tracks and testing is there better choices than those same!? I was again amazed. I'm feeling everything on this car too. So I gotta check the one and only Yellowbird, then with it on Nordschleife, all aids off, noABS or anything, just plain full stock YB on standard 5/5 brakes and running green hell. After I got a few kilometre on odometer and I had to take a break (you can guess why), after break I went back to whole new world, world of full sensitivity feedback allowing me to feel all wheel movements, all jumps and bumps, drops and dips, cracks from asphalt and sharp edges of kerbs, this was a dream, but it was real, I drove instantly clean lap on SH tires (7:46) and was wondering how freaking easy it was when I can feel all FFB. So I had to test lower compounds, so I dropped one at time from SH (CS, CM then CH), with no changes to the car, just slamming weaker tires and straight back to track. Every compound was so predictable, easy to drive with "new" sensational FFB feeling, all compounds made clean lap directly on one shot, only thing that made it "hard" was the super-wide smile on my face while I was driving, even CH tires gave decent 8:35 lap time without pushing.
So that's the story, you might want to test this yourself, hit as is the following values on your game and prepare to be surprised:
Controller sensitivity 7
FFB max torque 8 (direct FFB effects power value)
FFB sensitivity 2 (canned FFB effects multiplier value)
Tested currently on GTS and GT6 with Logitech G27, who knows if those canned FFB strengths are same on other manufacturer's wheels too, but it can't hurt to test.
Below those Yellowbird runs replay files, actual replay+fastest lap replay, forget to clear ghost on CH so no fastest lap replay on it, only normal replay.
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. As far as the first 2 settings go I can definitely see your points. But with the FFB sensitivity so low I feel a little disconnected somewhat. It does make it a bit easier to drive as you can feel the bumps without them kicking the wheel out of your hands 
but on the other hand I feel it makes the steering feel lighter until the suspension starts loading up during a turn. Also it seems to cut out a bit of "wobble" I've experienced with some cars, the Yellow bird included.
. As I feel this just works out better personally. Much better than with the much higher figure I was using before though 
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