I think I found something

[curtis_boy]

Dont know if this is news but can be very helpful to some

Well if you go to hardware and change the button mapping you can change the directional buttons to show a mini menu while driving where you can adjust all types of settings like brake controller, Traction conto,l torque controller, asm , abs,etc.
very cool you guys should try it

I been turning up the tc on corners and turning it off on straights

 

[Parker]

Yeah, a lot of people know about that. It's called the RA menu right? I don't use it personally, but I think it is a built in button on the DFGT.

 

[the Interceptor]

Not news actually, but hard to find if you don't know of this menu's existence at all.

This menu is essential for a few things in GT5, such as changing the brake intensity and bias in the Lotus Elise challenge on the Top Gear test track.

 

[curtis_boy]

Not news actually, but hard to find if you don't know of this menu's existence at all.

This menu is essential for a few things in GT5, such as changing the brake intensity and bias in the Lotus Elise challenge on the Top Gear test track.

woah fill me in because i would love to gold that challenge what should i do

 

[the Interceptor]

woah fill me in because i would love to gold that challenge what should i do

Switch on the skid force recovery in the pre-race menu and, during the race in the aforementioned menu, put the rear brake from 5 to 3 or 2.

This setting will be valid for the whole session, so start your first go, just stop the car, make your settings in the menu and then restart.

 

[desmosabie]

Anyone else thinking about ditching this button option ? I cant adjust TCS at all anymore, and haven't been able to since 1.05. I used more TCS as tires wear out, gets me an extra lap, same for ABS. ABS, BP, and Torque split is all I can adjust. I can do that much an be fine 95% of the time in pre-race menu so justifying this taking up 5 buttons has gotten . . . 👎

 

[thedeester1]

This is how I utilise this setting since I use a G25 and it doesnt have enough buttons to do everything.

Set up a normal play station DS3 controller as controller 1 and set up the RA menu functions on it. I also use this controller for headlights and windscreen wipers. This automatically puts the wheel as controller 2. It has to be this way around or the DS3 wont work!

Im thinking of breaking down a controller and making a dashboard to fit nex to my wheel for things like this.

 

[the Interceptor]

Well, the menu was designed to be used with the DFGT, which has extra controls for it.

It's our fault that we don't all own DFGTs.
/sarcasm

 

[desmosabie]

The DFGT can not adjust TCS, I dont care about ASM, but it cant adjust that either. Furthermore, adjusting these things while racing is ridiculous, it was cumbersome at best with the DS3, but near suicide with DFGT, unless its a straightaway. This should not be a two hand operation, I could reorganize to make it a one hand deal, but out of the box, it is a two handed operation to adjust anything in RA with the DFGT. These are "race cars" (and Logitech/PD design crew apparently have never driven a race car) at least one hand must remain in full grip of the wheel at all times, two hands in control of the steering wheel is highly recommended by. . . everyone. Have you ever seen a race car driver doing something else with both hands besides steer, at the same time, while in race ?
Still, can anyone adjust TCS or ASM with RA ?

 

[Famine]

Have you ever seen a race car driver doing something else with both hands besides steer, at the same time, while in race?

Yes. Watch F1 sometime.

 

[FDM73]

I'm using this option on my Logitech G25, i find it a very usefull option to adjust TC, ABS and brake balance during a race or long practice runs (with changing weather).

I used the left red button on the G25-shifter to open the RA menu and the arrowbuttons to navigate. This way i don't have to look a way from the tv screen to scroll throw the menu.

@thedeester1
You can use all functions in GT5 on the G25. I've you like it i can make a button layout.

 

[dhandeh]

I'm using this option on my Logitech G25, i find it a very usefull option to adjust TC, ABS and brake balance during a race or long practice runs (with changing weather).

I used the left red button on the G25-shifter to open the RA menu and the arrowbuttons to navigate. This way i don't have to look a way from the tv screen to scroll throw the menu.

@thedeester1
You can use all functions in GT5 on the G25. I've you like it i can make a button layout.

I have a g25 and use the x button on the gear selector to bring up the menu. On the dpad, up and down will do the scrolling of the options and left and right on the dpad change the settings. It means that everything it done with one hand. With being right handed and with my gear selector on the left, it makes things very simple and intuative.

 

[chilininja]

Dont know if this is news but can be very helpful to some

Well if you go to hardware and change the button mapping you can change the directional buttons to show a mini menu while driving where you can adjust all types of settings like brake controller, Traction conto,l torque controller, asm , abs,etc.
very cool you guys should try it

I been turning up the tc on corners and turning it off on straights

Thanks for this!

 

[Hayden]

This is how I utilise this setting since I use a G25 and it doesnt have enough buttons to do everything.

Set up a normal play station DS3 controller as controller 1 and set up the RA menu functions on it. I also use this controller for headlights and windscreen wipers. This automatically puts the wheel as controller 2. It has to be this way around or the DS3 wont work!

Im thinking of breaking down a controller and making a dashboard to fit nex to my wheel for things like this.

Amazing i was literally just thinking the same thing! I have three DS3s and one of them has a loose, floppy R2 trigger. I was going to make up a wooden panel, drill some holes for buttons, router the edge and finish in Matte Black and silver.
It would add the PS button, Headlights, Ra Functions, Horn and more. It wouldn't be a "dashboard" per say but it would fit right next to my wheel on my custom mount.
And yes i did know about this "on the fly" setting editing. It was the same in prologue and can be really helpful when your tires wear out in an endurance and the car is getting loose. You simply turn up the TCS and you can get a couple more laps

 

[Killa Aaron]

I just started using this menu yesterday on my DS3 to get gold on the AMG beginner Sector 4, it was much easier for me to control the car in the corners once i took most of the brake balance off the front wheels and moved some to back wheels causing the car to slide into the corners real fast and smooth, now i find myself constantly fiddling with it every race to find the right setup for each car.

 

[calan_svc]

I have a g25 and use the x button on the gear selector to bring up the menu. On the dpad, up and down will do the scrolling of the options and left and right on the dpad change the settings. It means that everything it done with one hand.

This ^ (except I use the square button + dpad).

It doesn't get much simpler; I don't take my eyes off the road or even have to think about it. I really don't see how people have difficulty with it, unless it's just a wheel flaw or something.

 

[addictions]

Driving aids are for girls lol.

 

[FULL_THROTTLE]

I found this menu when i got the game. I was looking for a way to get a clutch on a DS3 and got this instead, never posted about it, thought everyone knew.

PS. you can't get a clutch without using a wheel at some point

 

[MidianGTX]

Driving aids are for girls lol.

Joke of the decade. It has to be true.

 

[Beliall]

This RA function was very useful, but its greyed out every time I try to use it now.

 

[YassirNosir]

This menu with the adjust and menu selection +/- is impossible to use with a controller. There simply isn't enough buttons to have a comfortable layout with this along with this menu.

 

[Dimitrov]

This menu with the adjust and menu selection +/- is impossible to use with a controller. There simply isn't enough buttons to have a comfortable layout with this along with this menu.

I think it is totally comfortable.

 

[TommyWizard]

Very handy indeed. I've known about it since Prologue and its fun driving something powerful when your miles ahead, dropping TCS competely and drifting the whole way home. Good fun

 

[sesselpupser]

Im thinking of breaking down a controller and making a dashboard to fit nex to my wheel for things like this.

I recently sacrificed a Sixaxis to replace the broken case on my DS3 (I cracked it during a, er, slightly over-emotional defeat in the MW2 era), so I'm considering doing this, except as I have a DFP which has just enough buttons, I'd quite like to investigate the possibility of mounting it on the pedal box to add a reverse gear that I don't need to operate with my hands; It's difficult trying to hold triangle and turn the wheel, in fact it's difficult to even find triangle when the wheel is anything but straight... I think that was the biggest thing that genuinely bugged me about GT5, that reverse was still not an individual gear that you could select through the usual method.

I have no problem using the menu while driving with the DS3, I mean I only really ever use it to adjust the torque distribution and brake bias, I rarely touch ABS, ASM or TCS though and I don't normally keep fiddling with them in a race so I just get to the start/finish straight and adjust it while I can get away with not steering.

I use the triggers to accelerate/brake, right stick to shift (down for shift up, up for shift down, like a sequential), X to bring up the menu and the D-pad to adjust. It would be nice if they'd let us map the D-pad to do other things when the menu isn't up, but I've found with L3, R3, square, L1 and R1, they're useful for things like the horn, headlights, ghost, wipers and all that.

The DFP is the same, sort of, I mean it's easier to adjust and steer with the wheel, but I can't concentrate on both at once anyway.


Actually, the more I think about it, the more I wonder why PD didn't adjust the default controller layout for the PS3. I mean, why use the analogue triggers for a digital action (gears) and X and square for analogue ones? Yes, I know the buttons are analogue, but the triggers are far easier to use in an analogous fashion. It made sense up to GT4, but times have changed!

 

[Danny_GT2]

Is this available on a DS3 controller?? Would be handy instead of restarting a race everytime you wanna change driver options, or worse, forced to quit out of championship & taking ages to load!

 

[desmosabie]

yes its available for the DS3, go to options, button configuration.

Sounds like some of you still get to adjust all the options ?

 

[Revenant]

This menu has saved my life on the Sebatian Loeb Rally challenge.

I found the Citroen C4 WRC to be damn near undriveable in this challenge. It was so damn tail-happy that I would just spin it around corners, even if I barely gave it any throttle. i would spend the entire race fighting to counter steer.

Then I mapped the menu to my controller and used it to set the F/R torque distribustion closer to 50/50, and it was WAY easier. Golded the first track on the first attempt, while driving rather horribly.