Making the steering more like GT5?

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To start, forgive me if this sounds like a stupid question. This my first Forza game.

I find that, coming from GT5, the steering in FM4 feels insanely sensitive. I don't simply mean that the cars are twitchier per se, but rather that I need unbelievably teeny tiny touches of the stick to adjust steering at high speed without going too far and oversteering out of control.

As far as I can tell then, the default (setting: 0) steering sensitivity in GT5 is quite different from this game, and I'm very much accustomed to GT5.

So, my question is whether anyone else has observed this, and, if so, do any of you know any good FM4 settings to make it feel more like GT5? I found the options menu with all the steering deadzone stuff, but I don't really know how to even begin changing things.

Thanks.
 
What steering 'mode' are you using in the difficulty? A lot of pad players I've raced with say that when set to 'simulation' it is very twitchy, so they have started out using Normal or assisted..
 
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What steering 'mode' are you using in the difficulty? A lot of pad players I've raced with say that when set to 'simulation' it is very twitchy, so they have started out using Normal or assisted..
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I'm using simulation. Thing is, I don't want steering assist (don't use it in GT5 either), just smooth, non-twitchy joystick sensitivity.
 
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I'm using simulation. Thing is, I don't want steering assist (don't use it in GT5 either), just smooth, non-twitchy joystick sensitivity.
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Are there 3 options for steering, Simulation, Normal and Assisted? Normal might be worth a go, because like any sensitivity settings, it's an input buffer 'assist' of sorts, so unless you are purely 1:1 simulation, you are therefore being assisted.. it depends on what level of assists you are comfortable with!

other then that, are there any linearity options in the controller setup in the game?
 
The way I see it is ' simulation ' is really for wheel users ( I don't know of any real life cars that use joypads ). If you want the game to be more realistic invest in a wheel. You can pick up the ms wheel cheap these days and it's well worth the cost.
I use the dfgt wheel on gt5 and ms wheel for forza. Both do the job fine. If I want to be more realistic than that I'll take my 450bhp Evo for a trackday lol ( don't see the point of spending the price of a cheap trackday car on a wheel and pedals ) hope this sort of helps
 
@Phil I'm not sure if there is a normal setting. I don't recall one, however. I'll check next time I play though (assuming someone hasn't confirmed/denied it for us in this thread before then).

@Chaddy I appreciate the idea, but I already have a DFGT and really have no interest in a 360 wheel. Maybe for Christmas I can get one of the new Fanatecs, but in the short term I'll be restricted to the controller unfortunately.

An update here. I turned inside deadzone to 0 and outside deadzone to 100. It's still not what I would call "perfect" (perhaps GT5 has a some built in linearity settings I'm accustomed to?), but the improvement is huge. I think that, basically, I was pushing the stick a tiny bit, still being in the deadzone, and then overcompensating as a result.

I highly recommend you guys try these settings. They feel much better in my opinion.
 
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The game defaults your wheel to 270% and its a bug that has to be fixed. Thankfully there is a workaround. If you have a fanatech wheel what you need to do is setup your initial setting to what you like for setting 1 ie if you want to try driving at 900% set up your settings. once that is done go to s2 and set the sensitivity to 250% now once you have this set up what you will need to do is during the game pause it and put your wheel to setting number 2 the one for 250% turn the wheel off then back on reconnect it by holding the x box button and once it is connected press the little black button that brings up the s1, s2, etc and simply switch it without powering off the wheel to s1. What will happen is the game will recognize the wheel truly and whatever you have it dialed in at. There is a video and a link on these forums explaining it I will find and post it here for you.
 
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