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- United Kingdom
Hi all, back again to seek advice from the GT elders.
I've had on/off relationships with GT's and wheels over the years, but have decided to give it another go with a T500RS. One hour of play of GTS and I'm suddenly reminded why I don't get on with wheels.
When traction is maintained, the force feedback is sublime, and creates a wonderful sense of presence on the track. However, when oversteering, the experience is transformed into something quite different. The wheel, instead of lightening on initiation of a slide, tightens, and then saws back and forth between loose and taught in a very unnatural way. The feedback alone seems to exacerbate the movements of the car so much, that even the slightest loss of grip without intervention pulls it off the track unexpectedly in the opposite direction. Testing it back to back with the DS4, it's quite shocking.
My first ever driving experience on a track IRL almost 20 years ago, we were instructed not to attempt to catch slides, because of the risk of being spat off the opposite direction if we got it wrong, and were instead instructed to let go of the wheel and allow the car to spin into the bend. With a DS4 this is exactly what happens. With this wheel, In the same situation I'm off the opposite way every time for reasons I can't fathom.
My question is what, if anything, can be done about this? I'd love to be able to try GTS without force beedback, as even on the lowest setting it still feels horrible having the wheel tugged and pulled from my hands for, as far as I'm concerned, no good reason. It seems like a waste, but would disconnecting the belt work? Desperately hoping you guys have figured this one out.
I've had on/off relationships with GT's and wheels over the years, but have decided to give it another go with a T500RS. One hour of play of GTS and I'm suddenly reminded why I don't get on with wheels.
When traction is maintained, the force feedback is sublime, and creates a wonderful sense of presence on the track. However, when oversteering, the experience is transformed into something quite different. The wheel, instead of lightening on initiation of a slide, tightens, and then saws back and forth between loose and taught in a very unnatural way. The feedback alone seems to exacerbate the movements of the car so much, that even the slightest loss of grip without intervention pulls it off the track unexpectedly in the opposite direction. Testing it back to back with the DS4, it's quite shocking.
My first ever driving experience on a track IRL almost 20 years ago, we were instructed not to attempt to catch slides, because of the risk of being spat off the opposite direction if we got it wrong, and were instead instructed to let go of the wheel and allow the car to spin into the bend. With a DS4 this is exactly what happens. With this wheel, In the same situation I'm off the opposite way every time for reasons I can't fathom.
My question is what, if anything, can be done about this? I'd love to be able to try GTS without force beedback, as even on the lowest setting it still feels horrible having the wheel tugged and pulled from my hands for, as far as I'm concerned, no good reason. It seems like a waste, but would disconnecting the belt work? Desperately hoping you guys have figured this one out.