Right I've been having a long play at Barcelona today on my G29 testing FFB in the 488 GT3.
All I'm trying is to get the wheel to do 4 basic things:-
1) Have some weight to the steering
2) When the front brakes lock to either go light on full lockup or twitch the steering left and right, light and heavy as each wheel grips/loses grip when not completely locking up (although I could actually live without this latter part).
3) Get the rear wheels to go light when spinning up accelerating in a straight line/under basic traction - this means the steering needs some weight behind it as a neutral position.
4) Get the wheel to snap/twitch opposite lock or turn forcibly if the rear wheels lose traction while cornering.
There are niceties but in terms of driving on the limit I can live without:-
5) Feel vibration/twitching over curbs and rumble strips
6) and heavier on grass and gravel traps.
7) Feel undulations in the road surface.
The problem is no matter what I set and what flavour I use, I cannot get the wheel to go light when the fronts lock up. I can get them to twitch under heavy on-the-limit braking (although I think this is actually road surface feedback coming through) BUT if I set this I cannot feel rear traction at all. OR I can get some rear feel, not a lot, but some for straight line wheelspin and cornering oversteer BUT if set that I cannot get any braking feel at all.
It seems to be one or the other.
I can get the steering heavy (although nothing like PCARS 1) but if I do that the histogram seems to indicate it's clipping and I get no other feedback. The more towards Raw and the more volume seems to govern this. Otherwise Volume doesn't make much sense to me. It makes the steering heavier, until I go too high and it clips. The game blurb makes even less sense to me talking about a scale from 0 to 1 when the slider goes from 0-100.
From what I understand from the game blurb FX governs surface feedback. Whatever flavours and settings I use, and even if I set FX to 0, this is always on to some degree or another - I can always feels curbs, grass, gravel traps. It set it 50-100 the surface feedback gets more extreme. So that appears to work.
I read Tone is supposed to set how much of surface feel I want or tyre slip. If I set Tone to 50-100 for tyre slip, I can get some marginal rear wheel feedback (nothing like PCARS 1) but no front feedback at all. If I set Tone to 0-50 I can get, presumably, surface feedback for on-the-limit braking but no lightness on a full lock-up, and the feedback for the rears is non-existent. I can still feel curbs, grass, gravel traps on any setting.
Gain is the overall scale of these effects combined, yes?
So the question is, am I reading this right? And what have I got wrong? Is this how it is working for everyone else? Please explain Volume to me etc.
The fact that I cannot get a fronts feel at the same time as a rears feel is what is confusing me and/or makes me believe this is simply broken.
I used to run this in PCARS 1 and it worked a treat for all the above requirements. Ultimately all I want to get is this feel again.
Master: 30
Fx: 80
Fy: 20 or 30
Fx: 70
Smoothing all set to 10
Sop
Scale: 30
Lateral: 80
Differential: 20 or 30
Damping: 70
Thanks in advance and sorry for the can of worms I may have just opened!
All I'm trying is to get the wheel to do 4 basic things:-
1) Have some weight to the steering
2) When the front brakes lock to either go light on full lockup or twitch the steering left and right, light and heavy as each wheel grips/loses grip when not completely locking up (although I could actually live without this latter part).
3) Get the rear wheels to go light when spinning up accelerating in a straight line/under basic traction - this means the steering needs some weight behind it as a neutral position.
4) Get the wheel to snap/twitch opposite lock or turn forcibly if the rear wheels lose traction while cornering.
There are niceties but in terms of driving on the limit I can live without:-
5) Feel vibration/twitching over curbs and rumble strips
6) and heavier on grass and gravel traps.
7) Feel undulations in the road surface.
The problem is no matter what I set and what flavour I use, I cannot get the wheel to go light when the fronts lock up. I can get them to twitch under heavy on-the-limit braking (although I think this is actually road surface feedback coming through) BUT if I set this I cannot feel rear traction at all. OR I can get some rear feel, not a lot, but some for straight line wheelspin and cornering oversteer BUT if set that I cannot get any braking feel at all.
It seems to be one or the other.
I can get the steering heavy (although nothing like PCARS 1) but if I do that the histogram seems to indicate it's clipping and I get no other feedback. The more towards Raw and the more volume seems to govern this. Otherwise Volume doesn't make much sense to me. It makes the steering heavier, until I go too high and it clips. The game blurb makes even less sense to me talking about a scale from 0 to 1 when the slider goes from 0-100.
From what I understand from the game blurb FX governs surface feedback. Whatever flavours and settings I use, and even if I set FX to 0, this is always on to some degree or another - I can always feels curbs, grass, gravel traps. It set it 50-100 the surface feedback gets more extreme. So that appears to work.
I read Tone is supposed to set how much of surface feel I want or tyre slip. If I set Tone to 50-100 for tyre slip, I can get some marginal rear wheel feedback (nothing like PCARS 1) but no front feedback at all. If I set Tone to 0-50 I can get, presumably, surface feedback for on-the-limit braking but no lightness on a full lock-up, and the feedback for the rears is non-existent. I can still feel curbs, grass, gravel traps on any setting.
Gain is the overall scale of these effects combined, yes?
So the question is, am I reading this right? And what have I got wrong? Is this how it is working for everyone else? Please explain Volume to me etc.
The fact that I cannot get a fronts feel at the same time as a rears feel is what is confusing me and/or makes me believe this is simply broken.
I used to run this in PCARS 1 and it worked a treat for all the above requirements. Ultimately all I want to get is this feel again.
Master: 30
Fx: 80
Fy: 20 or 30
Fx: 70
Smoothing all set to 10
Sop
Scale: 30
Lateral: 80
Differential: 20 or 30
Damping: 70
Thanks in advance and sorry for the can of worms I may have just opened!