Help, Wheel shakes on straights.

[S!Lpheed]

At highspeed or just in a straightline my driving force EX shakes. It had another problem with it (looked to the left but that went away when I played with the wire). This isn't supposed to be as bad as it is right? Otherwise how could you race?

 

[Keichi Tsuchiya]

I don't have a Wheel, but that should be normal, try getting a more stable car-

I think-correct me if I'm wrong.

 

[S!Lpheed]

I don't have a Wheel, but that should be normal, trygetting a more stable car-

I think-correct me if I'm wrong.

It shakes with slow cars too. I'm reaching my breaking point with this wheel.

 

[Wolfe]

With force feedback wheels, uncontrollable shaking while trying to drive in a straight line is usually a sign of a potentiometer that is either bad, or going bad. When this happens, the pot is unable to tell the force feedback that it is in the "center" position, causing the force feedback to shake back and forth as it tries to "find" the center position.

You'll probably have to replace the pot, or just get a new wheel.

 

[S!Lpheed]

With force feedback wheels, uncontrollable shaking while trying to drive in a straight line is usually a sign of a potentiometer that is either bad, or going bad. When this happens, the pot is unable to tell the force feedback that it is in the "center" position, causing the force feedback to shake back and forth as it tries to "find" the center position.

You'll probably have to replace the pot, or just get a new wheel.

My wheel really hates me. Is it because it's the driving force EX rather than the DFP? Less build quality? because I love this wheel, especially the paddle shifters.

 

[Wolfe]

If you can afford to buy one, the DFP is a great wheel simply because of its 900 degree steering lock. On the other hand, despite its ridiculous price, the G25 is set to improve upon the DFP in almost every way.

Logitech seems to be gradually improving the build quality of their wheels. The DFP was decent, but could have been built better. So far, it looks like the G25 has addressed that problem.

 

[S!Lpheed]

HOLY CRAP It has a clutch??

..how much is this one? A new dfex is just 60bucks, http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=5044113
I'm just worried about it breaking again.

 

[Wolfe]

A DFP cost $150 brand-new, don't know what they go for these days. The G25 is $300.

 

[S!Lpheed]

A DFP cost $150 brand-new, don't know what they go for these days. The G25 is $300.

About 100 new. That's twice as much than anything in the past for ps2. Can you tell me the differences between the dfex and the dfp beside the 900 rotation and the sequential shifter?

 

[Pink_the_Floyd]

With force feedback wheels, uncontrollable shaking while trying to drive in a straight line is usually a sign of a potentiometer that is either bad, or going bad. When this happens, the pot is unable to tell the force feedback that it is in the "center" position, causing the force feedback to shake back and forth as it tries to "find" the center position.

You'll probably have to replace the pot, or just get a new wheel.

Good & Fault:

My DFP is new, shakes like hell when going 350 with a GT-ONE, is it broken? Yeah, right

 

[S!Lpheed]

Good & Fault:

My DFP is new, shakes like hell when going 350 with a GT-ONE, is it broken? Yeah, right

I'll test it more to see what cars it shakes with.

 

[S!Lpheed]

It starts shaking in a Lotus Europe at 75-80, mph, always on a straight. It just gets worse the faster I go.

 

[Pink_the_Floyd]

At those speeds, it's unusual, yes. My wheel starts to shake around 300 km/h, which is normal.

 

[Thiele]

i'm too poor to afford a wheel, but the dfp sounds very good, although a clutch would be wicked

i think knowing the dfp is designed for gt4, that it would be normal

 

[zdenko]

And just to clarify for the dfex. Yes its shakes left and right but at high speeds, ie over 250km/h depends on the car a bit as well. Some of the 900hp cars just makes the wheel vibrate like mad.

 

[iceburns288]

If it shakes a LOT you just need to turn down the FFB. On PC, if you turn up the Logitech Wingman drivers past 100% FFB (goes up to 150%) it shakes on straights. Both my DFP and my MOMO did this, I thought my MOMO was broken until I figured out what to do and fixed it with just the slider. My MOMO now works fine, I just don't use it because I have my DFP .

 

[Kylep]

So, just to be certain -- The wheel *is* supposed to shake at high speeds, correct? Above somewhere around 200mph with FFB on "strong," the wheel shakes to where I can't hold it completely still (if I ever managed to hold it still, I think it would lift up the small table it's on ^^). This is normal, yes?

[EDIT] Using DFP. And also just saw zdenko's post...[/EDIT]

 

[isamu]

Hello everyone, I'm having the exact same issue with my Driving Force EX. Not sure why it's doing this......

Another thing is, in GT3, in the calibration menu, you know the screen where it asks you to center the wheel and you see the little needle in the middle? My needle is not stable. It vibrates a little bit and I notice that it is causing the inputs in the game to go right.

Is this normal? Is there supposed to be any small vibration in when the wheel is in the center?

 

[MasterGT]

How else is a wheel going to relate to a human what is supposed to be going on with a car at extreme speeds?

 

[Rocker]

How else is a wheel going to relate to a human what is supposed to be going on with a car at extreme speeds?

I agree, and from my own experience, if you can one-hand the wheel at over 140 mph, then your vehicle is floating and your gonna be eating guard rails very soon. If you have downforce at high speed, then every bump and twitch is greatly magnified, and you will be gripping the wheel to hold the car strait. It seems to me that what the G25 is doing, is about the best approximation you could expect, since there isn't any other way to transmit road, wind, and suspension vibration.

At 225+ mph, expect the wheel to be very hard to keep strait, even in an LMP class vehicle.