Project CARS General Discussion Thread

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If your wheel ffb is fading that quickly, it could be you just have the ffb turned up too much. If it's a problem with the wheel's firmware then fair enough, but if not it sounds strange that it'd fade so quickly, and I'd assume you'd have to have the ffb cranked so high it'd be clipping to the max. T300s have a much stronger motor than my CSR, and I can play for hours without needing to stop and let it cool down.

Also for people getting the loss of ffb bug, all you need to do is turn the wheel off and on again and it'll work. No need to run races without ffb, that'd suck.
 
Mike_grpA
If your wheel ffb is fading that quickly, it could be you just have the ffb turned up too much. If it's a problem with the wheel's firmware then fair enough, but if not it sounds strange that it'd fade so quickly, and I'd assume you'd have to have the ffb cranked so high it'd be clipping to the max. T300s have a much stronger motor than my CSR, and I can play for hours without needing to stop and let it cool down.

Also for people getting the loss of ffb bug, all you need to do is turn the wheel off and on again and it'll work. No need to run races without ffb, that'd suck.
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I might be stretching the limits of the FFB I admit. I have tyre force and force feedback both at 100 ala Jack Spades. When I put it lower, it feels relatively lifeless and harder to interpret the car however.
 
Darragh
I might be stretching the limits of the FFB I admit. I have tyre force and force feedback both at 100 ala Jack Spades. When I put it lower, it feels relatively lifeless and harder to interpret the car however.
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I don't like Jack Spade's ffb settings. I know, I must be in a serious minority there lol, but the in-car ffb settings he uses all feel pretty lifeless to me. I read up on the official forum about what every setting actually does (forget which thread sorry), and took the time to set it up myself.

When setting a car up for the first time, I'll tweak the settings so that the ffb will be strong, but not clipping. I usually have the lateral ffb set quite low, depending on how much weight the wheel has in it, as each car is different. I will always have the vertical a little higher than the longitudinal, and the twisting force higher than the vertical. I find this gives me a good feel for bumps, but also for when the front wheels start losing grip, which is handy for feeling lock ups and understeer. I set the SoP lateral the same as front lateral, and vertical a bit less than front vertical.

I might get a little clipping at extreme ffb signals, like on the limit of grip through a long, fast corner, where the wheel is loaded up to the max, if I get rammed hard, the ffb spike will prob hit the top a little. Hard steering by itself should never get the ffb line right to the top (or bottom) of the graph though, as it needs room to feel kerbs and such on corner exit.

Like I said, I use a CSR, and the motor on one of those is far weaker than that of a T300, but I can get strong and detailed ffb without clipping, and I can run 2 hour endurance races without giving the wheel a rest, and don't feel any fading from the motor at all. It is also getting closer to summer in Aus, so temps are getting pretty warm, and still I get no sign of trouble from heat in the wheel. The CSR does have massive cooling vents though, and I've heard that the T300 could do with better cooling, even though the brushless motor should require much less cooling than the brushed types.
 
Wait a minute.

So if I download the 5.0 patch (I'm on PS4 btw) then I'll have the new cars?

Or is it a paid DLC pack? I haven't seen any trailers or anything. Hence why I'm wondering.
 
TayeezSA
Wait a minute.

So if I download the 5.0 patch (I'm on PS4 btw) then I'll have the new cars?

Or is it a paid DLC pack? I haven't seen any trailers or anything. Hence why I'm wondering.
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No! You will get the free car,but DLC has to be paid for.
 
TayeezSA
Wait a minute.

So if I download the 5.0 patch (I'm on PS4 btw) then I'll have the new cars?

Or is it a paid DLC pack? I haven't seen any trailers or anything. Hence why I'm wondering.
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The free car you have to DL from the PSN store
 
AnfLaw
Unless you join a lobby running DLC cars. Then you can use them without purchase.
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When the game launched I could not get a Limited Edition version, so when I stumbled across a lobby using the cars from the LE it was like Christmas morning as a child. Felt great to try the Mercedes-Benz Sauber C9 and BMW M1 Procar in particular that manner.
 
Scuderia Paul
When the game launched I could not get a Limited Edition version, so when I stumbled across a lobby using the cars from the LE it was like Christmas morning as a child. Felt great to try the Mercedes-Benz Sauber C9 and BMW M1 Procar in particular that manner.
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Same thing happened to me!, I've not purchased any of the DLC packs yet, but i have driven all of the cars (The C9 still alludes me!) and on the new tracks. Top design choice. I can only imagine what the lobbies would look like in a year with all the packs and not everyone owning them.
 
A heads up guys most people are reporting on the official forums that changing the controller settings to 2 makes the wheel feel so much better! Weve been lead to beileve up to now that these settings were for the control pads but that has not turned out to be the case....SMS are silent on the FFB issue as usual.
 
UkHardcore23
A heads up guys most people are reporting on the official forums that changing the controller settings to 2 makes the wheel feel so much better! Weve been lead to beileve up to now that these settings were for the control pads but that has not turned out to be the case....SMS are silent on the FFB issue as usual.
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It's taken 5 months for someone to test this? I'll give it a go later if I can. Are they saying it only alters the FFB?
 
Which wheel though? I'm using a G27 and apart from setting the deadzone to 0.16, I've been using the default settings all along with no problems whatsoever.
 
Had my first try at a public lobby and good god it was awful. Some guy was singing along to some god awful song and was telling everyone to "🤬 off" when most of the lobby tried to kick him from the session. I really hope other public lobbies are far better than this.
 
ukfan758
Man they have been slow over at Microsoft...
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Cant blame them going over the patch with a fine comb considering where it's coming from (Cough SMS Cough) I've played around 30 games on my PS4 and PCars is the only one to crash it quite a few times to a PS4 blue screen of death!
 
JASON_ROCKS1998
Had my first try at a public lobby and good god it was awful. Some guy was singing along to some god awful song and was telling everyone to "🤬 off" when most of the lobby tried to kick him from the session. I really hope other public lobbies are far better than this.
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Thank goodness that in GT6 the host could turn mics off for the eintire lobby. Hey SMS, I'm just saying it would be nice to have the option in Project CARS.
 
UkHardcore23
I've played around 30 games on my PS4 and PCars is the only one to crash it quite a few times to a PS4 blue screen of death!
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Maybe that is precisely the point where it goes wrong... ?
I have (and had) ONLY PCars running and I seem to be missing all of the bugs and glitches...
And it is not that I don't play a lot.
 
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