I'm using 7... Do you think I should lower it?Biggest thing I notice in FFB is the controller sensitivity. I vary this depending on the car and the tires it has on it. A street car with comfort tires gets a sensitivity of 5. highly tuned street cars or race cars with sports tires or racing hards gets a sensitivity of 4. High downforce cars or cars running Racing medium or softs get sensitivity of 3 to avoid clipping.
It depends on how your wheel base is reacting to the information the console is giving it. I have found that when the cars have low grip (street cars with comfort tires) the console gives very little information to the wheel which makes it feel like there is no FFB. So I increase the sensitivity. When the cars have more grip (tuned street cars or race cars (gr.4, 3, 2)) the console is sending out more FFB information to the wheel. You can really feel when the suspension is loading up and that FFB increases. If you turn too hard you feel the wheel slip and it coincides with massive understeer/plowing. Thats the front tires losing grip with the road. The FFB settings are set correctly, imo, when I get this type of reaction from the wheel. In the situation of high downforce and high grip cars, the suspension will load up very easily and the wheel will get really firm. Then all of a sudden the wheel breaks free and the car cuts hard in the direction of your steering input. That is the wheel clipping because it does not produce enough FFB resistance and the motor inside the base gave up the ghost. Thats bad. Thats when you want to turn down the sensitivity so you no longer get that clipping.I'm using 7... Do you think I should lower it?
What would be the practical difference when driving?
what car feels like this irl?I only use 10 and 10.
Everything else just feels weak.
I think its a subjective setup for the feel.
I need to get a much more powerful wheel than this.
By maxing it out, you’re missing out on some of the finer more important details. Most aliens only run 3/4 torque. Just like maxing out a speaker and having the sound go all crackly.I only use 10 and 10.
Everything else just feels weak.
I think its a subjective setup for the feel.
I need to get a much more powerful wheel than this.
Normal road cars I have been used to driving. No power steering would be the pattern.what car feels like this irl?
A direct drive wheel with max settings might be right up your alley. Good luck!Normal road cars I have been used to driving. No power steering would be the pattern.
To be realistic for me there needs to be a 100 100 equivilent setting, where you have to grunt and use body weight to turn the wheel when doing the full lock.
I have used arm and wrist weights strapped onto me to try and make steering more effort but its a bit annoying to have to do that.
So I suppose if you are used to cars with powersteering, low torque and detailed feedback is nice. But to me it feels too remote. I feel when its super strong resistance I can feel the car moving around corners. It doesnt matter If I am missing finer details.
I do want the best of both though so I am ready to buy a high end expensive wheel.
A DD purchase will likely be coming sooner than later running a T300 on 10/10 all the time. Good luck with THAT.A direct drive wheel with max settings might be right up your alley. Good luck!
Now that’s a trooper.I have had my T300RS on 10/10 or whatever maximum was on all the GT games since PS3 days. 2014 I got mine I think. Still works. On some longer races it can overheat and the resistance goes. But it doesnt kill it (not yet). Doing back to back race C events the few minutes gap between races must be just enough to give it a cooldown.
Normal road cars I have been used to driving. No power steering would be the pattern.
To be realistic for me there needs to be a 100 100 equivilent setting, where you have to grunt and use body weight to turn the wheel when doing the full lock.
I have used arm and wrist weights strapped onto me to try and make steering more effort but its a bit annoying to have to do that.
So I suppose if you are used to cars with powersteering, low torque and detailed feedback is nice. But to me it feels too remote. I feel when its super strong resistance I can feel the car moving around corners. It doesnt matter If I am missing finer details.
I do want the best of both though so I am ready to buy a high end expensive wheel.
With a 10/10 setting isn't your wheel base clipping all the time or do you exclusively drive low power street cars on Comfort tires? I get clipping on most cars if I try to set the sensitivity above 6. My wheel base is a newer one with a PS5 setting on the switch.I only use 10 and 10.
Everything else just feels weak.
I think its a subjective setup for the feel.
I need to get a much more powerful wheel than this.
If you’re spending all your energy just holding onto the wheel, then you are wasting energy that could be better spent feeling the smaller details of what the wheel is trying to tell you, and energy to focus on the driving. Like I said, most of the top tier aliens only run 3/4 torque, so there must be a reason for it. You’re not getting the most out of your wheel by running it on 10, and are likely shortening up its life span at the same time.The T300 is about 4nm isnt it?
I have been mostly driving race cars in the dailys. I need the most resistance I can get.
From my experiances with real karting at a pay per drive my arms are tired after a 10minute session and I'm exhausted as I give it everything.
So thats part of the reason I wanted to simulate the hard effort of driving, even if its not in a kart in GT7.
I'm not sure if i get clipping. Maybe im not getting any force detail just maximum left and right resistance to steering.
I did read recently what other people were using as settings. I tried it and after a few corners I was appalled and quit. I could have used just fingers to drive it.
So I do kind of treat my racing as excercise. A bit of fitness.
blisters on the hand a good reassuring sign of effort too.
Yeah, if you put the wheel to “fan always on”, it won’t cut the power, because he fan will stay on at all times, instead of only when called for. As far as realism, after leaving a dead stop, even cars with no power steering don’t require that much force to turn the wheel, and I even used to own a racing kart when I was younger. Being fast is what’s fun, winning and such. Not sure what fun is to be had if you’re tired after 10 min of driving, that would be boring to me. I do 1-3 hour endurance races, I couldn’t imagine having the wheel so heavy that 15 min was enough to physically tire me out.I would certainly be faster at lower torque but I dont enjoy it.
I also think the wheel is designed to do it. It cuts out the motor to stop overheat damage.
Wear and tear is fine if i've been having fun. I have had it many years.