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Michael S. Davis
Creative Media-Works
Computer/Audio/Video Convergence
"from Creative minds spring Creative solutions."
http://www.racesimcentral.net/

Some steering wheel theorists tell me to use full non-linear, others tell me
go full linear, then another one tells me to go 3/4 linear.  I've been
experimenting with all these settings and here are my personal findings:

Full Non-linear steering -- great for controlling the car on a straight,
lousy for cornering.

Full linear steering -- great for cornering, lousy for controlling a car on
the straight.

Half linear Half Non-linear  -- lousy for cornering, so so for controlling a
car on the straight.

3/4 Linear -- a little better than so so for cornering, a little lousier
than so so for controlling a car on the straight.

With linear steering, I hold my wheel by my finger tips on the straights
because using a full hand grab on the wheel causes me to manhandle it,
resulting in too much overcorrection.

You know, I could use a really good steering wheel that doesn't wonder
around 5-10 degrees from center, due to limp *** bands.  My Nascar Pro
Wheel just does not do the job.

I have to congratulate those people who can center their wheels precisely
without the help of real steering torque.  Wouldn't it be nice though to be
able to let the steering torque unwind the wheel exactly to center?  I
wouldn't have to worry about overcorrecting would I now?

cheers,
Grant.

  Good Advice! I had to work a whole lot of overtime last week, and was
off GPL for 4 days, and boy, was that car
nervous the first ten laps!!!:))

Cheers,
Matt

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Matthew Knutsen

Cheek Racing Cars
http://www.racesimcentral.net/~kareknut/

   Charle's brilliance to date;

   1/ Says GPL is arcade and anyone good at it is an arcade driver. LOL

   2/ Says GP2 is more realistic with opposite lock help and puts GPL to
shame. LOL

   3/ Claims steering response delay indicating poor fps and thus a poor
interporation of GPL. LOL

   4/ Tells us about his wheel with 5 - 10 deg of slop. LOL

    ROFL. Keep 'em comin' Charley!

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Regards,

Bruce.

I STILL thought you left...

BB

I thought you left...

BB

First of all, I think Carles` earlier postings here left a lot to be
desired, especially in the attitude department, he has however adjusted
that for some reason (don`t know why and I don`t really care) and for
that he at least deserves that replies to his postings/questions
contains something worth reading, IMHO

It`s not just you Byron, (you were just an easy pick :-), I see some of
the same attitude towards i.e. ymenard from time to time and he REALLY
has adjusted his attitude. I just think there is enough garbage flying
back and forth without people having to keep it up when there is no need
for it (is there ever ? :-)

In my opinion Charles you have some bad controller problem, not uncommon
with early Nascar PRO/F1 wheels, the bungee cord goes AWOL in a "very"
short time and you get very twitchy stearing, not speculation on my
part, I`m a Thrustmaster dealer so I "should" know, I`ve changed enough
of them already including the one on my personal wheel.

Contact Thrustmaster directly or the place where you bought it, they are
aware of the problem and are doing something about it

You could also try adding a gamecard, the Thrustmaster ACM is a good
choice and I`m sure there are others too, it helped me a lot, didn`t
drive any faster, but my consistency went way up

Beers and cheers
(uncle) Goy
UncleGoy on TEN

Agree 100% byron. This Charlie boy really needs to get his story straight,
cause I'm getting sick of his bullshit.

I have found out that linear steering is equal pressure or equal turn-in
ratio to the amount of input.

Non-linear is ideal for steering wheels, the tires turn very little when the
steering wheel is turned for example when  within 50% of it's center (25% in
both directions). As you turn the steering wheel past it's 25% limit in one
direction, the tires will turn more.

Contrary to what is said, linear for keyboards & non-linear for steering
wheels. My guess is you would want non-linear on ovals tracks & linear on
street/road courses.

I thought I left too, but that Byron Forbes guy irritates me so much that I
think I'll stick around and feed his egomania a little more.

If you have a good quality controller, and its calibrated correctly,
you really should not have too much trouble going the right way on
the straights or the corners? NB: I think full linear control, eg:-
all the way to the *left*, or very near to the left, is better as
this gives a much more *responsive* feel to the handling.

Non-linear & Linear is like comparing analogue to digital
controllers. Digital is great for *on* & *off*, but analogue is great
for precise control and a progressive response.

But ultimately, it all depends on the quality of the equipment you
use, and the expertise of the person using the equipment.

Buy a quality wheel, practise lots, see the difference?

*Peter*  8-)

BB