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GPL: Too skittish in straights

Ed Benso

GPL: Too skittish in straights

by Ed Benso » Wed, 07 Oct 1998 04:00:00

It's not high speed causing it, it's high horsepower. Depending on the car, you
can get swerving at any speed if your revs are high. One of your rear wheels is
braking traction.
When I first started playing I corrected this by adding toe-in, to about 1.0.
Then I started short-shifting, and I reset my toe-in to the default. After much
more practice, I can drive a lot higher in the power curve without too much
swerving, but when it does happen I just upshift and things calm down.
Give it a try, whenever the car starts to pull to one side under heavy
accelleration, shift up a gear. Or just modulate the throttle some. These cars
had such a high power to weight ratio that they could break traction in any gear
if acceleration was sudden enough.

Ed Benson



> >On Mon, 05 Oct 1998 18:07:18 -0700,


> >>damn right. just a very very slight movement of the wheel makes the car
> >>swerve drastically. it can't be the hardware because it only does it in
> >>certain cars. i guess this is their way of showing differences between the
> >>cars. i rate this as a failure. it renders certains makes completely
> >>undriveable. hopefully this can be fixed through better set-ups.

> >Failure? Wrong.

> Im affraid the GPL cars, at least the Ferrari with a good setup do
> start to turn when they reach high speed in a striaght line, i put
> this down to very accurate sim engine

Wolfgang Prei

GPL: Too skittish in straights

by Wolfgang Prei » Thu, 08 Oct 1998 04:00:00


>I think setting more tow in on the front wheels will help too. I'm not much
>of a set-up guru like most of these guys, so maybe someone can confirm this.

This should help on a real car, so I'm sure it will also help in GPL.
:)

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Byron Forbe

GPL: Too skittish in straights

by Byron Forbe » Thu, 08 Oct 1998 04:00:00

Yeah, there are so many options available for the direct input ie in the Win95 joystick
etc selection menu, that chances are there is either not a suitable selection for whatever
device a person is using or they have the wrong one selected. Another point for Papy :)

> Have to agree w/ Byron,  Direct input was alot twitchier(sp?) than Generic.

> Brian


> >Try changing to Generic and recalibrating or vice - versa for Direct Input.


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