F1 2001 Steering using a joystick

I'm having trouble getting the steering to work well with my current joystick. My setup: Win2000 SP2, GeForce2, Athlon 1.4GHz, Det 12.41. I still having a very hard time holding a straight line at high speeds. It feels like I'm driving a panel van at 200mph - I just don't have any fine control. Since I'm an F1 sim newbie and haven't found the $$ for a nice wheel, what should I be adjusting to get this to work? Is it really this hard to drive a straight line in a real F1 car? Do the real cars have progressive steering to give finer control at high speed? TIA. Dave

You'll probably need to go into the controls / advanced options and move the X-axis range down to say 20%. While you're in there, move the X-axis deadzone to 0%. In the main controls screen, move the "sensitivity with speed" option lower until you can handle it. It takes some tweeking, but they gave you the tools to make any controller feel good :) Jason. David Geesaman wrote:

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> > I'm having trouble getting the steering to work well with my current > joystick. My setup: Win2000 SP2, GeForce2, Athlon 1.4GHz, Det 12.41. > I still having a very hard time holding a straight line at high speeds. > It feels like I'm driving a panel van at 200mph - I just don't have any > fine control. > Since I'm an F1 sim newbie and haven't found the $$ for a nice wheel, > what should I be adjusting to get this to work? Is it really this hard > to drive a straight line in a real F1 car? Do the real cars have > progressive steering to give finer control at high speed? > TIA. > > Dave

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i have speed sensitivity set at 87 and its great for me, havent bothered with other settings. Bluemooney "Jason Monds" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> You'll probably need to go into the controls / advanced options and move > the X-axis range down to say 20%. While you're in there, move the > X-axis deadzone to 0%. > > In the main controls screen, move the "sensitivity with speed" option > lower until you can handle it. > > It takes some tweeking, but they gave you the tools to make any > controller feel good :) > > Jason. > > David Geesaman wrote: > > > > I'm having trouble getting the steering to work well with my

current > > joystick. My setup: Win2000 SP2, GeForce2, Athlon 1.4GHz, Det 12.41. > > I still having a very hard time holding a straight line at highspeeds. > > It feels like I'm driving a panel van at 200mph - I just don't have any > > fine control. > > Since I'm an F1 sim newbie and haven't found the $$ for a nicewheel,

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> > what should I be adjusting to get this to work? Is it really this hard > > to drive a straight line in a real F1 car? Do the real cars have > > progressive steering to give finer control at high speed? > > TIA. > > > > Dave > > -- > Jason Monds > http://www.proracingclub.com - Pro Racing Club! (GPL) > http://www.scprc.com - Stock Car Division of the PRC. (N4, Fun Run Sims) > (Please remove 'no extra spork' when replying)