GP2 Steering Help

I'm new to GP2 and trying to set up steering with out Steering Help ON is giving me fits. I've tried every recommended setting I've found at various Pages and every combination of Low Sensitivity Zone,Max Lock,and Reduce With Speed(literally from the minimum to maximum settings for each) and I can not adequately control the car at any speed. With just the least amount of steering input the car the moves all over the track making it impossible to negotiate the simplest of turns or make straight-away corrections. I'm using a TM Nascar Pro wheel without a game card. Any suggestions? Would a game card make any differance or am I doomed to using steering help?

Hi there do you have it setup as a joystick or wheel (In Windows) I found that cfging my wheel as a jstik caused large dead zone cfg the wheel as a T2 with adaptor & alls OK now Rob

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> I'm new to GP2 and trying to set up steering with out Steering Help ON > is giving me fits. I've tried every recommended setting I've found at > various Pages and every combination of Low Sensitivity Zone,Max Lock,and > Reduce With Speed(literally from the minimum to maximum settings for > each) and I can not adequately control the car at any speed. With just > the least amount of steering input the car the moves all over the track > making it impossible to negotiate the simplest of turns or make > straight-away corrections. I'm using a TM Nascar Pro wheel without a > game card. Any suggestions? Would a game card make any differance or am > I doomed to using steering help?

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> I'm new to GP2 and trying to set up steering with out Steering Help ON > is giving me fits. I've tried every recommended setting I've found at > various Pages and every combination of Low Sensitivity Zone,Max Lock,and > Reduce With Speed(literally from the minimum to maximum settings for > each) and I can not adequately control the car at any speed. With just > the least amount of steering input the car the moves all over the track > making it impossible to negotiate the simplest of turns or make > straight-away corrections. I'm using a TM Nascar Pro wheel without a > game card. Any suggestions? Would a game card make any differance or am > I doomed to using steering help?

Hi, I am using T2 wihch is much like Nascar Pro wheel. I have no problems with it, but when I first tried driving without SH, I even had problems staying on the track in the straights. I think you just need a little practise (it took me few hours to get used to it though). The wheel you got is quite good (TSW or ECCI users overlook my remark :) and precise and therefore it's not the wheel you have problems with. Try practising a bit and thing should eventually settle themselves out. I know some drivers using Nascar Pro Wheel and they had no such problems (but I also know of some drivers that use some non-precise wheels like Mad Katz or Turbo per4mer, etc. and they suffer such problems). I think a game card wouldn't make much difference, since it is used only when you have problems with calibrating the wheel. I use my SB's game port and it works :) But you can try my settings if you like : low sens zone : 15% (you might want more for this one) max lock : 16deg decrease with speed : 30% then set accelerator and brake to your own feel (I use 10% and 0%) Regards, Tadej Krevh LFRS class B (http://www.lfrs.com)

Getting a dedicated game card might make a difference if your machine is too fast for the sound card port, usually this is not the case unless you have a p200 or faster. Even still this might not be the problem, I have a Nascar Pro and a P266 and never had a problem. Let me tell you how I set up my game initially. After you first install the game, under the joystick setup, I assign what buttons I want to use, pedals, and such, take steering help off, and change max lock to 16 or 18, I don't remember which(I want the baby to TURN when I say turn!) , Then I CALIBRATE the wheel. This is very important, even if you are running under win95. GP2 runs in Dos mode, so you can't skip that. Try recalibrating and see if it works.

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>> I'm new to GP2 and trying to set up steering with out Steering Help ON >> is giving me fits. I've tried every recommended setting I've found at >> various Pages and every combination of Low Sensitivity Zone,Max Lock,and >> Reduce With Speed(literally from the minimum to maximum settings for >> each) and I can not adequately control the car at any speed. With just >> the least amount of steering input the car the moves all over the track >> making it impossible to negotiate the simplest of turns or make >> straight-away corrections. I'm using a TM Nascar Pro wheel without a >> game card. Any suggestions? Would a game card make any differance or am >> I doomed to using steering help? >Hi, > I am using T2 wihch is much like Nascar Pro wheel. I have no problems >with it, but when I first tried driving without SH, I even had problems >staying on the track in the straights. I think you just need a little >practise (it took me few hours to get used to it though). The wheel you >got is quite good (TSW or ECCI users overlook my remark :) and precise and >therefore it's not the wheel you have problems with. Try practising a bit >and thing should eventually settle themselves out. I know some drivers

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>Nascar Pro Wheel and they had no such problems (but I also know of some >drivers that use some non-precise wheels like Mad Katz or Turbo per4mer, >etc. and they suffer such problems). I think a game card wouldn't make >much difference, since it is used only when you have problems with >calibrating the wheel. I use my SB's game port and it works :) >But you can try my settings if you like : >low sens zone : 15% (you might want more for this one) >max lock : 16deg >decrease with speed : 30% >then set accelerator and brake to your own feel (I use 10% and 0%) >Regards, >Tadej Krevh >LFRS class B (http://www.lfrs.com)

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> I'm new to GP2 and trying to set up steering with out Steering Help ON > is giving me fits. I've tried every recommended setting I've found at > various Pages and every combination of Low Sensitivity Zone,Max Lock,and > Reduce With Speed(literally from the minimum to maximum settings for > each) and I can not adequately control the car at any speed. With just > the least amount of steering input the car the moves all over the track > making it impossible to negotiate the simplest of turns or make > straight-away corrections. I'm using a TM Nascar Pro wheel without a > game card. Any suggestions? Would a game card make any differance or am > I doomed to using steering help?

I bought a Thrustmaster T1, and I still took a month to realise that you have to remove steering help to get the full performance from it! I think the settings I have are almost the same as the default. It's certainly not easy. I have to keep the traction control on at all times or I spin far too readily. Also, it's much harder to hit the apex of the corner correctly, so for the moment I've gone back to using the racing line. I'm not sure whether it's my fault, the software fault or a fundamental problem of computer simulations with not being able to see depth very well. Overall, I've probably lost a second or two per lap, but I enjoy it a whole lot more. Hopefully, over time I'll more than make up that initial loss. Just persevere is my suggestion. Huw -----BEGIN BRIT CODE BLOCK----- Version: 1.1 Brit(E/W) H--:- a-- s-:-- hd++ b+ y+ X---: P- M-- R-- A+ C- T- TV-(++) Ci>+ MuR++I+ B>+ V++ ------END BRIT CODE BLOCK------