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GPL and CH Flight Yoke/pedals problem

7 posts by 5 people · 17 May 1999 - 21 May 1999

Mapson 17 May 1999#468153
They hook up fine, but the flight yoke (used as a steering wheel) is so ultra-sensitive that I can't really use it. Yes, I've got the "steering lock" (steering ratio or whatever GPL has renamed it) to the maximum extreme (20:1 I think), and I've tried both the directX driver and the generic (generic was a bit less disastrous). I know previous sims have been excellent with the yoke (ICR2, in particular). Is there something in an INI file I can tweak to reduce the sensitivity? Please post here. Thanks
Trey Beh 17 May 1999#468154
>I've got the >"steering lock" (steering ratio or whatever GPL has renamed it) to the >maximum extreme (20:1 I think) I use the CH yoke in GPL, and have great results from it. Sounds like you've gone the wrong way on steering ratio. You should LOWER it from the default, not RAISE it to 20:1. Ratios like this make all cars extremely twitchy. Trey Behan
SteveBla 17 May 1999#468155
>I use the CH yoke in GPL, and have great results from it. Sounds like you've >gone the wrong way on steering ratio. You should LOWER it from the default, >not >RAISE it to 20:1. Ratios like this make all cars extremely twitchy. Nope; sorry; wrong-o. A 20:1 ratio is much LESS twitchy than say, a 12:1 ratio. As for the CH yoke, I don't know how much mechanical rotation it has lock-to-lock, but if it's 180 degrees or less, you'll do well to use slow ratios(18-20:1 or so) and move the linearity slider to the right until you find a comfortable spot. If that doesn't suffice, go to www.wingmanteam.com and download their DXTweak utility, which allows you to set your controller's parameters in DirectInput, such as deadzone and min-max-center for each axis individually. An alternative controller-tweaking utility, called CTFJ3, can be found at: http://www.stickworks.com/ Cheers, Steve B. remove "edy" from address for email
Mapson 19 May 1999#468734
>>I've got the >>"steering lock" (steering ratio or whatever GPL has renamed it) to the >>maximum extreme (20:1 I think) >I use the CH yoke in GPL, and have great results from it. I loved it with ICR2- never did match my best times after I got the T2. But now, I'm in the low 1:04s at the Glenn in GPL with the T2... and haven't been able to finish a clean lap with the CH yoke because of the hypersensitivity. Well, I may be wrong, and I'll look in to that when I get the chance, but I am pretty sure 20:1 is less sensitive than 16:1 in the format GPL uses. But regardless, I've tried both of them, and both are too twitchy for my taste. So I ask again, to anyone out there- is there another way to lessen the sensitivity of the input in one of the INI files? Or in some overall way with the joystick driver? Because I'm not just looking for a little sensitivity out; I'd like to halve what I'm getting.
Ron Ayton 20 May 1999#469020
Your dead right Mapson, the higher the steering ratio, the less sensitive the input from the steering wheel becomes. A 20:1 ratio is less sensitive than a 16:1 ratio.. etc.. Cheers, Ron > >>I've got the > >>"steering lock" (steering ratio or whatever GPL has renamed it) to the > >>maximum extreme (20:1 I think)
Mapson 21 May 1999#469305
>Try here http://home.att.net/~stickworks/ for ctfjv300.zip which gives you >adjustable gains for both x and y axis >David Erb Thanks, I looked at the page but haven't had the chance to try it yet. It looks like just what I need. And it also got me wondering what the yoke would be like if I used some joystick driver- esp since for racing I dont care about the Y/Z axis. I might quickly experiment with that first. Thanks again

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