Philip,
Try www.force-1.com, in the discussion area.
Bill
>Colleagues,
> As the 1.1 patch for GPL is just around the corner ;-) I have taken
>the plunge and bought a Logitech FF wheel to replace my venerable (and worn)
>modified T2. I believe there is a site that has modifications to this wheel
>to improve the (lousy) pedals and take the slop out of the wheel? Any help
>in pointing me in the right direction would be much appreciated. BTW my lap
>times have deteriorated by about 2 secs a lap with the new wheel - aah well,
>more learning to do !!
> Cheers..
> Phillip...
@seagoon.newcastle.edu.au>...
While I do admit that the opinion of the pedals is very judgemental,
I certainly do not go along with the idea that there is any slop in
the Logitech FF wheel. At least mine doesn't have slop.
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>in pointing me in the right direction would be much appreciated. BTW my
lap
>times have deteriorated by about 2 secs a lap with the new wheel - aah
well,
>more learning to do !!
> Cheers..
> Phillip...
Colleagues,
As the 1.1 patch for GPL is just around the corner ;-) I have taken
the plunge and bought a Logitech FF wheel to replace my venerable (and worn)
modified T2. I believe there is a site that has modifications to this wheel
to improve the (lousy) pedals and take the slop out of the wheel? Any help
in pointing me in the right direction would be much appreciated. BTW my lap
times have deteriorated by about 2 secs a lap with the new wheel - aah well,
more learning to do !!
Cheers..
Phillip...
>While I do admit that the opinion of the pedals is very judgemental,
>I certainly do not go along with the idea that there is any slop in
>the Logitech FF wheel. At least mine doesn't have slop.
That was pretty vague. I'm not sure if he meant slop as in on-center
type slop (which mine doesn't have), or slop in the wheel to housing
mounting itself.
I can move my wheel up/down about an eighth of an inch, and in/out
about a six***th.
I've only had my hands on a few others besides mine, but they all had
the same amount of play. My guess is that this "slop" is what he wants
to eliminate.
Tim
>I can move my wheel up/down about an eighth of an inch, and in/out
>about a six***th.
MIne is tight so I have no idea what you guys are talking about :-0
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>While I do admit that the opinion of the pedals is very judgemental,
>I certainly do not go along with the idea that there is any slop in
>the Logitech FF wheel. At least mine doesn't have slop.
There's some info on the above at:
http://simracing.com/alison/gpl/controls-readers.htm
It's from an old r.a.s.wheel review of mine that Alison Hine posted on her
reader reports controllers page. The review was for a non-FF wheel, but the
bits about "slop" and pedals will still apply.
As to "slop", the most likely reason is a loose center-nut, which is easily
dealt with by removing the center cap and snugging the nut a touch. Beyond
that, I'll repost the relevant text from the review:
"One problem I did have with my wheel, which may not show up on all, was a bit
of slack between the pot and the steering shaft, caused by excess clearance in
the plastic collar that mates the two. It gave a bit of lag whenever I changed
directions with the wheel, made very obvious since I'd long ago set the
deadzone to zero in my dinput.dll file. While it required disassembly of the
wheel, a tiny bit of epoxy putty closed the gaps completely and eliminated the
lag.."
If you have your deadzone at zero and get any lag AT ALL at the calibration
screen when you change direction with the wheel(not just on-center), this is
the likely culprit. Given the wheel's design and price-point, I expect it
won't be uncommon, but it IS an easy fix.
As stated in the review, I replaced the pedals with my trusty CH's. But with
stiffer springs and using either the Profiler, DXTweak, or
CTFJ3.10(http://www.stickworks.com/), the stockers can be made quite liveable.
Steve B.
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