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GPL FF help needed

6 posts by 4 people · 02 Feb 2003 20:55 UTC - 03 Feb 2003 15:03 UTC

Kevin Barnes 02 Feb 2003 20:55 UTC#79180
I have a Thrustmaster Ferrari FF wheel with which i cant seem to find a setting to my liking despite experimenting. Can anyone give me some advice if they have the same wheel. What should my settings be in the wheels gain settings and also what settings are people using to good effect ih their GPL settings. hope someone can help or point me ith the right direction Kev Barnes
Kevin Barnes 02 Feb 2003 20:55 UTC#79179
I have a Thrustmaster Ferrari FF wheel with which i cant seem to find a setting to my liking despite experimenting. Can anyone give me some advice if they have the same wheel. What should my settings be in the wheels gain settings and also what settings are people using to good effect ih their GPL settings. hope someone can help or point me ith the right direction Kev Barnes
Kevin Barnes 02 Feb 2003 20:56 UTC#79181
I have a Thrustmaster Ferrari FF wheel with which i cant seem to find a setting to my liking despite experimenting. Can anyone give me some advice if they have the same wheel. What should my settings be in the wheels gain settings and also what settings are people using to good effect ih their GPL settings. hope someone can help or point me ith the right direction Kev Barnes
"Kevin Barnes" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:tBf%9.1172$[email hidden]... > I have a Thrustmaster Ferrari FF wheel with which i cant seem to find a > setting to my liking despite experimenting. Can anyone give me some advice > if they have the same wheel. What should my settings be in the wheels gain > settings and also what settings are people using to good effect ih theirGPL > settings. > hope someone can help or point me ith the right direction There was a thread on this a week or so ago on this newsgroup, you may want to try a google group search for GPL FF or something for plenty of tips. Basically there are three settings. Latency, Steering Force and Damping. Latency is probably the most important one. Set it to zero & load gpl. Drive down the Monza straight (slowly) weaving from side to side. You'll notice some delay between you turning the wheel and the force. Close gpl & open your core.ini (make sure it's not still called core.ini.sample) and change the latency to, say 0.2. Go back to Monza & see how it feels. The force ideally should arrive at the same time as your input, or very slightly after, but not before. It takes a long time, but it's worth getting right. The Steering Force is an odd one, because you are setting the MAXIMUM force, so a higher number will give a lower force strength, but it's exponential, so you probably won't feel any difference above about 400. between 100-300 is what most use. If you have a 'light' Steering Force (say 300) you probably don't need much damping, so set this to say 10. If you prefer a 'heavy' force (say 100) you will probably want the damping higher, say around 65. The Readme11.txt has loads of advice too. It's in your gpl folder. Malc.
Try this. In windows controller panel set: Overall device gain to 40% Spring gain to 0% Damper gain to 50% In core.ini set: force_feedback_damping = 60 force_feedback_latency = 0.0030 (or whatever you think works) max_steering_torque = 325 It's a good racing setup. You'll feel the wheels loading, but you won't get thrown if you ride the curbs, etc. If you want more ideas, go here: http://www.slottweak.com/gamesettings.htm -- Slot Tweaks & Reviews www.slottweak.com "Kevin Barnes" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:tBf%9.1172$[email hidden]... > I have a Thrustmaster Ferrari FF wheel with which i cant seem to find a > setting to my liking despite experimenting. Can anyone give me some advice > if they have the same wheel. What should my settings be in the wheels gain > settings and also what settings are people using to good effect ih their GPL > settings. > hope someone can help or point me ith the right direction > > Kev Barnes > >
Hi Kevin, Which wheel is it that you have. Is it the older Ferrari wheel is it the new "Thrustmaster F1 Force Feedback" which is a replica of Michael Schumacher's Ferrari wheel. The latter was only released around October last year whereas the former has been around for a couple of years. I only ask because a few weeks ago I bought one of the new replica ones and had no end of trouble getting it set up with GPL, to the point that I took it back to the shop and exchanged it for a Logitech MOMO wheel. I don't know whether it was a fault with my wheel or if I just wasn't doing it right but I couldn't get it to work right. However, due to help from some very nice people in this newsgroup, found out that in trying to find the right settings for the GPL core.ini file, I was making to large a change each time and so not finding the correct setting. If I had figgured this out while I still had the Ferrari wheel I may still have it now. If you read the thread titled "GPL + Force Feedback" which was originated by me there is more explanation there. Regards Russell "Kevin Barnes" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:tBf%9.1172$[email hidden]... > I have a Thrustmaster Ferrari FF wheel with which i cant seem to find a > setting to my liking despite experimenting. Can anyone give me some advice > if they have the same wheel. What should my settings be in the wheels gain > settings and also what settings are people using to good effect ih theirGPL > settings. > hope someone can help or point me ith the right direction > > Kev Barnes > >

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