just the content is restricted. Also rF2 physics haven't basically changed in the last half year, S397 has worked on DX11 mostly, so the physics you get in the demo are almost 100% certainly the same as in the main game. Besides it would make no sense at all to market your game by "worsening" the physics in the demo, a demo is supposed to give a good picture of what you get.
With other games developing and updating their FFB and physics from time to time, I'm not so convinced by that, since the loading screen does seem to indicate that it's a 2015 build. If that is the case though then that's disappointing.
then it should feel five times weaker on your wheel
To me, that paints the game in an extremely bad light. Catering to the actual wheel and not what the real racing car is supposed to get is, in my eyes, considerably less realistic and makes your argument quite bewildering.
Many other sims try to "fake" the output to weak wheels like G27 by outputting a stronger force all the time - this is of course unrealistic, and gives a less nuanced FFB.
Less nuanced how? The biggest reason I made this thread was because, while playing it, the FFB felt horrendously lacking in any nuance whatsoever, in fact feeling dead and constant all the time.
AC even went as far as using totally unrealistic self aligning torque (SAT) values, which only recently they somewhat corrected.
This makes me question the value of faux realism as a whole in simracing, frankly. If the goal is to accurately show what the car is like, then that is a considerably better approach than what you're saying rF2 is doing.
The other, better option is to buy a modern wheel with stronger FFB (most Thrustmaster wheels produce approximately 2x the force of a G27).
Since the game itself is already quite expensive even on sale, a TM wheel is completely and utterly out of my reach at the moment. The recommended ones, in fact, cost more than 120% of my monthly salary.
You have some driver or setting somewhere that is screwed-up. rF2 and AMS both have the best feeling of natural weight and FFB fidelity of any racing sim when the wheel is configured and working properly.
I've explicitly checked just now and the drivers are completely fine, as is the wheel itself.
but unless you plan to give-up completely, buy these titles while they are on sale and you will be very happy when you get your wheel issues sorted.
Seeing as the wheel is fine after doing a few checks, the game is certainly too expensive even on sale, after reading
Demo is same build as the full game
I'm ready to give up. Reporting my own thread to request its closure.
