I've not driven AC in a while so fired it up tonight.
This Ferrari 312T drives really nicely and feels great.
But the FF vibrations are terrible. If I understeer a bit, brrrrrr... lock up the tyres, brrrrr... it feels very canned on my G25 wheel.
All the effects are off, FF damping and filtering are at 50% from 0% and the vibrations still persist.
It's really sad to say but it ruins the entire experience, and I can't imagine these forces are real or come from some real tyre behaviour. OK I've only ever driven road car tyres on road cars in anger, but when I lock up it's always been super smooth and light, not a high frequency vibration.
The same with some understeer, or extreme slip angles... never noticed almost identical frequency vibrations here to when locking up as above. Yes I get vibration IRL, but it's not something I'd feel through my steering wheel so much... a subtle damped rubber type vibration, but not the clattery type I get.
Is AC using some canned effects over it's primary FF channel still? Using DirectPlay/DirectX effects to do some primary forces? Or are some of the effects still active even when at 0%?
Is there any way to log the actual Fy * scrub axis rack forces in AC so I can see where exactly these forces are coming from?
All I can guess is the tyre CP is flapping at high frequency and causing an Mz oscillation, but it's weird why the frequency just feels so static and samey, and has no subtitles and dynamics.
Hmmmm
Dave
This Ferrari 312T drives really nicely and feels great.
But the FF vibrations are terrible. If I understeer a bit, brrrrrr... lock up the tyres, brrrrr... it feels very canned on my G25 wheel.
All the effects are off, FF damping and filtering are at 50% from 0% and the vibrations still persist.
It's really sad to say but it ruins the entire experience, and I can't imagine these forces are real or come from some real tyre behaviour. OK I've only ever driven road car tyres on road cars in anger, but when I lock up it's always been super smooth and light, not a high frequency vibration.
The same with some understeer, or extreme slip angles... never noticed almost identical frequency vibrations here to when locking up as above. Yes I get vibration IRL, but it's not something I'd feel through my steering wheel so much... a subtle damped rubber type vibration, but not the clattery type I get.
Is AC using some canned effects over it's primary FF channel still? Using DirectPlay/DirectX effects to do some primary forces? Or are some of the effects still active even when at 0%?
Is there any way to log the actual Fy * scrub axis rack forces in AC so I can see where exactly these forces are coming from?
All I can guess is the tyre CP is flapping at high frequency and causing an Mz oscillation, but it's weird why the frequency just feels so static and samey, and has no subtitles and dynamics.
Hmmmm
Dave