PrestoGP rFactor2 Help Thread

[Nicolas Delamare]

What do you mean by "steering torque"? I don't understand "torque" !

 

[Martin Oconnor]

after some reading some reviews I think I will go for this
http://www.ebuyer.com/705200-msi-gt...-displayport-pci-e-graphics-gtx-960-gaming-4g

 

[David Turnbull]

Steering torque minimum":0.08,
"Steering torque minimum#":"Minimum torque to apply in either direction to overcome steering wheel's 'FFB deadzone' caused by friction",

thats the relevant line in the controller.json, it helps tighten up the centre of the wheel and takes away the mechanical deadzone, that setting is for my wheel g25 so youll need to find yours, up or down slightly and give it a try.

 

[Nicolas Delamare]

Right now it's set on "0", your value of course doesn't change anything !
There's a lot of settings about steering on that file, "resistance coefficient" seems to be interesting...

 

[Dino Paolini]

after some reading some reviews I think I will go for this
http://www.ebuyer.com/705200-msi-gt...-displayport-pci-e-graphics-gtx-960-gaming-4g

It's a good choice. Either the MSI Gaming or the ASUS Strix or the Gigabyte Windforce models will do. All 3 use excellent coolers. I have an Asus Strix 970 myself atm

The reason why I woudn't recommend the AMD's atm is not the performance with rf2, since they are actually performing like they should since a certain driver update last year. But it's the fact that these still use older much less energy efficient technology compared to the current NVIDIA's.

 

[Dino Paolini]

Right now it's set on "0", your value of course doesn't change anything !
There's a lot of settings about steering on that file, "resistance coefficient" seems to be interesting...

There shoudn't be input lag now if it wasn't there before already. But just in case, have you checked your fps?

 

[Nicolas Delamare]

But just in case, have you checked your fps?

I never show FPS during my games, but as you tell me to check it, I've just done it right now: it's about 100 FPS with both gamepad and wheel.
I've also tried all the Vsync settings (without, Video, software and GPU) but it's the same.

 

[Sean Greenlaw]

It isn't anything left you have set for gamepad ? Specifically for steering.

Like speed sensitive steering ? And set type to wheel etc instead of pad.

Only other things I can think of have you got both in game degrees and in profiler set to same thing ? Try different USB socket in rear of mobo.

http://isiforums.net/f/showthread.p...-for-rFactor-2-The-key-to-being-in-the-Zone-D

This is the thread that explains the steering torque minimum that David mentioned, but this is just to take the play out of your wheels gear teeth etc this does make a good difference to feel from wheel although yours sounds like a separate problem.

 

[David Turnbull]

on the ISI Forum you say it feels like a mechanical deadzone, this is why I mentioned torque minimum, if you find your correct setting it will take away that deadzone, my setting is 0.08, what you want is to set the torque minimum and test it by going to track, sit still in the pit, you want the wheel to oscillate (moves back and forth), once you have that start coming down the numbers until you get it just slightly under the point where it oscillates(side to side) this will mean the forces are acting close to the centre of the wheel and will take away that mechanical deadzone you feel.

Nobody can tell you the numbers to set it to, it's a wheel specific setting, I'd say start at 0.10 and work down in steps 0.09-0.08 and so on until you find the right balance.

 

[Nicolas Delamare]

I've tried a rear USB socket: the same !
I've set profiler degrees to 40°, 200° and even 540°: the same !

It seems that the steering rate set on 1% (the minimum) has a good impact, it was on 21% before.

 

[Sean Greenlaw]

If steering rate is affecting feeling it must be thinking pad or keyboard.
I'm sure that settings is only for pad or keyboard.

 

[David Turnbull]

may be best you just delete your controller.json (back it up somewhere) let the game create a new one, then detect your wheel in the controller options in game.

 

[Nicolas Delamare]

Ok but are you sure it's the right order ? I mean,when I plugged my wheel for the 1st time I click on Detect to load the right .json file ( Logitech Driving Force GT USB) but after have modified some input I've save it as another name (DFGT), so which one I must delete ?
And how is the game supposed to create a new .json, I don't know how...

 

[Nicolas Delamare]

Other issue: sometimes (right now for example) the wheel is in neutral position when it's turned to the left, very frutrating ! And I have to say that it's a secondhand product (only 69.99€).

 

[David Turnbull]

https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/threads/logitech-driving-force-gt-off-center-problems.129272/

sounds like something similar, maybe try what the guy in the last post mentions.

 

[Martin Oconnor]

Steering torque minimum":0.08,
"Steering torque minimum#":"Minimum torque to apply in either direction to overcome steering wheel's 'FFB deadzone' caused by friction",

that's the relevant line in the controller.json, it helps tighten up the centre of the wheel and takes away the mechanical deadzone, that setting is for my wheel g25 so youll need to find yours, up or down slightly and give it a try.

just had a look at my json file for the first time.i have a g27 and thought I would try this but do I change the 0 to 0.08 at the top blue line in the pic or the one below it but theres no numbers in the one below it.now I know its all a preference thing but would still like to try it out.as I've never been that impressed with my wheel setup and ffb etc with rf2 tbh

 

[David Turnbull]

yes, just change the top line to whatever works for your wheel, you might need to try a few times to get it right but it makes a huge diffrence when you do

 

[Nicolas Delamare]

So after more laps that afternoon I start to be more confident on the throttle and the steering, and more cautious on the brakes ! My PB on Melbourne is 1.35.xxx.
The pleasure increases laps after laps and I even think that the "deadzone issue" I have is part of the new sensations which I've never had before.
In fact the car do react when I slightly turn the wheel (but maybe not as I'd have wanted), and so I'm more used to all of that.
My footwork was of course very bad at the beginning Much more accurate on that too.

PS: the steering torque value is now on...0.08 !

 

[Peter Decker]

Hardware help for my 3 year old rig!

I seem to need some gfx card upgrade with 3 monitors support. My current GTX 570 just support 2 monitors simultaneously but is sufficient for that (not for max settings but enough) but when using the 3rd monitor on onboard intel HD 4000 chipset together with the software plugin SoftTH, I get fps drop from 100+ to around 60 (If I put a full screen web browser window over it ). Everything on lowest and auto fps at 60.

So I think the CPU, i5 3570K is enough. I just need a good enough gfx card with 3 monitor support.

What do you guys think? Could there be some hidden gfx settings to try?

Melbourne this Wednesday is going to be interesting - to adapt to one monitor and larger FOV takes time

 

[Sean Greenlaw]

What about using resolution less than native size for triples ?
Or running game windowed mode ?