Damned thing lost my reply. (I made it nice and proper too. wasted 30 minutes of typing!!!!)
SO I will be brief, Have any of you managed to plug straight into rFactor, be it stock install or modded to hell. Select a car, track and just start out without having to adjust this and that? Does this game have **** for base settings? I cant even get some cars to go straight. I end up rubberbanding into a spin out from constantly trying to center my car straight down the road. Also, this is my fav. I have noticed for the last 2 years I and many others have excessive difficulty in corners. Or should I say, at corners, sometimes we dont quite make it in to them. I can be in thee apex of all apexes, at a more than safe speed to enter. And never enter. I first thought , well they call it a sim so I just suck . But then reality check sets into play. "wait a minute didnt I pay for college and rent playing GranTurismo for $500 a race?" I immediately looked from a front-rearward facing cam so I could see the wheels. They are in fact turning, but the car is just on ice in the front. Nothing, when it doesnt turn, it DONT TURN, I have plowed into outter edges at speeds sub 50mph in giant gentle sweeping turns. Not just hairpins. Another thing about the turning, this was the most important for me to ask too but f dat too tired to massive that again. During your entire time playing rFactor, have any of you experienced this. Approaching a turn, a bit too hot, you loose it, you start to fight to regain control, your cars ass goes out one way, say to the right. SO you now counter your ass off to the right, only to find that you are turning even more so now to the left than before. And you felt like that counter steer helped the spin succeed at spinning. So you remake that situation again. You come in hot , lose it, counter, BUT THIS TIME counter against your logic. Only to find that turning to the left ,makes the nose turn well into the right, nullifying your spin. Or, been in a low speed drift that wrecks in to what you thought would be a burn out back into action, only to find that you are spinning the wrong direction for some reason. I now purposely turn the wrong way when I end up in a "bad balance point". If I were to start out from a dead stop and drop clutch into 1st and opp lock to the right, chances are that it will just get me in a clockwise doughnut. Now If I counter clock wise on my wheel you would think that would stop it right? Well in many of my occasions, it just made the spinning tighter and faster. It would take one more counter, a counter-counter, turning back to the right, would then slow the spinning and rotational forces to a way out of it, back to driving normal motion.
Thats just too freaking odd for me. The players even say things you never hear in any other game either, like " dont turn to far or you wont turn at all". Odd
I have taken all 3 wheels and did no settings change test on some rival technology games. NFSU2, NFSS, NFSC,NFSTR,GTR2,EVOR,GSC,GRid,dirt3,racer,and slrr. All but Grid and their stupid dynamic head /eyeball/camera/location wiggle~move around crap just ruins tha game for me to try to get used to it all over again. But all the other games, start right up, and will have you running without changing any setting , all the while giving you a more responsive, and alert sensation through the wheel then I think I will ever be able to get through my wheel.
I dont know what to do, i swore I went through the steps line by line making sure to do all the things needed. And wouldnt you know my rF wouldnt load, so I took a full day tring to find my settings to get it to reboot. But Im sure thats my fault, with my 60GB rFactor folder.
Other than this, I like how responsive and smooth it gets once I start going around corners.