Spinning out too easy. (Game problem?)

[DislexicTurtle]

So i've been playing for a good while, have a logitech G27 and i enjoy the game very much. I find drifting in the game to be relativly easy, and it has even helped me in my real life drift sessions. Yet whenever i switch stability control off in the game, its as if every car wants to spin out instantly. If i let go of the wheel its instant spin, no matter the time. In real life i've drifted an E36 M3, SC300, Mazdaspeed Miata, F150, FC RX7, E46 325i, E34 M5, and the other few i cant remember. So im no stranger to sliding, and im not stranger to sliding WITHOUT stabality control. In real life none of the cars acted anything like this so why does the game completly throw them off?

Thank you for the help.

[Jok3sta]

you are better off asking in the official assetto corsa forums. My guess is yo have gotten so used to having stability control on that you need to adjust to the cars without it. I never drive with any aids on besides the factory stuff and i dont have problems with spinning out. also check your logitech profiler and make sure that you allow the game to adjust the degrees of rotation. also are you driving for a lap or 2 to bring the tires up to temperature? You cant compare this to real life because in real life you have other variable telling you where the position of the car is. In a real car the steering wheel give you maybe 10% of the feeing of what the car is doing. Most of what you feel is in your body

[Goatboynz]

try drifting with wheel get to 300 with tc off

[KuBr0]

I dont think that the game throws them completely off. I think its rather a combination of perception of how fast you're going and that you actually use a piece of plastic instead of real life pedals ... just my two cents. I certainly can't claim that I have that much experience drifting, but I definitely know that I have a similar feeling about my car sliding ingame vs real-life, but I think its all just the effect of the two factors I'm mentioning above (btw do have G29 modded pedals).

[Marty]

Originally posted by patriot:

I find drifting in the game to be relativly easy, and it has even helped me in my real life drift sessions. Yet whenever i switch stability control off in the game, its as if every car wants to spin out instantly.

Stability control ingame is a basic fake aid adding outside forces to keep the car stable. If you need that then your not really controlling the cars at all. I havent ever tried that aid but its what Stefano from Kunos says it is, so its terribly unrealistic and far from the electronic sc used in modern cars. Its just added in so people really struggling can get around but if you want to get the most out of the game best to turn it off.

If you can drift in real cars then you should have not much trouble in AC assuming you can adjust to the limitations of a home sim setup. If you cant drive cars at all without spinning in AC then it shows your footwork on pedals and steering is quite a bit out. It actually takes proper technique and skills to control a slide with all aids off using pretty much the same inputs as you would in a real car, I still find it easier to drft in real cars but quite doable ingame.

[Mr Deap]

I suppose it's the false perception of the G & the direction your are targeting along with the input delay the screen show, thus make you more prone to mistake.(try Vsync disable for a short session)

Drifting with the GT86 in the game might open a trick to go around issue with the 3d spatial ability as it is a bit under powered.

I'm no pro, but I'm decent at drifting & racing.

[Bigbazz]

Car depending but check you're not trying to drift with slicks/semi slicks. Otherwise check if it's not steering rotation causing the issue, it's not always so easy to judge things in the sim vs a real car, but sometimes lower steering lock can help.

If you find steering lock lower helps then it might be you're not "quite" hitting the ballpark with your steering because it's harder to feel things right with a game vs the real car, and obviously lower steering lock will reduce your reaction times on corrections by default.

With all that said, obviously the sim is not perfect.

[Marty]

Input lag would be a pretty big factor with v-sync, I always run this off and just use a fps cap instead. It tears a bit but reducing an extra couple of frames of lag makes a big difference to controlling a car by feel on the limit. Too much lag and no matter how good you are its kind of like trying to drive when drunk your always going to be too slow to react. If by chance your running a tv for a monitor with vsync on that would be the worst case scenario. Some tvs have a game mode that should reduce lag but they usually still are worse then specific gaming monitors. V-sync simply delays all frames being displayed, sure it looks better and smoother but only hurts your reaction time to what your seeing.

You can probably drive by memory fairly well using v-sync and lots of lag but catching slides would be nearly impossible with too much lag.