my wheel almost hurt me

[DmAnd]

I'm driving the Mazda mx rookie class and everything is going ok.
Decided to switch to a dirt car and a dirt oval. My DD wheel almost hurt me really bad. I could not believe the amount of force that somehow made its way into my wheel base.

Is this some sort of bug?
My wheel is logitech DD 11nm

[Ancient Oldie]

Probably a wrong configuration. You gotta be carefull setting up DD. (I have 16 Nm, in some c(r)as(h)es I just let go of the wheel).

There is a wheelcheck utilty with a youtube tutorial on how to do it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3n3S5_JBok

You can also take a look at Driver61's FFB setups for iRacing: https://driver61.com/sim-racing/iracing-force-feedback-setup/

[DmAnd]

Thanks for the info.
Yeah i'm having a really hard time getting a decent feel from this sim. It is either to weak or to strong, i'll check into the wheelcheck utility. I have heard of it before but i thought it was for entry level setups like belt and gear wheels

[Ancient Oldie]

Originally posted by DmAnd:

Thanks for the info.
Yeah i'm having a really hard time getting a decent feel from this sim. It is either to weak or to strong, i'll check into the wheelcheck utility. I have heard of it before but i thought it was for entry level setups like belt and gear wheels

Make sure you use a per car setup. You can check a box to use a different setup for every car. That also applies to calibration settings.

[Michael-Lawrence]

I believe that your experience with setting up your wheel is a common one.

iRacing is great for what it is. It's an esport, not a game. It's ten years old. It has a huge loyal customer base. They make a lot of money selling each individual car, track, etc. I'm surprised they don't sell the cars part by part, to make it even harder and more expensive.

It really should not be looked at alongside other products that might seem superficially similar. The closest to iRacing I have experience with is ACC, which seems to be slowly fading away as Kunos focuses on the rollout of Assetto Corsa Evo.

Oh, the wheel. Yeah, it's really difficult to set up a wheel in iRacing, and the wheel setup varies a lot for each individual car and for each track. I don't know if this is intentional or not, but that's how it is. For me, it was more effort to set up the cars to actually stay on the track than I wanted to put into it. If you're a dedicated sim racer who wants to be listed on a winners board somewhere, iRacing is it. If not, there are auto racing sim games that are much easier to start with and much more suited to occasional or casual playing.

[B✪✪tsy]

Reminds me of an old Lando Norris stream on Twitch where he was messing around with the wheel Dforce settings in iRacing, he almost broke his wrist when he intentionally crashed! My cheapo T300 racing wheel can't even produce that amount of force (unfortunately). :)

[SAINT WEST]

Originally posted by DmAnd:

Thanks for the info.
Yeah i'm having a really hard time getting a decent feel from this sim. It is either to weak or to strong, i'll check into the wheelcheck utility. I have heard of it before but i thought it was for entry level setups like belt and gear wheels

Can try irFFB. Its an old program for iracing that enhances track feel. Worth a try

[Jbark51]

Originally posted by DmAnd:

I'm driving the Mazda mx rookie class and everything is going ok.
Decided to switch to a dirt car and a dirt oval. My DD wheel almost hurt me really bad. I could not believe the amount of force that somehow made its way into my wheel base.

Is this some sort of bug?
My wheel is logitech DD 11nm

Follow the instructions on the Iracing forums. not the rando-advice from here. (sorry AO) .
There are automatic settings for just about everything now. Just enter your NM of your wheel if its not already detected. Then drive a couple laps and hit the "auto" button and poof, your done. And definitely use a "per car setup" Like AO said.

P.S. if the dirtcar you picked was the ministock, That thing has heavy as hell steering and is the only car i use a lower setting than "auto"


Good luck. JB