Steering wheel settings

[Svein Krogstad]

I have a Logitech G29 and quickly got it working without any issues. However the steering is extremely stiff, it's hard to make anything but small adjustments even with FFB turned all the way down. Is there a fix for this or is it genuinely this hard to drive a bus?

[Jocek]

I think you should use your keyboard. The game is very arcade, no cockpit camera, and the levels can be completed in few hours. Not worth the time to configure your steering wheel. You need 5 buttons, acceleration, left, right, turning indicator and doors, thats all.

[YorkyPudsy]

I'm having similar issues with the Logitech G29.

As Jocek says, this game is more arcadey/simpler than some other games from the same publisher, but it looks like a nice little distraction for what it is. It's cetainly better with the wheel than with the keyboard, so read on for my findings so far...


At first, I couldn't get the game to recognise any input from my wheel... it was listred as a control option, and I chose it, but then I couldn't map any axes, nor control the bus. I eventually unplugged my other various controllers/joysticks & it started working.

Strangely, the game seems to keep resetting my custom control mappings each time I launch it, so I gave in & set up a LGS profile mapped to the default keyboard controls!


The main issue though...
The wheel is very hard to turn. Centring seems to be stuck on a very high setting, with no way to change it.

I've tried the "centring" toggle in LGS, along with various settings for the Spring Strength. Unfortunately, that seems to be all we can tweak in LGS (vs. the old Logitech Profiler which was previously available to eg. G27 users). It does let you alter the force (potentially turn it to zero), but it only works in the game's menu. As soon as you launch into a level, the fixed extra-strong centring force returns!

However, the full 900 degree wheel range seems fine for the game, if only the centring force could be reduced.


I have managed to find a couple of tweaks you can make to improve matters though...

- In the game options, set "Steering Non-Linearity" to 0. This seems to give a 1:1 turning effect? Certainly, increasing it towards 100% makes the bus barely turn at all until the wheel nears full lock.

- I haven't yet tried but I suspect setting the linearity ("g_steering_func_param") to negative values (via "My Documents\Bus Driver\config.cfg") might make it even more sensitive near the centre position, which might help reduce the need to turn against the strong force.

- Also in "config.cfg" there is a value g_joy_axis_ff "1". Setting this to anything else seems to completely disable all forces on the wheel (including the strong centring force & the rumble from collisions etc.) Presumably it is telling the game which controller axis number to apply the force to. So, if you don't care about the collision effects, you could just set that to eg. 0, and the wheel becomes loose. I haven't yet tried if that can be combined with a centring setting in LGS, which might give just a little resistance, to feel more natural.

- I've tried tweaking various other settings in "config.cfg", to no avail unfortunately. I noticed there were 3 settings that looked promising...
"g_joy_ff_gain" correlate to "FFB gain" in the game's settings
"i_feedback" I guess is the FFB on/off toggle in the game's settings
"i_force_gain" seemed promising & I thought it might allow us to tweak the centring force, but I've tried 0 & various other +ve/-ve numbers & it seems to make no difference.


BTW while there's no "cockpit" camera, the bumper cam is certainly better than the default chase cam. It's just annoying having to toggle the view each level, since it doesn't seem to remember your preference.


If anyone manages to build on my above findings & work out some way to reduce the centring force in the game with the G29 (without turning it off completely), I'd love to hear how!
Thanks!