Our Wheel Settings - Direct from the Car Handling Team at Codemasters

[justbiglee]

Hi all as promised here are the wheel settings the team use (original post[forums.codemasters.com])

While DiRT Rally is yours to tinker with we don’t want to encourage modifying the force feedback effectsetup.xml and devicesetup.xml files as we've noticed some users are.

Modifying the wheel to use parameters defined for the controller (pad) or replacing incompatible previous game FFB files are likely to compromise your experience of the game. It’s not how the game is made to be played and we can’t offer any support for the consequences of modifying this data and how it will affect the game.

We are totally open to feedback and if you feel that the FFB is not behaving how you would like you need to talk to us about it, together we can make DiRT Rally better for everyone.

For now the team has collated their recommended steering wheel settings for the officially supported wheels, Try these out and let us know what you think below, we're happy to work with you all on getting this right but we would advise against the modification to the xml files we've seen floating around the web.

All Wheels - Recommend using 200 – 540 degree (however 270-400 is the sweet spot)

Vibration & Feedback Settings (Recommended)

http://i.imgur.com/kAQAsan.png

Advanced Wheel Settings (Recommended)

http://i.imgur.com/llvHBd8.png

Logitech G25 & G27

Logitech Profiler Version 5.10.127

Logitech Driver Version 5.10.127

Logitech Profiler Settings

Options -> Global Device Setting

http://i.imgur.com/ZmZUtp5.png

Windows Control Panel -> Game Controllers -> Logitech G25/G27 -> Properties -> Logitech G25/G27 Racing Wheel Properties -> Settings

http://i.imgur.com/3avE5Ko.png

Fanatec Clubsport Base v1 & v2

Driver Version : 205 (BETA)

Firmware version: 53

Windows Control Panel -> Game Controllers

Note: Connect the Fanatec Pedals via USB

http://i.imgur.com/Y8SEyy4.png

Windows Control Panel -> Game Controllers -> ClubSport Wheel -> Properties -> Settings

http://i.imgur.com/Dj5S2ja.png

Fanatec Clubsport Base Device Tuning Menu

SEN (Sensitivity): SEN default: OFF

FF (Force Feedback): FF default: 100

SHO (Shock): SHO default: 100

ABS default: OFF

LIN (Linearity): LIN default: OFF

DEA (Deadzone): DEA default: OFF

DRI (Drift mode): DRI default: OFF

FOR (force): FOR default: 100

SPR (spring): SPR default: 100

DPR (damper): DPR default: 100

We recommend this official Fanatec Clubsport Wheel setup video:

https://youtu.be/cMP-CDJVock

Thrustmaster T500 RS/F1 Racing Wheel

Firmware: 43

Driver: 2.8.16.0

Windows Control Panel -> Game Controllers -> Thrustmaster T500 Racing Wheel -> Properties

Thrustmaster T500 RS Control Panel -> Test Input Tab

http://i.imgur.com/lCp22hT.png

Thrustmaster T500 RS Control Panel -> Gain Settings Tab

http://i.imgur.com/yB2ryjs.png

Set the wheel’s ‘Pedal Set Position’ mode (LED red/green) depending on your pedal orientation.

Hope that helps you guys out - Please let us know what you think.

[Grimmsel]

Thx for the recommendet Settings. Did a test run with your settings with a Fanatec CSWv2.
Here are my first impressions

-Still no FFB effects of about 5° both Sides arround the Center! Its like a FFB deadzone.
The wheel in my hands gives no Feedback while the animated steering wheel in the cockpit view is shaking all the time
-FFB effects strength off the Center are ok. But they feel generic and not based on the situation.
-Wheel wight on gravel or sand is to heavy. It feels like driving on tarmac. It also makes precise counter steering difficult.
-A suggested Wheel rotation range of about 270° is a bad joke. Come on guys. Its 2015, not 2000. In RL I've never driven a car with such a small steering wheel range. It just feels wrong.
Most conciderable wheels since Logitech G25 support 900° rotation.
I ask the dev team for ingame options to set steering lock and steering wheel range indivdiually. This will give everyone the opportunity to setup his preferred steering ratio.

A lot of critics. I know. Allmost the same critics I have to every Codemasters racing game.
Overall, Dirt Rally is a very nice Rally game. This is the Dirt Game I was waiting for since Colin McRae Dirt.

Dirt Rally is good. Really good. But it could be a fantastic with better FFB an wheel support!!

[[Papat]Pirttila]

There is no suspension force feedback at all because that part is missing from effectsetup.xml, there is only right high values and left low values and those two are for pad. It need high and low values for both sides of car and "wheel" -values... But i guess it is better try you settings. :P

[justbiglee]

Thanks for the feedback guys, the handling team will be pouring over it these next few days. It would be really handy to know what wheels you all have.

[1karl1]

G27

[LokiD1978]

just tried some tweaked file a user did of mine over at RD, and hes smashed the feeling to be honest, best i think your gonna get, until the devs officially sort it out.

now i can start playing..

look in my FFB thread for the code.

[john1231]

pleaaasseee add support for the fanatec porsche GT3v2 wheel with CSR Eltie Pedals and TH8A shifter!

[Del-Dredd]

Those settings you posted are no good without me even trying them, would be to stiff and not real FFB.

Racing Sims have not used the Spring, Damper or Centering spring strength above 0 for years for full effect FFB derived from what the actual car wheels and suspension are doing / feeling.

Those settings are for canned effects that have no relation to the physics of the car whatsoever. Ok for an Arcade game but not a Simulator.

I never use Logi Profiler unless for some arcade game with poor wheel support.

My standard windows settings, used since rFactor 1 and Historix Mod, works great in all sims with good feedback.

Combined pedals No

Degree of Rotation 330 (usually 900 in any good Sim)

Enable Force Feedback Ticked

Overall Effects Strength 100

Spring Effect Strength 0

Damper Effect Strength 0

Thats for G25 by way.

[Frankie_FIN]

justbiglee の投稿を引用：

Thanks for the feedback guys, the handling team will be pouring over it these next few days. It would be really handy to know what wheels you all have.

Fanatec GT3RSv2 + ClubSport Pedals + CSR Shifter

[Killerkartoffel]

We will never get realistic steering lock and ffb if they focus on gamepad and cheap 270 deg wheels.

[Mr Nice]

G25,Thanks for listening to our opinions.

[Max Veloce]

justbiglee の投稿を引用：

All Wheels - Recommend using 200 – 540 degree (however 270-400 is the sweet spot)

come on now, you give us a potentially great game, cars / tracks / gfx are all up there, the physics is pretty decent, and you expect us to drive with 2001 controller steup from back when the only wheels you could buy had 270 degree lock...

please stop pissing about, take the comments many users are making seriously and have a proper rethink on the steering front, get your guys some proper 900+ degree wheels to try, have them go play a few other games which work properly with them(assetto corsa, rfactor2 etc) and get it sorted so we can use 900 lock without it feeling like we're trying to steer a supertanker

its honestly one major thing stopping recent codemasters titles having a chance of being taken seriously, because you keep insisting on using the same darn gokart steering setup over and over again :(


Seriously these new stages are frankly brilliant, don't waste all that hard work by not doing the steering to the same standard!

[garytc78]

G27

[Pilot McCane]

As eveyone seems to agree Dirt Rally has very poor FFB and unrealsitic wheel effects, this is also true on the Fanatec CSR... which is goodish on Dirt 3 CE, tho' tarmac is poor there, at least it is with the CSR. GRID Autosport has passable FFB effects, but could be greatly improved and cannot not be favourably compared to other simulation games (GTR, rFactor, RBR etc.) in the FFB department. In short, Dirt Rally wheel support must be excellent and regarded as a centtral part of the game, which seems to exibit so much fantastic potential in other areas.

[Joy]

G27 with Leo Bodnar's Pedals Adapter here.

[Derinahon]

Code Masters - actually your game engine fully supports what we all want. No one want's to amend the overal settings for their wheel when moving from game to game (Logitec does this automatically I know) - These settings are much closer to other DiRT games - try it please: http://www.racedepartment.com/threads/ffb-tweak-no-void.104688/