Thanks Matteo, I am not aware that I am using a G25 profiler, I just use them "out of the box" as they come.
And when I turn my G2X wheel(s) more than 90 deg it (They) becomes heavier to turn.
There is a sort of "step" where the wheel becomes harder to turn after 90 deg turn.
I have FFB at very low level, just a bit of self centre is all I want.
I don't really mind as I don't want to be turning the wheel much more than that anyway.
Maybe 120 deg would be nice, but not any more than that.
I have to set the in game steering angle to 15 deg or it is much too high geared
go-kart style.
Matt, I should understand that you never modified your G25/27 profiler since you bought them. Now, if you didn't, the default value is set on 300° of rotation.
Now, your case reflect what I told to Clive in my example of using 300°, with the difference that you used 15 deg of steer lock in game, instead of Clive's 34.5. So, comparing these 2 case, you were surely in a better condition than Clive, cause his wheel was really ULTRA ULTRA and ULTRA AGAIN... RESPONSIVE.
Now, I invite you to open your G25 profiler, and go to the "Global Device Settings" menù.
Leave the first 3 voices (Force feedback device settings) as they should be setted by default (100%).
Do NOT ENABLE the Spring centering strenght, cause GTR2 will do it automatically.
Than you have another sub-menu (Steering wheel settings). Leave the combined pedal box UNTICKED. Than at the voice "Degrees of rotation", put the value at 708° (or 706°... I don't remember which one is possible).
Leave the box "Allow game to adjust settings" UNTICKED, than apply the changes and close your profiler.
The effect you were feeling about the wheel, is due only to low rotation degrees, and a too high steer lock in game. Now, I can assure you, that even if you set the rotation degree up to 700° you will never use all the 350° at your disposal to the left or to the right. You will use always less than half of it even to do a corner with an angle of 90° at a speed near 65-70 km/h.
The only issue is when you're leaving the garage. As in real life, it's normal that if you're parking the car, you will exploit all the 900° to do a manouvre at a very low speed, or your car will simply not turn at all. Once you leave your garage, I bet that you never used 900° to do any kind of corner around 60/70 km/h with all your wheel turned til it locks, or you would have surely crashed into the wall! In GTR2 is exactly the same, but with the difference that you can adjust the steer lock to be able to turn even with a wheel that have only 300°.
When I say to you that I use 700° on my profiler, that means that physically, I never use more than 150° to do any kind of corner, so in reality, I'm exploiting only 300° physically... If I'm racing at MonteCarlo, I would just increase about 1 or 2 deg. the steer lock in game to have less problem when I do the Loews, but this is the only case in which I use more steer lock than it would be needed in every other place! I just don't like to cross my arms to do such a corner, and I can exploit this little help in game not to be bothered by this kind of issue.
So, if you want to follow what I said, try to use this settings for the next race.
Put the rotation degrees at 708° on G25 profiler, than go into the game, and use a range between 26 and 29 of steer lock for Capris and BMW, that have the max steer lock at 34.5
Change the steer lock in a range between 21 and 24 if you're going to use the Porsche, cause it get a max steer lock fixed at 28.5. These are the right range to use for 708° on these cars.
DO NOT USE the Speed sensitive steering in game! If you do it, the more you increase the %, the more you will have to turn your wheel. Some italians use the speed sensitive steering at a low value (usually from 10 to 20%), and this will help you slightly more to have less tyre wear, but you will have to turn your wheel a little more than you do normally especially for the fast corners. It feels a bit unnatural to me, and it doesn't change the things too much about the tyre wear.
I hope to have been clear Matt
