Just looked at WGD's link to his Thustmaster ,
First of all ... Why is prince Harry playing racing sims, and why can't he afford a G25/27??!!!
Seriously WGD, I was thinking about how what you now have would feel like in use. If the base is very heavy and stable and the steering column locks out at a fixed angle to give a "solid" feel at the wheel, then I can sort of see that it might be usable.
But, I could not contemplate using it from a sofa or soft chair as shown in the photos, as personally I want my a** planted firmly so that I can exert maximum energy into the steering and brakes, rather than have my input absorbed by the equal and opposite reaction into the soft furnishings. I would have thought that it was very tiring to sit on a soft chair for 40-50 mins and work your limbs in that way, but then I am old and probably totally unfit! I usually have my steering wheel set for something like 180degreees, lock to lock, as an absolute maximum and with a bit of slide I only use 30degrees of movement either way from straight ahead. Any more movement involves the use of too much energy and I am trying to be as green as I can in my life
Preferably I would want to use it from an upright or office type chair and have the wheel coming over the top of a desk, but it did occur to me that if the steering column will drop low enough and you arrange the pedals box to stand up you almost have a proper sim rig that you could drive from the floor, or ideally from a recycled bucket seat. I think I am getting carried away with fantasy here, so I'll stop
As for settings I was amazed by Clive L's settings and will have to try what he suggests. I only recently dipped into the GTL/PnG sim world and simply transferred my GPL settings across. This means that I have all sensitivity settings in PnG at 100% and maybe just 10% dead zone on the brake and clutch ( I also had to re-assign the clutch pot to throttle duties because of years of gas mashing in GPL!!
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Off to try these alien settings now
