Thanks for all of the suggestions.
I had a race on Sunday evening with UKGPL and although the strength of the FF was slightly greater than I had been used to ( easy to fix
) I had zero issues in a 50 minute race at St Jovite, which is a track that will test any steering system!!
I therefore concluded that whatever is amiss it is somewhere within the Logitech-GTL interface.
I have spent about an hour on the server at Dundrod, starting from where I was yesterday and dozens of restarts from the pits to Leatherstown Corner where the anomaly really shows itself.
Once again, despite having negotiated the fast curves quite happily, the car simply ploughed straight on at the first proper corner??!! I ran it a couple of times at various approach speeds and the result was the same
First I tried Tony's "USB Controller" suggestion and we get an almost duplicate of the Logitech software options ( I did check, and changing parameters in either Logitech or the Win USB window adjusts values in the other ) Ran through all of the variables and tweaked the values also confirmed that the dual axis pedal box was unticked, as I am sure that it has been for many years.
Returned to Dundrod and the results were no different?? It made me wonder if it was actually the car setup, although that did seem a little unlikely given that everything appeared to be working on the controller setup. Tried a few adjustments to diff/toe in/toe out/ shocks/castor angle etc. simply to see if there was any discernible difference.....nope!!!
OK lets go through the CONTROLS menu and see if there is anything that looks suspect in there.
Ran through all of the SENSITIVITY/DEAD ZONE/EFFICIENCY etc and set them at max values. Obviously the SHIFT UP/SHIFT DOWN was OK as I had used that on the way to Leatherstown Corner.
Nothing looked particularly odd except that the brake accelerator sensitivity was at 69%??, not something I can ever recall adjusting, so I set that back at 100%
Still no joy
, the sensation at the corner was as if someone had placed a toboggan under the front axle lifting the wheels clear of the ground. the car showed zero inclination to turn and simply went straight ahead until it stopped even with full RH lock applied ………….very odd?
I decided to go through every single "in game setting" and doublecheck/reset each one to be sure that there were no anomalies.
Oddly, I did come across the boxes where the BRAKE and CLUTCH functions are allocated ( not something that I had looked at since the Win10 update) and when I went through the allocation process, highlighting the function and depressing the relevant pedal/button, it became apparent that these functions had been reset to default and not to the correct axis within my G25 setup. Of course, the Logitech Profiler and the USB pages indicated that the pedals were working correctly, but GTL was not accepting those inputs??
I correctly assigned those values and returned to the Dundrod pits for yet another run ( I know that start finish straight very well by now!!
)
This time we had steering response, and although TBH I made a total horlicks of the corner, we were in danger of successfully negotiating that hurdle at Leatherstown for the first time since the update
Looking back at this I am still slightly mystified. The steering parameter within GTL was correct, and therefore I should have expected the front wheels to try and turn the nose of the car at whatever speed I arrived at the corner. It certainly "felt" as if the brakes were slowing me on the approach to Leatherstown, (but I was downshifting too, so maybe???) and I would have judged my speed as slow enough to make the corner quite safely and sweep through. Plus, I am sure that on the few rare occasions where I squeaked around that corner at walking pace, I was checking the brake temps later in the lap and they showed as having some temp??!!
Anyhoo, re-setting the BRAKE and CLUTCH channels appears to have resolved this dilemma, although I cannot quite see how that manifested itself as a STEERING issue.
Whatever semi workable setup I had from Friday is now so totally trashed and modified that I will have to start again from the default. Plus I need to adjust the DEAD ZONES and SENSITIVITY etc back to a comfortable level. At least we have a month to find some time for that little exercise.
BTW, for what it is worth I was getting a 4:20'ish lap time on full tanks before Win 10 put a spanner into the steering. This would indicate a race length of 35 laps approaching 2.5 hours?? Am I exceptionally slow, or is it really going to be an all night race?? also occurs to me that Tony might have arranged this race to go into the night?
As far as the pitstops are concerned, can I throw in an observation here...…
Back in the day, there would have been NO pit lane speed limit and each drivers self preservation instincts would have dictated his entry and exit speeds from the pits. Also cars passing the pits would have kept well to the left to give room for emerging cars. Just wonder if having a limiter free pits might add an extra bit of spice? You will still have to get slow enough to engage your pit crew AND avoid other cars entering/exiting the pit at speed, plus cars will not emerge onto the track at walking pace, they will at least have picked up some speed as they rejoin? Each driver would still be responsible for their own "safe" conduct.
Just a thought, having spent so much time amongst those canvas pits recently.
