UKGTR Season 11 - Barcelona (GP) - Dec 13

[Gazza49er]

Made to many mistakes in Qually but 6th wasn't to bad.

Got passed Lorenzo straight away   ( were you asleep lol or maybe wrong gear?? )

Took me a few laps to get into it and TT and Simon got away a little then the rain came, saw TT and Simon go straight for the pits but i decided to stay out as i found the grip still there, even when there was a lot of spray my car felt good just had to be a little careful at the final corner. Then the rain stopped and i thought bingo I'm in with a good shout here but then the rain started again and i thought it would stay this time but again the grip wasn't to bad so stayed out and was obviously the right call as it stopped again.

When it was damp i was keeping Jon in sight but as it dried he got away.

After pit stop it was quite a lonely race as i had i good gap from guys behind and i was never gunna catch Jon and Jayblue so just cruised really but still pulling away from the guys behind  
I never really had to push at all in this race which was nice and i could of gone faster but just wanted a good finish so backed off but then got a gift from Jon blowing his engine and ended with a great 2nd.

Grats both podiums.

[Lorenzo Galluzzi]

Got passed Lorenzo straight away   ( were you asleep lol or maybe wrong gear?? )

Wrong gear..

[spanner]

Its started a few weeks ago but havent noticed it in iRacing yet.Does anyone know about taking the DFP wheel apart? Dont really want to buy another wheel at this stage

I just map the shifters to keys using Joy2Key (or the Profiler), then the double hits go away. Every Logitech wheel I've ever used eventually had this problem - the switches just aren't debounced properly in the electronics.

Lol well nows the time to get off my arse and try it out then before my next race on sunday! Do you mean the logitech profiler? i'll have a play tonight. I think iRacing has this built in as i noticed something in one of the configs to disallow double shifts.

[Legzy]

I just map the shifters to keys using Joy2Key (or the Profiler), then the double hits go away. Every Logitech wheel I've ever used eventually had this problem - the switches just aren't debounced properly in the electronics.

Lol well nows the time to get off my arse and try it out then before my next race on sunday! Do you mean the logitech profiler? i'll have a play tonight. I think iRacing has this built in as i noticed something in one of the configs to disallow double shifts.

Be warned, the logitech profiler can cause its own 'special effects'.
Don't think I've heard anything negative about Joy2Key.

[Clive Loynes]

Remapping buttons will take seconds.

Reprogramming brain to use thumb instead of finger could take me six months. 

Have you got the photos yet spanner?

[picnic]

Don't think I've heard anything negative about Joy2Key.

I love a challenge How about - how the hell do you know which controller button is which so you can map them. I know which button I want to use, it's that one here on my wheel. But is that button 1, 2, 3 ..... 32? It needs a press controller button, press what you want it to do feature. I'm now hoping you're all going to shout at once and tell me the error of my ways 

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

I love a challenge How about - how the hell do you know which controller button is which so you can map them. I know which button I want to use, it's that one here on my wheel. But is that button 1, 2, 3 ..... 32? It needs a press controller button, press what you want it to do feature. I'm now hoping you're all going to shout at once and tell me the error of my ways 

For the most part the Profiler will show you what is what; for the remainder I just map some stuff in Joy2Key and fire up Notepad, and see what produces what. Bit fiddly but it's a one off exercise.

[spanner]

Err.. thinking about this, wont this still allow me to double shift? Just mapping it to a key then mapping that to the wheel wont stop it from thinking its click it twice? 

[ad1980]

ma game went mental on me  everytime i went to join the race it was saying i was in 1st and all i could see was sky 

Bad luck Ad. I've had that problem before. I'm sure you're luck will improve 

thanks mate , i'm def not gonne give up    my aim this season is to complete a race internet in the north of scotland is quite shocking at times maybe this be ma prob

[Clive Loynes]

Err.. thinking about this, wont this still allow me to double shift? Just mapping it to a key then mapping that to the wheel wont stop it from thinking its click it twice? 

I guess that the double click is a faulty switch.  If you map the gear change to the Joypad switch, which what I think is being suggested then that is a different switch mechanism all together.  You can see on the photos that I sent that the joypad brings a piece of conductive rubber into contact with an area of the circuit board that has two close but separate tracks on it.  The conductive rubber makes the connection.

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

Err.. thinking about this, wont this still allow me to double shift? Just mapping it to a key then mapping that to the wheel wont stop it from thinking its click it twice? 

No, because there's a repeat delay (just like a keyboard). IMHO the switches aren't inherently faulty, but they (perhaps intentionally) set the debouncing delay in the hardware to quite short, which works okay when the switchgear is new, but unsuitable after a few months of use. When you map it as a key, the software effectively does additional debouncing.

[spanner]

Oops sorry Clive it just clicked. I dont think it was suggested to map it to one of the other buttons on the wheel, but to map the paddle to a key on the keyboard which youve assigned in game to an upshift.

Thanks Dave, thought there was something like that so you could choose the strike rate for the key so it would ignore any other presses.

[Clive Loynes]

Ah, I get it now.  A useful ploy.

From your initial description it isn't clear if the extra upshifts are associated with a shift of your own or if they just happen randomly.

If they are associated with a shift of yours then Dave's de-bouncing should work for a time.  If they come out of the blue then my money is on the switch just falling apart.  My previous Logitech wheel did this to me on down-shifts which really did cause havoc.

[spanner]

It only happens when go to upshift. Never on its own thankgod!

[goldtop]

Isn't there something you can edit in your plr to overcome this double shifting? Some measure which increases the gap by a few ms between recognising shift commands.

Or has that squirrel given me the slip again