Steering wheel and pedals settings suggestions?

[isamu99]

Hello gentlemen. This is in regards to NFS Shift:

I finally started playing NFS Shift for the very first time only an hour ago. It seems like a good game so far. But I am having trouble finding a good setting for my steering wheel and my pedals. My steering wheel is the ECCI 7000 FFB wheel with 900 degrees rotation. The pedals are Cannon CST triple pedal set.

I need to mention that I am coming from playing mostly codemasters games, specifically GRID and F1.

I don't remember what I left my control settings at in Shift, but the steering wheel feels off. I dunno, kinda like understeer I guess? But the brakes...oh man, they feel terrible. The cars brakes are locking up way to early and once they do, the car just slides into the wall.

Can someone PLEASE give suggest good control settings for this game? Where should I set the sensitivity at for the steering wheel, brakes and gas pedals? What the heck is "Speed steering sensitivity", and what level should I put this? What is the saturation setting called in the menus?

Finally, the force feedback is, kinda weird. I can feel the car going over rumble strips and what not, but collisions with other cars doesn't yield any FFB effects at all. Is there a way to adjust this in an ini file or something?

Please let me know guys, as I'm very new to this game.

[isamu99]

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[isamu99]

Hello and thanks for the reply djotefsoup. My replies are below:



Couple things:

* I find a lot of people's settings frankly undrivable :) especially given that you are using a wheel with what has - probably - some radically different drivers and options to control it, and a much larger motor, you might have to do some experimentation on your own here.

Yeah, I think you might be right. However, the drivers for my ECCI 7000 are just your generic Immersion DirectInput drivers, which are pretty much used in all the other PC racing wheels. Nothing special about them.


* There is a bug in stock Shift to do with brake bias, it's set purely by brake power, not the brake bias range. So a lot of turns tend to head into 'handbrake turn' territory as the more powerful rear brakes take hold.

YES!!! That is *exactly* what is happening!

You can use Overhaul or Sharp mod to fix this, and I believe there might be an older "community patch" version of the mod around somewhere which only fixes pure bugs such as this rather than making bigger changes as Overhaul and Sharp do.

I have read a lot about the overhaul mod and the sharp mod. I personally am not interested in using them after reading what changes they make. They remove a lot of the things in the game I find rather enjoyable, such as the over the top trackside scenary, the shaky-cam, and the black and white broken bones effect when you collide with something. However, I am most definitely interested in the brake bias bug community fix! If you or anyone else happen to find this community patch that fixes this, please provide a link. It would be much appreciated.

* There's a decent explanation of what settings actually do over here (http://www.needforspeed.com/post/guide-shift-settings).

That helps a lot, thank you. According to that guide, I'm thinking I may need to tweak the sensitivity of the steering and increase back to around 50% from the 30% I had it at before. Keep in mind, that I am NOT using the full 900 degree lock of my ECCI 7000 wheel. I am using DI View/DX Tweak v2 to limit the virtual rotation down to about 300 degrees(my personal comfort zone for most racing games). Therefore, that being the case, where do you suggest I put my sensitivity for steering, speed sensitivity, and rotational lock at in Shift?


* Can I ask what wheel profile you are selecting?

In the game's menu? It's at "Custom"

I seem to remember that the stock "Custom Wheel" profile had a bad damper value (designed for gamepads) but I think they fixed that at 1.01.

Hmm, well, I just checked my exe and it is indeed up to date at 1.02. Still, should I continue to use the "Custom" profile in your opinion? Or some other one?

try the options > controller settings > and reload the stock profile for the wheel. I am sure that out of the collection of wheel profiles there is something that will fully target what your expensive wheel is capable of doing.

Hmm, yeah I think I can avoid doing this, as I already started a new profile upon starting a new game yesterday.

Anyway we'll see.