I recently bought a driving force gt and after installing the appropriate drivings and following these recommended settings http://en.lfsmanual.net/wiki/W ... tting_up_a_Logitech_Wheel


I'm running into a few problems.

Firstly, under options screen in LFS it detects the center when my wheel is rotated about 90 degrees to the right, I've tried recalibrating which did not work.

The other thing is when I race the steering wheel locks up and starts moving on its own. When I force it to steer one way it will start moving around chaotically. Other than that the pedals shifters and buttons seem to be doing fine. Any suggestions?

well the centering issue seems to be fixed but I'm still having problems with the force feedback. I've set the ffb to 0% for now just to get a feel for the wheel and it seems fine. So does anyone know why the force feedback is acting so chaotic?

You mean like, when you're not moving, and you don't touch the wheel, it starts moving about? if so, it's the way the FFB works in lfs i supose.

is the great amount of resistance also how ffb is supposed to work in lfs? I feel like I'm damaging the wheel when I'm forcing it in the resisted direction.

and why should the wheel be moving around when you're staying still?

eh nvm, I guess this is how the ffb is supposed to be :P
I think I'm just used to using wheels with no ffb.

I get that with the DFP. I just turn the wheel full right then full left to calibrate the thing. When I start LFS, the wheel starts uncalibrated so I have to re-calibrate it before starting and viola: no shaky wheel, no super sensitive steering, no crazy FFB, just make sure you calibrate the wheel inside of LFS.

Yea I'm racing fine with it now.

My only question is if the wheel should feel that resistant when turning. I guess the centering force is just really strong or something.

Have you been here ?
http://en.lfsmanual.net/wiki/W ... tting_up_a_Logitech_Wheel

Quote from ripley :

have you been here ?
http://en.lfsmanual.net/wiki/w ... tting_up_a_logitech_wheel

I think he has

Quote from crowsnose :

[...] and following these recommended settings http://en.lfsmanual.net/wiki/w ... ting_up_a_logitech_wheel [...]

Your centre spring isn't on is it?

nope, not in the logitech profiler at least...

If DFGT is anything like DFP (looks similiar enough), it has a fair amount of resistance also with no force feedback enabled. In normal use, with forces acting on the wheel it is even more difficult to turn quickly, as you have to turn against the force effect and the constant passive resistance.

So, the wheel makes a loud noise and does not want to turn fast.
This is normal!

Also it seems you had/have way too much FF set in Profiler and/or LFS. Too much force makes the wheel go back and forth if you let go of it, especially when combined with smaller degrees of turn.

Hope this helps.

Centering spring in LFS is useles turn it of