Plug it in, install drivers and calibrate it. Then go in game and set all up. I hope this helps little http://gyazo.com/9ebc413302ca982a9d45e717211493f5 Then in misc options you can adjust analogue steering smoothnes, i have set it up to 0.85
How high is your cpu & gpu temps? I used to have same problem with richard burns rally and it turned out that my gpu was too hot and thats why my pc crashed