Force Feedback- used in games?

badbob · 23 Jan 2008 at 00:00

Is real-time/realistic Force Feedback used in games? I remember the Microsoft Forcefeed back joystick in a high street retailer, a great idea if used properly. But games support was non existant and it died out

for example in a Flight Sim or driving game it snaps back if you hit turbulance or a kerb.

SkeeterUK · 23 Jan 2008 at 02:00

My momo wheel has some great feedback in live for speed.

skullman · 23 Jan 2008 at 02:02

Plenty of games support it nowadays.

m4cc45 · 23 Jan 2008 at 06:51

I use an XBox 360 pad.

Pretty much every recent game supports it. Gears of War, Prince of Persia - The Two Thrones, Colin McRae: Dirt,Test Drive Unlimited all work superbly.

Well worth the £15!

M.

chaparral · 23 Jan 2008 at 12:41

badbob said:
Is real-time/realistic Force Feedback used in games? I remember the Microsoft Forcefeed back joystick in a high street retailer, a great idea if used properly. But games support was non existant and it died out for example in a Flight Sim or driving game it snaps back if you hit turbulance or a kerb.

I got one them microsoft force feedback joysticks

badbob · 23 Jan 2008 at 12:42

Does FS-X support feedback? Does the Saitek X52 Pro have feedback?

skullman · 23 Jan 2008 at 13:46

m4cc45 said:
I use an XBox 360 pad.

Pretty much every recent game supports it. Gears of War, Prince of Persia - The Two Thrones, Colin McRae: Dirt,Test Drive Unlimited all work superbly.

Well worth the £15!

M.

Thats just basic rumble though, not really the same as proper force feedback where the wheel/joystick will try to resist your movement.

zytok · 23 Jan 2008 at 13:57

m4cc45 said:
I use an XBox 360 pad.

Pretty much every recent game supports it. Gears of War, Prince of Persia - The Two Thrones, Colin McRae: Dirt,Test Drive Unlimited all work superbly.

Well worth the £15!

M.

How did you get TDU working properly? No rumble support here. Not that many racing games do tbh. Though admittedly DiRT does.

Spend_day · 23 Jan 2008 at 14:17

i used to have a sidewinder i dont uses stuff like that much anymore but the force feedback was cool

m4cc45 · 23 Jan 2008 at 15:10

zytok said:
How did you get TDU working properly? No rumble support here. Not that many racing games do tbh. Though admittedly DiRT does.

Using Vista x64 Ultimate operating system and an Xbox 360 pad. Just installed the drivers. Connected the pad. Updated the drivers (for the pad) and job done.

Now every time I play it vibrates!

M.

m4cc45 · 23 Jan 2008 at 15:11

skullman said:
Thats just basic rumble though, not really the same as proper force feedback where the wheel/joystick will try to resist your movement.

Very true. Sorry I read it wrong.

M.

zytok · 23 Jan 2008 at 15:25

m4cc45 said:
Using Vista x64 Ultimate operating system and an Xbox 360 pad. Just installed the drivers. Connected the pad. Updated the drivers (for the pad) and job done.

Now every time I play it vibrates!

M.

interesting, was that with drivers via windows update or from a website?

shimy182 · 23 Jan 2008 at 19:53

had the g25 which kinda broke twice ... but till it breaks its pretty good, absolutely amazing use of 2 motors.

im waiting for my fanatec one to come any time this month, also im thinking of investing in a ffb joystick there is a small program to convert a ffb joystick in to a ffb gear stick !!

m4cc45 · 23 Jan 2008 at 20:07

zytok said:
interesting, was that with drivers via windows update or from a website?

It was the drivers installed from the CD (Microsoft 1.1 I think) then I attached the Pad - pressed the middle button then did the update driver thing.

M.

darwin · 23 Jan 2008 at 21:01

badbob said:
Does FS-X support feedback? Does the Saitek X52 Pro have feedback?

I'm pretty sure it does..the reason I'm not 100% sure is I have an X52 Pro that definitely does not have force feedback

skullman · 24 Jan 2008 at 00:32

shimy182 said:
im waiting for my fanatec one to come any time this month

Is that the Porsche wheel? I like the look of that. Is it meant to be better than the G25?

shimy182 · 24 Jan 2008 at 01:58

skullman said:
Is that the Porsche wheel? I like the look of that. Is it meant to be better than the G25?

i will let you know about that..

this one will be belt driven with 3 motors instead of 2, 2 for vibration (dont know why 2 will be better..., and one for propper force feedback), belt driven will mean considerably quiter operation, but i wont know by how much until i test it my self.

the rest of the spec is pretty much the same as the g25, apart from the fact that the pedals are wireless.

feature wise, the gearstick will apparently no longer clanky and wierd feeling like the g25 one( also will feel like a porsche gearstick) , and the thing will be a replica of the porsche 911. it will have more buttons on the wheel and none of the shifter, and like the g25 it is compat with the ps2 and 3, and for users without tables, it come with a curved flap so you can play it with the unit on your laps.