G920 bought

bazzabear

bazzabear

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I succumbed to temptation today and bought a Logitech G920 as an upgrade on the Thrustmaster F458 I've been using previously. It was on a very good sale price.

It's clearly a much better built wheel (no offence to Thrustmaster - it was the budget model of theirs I had) and the force feedback adds a lot to the experience.

Some questions for other owners though:

When I first started playing with this new wheel, I could not get used to the brake at all. I have eventually had to follow some advice I read a short while ago and modify the brake pedal by removing the rubber stop. With the resistance and 'rebound' that rubber block was causing, it was just impossible to brake consistently. With it removed, everything is perfect.
Am I alone in this? Have people learnt to deal with the brake feel as supplied and found that it's actually better?

Playing Assetto Corsa, I've used a built in preset called something like G920_no shifter. Would anyone suggest I change anything away from that? Steering angle perhaps?

Last question, on Assetto Corsa again - at the start of the race, waiting for the lights to go out, the wheel buzzes and vibrates quite a bit. Acts normally at all other times. Does that happen to others too? Anything to be done about it?
 
Not got mine plugged in yet, but will test it over the next few days, was planning on building a sim rig for it, but yeah, the price at the minute made me snap one up, £184 with shifter wasn't a bad price to get started with racing.
 
Have fun!
And if the braking seems hard to get used to (I found I could only get about 30% with a light touch. To get any more than that you were putting genuine pressure into it, and it got much more hard to be exact.) you know what to do!

Underneath the pedals, there are about a million philips head screws of two sizes. They all need to be removed (including two hiding behind the carpet gripper bar). This allows you to remove the base cover. You can then see the base bars for the three pedals.
There's a bolt going through each one holding it to the sprung bar with the pedal itself at the other end of it.

Remove this bolt (allen key and spanner needed) and extend that sprung bar, so you can see the spring inside it. pull that out, and you'll find the rubber block beneath it. Remove that, put the spring back in, and put it all back together - job done.
 
Unpacked, and repackaged in the space of 2 hours ..... They really need to get their **** together with W10 drivers for this, Grid Autosport, Project Cars, Dirt 3, all useless with the wheel even going through the settings and trying to fine tune it, I had no FFB on the wheel at all, it would just spin around no re-centering nothing, I figured I had a defective unit so for that I can always return it, and why they put the brightest LED they could find slap bang in the middle of the wheel I have no idea.

My KB and Mouse, both Logitech, rock solid since the day I got them, ( G19 and a G700 mouse, and I have a spare G700s in the cupboard ready when this dies )
Biggest Mistake was going to the Logitech Forums, I know as per all forums we only see people complaining, but 90% of the problems I have with settings and tuning the wheel in games and windows is shared by a lot of others, and the logitec response times are legendary, A post from someone in Oct asking for help as he can't get any FFB and no settings in windows, followed up on 27th Dec with no replies is shocking lol.

I'm sure it will mature with drivers, as I said, mouse/KB = excellent, just not leaving it sat under a desk until that happens, will pick up a T500RS as see how that performs.
 
Did you go to the Logitech support website and download the latest drivers for it? Until I did that, my computer wasn't even recognising that there was anything attached!

I have to admit though, haven't tried GRID: Autosport yet. If I think on, I'll do so and report back.
 
bazzabear said:
Did you go to the Logitech support website and download the latest drivers for it? Until I did that, my computer wasn't even recognising that there was anything attached!

I have to admit though, haven't tried GRID: Autosport yet. If I think on, I'll do so and report back.
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Please do as I am thinking about getting one also.
 
bazzabear said:
Did you go to the Logitech support website and download the latest drivers for it? Until I did that, my computer wasn't even recognising that there was anything attached!

I have to admit though, haven't tried GRID: Autosport yet. If I think on, I'll do so and report back.
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Yeah already had the latest LGS software installed uses the same for K|B/Mouse, didn't solve anything.
 
I just got the G29 which is the same wheel but works with the PS3/PS4 and the PC

I'll try to plug it in tonight and have a go at a couple of games, got it cheap as it's 159.99 at the "Indian Takeaway" store, if you get my drift
 
I can confirm, can't get the G920 working properly in GRID either.

It's very good in Assetto Corsa though.

I strongly suspect a driver issue. Windows doesn't recognise the wheel properly at all unless the latest version of LGS is installed too, it just sees it as a 'direct input device' which it doesn't interpret as a gaming peripheral. That is exactly what GRID sees it as too.

I can wait for a driver update - although it's a little worrying that a quick search of the logitech forums doesn't show them even admitting that a new driver is needed and they're working on it.
 
bazzabear said:
When I first started playing with this new wheel, I could not get used to the brake at all. I have eventually had to follow some advice I read a short while ago and modify the brake pedal by removing the rubber stop. With the resistance and 'rebound' that rubber block was causing, it was just impossible to brake consistently. With it removed, everything is perfect.
Am I alone in this? Have people learnt to deal with the brake feel as supplied and found that it's actually better?
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It's logitech's version of a popular third party mod for the pedals, very popular with the hardcore sim racers. The rubber block more closely replicates the feel of a real life hydraulic brake pedal.

I've never driven a real life vehicle where the brakes were a 0-100% potentiometer with the same degree of resistance. It's the best solution until you get to a the expensive load cell pedals like the Fanatics.
 
Yeah, I assumed that was the aim. But without it, the level of resistance does increase a little as you push further (albeit not as much as in real life.)

With it, you get rebound if you try for anything more than about 70% - that's less realistic, not more!
 
They added a variable rate spring as well.

Here's the original, knocked up by a bloke in Doncaster... :
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Anyone Think I could return mines to the Indian place? Says I can only return it if it has not been opened etc.

Tried it on Euro Truck 2 earlier, The wheel just bloody vibrates like mad when it's centered, Can hear it downstairs...
 
Evian said:
Anyone Think I could return mines to the Indian place? Says I can only return it if it has not been opened etc.
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That's absolute rubbish and they know it, go back and demand a refund and don't budge until they do, you're well within your rights
 
where from


EDIT SUSSED IT. Not bad, just looked can sell my old g25 for £100... cant grumble
 
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To be honest, it's probably not worth changing over at the mo though. There's a definite lack of compatibility, although I assume (hope) this will be fixed.
 
Those who bought this G920 wheel etc, do you play Dirt Rally and is the force feedback working?

Tried all sorts to get the force feedback working and nothing. There is resistance in the wheel however when you hit bumps, launch off a jump and land it or stove the car into a tree there is no feedback at all.

From what I have read this wheel is supported, seems to be a few reports thats it s a Win 10 issue and the FBB is not present. Don't really want to drop back down to Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 for this.
 
well i picked up my g920 today, i mean i suppose its early days for it i only bought it cause its cheap and works on the xb1. Probably wont get it out the box for another 6 months but for £184 quid new with gearshift i wasn't moaning

hopefully its better supported soon?
 
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