Need for Speed: Shift 2: Unleashed

LeJosh · 31 Mar 2011 at 15:35

^Garf*uk* said:
why does it feel real hard to turn?

Are you trying to turn a corner at full throttle?

It's all about throttle control in and out of corners.

arknor · 31 Mar 2011 at 15:54

aparently this mod is good

juls @ nogripracing said:
In logitech profiler, use default wheel settings, uncheck "allow game to change settings".
Shift 2 uses friction and damper it is intended by the devs, it has to be enabled if you want at least to feel what FFB is supposed to be.
It seems some fanatec users can't disable separetely friction/damper and therefore they have the full FFB as it was meant to be, while most logitech users miss some effects as they have disabled friction/damper in profiler.

In game, use 360 degrees lock, as all cars default setups are made for a wheel with 360 degrees....if you use 900 then you need to change steering lock in car setup but it is often not available. So the easiest is to keep 360 degrees lock in controler setup screen.
Here is a very minimal mod which makes tyres less floaty, without being intrusive. AI seems to cope very well with it, and I have good driving sensations with it. It does not change grip levels or anything important, just make the tyres react quicker to steering movements.

Extract the two .bff files from this archive, and place them in Pakfiles folder in your shift install. Backup your two original files before.

http://www.mediafire.com/?jx0gzox6i1f2bi1

up2nogooduk · 31 Mar 2011 at 16:00

I formated my pc
Rinning win7 64bit ultimate

i7 920 @ 4.2
6950 corossfire.
6g of Triple ram

My other games run fine.
But this looks bad and runs bad.
i turned everything up to max with 1920x1200.
restarted the pc to take affect.
But the aa in the game is badddddddddddd and is not smooth at all.
Im using the 11.3 ati drivers. i did notice it istalled physics drivers.
that wouldn't make a difference would it?. i unistallled them but the game wont start with out them.. so reinstalled them. still run crap..

what could be the problem... can never buy a game, install it, and away we go. always a problem. drives me crazy lol!!

Any ideas would be grand
Thanks

arknor · 31 Mar 2011 at 16:34

try disabling crossfire, dont know about AA on ati cards with nvidia cards you can force AA and it looks much better than the dodgy AA the game has

MoodyB · 31 Mar 2011 at 16:48

Some have had the game not saving the graphic settings properly as well :

http://www.nogripracing.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1330281&postcount=65

Shift 1 had issues / low fps with ATi cards to begin with, so follow arknor's advice until there's a crossfire profile / patch for this one.

And it needs PhysX installed for the collisions with cars, walls, etc. Shift 1 was the same.

up2nogooduk · 31 Mar 2011 at 17:18

helped abit, thanks. but still not 100%.
Tried that link, but no joy..
Oh well. guess i best wait for some patches.
I'll go try crysis 2 now, and see what fun problems i come across with that lol
Thanks anyways

stoke1863 · 31 Mar 2011 at 17:53

After more messing at my mates i have decided to keep it now. Got the settings much better and it seems quite fun with the AI.

will give you my autolog when its installed

eekfek · 31 Mar 2011 at 18:07

boooo !! I purchased from EA Store for £19.99 and can't unlock until 00:01 !!!

up2nogooduk · 31 Mar 2011 at 18:11

stoke1863 said:
After more messing at my mates i have decided to keep it now. Got the settings much better and it seems quite fun with the AI.

will give you my autolog when its installed

What spec you running it on?

stoke1863 · 31 Mar 2011 at 18:14

up2nogooduk said:
What spec you running it on?

Only just installed on mine but

i5 760
GTX 480 soc
4GB DDR3 Ram

grudas · 31 Mar 2011 at 18:17

some of my cars

maxed out.. AA doesn't look good.. but i think its more to do with the REFLECTION because its very strong.. same with chrome rims they don't seem to get them right..

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completely stock! might put a bigger turbo on and upgrade the brakes.. dont feel like doing much more..

my drift machine

the one you get after completing the drift tutorial..

whopsy..

Evo in the 'Ring

arknor · 31 Mar 2011 at 18:28

AA is crap if its using the ingame AA if you have an nvidia card i posted settings to force using nvidia inspector.

AUTOLOG: arknor1050
ADD ME!

stoke1863 · 31 Mar 2011 at 18:35

Didn't Hot Pursuit have bodged AA ?

grudas · 31 Mar 2011 at 18:44

arknor said:
AA is crap if its using the ingame AA if you have an nvidia card i posted settings to force using nvidia inspector.

AUTOLOG: arknor1050
ADD ME!

i've tried it.. killed my fps + got a white blurry "square" on the side of the screen + it still looked the same?

stoke1863 said:
Didn't Hot Pursuit have bodged AA ?

i didn't have AA at all ;D later nvidia/ati updated their drivers so you could force AA..

RavenXXX2 · 31 Mar 2011 at 18:49

I forced AA with inspector and it looks good.

stoke1863 · 31 Mar 2011 at 18:58

what settins did you use Raven?

oh and arknor what wheel and settings are you using?

richardirv · 31 Mar 2011 at 20:26

Sorry to change the topic slightly but is there anyone with a wheel actually able to drift? I'm close to loosing my rag with it. The racing is great now I have unchecked let game change ffb setting, much more feel. But the drift seems completely impossible to me.

HELP

eekfek · 31 Mar 2011 at 20:26

don't think this video has been posted yet but it looks stunning and shows off the autolog features a little. ..

stoke1863 · 31 Mar 2011 at 20:29

richardirv said:
Sorry to change the topic slightly but is there anyone with a wheel actually able to drift? I'm close to loosing my rag with it. The racing is great now I have unchecked let game change ffb setting, much more feel. But the drift seems completely impossible to me.

HELP

i havent tried yet but from memory it was impossible in shift 1 with the wheel

barmyllama · 31 Mar 2011 at 20:37

It's utter, utter garbage.

Default G27 settings are unplayable. Car steers from the centre. Helmet cam makes everything even worse. Can't change wheel settings during a race, so you have to quit race, change settings and then reload race. The mind boggles as to who thought that was a good idea.

Why do the default G27 setting assume you aren't using the pedals that come with the wheel?

Or in other words, all the crap from the first game has been carried over into this one.

Graphics look nice in game but the in game videos are awful low res rubbish, yet the fat racing driver who talks to you is in HD.

Menus are a pain to navigate. And why can some of the menu navigation be done with the G27 D pad and buttons but some actions require me to use the keyboard?