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Dont suppose you would post the settings up for the G25
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He did on the previous page
Some combination of these settings and the logitech profiler have started to make the demo almost playable.
My only problem now is I have MASSIVE latency between turning the wheel and anything happening. At least over half a second, and it makes the driving insanely annoying.
Anyone else experienced this? I'm gonna start removing other usb devices and see if it magically gets better.
EDIT: It definitely doesn't do this in other games. It's a Shift thing. What could be causing it?
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This has to be one of my worst purchases ever, random framerate drops, random CTD's, dire handling and it takes longer to load a track than it does to race it. It's like EA thought GRID was a great game (and it is) and decided to make a worse version in almost every respect.
well i must admit, i haven't tried any drift events yet. i can't slide my car around the corner in races without bringing it to a grinding halt. i've done the whole of tier1 + invitations and a bit of tier2 and the world tour (tier5) is already unlocked so i'm avoiding the drifting events. but i guess they will have to be tackled at some point.
EDIT: just tried the drift on the europe series on tier2 with a poxy little bmw and i can't even pull off the start line in a straight line. it's unplayable.
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there are some tuning options. i haven't touched them though and not really sure how much difference they make.
Think GRID but with a control system that only has an on/off throttle and sends you into wild slides with even the lightest of steering touches.
If you're into sim racing, this is not your cup of tea. EA might have hyped it as a sim but it is anything but and the only people i've seen call it a sim after playing are people on the NFS forums who describe Underground 2 as a sim ("theyve moved away from arcade and gone back to being a sim like with underground 2" :/) and have never heard of stuff like rFactor or iRacing.
to be honest you need to reduce speed more than normal before corners, i changed the display to show 'mph' so it was easier to judge the speed. With GRiD you could slow any car from 150mph to stop in 10yards and although totally unrealistic the game was fun. Shift is very unforgiving if your driving like a madman, approaching every corner is different, you have to position the car and slow it down much sooner.. i know this is more common sense but it works.
lastly, it depends on the car and its upgrades.. a normal car thats had boosts to acceleration without balancing means it becomes even harder to control..
i tried Nights setup and found it impossible
so i basically just tweaked the initial settings.. i did spend a good few hours arsing about with it but then reset it to default and made subtle changes.. 
theres quite a lot of customisations, your car has an inital rating for example tier 1 are usually around 2-5 ... you can purchase body kits, new turbos, new brakes, new suspension etc etc which in turn all add more pts to the overall rating of the car (**online races can have limits on the pts rating of the cars participating, for example the host can set a limit of say '4' points for the race, meaning if your tier 1 car is above that you cant use it**)
you can also quick tune the car via sliders adding more understeer, the tyre pressures the gear ratio's etc etc although ive not played around with that aspect yet..
I must confess that after my induction race i thought the game was looking poor and that the handling was broken. Ive had around 30 races in single player and a few online and having spent time learning to drive i think its fantastic, but you have to persevere because its very rewarding and fun,.
Oh dear, exactly what I expected and that was from just looking at the videos.
I'll avoid this then.
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Tweaked my control settings abit more, am happy with it now.
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Just tried the demo.
If EA are marketing this as a sim, then the game should work striaght out of the box with the G25 wheel.
Guess what?
It doesn't.
It's like steering a boat. You turn the wheel, then about a second or so later the car reacts.
I will give the above settings a whirl.
If EA are marketing this as a sim, then the game should work striaght out of the box with the G25 wheel.
Guess what?
It doesn't.
It's like steering a boat. You turn the wheel, then about a second or so later the car reacts.
I will give the above settings a whirl.
