I use a tsw and have been driving in GPL for about a year, lap times
are middle of the road, low 1,28's at Monza, low 1,05's at the Glen.
Recently I put the GPL patch on and haven't suffered from any of the
problems others have experienced, although I don't race on line as I'm
too far away from any servers. However, for a couple of weeks I have
been experiencing different braking responses from my brake pedal. At
first I thought it was a pot needing replacement, but now I'm not so
sure.
Some nights the car seems to be a different beast altogether using the
same set up. Earlier I was driving one of my looser setups and the car
was all over the place, the steering was over sensitive, the handling
was dreadful and the brakes kept locking up. Then after a few laps
everything seemed to smooth out and the car started to behave more like
it should, (have been using the same setup for a while). The biggest
difference was in the braking, I could really floor the pedal and not
lock the brakes, I don't mean stamp on it as this would lock as normal,
but using the hard, letup, apply progressive hard braking method. The
brakes were so grippy. At the same time the car started to handle
beutifully. I figured that I had just reached the optimum temps. So I
tried another race and the car felt great again, but right from the
start of the race. So I went to another track and the same thing. This
got me curious, so I closed the program, restarted and the car went
back to it's previous erratic behaviour.
I play GPL for a couple of hours most days and am fairly in tune with
the different setups I have, and sometimes I know I'm driving rubbish
and the lap times show it, but I am also fairly sure this patch has
done some weird things and changes the car handlings at different times.
Then again maybe I have just been sat in front of this screen for too
long !
Would be curious to know if anyone else has experienced the same.
Nige.
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The same thing happen to me the other day. The steering wheel had a huge
deadsone and it was way too sensitive.
Steve
If I use any other game with the steering wheel (a MS Sidewinder FF) I need
to reset my deadzone before I return to GPL. Perhaps something like this is
stuffing your pedals and wheel?
oh your not kidding you guys....since the patch has come out ive had
problems calibrating my Sprint wheel as well....and my other sims work
just fine...GPL is the only one that this does this too....and you know
what?...nobody seems to be able to give me an answer as to why it does
this either.....ver 1.0 works fine....i tried everything...even
replacing my wheel drivers.....directx6.1 core...my gamesport joystick
prog in windows....and anything else you can think of...i reinstalled
it....and still the same crap....it ticks me off too cuz online racing
on GPL is a gas....and i cant even come close to acheiving my lap times
i did before.....so tell me....if all my other racing sims work just
fine with the pedals.....why doesnt GPL work like it should?....
