Sorry Mario, but the whole FFB thing is subjective at best, even on a
$15000 simulator. The 2D screen, the shaking, etc. are nothing like
what is felt in a real car so my thought is set it the way that
"feels" good and go play. Some of the fastest sim drivers in the world
can beat you with a joystick and no FFB, my thought is you are
wasteing a lot of time trying to achieve the unachievable.. it's a
game after all, just play it.

GR

>On Fri, 2 Sep 2011 11:50:35 +0200, "Mario Petrinovic" > wrote:
>GaryR:
>> >Pat Dotson:
>>>I'll be interested to hear from anyone else who tries what Mario
>>>recommends. I messed around with it for a bit just to see what would
>>>happen. It went about as well as I expected.
>>>
>>>Mario, has anyone else ever confirmed your results? Has even one
>>>other person ever responded positively to your posts on FFB?
>>>
>>>The FOV stuff is hilarious, BTW
>>
>> I tried, it was a joke. If he feels that those settings in any way
>> approach real life (and I DO drive a race car) he needs (different)
>> medication..
>
> Where you can have problems:
> You got to set hight of screen ("DrivingVanishY"), latency
>("cockpitLookDeadZone") and FOV.
> FFB signal is something like hi-fi, you got to have clean,
>undisturbed signal. You got to get rid of compression-like things, other
>noise and delays. For example, iRacing's AA and AF works like a compression
>(I presume). Use video card AA and AF. Use no-limit fps. And things like
>that. Use USB port that doesn't share resources with other things. I disable
>all I/O ports that I don't need. And things like that. Dirtiness,
>compression and delays affect FFB.
> Regarding how much it approaches real life. The way I am using FFB
>is the standard made by inventors and productors of FFB and FFB devices.
>They should know what they are doing, and it is advisable, if you are using
>FFB devices, to use them per their standard. If you don't use them like
>that, you can expect to have below average results.
> I don't get constant clipping, if I would drive my wheel with the
>strongest force it can produce, I wouldn't be able to drive a car, and I am
>getting 1:57 at Suzuka, with fixed Corvette setup. Even more, I am just
>testing FFB, and when you are testing FFB your last lap should be driven
>like your first lap, otherwise you lose reference points, and you musn't
>improve your driving line, or anything, the improvement in time must be
>solely because of the improvement of FFB. Of course, I cannot resist to
>improve on my driving line a bit, but this definitely isn't some major
>effort, and I do have some room to improve times, when I finaly set the FFB
>correctly.
>
> Mario