Sorry I know I haven't played enough netkar, What grey bar are you talking about?
Actually in GTR2 or rFactor you can set all the forcefeedback to come from your front wheel. You just need to set it in your controller.ini file, but I'm sure a lot of people don't modify this. I actually use 100% FF from the front wheel whether it's the right thing to do or not in ISI engine games.
Thanks for the great explanation, I was never really sure what a good FF setting was but I always heard using the centering spring was bad practice in most sims I've played.
The setting I'm currently using is:
Degrees of rotation: 270
FFB Strength: 75%
Spring Effect: 50%
Damper Effect: 50%
Centre spring: 0% unchecked
Can you explain what the spring effect and damper effect will do in netkar in terms of FF?
Thanks!
Tobias already gave a good explanation above me. I'm not quite sure about the different effects of the Logitech profiler.
-FFB Strength is the general strength of any of the FFB effects, like riding a curb, feeling oversteer etc.
-Spring effect I presume has to do with the general resistance your wheel will give you when turning the wheel.
-Damper effect from logitech site: Damper forces slow down the movement of the gaming device in a particular direction. Examples of damper forces would be items such as water or mud.
Basically what Tobias says is correct. Those settings are usefull for games with no/bad FFB effects. netKar, iRacing, LFS etc all have pretty good FFB, and if you use these logitech settings, they might interfere. Turn them of for netKar
.
For netKar Pro, I strongly recommend you to try 900 degrees as well. Don't forget to recalibriate the wheel in netKar after you have changed it. netKar will then give you the right steering lock per car individually. I use 900 degrees for every car in NKP. With the Abarth I get full 900 degrees of rotatation. With the Formula cars maybe 400 degrees. It's perfect
.
The grey bar I am talking about is visible on the lower left side. You have three bars. Green, red and grey I think. Green and red show you your inputs on braking pedal/accelerating pedal. The grey bar shows you the Force Feedback Effects. If you set your Force Feedback to strong, this grey bar will reach the maximum already when you take a simple turn. When that's the case, all of the FFB is already in 'use' and netKar does send other FFB signals to your wheel, but you won't be able to feel them anymore, as all of the FFB strength is already in used... I hope you get my explanation
.
You can tweak this by going into the garage in netKar Pro itself. Go to the 'view' tab and experiment with the 'FF Gain' parameter.
Personally, I set my FFB up to have a little bit of clipping, otherwise it feels way too soft. For the best experience it is vital that you don't have an enormous amount of clipping though.