Can confirm, the soft lock is fixed! and I'm successfully converted from Christian's pure FFB to Pops! Can't be happier. Always felt Christian's while very smooth and natural, a bit "flat" to my taste. Yours just hit the spot! I tried both the Mid to DD and T300 versions and did not notice much difference,. So I just stick with the Mid to DD one. I compared the feel to R3E's FFB and found them very close now, which is a good thing. My go to test car and track is the BMW 320 TC and Knockhill, a good combo to test various parts of FFB as the 320 TC is a quite playful car, just the right amount of power, dynamic chassis, no electronic nanny BS; and Knockhill has slow corners, fast transition sweeps, uphill and downhill, and a somewhat bumpy surface. I also tested Cayman GT4 on Catalunya. I love how the curbs feel now. Great job Pops! Thanks!
Forgot to mention the settings for my TS-PC are all default in the control panel, in the game it's gain 100, volume 54 to begin with (I adjust it accordingly to different cars, usually within 40 to 60), tone 14 and fx 54.
A small request to Pops, is it possible to add a bit of understeer effect when the front tires are loosing grip? Like in R3E you feel the wheel gets lighter when that happens.
Mach999,
I'm really glad it's working on your wheelbase. Thank you for posting your settings as well. That helps others with a great starting point.
As far as your request to increase the feel of the tires losing grip in understeer, the current file does have that as a scrubbing FX. The stronger you set the FX slider the stronger the scrubbing will increase, but that also increases the other FX (kerbs and road details). In order to increase the scrubbing separately you need to change the ZEN variables in the PopsRacer text file (shown in bold below):
################### ROAD/SCRUBBING #######################
# [8] ####################################################
(Scrub_Frequency_Zen
2) ### <---CHANGE THIS HERE
### 1= Strong, 2= Medium [Pops DEFAULT], 3= Light
### Description: Frequency you are feeling the tires scrub.
# [9] ####################################################
(Scrub_Scale_Zen
3) ### <---CHANGE THIS HERE
### 1= Strong, 2= Medium, 3= Light [Pops Default]
### Description: Strength you are feeling the tires scrub.
Save the file and restart the game...
As far as future FFB. The scrubbing and road details from these variables will go away as I am adding more SETA physics directly from the game into the FFB. My goal is to bring whatever has been hiding underneath the hood of PC2 all these years out for everyone to enjoy. The FX I have been using and tweaking does feel good and are believable, but the natural physics
feel even better IMHO..... The trick is to balance the physics on all the tracks (laser scanned and standard). If they were all laser scanned we'd be in sim racing heaven (RF2 and R3E... should take notice!), especially on the mid to DD wheels... I have been more and more impressed with the SETA tire model and have been stumped as to why this was never developed from SMS.... Anyway, stay tuned, I think you will be even more impressed with my future FFB for the loss of grip and road details -- and thanks for the help!
BTW - great car and track choices! <thumbs up>
PopsRacer