i found key setting is max speed and you shall never set it to 200. value of 200 makes wheel fastest in response but also too light and too oscillating when you take fast chicane then go straight you must remember youself how to straighten wheel cause it wants to go all sides very fast, with setting of 130 , but it shall be personal preference. once you takes chicane and go straight wheel feels better at the center and yo just know where center is and it not oscillating very fast left and right. It also puts initial resistance to turn wheel both sides no matter if yo go drift to righ and yo wheel centers left, at setting of 200 if you drift right and wheel counters to left if you try to turn wheel right mid drift yo feel no resistance and its not realistic. with setting of 130 even when you drift right and wheel centers left you can turn rigght mid drift and yo feel like its actual steering shaft and steering wheel constantly connected to front wheels (even AC and ACC not simulates steering shaft as AMS2 and raceroom does) thats why in ACC they introduced dynamic dampening and in AC gyro effect. with setting of 130 you can now disable boths.
default value of 150 is good but i found it even better at 130, wheel feels alive even at lowest speeds and i feel resistance always like it would be actual car and steering shaft, most realistic feel i had. i found value of 100 even better at lowest speeds just when i take off, and i could not tell its sim not real car, but it was problem when countersteering then , i mean when drifting mostly as wheel not countersteered as fast as it should. then i tested value of 120 and it was pretty good but when heavy drifting , for example making drift from right to left very fast wheel makes metal noises as it wanted to turn faster but something like metal tongs would not allow it to spin that fast. wit value 130 there is not noise, and even drifting is much better now as i tell i disabled gyro in AC, dynamic damping in ACC and wheel not oscillating.
with reducing max speed and thus reducing oscillations now im able to lower wheel weight frm 1,5 % to 1% and feel understeer better, as i previously used 3% i tell you i was unable to feel understeer in any sim xD so i dont know why its set to 5% by default xD
i have also changed max force to 13 nm as forces at eau rogue was just too strong and felt unrealistic too. wit max force of 15 nm i set 50% gain so i had 7,5 nm initial force but at eau rogue it go to 13 nm. now i have 13 nm max force and gain at 60, i have stronger initial feel 7,8 nm but at eau rogue it go to 10,2 nm in all sims.
now i using wheel for more than half year i can post my current settings and provide explanation to each setting
1. rotation is of course max rotation and i use 1180 cause my real car has it and AC supports its max at 1180 so maybe there are some cars that use 1180 degrees
2. end stop at max cause wheel then uses full force to stop you from goin above 1180 degrees
3. it shall be set as yo want max force to be to not grapple wit yo wheel under heavy cornering which will just slow you down, even real cars have peak forces at 8 nm cause all have power steering. then yo shall set gain % to desired force of which you set max in driver thats 60% for me as i have 13 nm max in wheel then 60% gain in sim = 7,8 nm initial force in all my sims, btw i saw real cars even open wheelers without power steering have 4,5 - 6,5 nm resistance when cornering, but guess in sims we want more to feel car better as no real g forces affects us.
4. detail boost at 0 cause wheel vibrates weird even at 1%
5. max speed as i post above it gives initial resistance even at lowest speeds, to all sides as in real car when im goin 10-20 km/h i turn right then left i still must use little strength to turn wheel left even if in real car caster is already centering wheel but i still must use strengts to center it faster, wit settings of 130 i have it just like in real car and i remember with setting of 200 wheel was centering faster and i could center it faster with my littlest finger and it felt like it was no connection between sim steering wheel and sim front wheels, wheel was just dead at lowest speeds. but also it was too light at the center at faster speeds thats why i was comparing driving in sims to driving on horse cause there was no feeling of steering shaft. this setting if lower it makes you feel actual steering shaft in car, but too low wheel not countersteers fast enought, at setting of 200 wheel countersteers fastest it can but then its completely loose like it was no steering shaft and steering wheel disconnected from front wheels, i think its key setting for realism.
6. weight if at 0 wheel completely disconnected even when standing still yo just touch it and it oscillating all way like crazy, when set too high its too strong to turn it, too much resistance, wheel is dampened and not counterstee fast enought, i found even if its set too high yo cant feel understeer cause if you go into understeer and ffb in sim decreases if you have weight % too high yo would not tell difference ffb decreased cause its dampened already and is too high resistance to turn wheel. it works similar to max speed but max speed but its different thing
7. mode, i not found it affects wheel that much, i feel like at 0 yo feel slight bumps better and yo can feel slide faster, and at 9 bumps are somehow absorbed by suspension or something. i think value of 9 may be more realistic but i prefer setting 0
8. bandwidth, explanation from simplicity is lower value softening and higher values stiffening response and i agree, i set to max cause wheel is stiffer now and i can feel steering rack better, but i have my own explanation: like better connection steering wheel to front wheels. what i found this setting does mostly is in AMS2 as yo have steering rack simulation there and under heavy cornering for example at eau rogue at spa its most feeled: when you turning left you feel good stiff connection then yo turning right very fast and yo feel strong resistance to turn wheel, wheel is so stiff and yo can feel how yo formula 3 chassis touches ground there and yo feel it on wheel like steering rack is there always connected and you front wheels want to center and yo want it to turn right. so realistic feel, and i found at lower values its like softer, like steering wheel disconnects from steering rack a little to be a little easier on you and lower the setting the more it disconnects to weaken those strong forces. like at lower bandwidth value it will disconnect more so you can turn wheel easier then steering rack will connect again when you safe at straight line when forces are not so strong. but thing is i found lower values feel better when losing grip, i mean when understeering mostly. cause with max value understeer feel is brutal like yo have grip turning wheel then you not have grip and wheel cut ffb and you turn even more than you should, and at lower values yo feel like transition of forces it not cuts force that brutal but you feel some rubber-like feeling like front wheel tyres are of rubber and you feel that rubber not sticks to road anymore and you feel better decreasing of grip lost and not sudden grip loss thats how i would describe it. again i think it shall be personal preference. i still think i may lower that value some day.
9. weighted center of course at 0, max speed is setting which gives you weighted not only center but whole wheel
these are my telemtry as yo see no clipping, max force at 10,2 nm last session it was AMS2 formula 3 at spa and even forces on steering wheel was very strong at eau rogue it did not go above 10,2 nm cause it felt like there was steering rack that not allow it to peak at 13 nm cause it was like steering wheel was clinched to steering rack and front wheels , very linear response with this settings
