Soft lock's do not work!?

Kristaps Dzelzgalvis · Feb 20, 2018

What happened to soft locks? Old workaround doesn't work anymore (set desired degrees in profiler + set the same in game)
How do you guys drive with no soft locks? All works fine with 900 degree cars, but lesser degrees, the weirder it feels, having that massive dead zone where steering goes light and does nothing.
It's all fine when you drive normally, bet when you drift or need to correct a slide, it's super weird when you don't know were the lock stops are?

Michael Hornbuckle · Feb 20, 2018

Use Content Manager

Never needed soft lock myself, for some reason I can just naturally tell where the ends of travel are. Tried soft lock using the new features in Content Manager and it works like how it should have from the get go from Kunos.

Kristaps Dzelzgalvis · Feb 21, 2018

This fixed my problem, it's not ideal, but it works

now I can set 900 degrees and AC dose the rest.

Michael Hornbuckle · Feb 21, 2018

Doing it that way the game will shake the hell out of your wheel when you reach the soft lock. Won't feel natural at all.

Kristaps Dzelzgalvis · Feb 21, 2018

I rarely reach full lock, and even then my weak a** g27 just rattles a bit.

Neilski · Feb 21, 2018

I tried the built-in soft lock (via the INI file) for about 5 minutes recently. It was such a disaster on my G27 (clattering and bucking to a horrendous degree) that I immediately switched back.

Maybe some wheels play nicely with it.

Bobby Pennington · Feb 22, 2018

@Leprekaun you want to share your thoughts on this. It didn't seem to work so well if memory serves me correctly.

Celtic Pharaoh · Feb 22, 2018

Neilski said:
I tried the built-in soft lock (via the INI file) for about 5 minutes recently. It was such a disaster on my G27 (clattering and bucking to a horrendous degree) that I immediately switched back.

Maybe some wheels play nicely with it.

I agree with Neil. I tried it and once the soft lock engaged, it was as if the FFB motor went into overdrive to resist me turning the wheel more. It works great rFactor 2, I only wish Kunos did it properly in AC.

Celtic Pharaoh · Feb 22, 2018

There is a new feature I've noticed in Content Manager called "Hardware Lock". I've turned it on but still can't get it to work as I get an error "Cannot find LogitechSteeringWheel.dll" or something like that so I'm still looking into it but you can find it in the controls tab within Content Manager here

W.Fox · May 21, 2018

I wanted to test the Hardware Lock option, but unfortunately I cant activate it. Its like the option is greyed out. I have a T500rs so it should be supported. Tried to deactivate "Stoft lock" first, in case it interferes with Hardware lock, but no luck. I have the full version of CM aswell. Any help?

Michael Hornbuckle · May 21, 2018

Do you have the experimental section checked? (not 100% sure that it controls the hardware lock section)

W.Fox · May 22, 2018

Oh yeah I forgot to say that I tried that aswell without luck

guidofoc · May 22, 2018

Strange, I have a T500RS too and it works great for me. I'll check the settings when I'm back home.

Richard Dastardly · May 22, 2018

I have a G25 & I get the bouncy lock stop, but other than that soft-lock works fine. I do use a LUT & FFBClip though. Not sure how you'd really make a lock-stop work with just a little motor, although some wheel damping coming out of the lock area would help.

How does the CM hardware lock work, then?