Racing with DualShock analog sticks

Evo<^|SiNz|^> · 10-22-2007, 08:36 PM

Hey guys...

I'm playing around with the demo of rFactor, and I have a question. Does anyone use an analog joystick/gamepad? I'm having a bit of trouble properly calibrating the analog sticks. It inputs just fine, but I find that exact movement on the stick translates to steering wheel movement. Now, you can adjust digital input for steering (if I were using the D-pad or Keyboard, this would be useful), but I don't see a way to adjust the rate at which the in-game steering wheel responds to analog stick input. The X-axis sensitivity seems to have absolutely no effect on this. It's making the formula car undrivable, because even the smallest correction on the stick translates to a snap of the steering wheel, sending the car spinning.

I don't plan on getting a wheel. I'm too strapped for cash, and I don't have a whole lot of room in my office for a peripheral like that. Should I just switch to the D-pad, or is there a way around this?

**Mirfee** · 10-22-2007, 10:10 PM

I don't know what to suggest Evo. Pretty much all of us use wheels for the level of control. I think a gamepad, in any configuration, is going to be a handicap.

**Gillespie** · 10-26-2007, 10:05 AM

Analog gamepad is a decent stop-gap measure when you have absolutely no other choice, Evo... but it's not something you should bother depending upon.

When you're able to, drop the $100 and pick up a Logitech MOMO Racing Wheel. It's completely worth it, and a good step into the larger world of sim-racing.

10-22-2007, 08:36 PM	#1 (permalink)
Evo<^\|SiNz\|^> Join Date: May 2006 Location: Alexandria, VA Age: 27 Posts: 1,161	Racing with DualShock analog sticks Hey guys... I'm playing around with the demo of rFactor, and I have a question. Does anyone use an analog joystick/gamepad? I'm having a bit of trouble properly calibrating the analog sticks. It inputs just fine, but I find that exact movement on the stick translates to steering wheel movement. Now, you can adjust digital input for steering (if I were using the D-pad or Keyboard, this would be useful), but I don't see a way to adjust the rate at which the in-game steering wheel responds to analog stick input. The X-axis sensitivity seems to have absolutely no effect on this. It's making the formula car undrivable, because even the smallest correction on the stick translates to a snap of the steering wheel, sending the car spinning. I don't plan on getting a wheel. I'm too strapped for cash, and I don't have a whole lot of room in my office for a peripheral like that. Should I just switch to the D-pad, or is there a way around this? __________________ "No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country." - Attributed to General George Patton, Jr.

10-22-2007, 10:10 PM	#2 (permalink)
Mirfee Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Ithaca NY Age: 37 Posts: 1,703	Re: Racing with DualShock analog sticks I don't know what to suggest Evo. Pretty much all of us use wheels for the level of control. I think a gamepad, in any configuration, is going to be a handicap. __________________

10-26-2007, 10:05 AM	#3 (permalink)
Gillespie Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Colorado Springs, CO Posts: 1,056	Re: Racing with DualShock analog sticks Analog gamepad is a decent stop-gap measure when you have absolutely no other choice, Evo... but it's not something you should bother depending upon. When you're able to, drop the $100 and pick up a Logitech MOMO Racing Wheel. It's completely worth it, and a good step into the larger world of sim-racing. __________________ <ArmA Information/SOPs> <ArmA Admin Team> <TG Req. Reading>

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