Need for Speed Racing Games

does anybody have an explanation on what "steering sensitivity" and "speed steering sensitivity" mean and what the difference is?

maybe a developer can give us an explanation on these settings and what exactly they do.

2nd that

fool around with both and find out?

"steering sensitivity" is quite simple, it's just how sensitive your steering inputs are. So for example, if this setting is on 'medium' (or whatever) and you have to turn your wheel 120 degrees right to get the car's steering on full lock, then changing this setting to 'high' should mean that you can get the car on a full lock with only say, 90 degrees of steering applied

"speed steering sensitivity" is the same as "speed adjustable steering" which is a feature on more and more real cars these days: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steering#Speed_Adjustable_Steering

The idea is that your steering should be less sensitive at high speeds. Changing this setting effects how much it changes. So basically if you increase this setting, it increases the amount by which your steering inputs become LESS sensitive the faster your car goes. Sorry, I couldn't word it simpler than that


The above presumes you are using a steering wheel to play the game but it applies itself the same way if you're using a controller instead. Hope that helps!

cem_ea_id.Need4skillz wrote:fool around with both and find out?

i have, thanks.

cnc.Hubbell wrote:"steering sensitivity" is quite simple, it's just how sensitive your steering inputs are. So for example, if this setting is on 'medium' (or whatever) and you have to turn your wheel 120 degrees right to get the car's steering on full lock, then changing this setting to 'high' should mean that you can get the car on a full lock with only say, 90 degrees of steering applied

"speed steering sensitivity" is the same as "speed adjustable steering" which is a feature on more and more real cars these days: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steering#Speed_Adjustable_Steering

The idea is that your steering should be less sensitive at high speeds. Changing this setting effects how much it changes. So basically if you increase this setting, it increases the amount by which your steering inputs become LESS sensitive the faster your car goes. Sorry, I couldn't word it simpler than that


The above presumes you are using a steering wheel to play the game but it applies itself the same way if you're using a controller instead. Hope that helps!

cool, thanks. that helps.

Hi

What is the relationship between 'steering sensitivity', the number of degrees you set your wheel to (I have a DFGT), and the 'lock' setting under tuning for the car?

I'm confused becuase it seems like they're all related to each other in some way.

considering I'm racing and not driving around town, I'd have thought I want something like full lock with about 180 degrees input either way, and have fairly linear input. But I don't know where to start (and 'try it' is difficult when it takes so long to start a race, you can't adjust wheel settings during a race, and there is no calibration screen to see the effects of your settings other than driving around the track). It can save a lot of time to hear what others have found to work well.

cem_ea_id.mrklaw wrote:Hi

What is the relationship between 'steering sensitivity', the number of degrees you set your wheel to (I have a DFGT), and the 'lock' setting under tuning for the car?

I'm confused becuase it seems like they're all related to each other in some way.

considering I'm racing and not driving around town, I'd have thought I want something like full lock with about 180 degrees input either way, and have fairly linear input. But I don't know where to start (and 'try it' is difficult when it takes so long to start a race, you can't adjust wheel settings during a race, and there is no calibration screen to see the effects of your settings other than driving around the track). It can save a lot of time to hear what others have found to work well.

They do pretty much the same, however the steering lock obviously changes it for one car only, whereas the steering sensitivity changes it for the entire game, to accomodate for differences in input from various keypads and steering wheels.

cem_ea_id.mrklaw wrote:Hi

What is the relationship between 'steering sensitivity', the number of degrees you set your wheel to (I have a DFGT), and the 'lock' setting under tuning for the car?

I'm confused becuase it seems like they're all related to each other in some way.

considering I'm racing and not driving around town, I'd have thought I want something like full lock with about 180 degrees input either way, and have fairly linear input. But I don't know where to start (and 'try it' is difficult when it takes so long to start a race, you can't adjust wheel settings during a race, and there is no calibration screen to see the effects of your settings other than driving around the track). It can save a lot of time to hear what others have found to work well.

Short note: Sensitivity is a combination of factors. Sensitivity here is a combination of linearity and saturation.

Steering-Sensitivity
Sensitivity allows you to change how linear your wheel responds. 50% would be a perfect 1:1 linear steering. Where 100% would give you 2:1 and be much more sensitive the first few degrees, gradually getting less till steering-lock. And 0% would give you 1:2, meaning the first few degrees would be less sensitive and require more steering but also gradually increasing to 1:1 at steering-lock.
Increasing or decreasing the sensitivity does NOT change your steering-lock as mentioned earlier. The easiest way to say it would be:
with 100% you have to steer little to initiate a turn, but keep the more you turn, the weaker it gets till lock.
with 0% you have to steer a lot to initiate a turn, but require less additional steering the stronger you turn.
both values end at steering-lock with 1:1 and only have that different 0/100% (1:2/2:1) value while centered, then gradually increasing/lowering it.
(Lower sensitivities add more control for small turns and are especially useful for drifting with larger rotation, but require a lot more movement... While higher sensitivities help you with courses with hard turns, requiring less movement.)

Speed Steering-Sensitivity
This was explained correctly. With full 100%, the faster you go, the less sensitive your steering settings become from center, while 0% leaves your actual steering-sensitivity untouched.

An outgrowth of power steering is speed adjustable steering, where the steering is heavily assisted at low speed and lightly assisted at high speed.

Steering-Lock
Basically, steering-lock helps you to adjust your wheels rotation from within the game and I thought it was mainly meant for consoles and wheels that can't be adjusted by software/drivers. Let's say I set my G25 in software to 900° rotation, while I got in-game steering-lock at 40%... this would give me an actual in-game radius of 360° instead of the full 900°.

Tuning steering-lock settings

Steering ratio refers to the ratio between the turn of the steering wheel (in degrees) and the turn of the wheels (in degrees). In most passenger cars, it is between 12 and 20:1.
Example: If one complete turn of the steering wheel (360 degrees) causes the wheels to turn 24 degrees, then the ratio is 15:1 (360/24=15).

That 24 number is the kind of number you're adjusting in-game. The higher the value the tighter you can turn, but the more sensitive steering becomes and not so good for higher speeds. The lower the value, the smaller your car's turn-radius, but less sensitive as well and better for higher speeds. Race-car's ratio's are generally higher then standard passenger cars, meaning lower degrees.
Lower ratio means more degrees and smaller turn-radius with less steering, while higher ratios means less degrees and larger turn-radius with more steering.

Please anybody correct me if I misinterpreted something or made a mistake somewhere... I was interrupted during the post several times and may have skipped something I wanted to write or made a mistake somewhere.