Whoops! Just saw G25 in the list. Not sorted alphabetically. My mistake.

120%,0%,0%,100%,358degrees.
All boxes ticked except combined pedals. Tick to ‘Allow game to adjust settings.’
In game, I have 0% steering deadzone, 50% sensitivity and 0% speed steering sensitivity. Force-feedback is set to 10.

Oh and for the record my acceleration sensitivity is 20% and braking sens. is 30%.

DevonK:

If you are talking about the demo, driven with all aids off – you must be driving it too slowly. I’m talking about its behaviour near the limit. Most of the folks who have tested this demo out agree – from a sim perspective it’s a bad joke. The car yo-yos side to side with no steering input at all, and there is a 30 degree steering dead zone even when it’s set to zero in the game settings. Any production car that had these characteristics would be subject to immediate recall and the manufacturer would be facing big lawsuits.

I’ve seen more people mentioning this behaviour on the threads about the full game. Apparently some suffer from it (particularly if they have different make pedals with their wheel). I personally don’t. The steering responds with the slightest movement off-centre. [G25 wheel, 5.01 drivers]

There must be quite some bugs in the PC code, since quite a few people are suffering from this. But please believe that not everyone has this issue. Some are actually finding it very driveable, hence the conflicting statements.

DevonK:

Umm…Gee I don’t know – maybe by spending the money that went to hiring folks to do flashy cutscenes on further work improving the car physics and handling??

Nope, still doesn’t work.
First you are assuming that people were outsourced to come in and make the ‘flashy cutscenes’ rather than it be in-house with people who are specialised in video work.
Then you either suggest that they should have instead outsourced the physics to people outside of SMS or had the people who worked on the videos do physics instead assuming they have extensive knowledge of that too.

I’m guessing what you mean is you would rather have had more concentration done on the physics and less so on the videos. I think we can all agree on that.
Unfortunately it doesn’t work that way as you have all depts working 9-5 on their own area of expertise. You dont say get rid of 1 or 2 graphics/video people and hire more physics people.
Shift is not about us. Its not coded for the sim community and the fact that some people don’t get that and are criticising it for not being a sim they are used to is quite silly.

Gaiajohan:
Must be something between monitor and chair. The car is perfectly controllable.

If you are talking about the demo, driven with all aids off – you must be driving it too slowly. I’m talking about its behaviour near the limit. Most of the folks who have tested this demo out agree – from a sim perspective it’s a bad joke. The car yo-yos side to side with no steering input at all, and there is a 30 degree steering dead zone even when it’s set to zero in the game settings. Any production car that had these characteristics would be subject to immediate recall and the manufacturer would be facing big lawsuits.

F1Racer:
Huh??Considering the cars aren’t real, how do you spend more money to make the cars more driveable ?Its like saying “Look guys, I`ll give you some more money if you change the way we were going to do the physics.”

Umm…Gee I don’t know – maybe by spending the money that went to hiring folks to do flashy cutscenes on further work improving the car physics and handling??

DevonK:
All the money burned to create those flashy cutscenes would have been better spent making the cars driveable.

Huh??
Considering the cars aren’t real, how do you spend more money to make the cars more driveable ?
Its like saying “Look guys, I`ll give you some more money if you change the way we were going to do the physics.”

DevonK:
This demo is hilarious. I have of course never driven a totally hammered car before, but I imagine this what it must be like, as it wanders all over the road until it fishtails out of control. Makes NFS: Porsche seem like a pro sim. (And I have tried various G25 sensitivity settings, makes very little difference).
All the money burned to create those flashy cutscenes would have been better spent making the cars driveable.

Must be something between monitor and chair. The car is perfectly controllable.

It will help you adjusting FFB feel as it is similar to SimBin’s sims FFB config.

All the money burned to create those flashy cutscenes would have been better spent making the cars driveable.

UncleChuckle: Friend of mine downloaded it and the demo won’t even work. Menu won’t draw properly. This is on an nVidia card.
So there’s a few sim folk saying “it’s not bad” and the rest are saying its shite.
Foolish of me to expect there to be consensus once the game was released.
Howie: Perhaps he did.

I happen to be quite aware that the world is divided into the pessimist and the optimist camps, those who can enjoy something and those who can’t enjoy anything, and since misery loves company. The later do all they can to keep the former from finding their joy. Tootalue

I actually was so surprised that had to check I set everything on max several times. The game visually is so much behind of what I already accustomed to see on my PC: Crysis, ARMA2 etc. iRacing looks better also on high settings.

A nice thing visually is the reflective car body but also made too perfect for being realistic.

oh and I like the small heat haze effect around my cars exhaust and rear end that I saw on the grid in the Donnington replay.

The cars in the demo all suffer ridiculous over-steer. The controls are very twitchy and the cars feel like they are “floating” or on ice. Didn’t feel like they had any weight or connection with the road. Overall I got a very similar vibe as GRID. I would have to agree with the reviews that stated Shift could not be considered sim like. However it wasn’t much good as an arcade racer either.

And I’ll pretend that I didn’t push a car into the air and drive under it when I tapped it in the rear…

I have about 15 sims and high qualtiy mods installed on my PC, don’t really have time for average stuff like this.

jux:

That’s not true. There are many setup options in the game: toe-in, tire pressures, anti-roll bars, etc.
Of course, none of those really matter that much since the handling of the cars is nowhere near realistic and the steering is close to atrocious.

Yeah just found those options in the garage section. Game just gets better and better.
BUT!
You do need to play with steering to get a good feel.

Have the G25 set at
560 degrees

NFS ingame menus

50% steering sensitivity.
40% full lock

Gives me a good feel

Thinking that 100% Sensitivity and a lower lock will give me that linear feel I want.