Step One: Getting set up in Windows – Recommended Here’s how we’re suggesting you go about setting your rig up. If you don’t like the effect of soft lock at all, turning soft lock off will mean all cars will run with the degrees of rotation that you have set in your windows drivers. If you like the variety of steering lock which each car offers but are finding it too much work you can keep the soft lock option on in the “Advanced wheel options” and reduce the steering saturation by however much you like.įor example the Fiat 131 Arbarth has 1080 degrees of steering lock, reducing your steering saturation by 50% will now mean it has 540 degrees of rotation. This is called “soft lock” and it mimics the same amount of lock these cars have in the real world (you’ll find a list of how we’ve set each car up so far below). What you’ll find with this new set up is that in particular the older cars will now be much more work in the hairpins and tight turns, after an hour of play you’ll feel like you’ve done a full upper body workout. Advanced Wheel Settingsįor our players who lean more towards simulation games you’ll find that we’ve added a whole suite of options to give you as much control as possible over your set up. To you we’re recommending that you leave your set up as it is for now, you shouldn’t need to change anything but if you were previously running 270 degrees of rotation on your wheel you may find it really snappy and 540 may suit you better. Now if you’re more accustomed to the older DiRT games and was perhaps OK with how our force feedback was you won’t really need to worry about any of this. The other main part of the patch is our new advanced wheel options screens. To take advantage of our new force feedback you don’t need to do anything other than download the latest patch and play the game.

Hopefully all these changes will allow you to drive quicker and make you feel like you are more in control. You’ll now find that the Force Feedback coming through your wheel now feels much more intuitive, the car will now feel much more connected to the road and the forces acting against you will help you get a better idea of what the car is doing. There are two main parts to the FFB update, this first should be instantly noticeable the second you hit the stage. Great news everyone! DiRT Rally’s FFB update is almost ready to go live but before we do that we wanted to drop the full details on what it is we’ve changed so that it has a little time to sink in.

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