I am using a CSL DD plus a BMW wheel and whilst I can drive most of the road races fairly well using the wheel, the offroad races and drift challenges can be fairly challenging!
For drifting I find that the only way to control the drifts is to reduce the sensitivity of the steering to 320 degrees because at the normal 900 degrees, the drift cars just spin out all the time - the turning arc is just too big to do it fast enough. Is this what others do, or is there some secret to drifting using the full 900 degrees that I’m not getting?
Offroad is just plain brutal, so I tend to swap to controller for this, but I’m still keen if there’s a way to drive them well using wheels.
Any setting or driving tips much appreciated.
Cheers
I have it at 360degree for all purposes and its working fine for me
imho this game is not made for 900degree
however the streamer slaptrain showed in his videos that he is able to drift horizon with 900 degree 
many people prefer cockpitview with a wheel
Yeah, I’ve tried everything and the wheel at anything >360 simply won’t countersteer quick enough to enable sound drfiting. 180 degrees feels quite close to the controller in terms of ability to react (and the controller is definitely my marker of acceptability), but then it can make normal driving quite twitchy with side to side oscillations, so it’s really drifting only.
I don’t know if it’s the game, or if it’s me, since i’ve seen some You Tubers seemingly doing fine with a wheel at 900 degrees. Feck knows how they manage to the control the car… once you go, there’s no correcting it, and most of the car builds i’ve used go easily…
Hey guys,
I’m using the fanatec dd2 wheel base. I’m drifting for about 3 years now, with fanetec setup. I know it’s difficulty at the beginning. You need to realize, that if you play with the controller and you take the stick from left to the right side, you move the wheel to 900° in about one second. Gaming with steering wheel is more about playing with the clutch and throttle.
- You’ve got to squeeze the throttle a little bit. Not too much.
- Then spin the wheel to the side you want
- Take the hands off the wheel and it will spin to the other side.
- Now catch the wheel again and hold it at the angle you want.
Here is some vid I made
At the end you see some drifts with wheel and foot cam.
These are my new settings (maybe it will work for you)
Fanatec driver 440
Fanatec DD 2 setting
SEN 900
FFB 40. CSL DD 100
FFS PEAK
NDP 44
NFR OFF
NIN OFF
INT 1
FEI 080
FOR 100
SPR OFF
DPR OFF
BRF 50
BLI OFF
Ingame setting
FFB scale 1
Central spring scale 1
Wheel damper scale 1
Mechanical trail scale 0,8
Force feedback minimum force 0,8
Force feedback load sensitivity 0,8
Road feel scale 0,8
Tuning share code for Mercedes amg c63
Drift beta tune 1.2
679 694 524
excuse my english, I’m not a native speaker. Hope I could help you a little.
I wanna make a drift tutorial video but I’m little busy with work and real life
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That’s truly impressive stuff Gizmo, as is the racing setup!
I guess it just isn’t for me. I’m using a CSL DD and a BMW wheel and like I said, as soon as I try anything above 360 degrees SEN it just becomes impossible to control and get out of oversteers once they happen. It just spins out as I can’t turn the wheel fast enough in the other direction to c ounter it, and even if I did the car would then oversteer the other direction. Letting go of the wheel and letting it feed through my hands just doesn’t work much either (maybe there’s a setting I need…?)
More likely, it’s just me. Normal driving (i.e. non drifting) I do with the center spring at near 0, since with it set to 1, it just creates oscillations in the wheel while trying to turn corners. It seems like setting centre spring to 1 is critical for drifting, however, is that correct?
What’s the clutch used for in drifting - you mentioned it initially, but then didn’t go on to say what it’s for. I also don’t have a shifter or a handbrake.
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Thank you.
I’ve changed the wheel settings after driver 442. I will post it the next few days, maybe it can help.
Clutch kick gives you more power at the beginning. So you can start the drift. Clutch kick means: you have to hit the clutch and the throttle at the same time. Then get off the clutch and squeeze the throttle a little bit.
First you should learn to drift ‘DONUTS’.
Handbrake is not so important. With the shifter you can lock the gears. But in the beginning you can lock it with the shifter paddles. For donuts i use the second or third gear. Depending on the size of donut i wanna make.
Like i said i will do a drift tutorial video… but i married the last week and so i have no time:grin:
