Is it weird that one day I jumped in to do laps and suddenly felt that the FFB I had previously been using for the better part of a year is absolutely disgusting? I've been running Sebastian's (SKeijemal from Youtube) settings in Simucube for the longest time now, with most titles running around 40% gain in game and 100% in the driver. I add a slight bit of in game smoothing normally (a couple of notches, maybe 3-5%) and have been completely fine with it. These settings include the reconstruction filter at 9, with a little damping. I couldn't understand why my FFB was SOOO heavy, unresponsive and generally felt like it was getting in the way to a point that I've never experienced before. This is in the space of time of a single night.
Previously, I've tried recon filter values around 1-3 and these felt unusable. They felt very 'mechanical', as if you could feel the current traveling throughout the servo and into the rim. It was very un-car steering wheel like, so I never ran it. I am now running recon filter at 1 (!) with 0.0% damping in the driver, a touch of friction and 3% inertia (not too sure what inertia does but it didn't feel good with it at 0% so I put it back).
I've changed nothing in game, and all cars feel a mile better than what I was running before. You get a lot more detail also coming through the rim. Not to a point that it was before with the weird electrical noise was noticeable, but just overall better.
I have no idea how something I've been using for so long, so frequently, could feel so wrong so quickly. Also weird is the fact that settings I felt completely unsuitable not long ago are now favourable. I cannot see how anything might have changed in the background, at a driver level without me knowing. Wonder if anyone else has ever experienced this epiphany relating to their FFB?
