Re: [Speed-dreams-users] Keyboard driving techniques (was: Compiled SD under Fedora 15 x86 but getting seg fault error?)

[Jaime V. P. <ja...@ig...>]

On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 09:39:47 +0200 (CEST)
jpm...@fr... wrote:

> Do you have a special technique you could share with us ?
> ('cause I used to work on the code behind, but got very few feedbacks,
>  and so had to let it as is ... and wait for more users to try it :-)

  It's a bit different depending on the car, and difficult to describe
because it's mostly subconscious, but consists on tapping the steering
key with increasing/decreasing frequency and duration, and occasionally
fast-tapping the opposite steering key once, to compensate when the car
starts to drift. On closed turns, near the turn center I maintain
pressed the steering key while I change from braking to accelerate,
repeating the tapping technique on the turn exit. 

  Of course, the "driving style" has to be more "hard" than with a
wheel, but for me it works fine with the mp5-fmc, and also with TRB1
and with some of the LS1, LS2 and Supercars. It doesn't works at all
for 36GP, and with mp1 and mpa it can be very stressing, tough still
doable...

> OK, let's not "discuss tastes and colors" 
> (a direct translation from a french proverbial sentence, hope it does
> also in English)

  Sounds very familiar when translated back to Spanish on my mind... :)

> A bit hard, I agree ... but I'm now used to use my finger
> just as the TCS does with the fuel injector ... push and then leave
> and then push ... at a high pace when the driving wheels are spinning
> at slow speed. This enables me to drive the LS1 monsters
> with quite some fun, if not good lap times. But this doesn't do with
> the 36 GP :-(

  I tried that, but on most cars/tracks I can't control it well enough
to even do one clean full lap. To not talk about 36GP... I can't even
control these with my Logitech wheel and pedals!

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Jaime Vives Piqueres
		
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