Gran Turismo 4 with Fanatec Wheel and Pedal Sim Rig Direct Drive on PS2 Emulator

Welcome this time to check out how Gran Turismo 4 🟦🟥 holds up on a Fanatec Direct Drive wheel and load cell pedals!⚙️
🔥 Driving the Nissan R92CP around the Tokyo R246 was pure bliss! 🔥
The CP stands for group C prototype for the R92 model.
📌 What You'll See:
First race of the Gran Turismo World Championship
Overlays with steering wheel, pedals and telemetry
Spontaneous and unprompted commentary while driving
How to setup a group C car in Gran Turismo 4
🔧 Sim Racing Cockpit Setup:
In this video I used the Fanatec DD1 F1 eSports limited edition Bundle which includes the Blue tinted carbon fiber Clubsport Formula V2 steering wheel with the pre installed advanced Podium Advanced Paddle Module. Connected to this direct drive wheelbase are the Clubsport V3 pedals, in which the loadcell brake original elastomers were upgraded to the Clubsport V3 Brake Performance Kit for a more realistic, immersive and competitive performance during racing. Everything is bolted on a SimLab GT1 evo with a FIA homologated Sparco Grid Q Bucket Seat which provide a very stable and realistic seating position for maximum consistency and precision, specially under braking.
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🎮 Game Details:
Game: Gran Turismo 4 (2005)
Platform: [Sony PlayStation 2, PCSX2 emulator]
🛠️🏁 Sim Racing Equipment Used:
◾️ Thrustmaster TH8A Shifter
◽️ SimLab Gt1 evo aluminium profile rig
◽️ Sparco Grid Q Bucket Seat
◽️ PlaySeat Trophy Red Actifit
◾️ Fanatec Formula V2.5 Podium Racing Wheel F1 ® - officially licensed for PS4 ™
◾️ Fanatec Podium DD1
◾️ Fanatec Clubsport BMW M3 GT2
◾️ Fanatec Clubsport V3 + Brake Performance Kit
◾️ Fanatec Podium Kill Switch and Remote Power Button
◾️ Thrustmaster TS-PC Racer Servo Motor
◾️ Thrustmaster Sparco P310 Addon Mod
◾️ Logitech G923 TrueForce Force Feedback
◾️ Thrustmaster TLCM Load Cell Pedals
🖥️🕹️ PC Hardware Setup:
◾️ AOC 32" Curved Monitor C32G2ZE 244hz 0.5ms
◾️ AMD Ryzen 5 5600X
◾️ Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8GB GDDR6 Twin Edge LHR
◾️ RAM - G.SKILL Ripjaws V 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 3200MHz CL16
◽️ SSD M.2 2280 Western Digital Black SN750 500GB 3D NAND NVMe
◾️ Motherboard - ATX Gigabyte B550 Aorus Elite V2
◾️ PSU - Seasonic Core GM 650W Semi Modular 80PLUS Gold
◾️ Case - ATX Nox Hummer Quantum RGB Full Tempered Glass
◽️ OS - Windows 10 Home
◽️ Krom Kammo Mouse
◽️ Motospeed c92 ck108 Mechanical Keyboard
💽 Extra Storage:
◾️ SSD M.2 2280 Western Digital Black SN750 1TB 3D NAND NVMe
◽️ Seagate 2TB BarraCuda 7200rpm 3.5 SATA III 256MB
⌨️🖱️ Peripherals:
◽️ AOC 32" Curved Monitor C32G2ZE 244hz 0.5ms
◾️ OS - Windows 10 Home
◽️ Krom Kammo Mouse
◾️ Motospeed c92 ck108 Mechanical Keyboard
◽️ Thrustmaster T-Mini 2 in1 Rumble Force V.2
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[@soniagouveia]

Never seen you strugle with a car so much xD "he drifts he wins" HAHAH

[@shaneh7946]

Hey boss! Great driving.. nice job! Any chance you could share your fanalabs settings for this? Struggling with the high speed oscillations :(

[@caaarlos]

Thanks man. The settings are pretty scuffed because the FFB is a bit weird and designed for a very weak steering wheel.
I also have high speed oscillations but they are just less strong and less noticeable, but my whole FFB is also much weaker.
I will share the settings I had in the video:
(with 20% FOR, it will actually work at around 2.6nm which is similar power to the original wheel for GT4)
[SEN] 370
[FFB] 85%
[FFS] LINEAR
[NDP] 5% (can increase for stability)
[NFR] OFF
[NIN] OFF
[INT] OFF (1 for stability, less detail)
[FEI] 100
[FOR] 20%
[SPR] 120%
[DPR] 30%
[BRF] MAX (100)
I hope you find these useful.
I was using PCSX2 v1.7 i think, but now I've downloaded a newer v2.1 version and I might try to tweak a bit the settings including trying to figure out other settings with the options regarding Gran Turismo 4 FFB but other than simulation, the signal doesn't seem to change much whatever I do. If you find other solutions to the FFB oscillations please share as well.
Good luck and Have fun!

[@shaneh7946]

@@caaarlos Thanks a lot for sharing them! Unfortunately I didn't really feel much feedback at all with your settings, maybe I'm doing something wrong. I'll do more testing to try and see.
This is what I use but the oscillations are significantly worse for me.
[SEN] 900
[FFB] 40%
[FFS] Linear
[NDP] 50% (it's high, I know)
[NFR] OFF
[NIN] OFF
[INT] 5
[FEI] 100
[FOR] 100%
[SPR] 100%
[DPR] OFF (I don't think this has any effect off or on, needs more testing)
[BRF] This is preference, I use 80% because I am barefoot/socks
Let me know if you do try these, or if you change your settings too, please! I'd love to dial them in somehow but I know there will always be limitations when playing a game this old. I have been having a super great time with it though.
Thanks again brother!

[@caaarlos]

​@@shaneh7946 ​ @shaneh7946 My settings rate at 2.5nm which is indeed pretty low and equivalent to a Logitech G25.
There are a few things, increasing [SEN] makes you need to turn way more than it is supposed to, and Gran Turismo 4 FFb was made for lower [SEN] wheel settings.
NDP isn't that high considered what you're trying to achieve, but there is something than can clean up many irregularities in the FFB, settings the [INT] 2, at least 2 or 3 in interpolation filter.
[FEI] is the force from the game compared to the wheelbase settings, and usually 100 is default. When I reduce it to 20 it reduces the nm emited by the game by a lot, that is why at 85% my settings produce such low nm force from the base, just like the game intended.
If I run 50 in [FEI] I need to set the FFB strength to something like 17%. and the wheel will get heavy and jolty on higher speeds but usually the FFB feeling is quite faint and we need to be light handed in order to catch slides and feel the car, almost paperweight hands if you want the car to self align and self countersteer.
I'm running PCSX2.1.1 using the Driving Force Pro (rev11.02) wheel emulation, and adjusting that wheel in Gran Turismo 4 settings.
The mappings come from selecting Enable SDL input source.
Inside Gran Turismo, I think I have the FFB strenght option on Mild instead of Strong and not sure if I have powersteering on or off. But steering itself is set to simulation, regarding the wheel options inside the Gran Turismo 4 menu.
I must say that in general, I usually have zero damping on almost all my sims, AC, ACC, AMS2, even racing games like Forza.
I try to have a wheel that only feels heavy from the game's physics, but never artificially heavy to simulate the feeling of the car.
Some games do that naturally like ACC; while in AC you can get the wheel to be quite light, and I like it because then I get very strong and loose FFB where any subtle movement from the rear end or suspension is immediately felt, which in turn makes me drive the car more on edge.
I always apply the same philosophy where I sacrifice some stability or weight if I get useful detail.
If you see my Assetto Corsa DPi race or hotlap, my FFB was jumping like crazy I was driving close to 20 nm max of the base and the wheel almost jumps out of my hands at every corner, but I'm getting as much info as I possibly can.
ruclips.net/video/nV0yvIVpxaQ/видео.html
GL HF bro
PS - ahah I also drive a lot on socks but I'm very tall maybe my foot are too big to get hurt by the pedals at 100 Brake Force 😂
In my Thrustmaster TH8A video I'm even doing heel and toe technique with socks lol