Got a Steering Wheel and what a difference!

[johnporter29]

Got over 400 hours of play with ETS 2 using a XBOX360 Controller, near perfected driving with this controller. Anyway, recently been looking at steering wheels and whther one would make the game even more immersive and I wasn't wrong.

Whilst I've been looking I have found many cheap ones and expensive ones, loved the look of the Logitech G29 or the G920, but couldn't warrant folking out nearly £200 for a steering wheel. Today I bit the bullet and bought this from Argos for £54.99 and
I have to say, while it may be cheap, it's a great little wheel to play ETS 2 with.

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/p ... 723179.htm

After spending 30 mins setting and configuring it to my liking, I'm falling in love with ETS 2 all over again.

Only downside is there is no Force Feed Back.

As I can change the degree the wheel turns, I have hidden the in-game steering wheel by adding " uset r_steering_wheel "0" " to my config.cfg and that has made it even better.

Anyone who gets this wheel, then I recommend this Youtube video as a guide to setting it up correctly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe6gwIHE2ok

[Axel Slingerland]

I know what you mean. I had used a Logitech Dual Action Gamepad for a year and a half when I got my G27 wheel. It was like a night and day difference. But I gotta ask... Where did you find a G29 or G920 for £200? In the US they're $399.99 plus shipping, and that comes to around the equivalent of £350.

[thebigbadonion]

Of course!

I'd been playing the game for a long time with a controller too, last year I decided to jump in to the whole wheel craze got my self a Driving Force GT off Amazon for about £80 I too felt my self falling in love with ETS 2 all over again it was like playing it again for the first time. I'd not got that feeling from the game since the early days of me playing it. By this point I think I had around 2000 hours recorded on steam, more so counting the times I played it before I registered my copy on my steam account.

The DFGT checked a lot of the major boxes for ETS 2,. 900 degree steering, force feedback, I'd done a lot of research around the community and while the general consensus at the time was just buy a G27, and I really wanted to but I simply didn't have the money, and I'd had experiences with wheels in the past on playstation 1 and 2 and hated them, so was pretty unsure I'd even like them. The DFGT was still a great cheaper alternative, that a lot of people couldn't speak highly enough of, so that's what I ended up with. I used that DFGT for well over a year and loved it, its an absolutely splendid wheel for the money. Not only did it breathe new life in to ETS 2, at that point I'd started to play other sims such as OMSI, I also started to look at a genre I'd never been able to get on with before. Racing sims. Don't get me wrong I was no total stranger to racing games, but I often found more joy in less realistic games such as Need For Speed than in hard core racing sims. But armed with my new wheel I found a joy in them that I'd never been able to see before.

After using the DFGT for well over a year I started to wonder what its bigger brother was like, perhaps its worth the money to go up to a G29. So after quite a lot of saving I bit the bullet and just got on with it. Honestly it was the best £210 I've spent in a long time. The Driving Force GT was good, but the G29 is on a whole different level. The Force Feedback and general steering is much more precise and responsive, which helps a lot in racing games (although you don't really notice it as much in ETS 2) the wheel feels more realistic, its like metal with a leather wrap. The turning on the wheel feels much more dampened abd kess juddery. One complaint of the DFGT is you always felt every notch on the gears that ran the feedback mechanism, no so on G29 the also makes it a lot less rattly and generally all round just better feeling Over all for the most part it just has a much higher build quality. Although considering the wheel on its own was £100 more it should. The pedals are in a whole different league as well. The brake pedal is progressive and feels far closer to the brake on a real vehicle, the clutch pedal feels very different to press than the accelerator. Where as the accelerator is quite soft and easy to press the clutch has a much more tensioned feeling, again as you'd expect from a real vehicle. and the actual tops of the pedals are made of metal while the base unit is made of a much more substantial plastic, the whole thing just has a much higher quality to it. But real deal breaker on ETS 2 is the fact you can now have a gear shifter. Once again because I'm now having to correctly shift my own gears, it feels far more like I;m driving I've learned to fall in love and appreciate ETS 2, and by now ATS all over again.

If you ever get to the point I did where the wheel you have is ok, but you wonder what its like to move up, you won't be disappointed. Sure there's better wheels out there especially some of those offered by Thrustmaster and Fanatic. But those end up costing a lot more, at the price its currently sold at the G29 really is hard to beat. When it first came out, yes it was far too expensive. But now the price is what it should have always been, and its a great wheel for the money, even if it is quite a lot of money.

[jarvik79]

Where did you find a G29 or G920 for £200? In the US they're $399.99 plus shipping

Amazon. £180.
By the way, they're $299 on US Amazon too, not $399.

[thebigbadonion]

yep that's where I got mine from . Was £210 with the shifter.

[johnporter29]

As others have stated, Amazon UK have them at £180, so do Currys/PCWorld and I think Argos have them at that price too.

There's an error in my original post, I can't change the degrees the wheel turns, but to me, it don't really matter at the moment.

[johnporter29]

Well just after 3 weeks of having the the Ferrari Steering Wheel, I was experiencing an issue where I would have to disconnect it and restart my PC and re-configure ETS 2 to use it again as when I was driving on a straight road, my vehicle would bear of to the right on it's own without me moving the wheel, and couldn't think what was causing it, I suspect it was because I kept removing the wheel from my desk when not in use and picking it up by the wheel etc ... but again not 100% sure.

So decided to bite the bullet and have been out and purchased a G29, and again it's a big difference in the terms of immersion, fully enjoying the game even more. I don't have the gear stick so I use the simple automatic setting in game, but love this wheel.

This is just one thing that is bothering me, when I first set it up and had my first go, I disabled FFB in ETS 2, the wheel seemed to be smooth to turn etc. After coming in tonight from work and reload ETS 2, the wheel seemed a lot harder to turn and had to use both hands most of the time, it was like you could feel every turn of the gears inside the unit. If I go in and re-anable FFB and re-disabled it, I get the smooth feel back, anyone know why this is?