Grid can I use separate wheel and pedals?

conticreative · 6 November 10, 22:45

I have a G25 with a mod that makes the pedals a separate controlled from the whee.

I have a copy of GRID gathering dust and I wanted to play it but it's not recognizing my pedals.

Is it possible to have GRID see my pedals somehow? It seems to be expecting them together with the G25, but I am not about to reconnected them just for this game when I have far better ones. I just wanted to give it a spin.

Thanks

Mk1 Paul · 12 November 10, 03:26

just curious , why would you separate the pedals from the wheel.
and where did you find this mod I could see it being useful for flight sims

conticreative · 12 November 10, 21:22

Hi Paul, I am using a device made by Leo Bodnar that lets you attach the pedals directly to your computer via USB.

here is a link to all his mods: http://simracing-mods.de/tags/leo-bodnar (and you may find a link to his pages as well, or look for "Leo Bodnar pedal mod" in Google)

The main reason is that his device (used to be a box, but it's now integrated into a USB cable) increases the sample rate of the pots in the pedal set. So where before you had just less than 500 samples per second, now you have over a 1000 (I am making the numbers up).

Principally it's used to run the Load Cell mod that substitutes the spring and potentiometer assembly with a load cell, making the brake feel a lot more like a real brake pedal. In other words lets you brake by pressure rather than travel. I highly recommend it even just for a regular G25 set of pedals, but changing to a load cell makes people faster overnight. less locking, better brakes, faster laps.

Problem is that while serious sims can support up to 3 controllers (allowing me for instance to take an old PS2 style usb controller and place the buttons on my wheel as a third controller) GRID doesn't seem to support that.

Not that I will cry salty tears about it: I Have NKpro, rFactor, LFS and I usually race on iRacing, which overall is the best of the group. But I wanted to give GRID a spin. I guess I'll have to shelve it.

6 November 10, 22:45	#1
conticreative Donated Join Date: Jul 2008	Grid can I use separate wheel and pedals? I have a G25 with a mod that makes the pedals a separate controlled from the whee. I have a copy of GRID gathering dust and I wanted to play it but it's not recognizing my pedals. Is it possible to have GRID see my pedals somehow? It seems to be expecting them together with the G25, but I am not about to reconnected them just for this game when I have far better ones. I just wanted to give it a spin. Thanks

12 November 10, 03:26	#2
Mk1 Paul Donated Join Date: Oct 2010	just curious , why would you separate the pedals from the wheel. and where did you find this mod I could see it being useful for flight sims

12 November 10, 21:22	#3
conticreative Donated Join Date: Jul 2008	Hi Paul, I am using a device made by Leo Bodnar that lets you attach the pedals directly to your computer via USB. here is a link to all his mods: http://simracing-mods.de/tags/leo-bodnar (and you may find a link to his pages as well, or look for "Leo Bodnar pedal mod" in Google) The main reason is that his device (used to be a box, but it's now integrated into a USB cable) increases the sample rate of the pots in the pedal set. So where before you had just less than 500 samples per second, now you have over a 1000 (I am making the numbers up). Principally it's used to run the Load Cell mod that substitutes the spring and potentiometer assembly with a load cell, making the brake feel a lot more like a real brake pedal. In other words lets you brake by pressure rather than travel. I highly recommend it even just for a regular G25 set of pedals, but changing to a load cell makes people faster overnight. less locking, better brakes, faster laps. Problem is that while serious sims can support up to 3 controllers (allowing me for instance to take an old PS2 style usb controller and place the buttons on my wheel as a third controller) GRID doesn't seem to support that. Not that I will cry salty tears about it: I Have NKpro, rFactor, LFS and I usually race on iRacing, which overall is the best of the group. But I wanted to give GRID a spin. I guess I'll have to shelve it.