Sudden deadzone/understeer on wheel (PC)
Product: F1 23
Platform:PC
Please specify your platform model. PC
Summarize your bug Changing setups, losing control of your car or ALT+TABing can randomly give the wheel the feeling of adding deadzone, increasing understeer and reducing responsiveness of the car.
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Which area is the bug/glitch in? Single Player
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Wheel: Logitech G920 This is the most common way I have reproduced it. Doesn't always happen, but most of the time it will: 1. F1 World > Play > Time Trial > F2 2022 > Campos Racing 2. Try running a couple of laps, car should be responsive (as intended). 3. Go back to garage, edit car's setup and change camber significantly (in my case, I have tried adding/substracting 3 clicks to either side). 4. Go out once again, if the bug happens, you will feel the decrease in responsiveness into T17 and the rest of the laps.
What happens when the bug occurs? Loss of responsiveness, as the wheel feels like it has gained deadzone. Car will understeer a lot and lack grip.
What do you expect to see? No loss of responsiveness, no deadzone added.
So here is the thing, I have started a new F2 season in the Career mode and usually what I do before starting a race weekend is get used to the car + track in Time Trial and try to play a bit with the setup to start understanding how it works.
In the 1st weekend (Bahrain) everything was going well up to the pit stop in the race. When leaving the pits I started to feel like the car was really unresponsive compared to before, and I had to turn the wheel way more to hit the apex. At the time I didn't think much about this because I had gone from Softs to Hards, so I believed that the car or my setup were just bad with the harder compounds.
However, next race is Miami so I go into Time Trial once again and everything is going smoothly, just learning the track before trying any setup changes. Nothing happens when modifying transmission and brake bias, but once I start fiddling with camber the issue happens again. Obviously, because this is Time Trial, I can't explain it with tyre degradation or bad setup, because when changing back to the default one the issue persists and the car remains unresponsive.
This happens 90% of the time I change camber settings on the car, and seeing how it also happened during Bahrain's race, it doesn't seem to be related to just setup changes. Furthermore, today I experienced the same issue when I got an unrelated loss of audio and had to ALT+TAB to fix it. After ALT+TABing back to the game, the issue re-arised, without any setup changes or even going back to the garage (I thought that maybe this could happen each time you lost control of the car).
A more elaborate description of the issue: the wheel feels like it gains some deadzone (I have calibrated it to 0%, so it feels like you add 20% or 30%). Therefore, the car is less responsive on-turn in and feels like it gains a lot of weight and understeer. You have to turn the wheel way more than before to hit the apex, and quick shifts in direction feel very clunky, specially in high-speed corners.
For the record, this is happening on PC with a Logitech G920 wheel. Drivers are all up-to-date, so I don't think that's the root cause of the issue.
The only way to fix this is to restart the game. The issue persists if you leave the session and create a new one. This is really annoying, as I need to be constantly closing and opening the game just to make a few changes to the car, otherwise I will lose 1-2s per lap because of the unresponsiveness and understeer on turn-in. Furthermore, while this is just annoying (to put it mildly) during singleplayer, as you can save mid-race, it can be race-ruining if it happens in Multiplayer.
If needed, I can try to plug-in some Telemetry software and record it before and after the issue happens to showcase how crippling this can be. Also, if anyone else is experiencing the same, please don't hesitate to report it too.
