Steering wheel + driving simulation game recommendations

[LTTmodssuckdick]

Hi,

 

I am learning to drive in my country and want to supplement my driving lessons by learning to steer properly at home, with driving lessons being banned by the government at the moment. What is a good steering wheel for my purpose? It needs to feel like a real steering wheel with force needed to turn it, just like a real car steering wheel, and pedals that feels like the real deal. I’m looking at a price range up to $100 if a decent steering wheel + pedals can be found. In terms of a simulation game, is City Car Driving Simulator good enough? I am looking for a game that will really force me to turn the steering wheel properly hand over hand, not like an arcade gaming station in an arcade, and that punishes mistakes realistically. I have a GTX 1660Ti so a VR game would be good too. 

[Yo soy Jack]

Wow this is perfect as I was about to purchase this. If you have an oculus headset you can get DiRt Rally on the oculus store, it's basically just like a rally car racing simulator. It honestly looks amazing and probably wouldn't be that hard to run on a 1660. Then you can get any steering wheel on amazon, I recommend buying from Logitech though because they have the best rep.

[19_blackie_73]

You wont get a steering wheel and pedalbox for 100$ that will feel like the real deal. You would need a direct drive wheel for that. And most sims, while being realistic, are for racing, not noodling around town.

[JZStudios]

36 minutes ago, linusrules1911 said:

I’m looking at a price range up to $100

No. Not happening.

 

I did a similar thing, though I spent something like ~$600 on a wheel + pedals + shifter. Outside the general movements of shifting, it's a terrible method to try and actually learn to drive a car. At least a manual car. There is basically zero realistic clutch feel or simulation in pretty much every sim game. Project Cars 2 and BeamNG.Drive are the most realistic for clutch, but without clutch feel it's a pretty moot point. You can't really do a smooth city driving start in any of these games, it almost always results in a stall. In a number of cases the sim doesn't even actually stall and the RPM just drops to zero.

 

I legitimately learned bad driving/shifting habits from getting a wheel first like slamming gears into place and dropping the clutch. Very rough shifting and it took a few months to learn it proper. After you know how to actually drive a car the sim can start to complement it. It's also harder to know the limits of the car since you have limited vision and can't freely look around.

 

If you intend on driving an automatic (and they let you test with one) it's laughably easy. Best I can recommend is finding out what the driving test requires and go down with a parent or someone to an empty park or parking lot with plastic trash cans for obstacles. Hell, do the same with a manual if that's required.

[LogicalDrm]

-> Moved to Peripherals

[flashiling]

as someone who's had a license for 2 years,

no it doesn't assist in any way.

i tried my cousins super expensive sim racing rig, and i wasn't much better than before i had a license

[JZStudios]

16 hours ago, flashiling said:

as someone who's had a license for 2 years,

no it doesn't assist in any way.

i tried my cousins super expensive sim racing rig, and i wasn't much better than before i had a license

It takes getting used to.

[LTTmodssuckdick]

I’ve thought about this again and now I think that I don’t need it to be like the real deal, just reasonably realistic. Does anyone know of a reasonably good steering wheel and pedals for cheap in Australia? I’ve decided on which driving sim I’m going to use – City Car Driving. In the real world I am learning to drive an automatic as 90% of the cars in Australia are automatic. 

[fls3h]

On 10/2/2020 at 9:02 AM, JZStudios said:

No. Not happening.

 

I did a similar thing, though I spent something like ~$600 on a wheel + pedals + shifter. Outside the general movements of shifting, it's a terrible method to try and actually learn to drive a car. At least a manual car. There is basically zero realistic clutch feel or simulation in pretty much every sim game. Project Cars 2 and BeamNG.Drive are the most realistic for clutch, but without clutch feel it's a pretty moot point. You can't really do a smooth city driving start in any of these games, it almost always results in a stall. In a number of cases the sim doesn't even actually stall and the RPM just drops to zero.

 

I legitimately learned bad driving/shifting habits from getting a wheel first like slamming gears into place and dropping the clutch. Very rough shifting and it took a few months to learn it proper. After you know how to actually drive a car the sim can start to complement it. It's also harder to know the limits of the car since you have limited vision and can't freely look around.

 

If you intend on driving an automatic (and they let you test with one) it's laughably easy. Best I can recommend is finding out what the driving test requires and go down with a parent or someone to an empty park or parking lot with plastic trash cans for obstacles. Hell, do the same with a manual if that's required.

this is where you're wrong my man. i got my g27 with its shifter at 79$ and not a single issue there and its working perfectly fine :)