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To you does please itself By Ferrari?

Rhetorical question. To me also. To any person, whom please themselves the machines generally, it must be pleased by Ferrari. But now visualize that they tell you: "A you want to hold for the control from Ferrari?". You could refuse? It can be, but 4 not smog. Therefore when me they rang from the company "megatreyd" (distrib'yutory Guillemot in Russia) and proposed to protestirovat' the new control with the feedback, in creation of which participated... the specialists from Ferrari, to persuade me to them for long it was not necessary.

If who remembers, a certain time back 4 already tested one control with the feedback from Guillemot - Race Leader Force Feedback. And here to me fell the following model - that zh, let us look how us guillemot will gladden at this time.

Complete set

v to box was discovered the following: strictly control, treadle knot, power unit, the management of user and CD with drivers and software.

Exterior view

to you does please itself by Ferrari?

Oy it seems 4 this it already asked. But that you thought, after purchasing computer accessory, if on the box in it proudly reared up black stallion against the yellow background, under which it is modest, but it is written with the taste: "is officially litsenzirovano Ferrari Idea S A."? It is how, A? Well it is agreeable, I think, box - it box exists, little whether that on it they will draw. I open, obtain... and directly from the center of "baranka" to me it mashet by hooves familiar horse silhouette.

Recalling the first control, I can say only one: sky and the earth. Instead of plastic something, which was similar to everything, besides control, I held in the hands elegant sport three-spoked steering wheel! A strict design with the predominant black color, splendid form, convenient section, groove under the thumbs - it is immediately evidently, from where foot (hoof?) they grow! The material of braiding - pleasant by feel soft natural rubber, whose frictional properties such, that the hands not the fact that do not slide, they with difficulty move on it!

Control became less in the sizes - and steering wheel itself, and housing. This is good - 4, for example, from the surplus of place on the computer table I do not suffer, so that here each centimeter - victory.

Control elements

the first, what strikes - to the right of control appeared the very convenient and likable change-gear lever sekvental'nogo type (being rocked forward and backward). There are also two podrulevykh switches (Vol. n. of shiftery). And here I must with the great satisfaction note that the creators of control made a very serious improvement in comparison with the previous model. First, now right and leftist of shiftery is in no way mechanically connected with each other. If you remember, earlier they were executed in the form of the one-piece plastic plate, fixed in the middle at the level of control shaft. Now this two separate "lobes". Are more accurate, lobes, in reality, four - on two from each side, but only upper pair is workers. Lower "lobes" - it is simple properties, although they also are pressed. Honestly speaking, 4 so he did not understand this hitching post; however, lower lobes in no way interfere with control process. But the main thing is now shiftery are turned together with the steering wheel. This is very serious plus, and precisely fixed shiftery so were not pleased to me in the first control. With the gearshift in the turning, which occurs practically always, fixed shifterami cannot be use was - hand- that in you they turned themselves, and switches remained on the spot. Then now everything became very conveniently.

One additional positive moment is that on the control poubavilos' buttons. But those, which remained, were very successfully grouped. Thus, strictly buttons now only two - to the right and to the left. Plus to this to the left - 8- position cap, and to the right - the lever, which appears from itself four buttons. Both "caps" ideally fall under the thumbs.

I finally are two pedals. Alas, alas, and again alas - treadle knot was wholly inherited from the previous model, without any changes. Accordingly, together with it were inherited and all its deficiencies - narrow distance between the treadle areas, not the progressive characteristic of the hardness of brake pedal and the insufficient weight of bed itself. For the sake of fairness I will note that anywhere they did not disappear and advantages - the being rocked treadle areas ensure convenient nazhimaniye, but their area is sufficient for the confident setting of sole.

Installation and connection

I again bravo! The new model has fundamentally new and considerably more successful fastening. Thus, instead of two narrowish detachable clamps, which so aimed to be distorted, now there is a powerful central bracket with two screw clamps and additional catch from the front. At the end of one clamp - supporting disk as on the old meat grinders, while at the end of the second - globular support. They are located after each other, along the axis of control. You otshchelkivayete catch, you install control on the table, in this case it is already reliably fixed by very powerful suckers, after which you involve screw with the disk, then tighten by the second screw, again pull disk, again gather, and when control will be already sufficiently reliably fixed - you close catch, simple- after all cementing it on the spot. I here attempted to pull it, and he understood that I rather detach table top! To you no "kreyzi of drayving" it is terrible after this, the main thing is the table not to displace.

Control has the capability of connection both to COM and to USB- port, for which at the lead of the interface cable is a branching off with the appropriate connectors. This is also very pleasant, since, from one side, not in all still there is USB, but from other side, for example, in me all Soma- ports are occupied. Treadle knot is connected from behind to the control with the aid of the joint, which resembles the mouse PS/2. there it is connected and nourishment from the adapter. The power switch, located there, where all joints, is one additional pleasant improvement. Entire mentioned-below relates to the connection of the device through tire USB.

After connecting all wires, we turn on power supply. Through several seconds Windows reveal new device, identify it as Guillemot Force Feedback Racing Wheel (USB) and inquires the disk of producer. We only now put CD with the drivers and the utilities. If we make this earlier, then automatic start will operate, you can not note after the opened window that Vindy also found new device, and it will pass entire process of installation twice, which of me happened on the first time. The new device will appear after installation in your list of play devices:

on the first page it is possible to verify the signal of all channels of introduction - axes of control and pedals, ten buttons and cap. We here find one additional very considerable improvement: now there is a possibility of the mode switch of pedalling - on one or on two axes. I will recall that the different games differently address the inspection of pedals. In some they both are one axis - Y, in this case gas - this as "upward", and brake - as "downward". In other games each pedal will hang on the separate axis - brake is y axis, and gas - by z axis thus, the problem of compatability with the games was taken completely, for which Guillemot commendable.

One small censure: it is a little difficult to be oriented in this tens of red circle- buttons, supplied with no marking. It would be spread rather well and separately, graphically more clearly, arrange the functional groups of control elements - shiftery, sekvental'nyy lever, button- cap and two usual knopochki. Nowhere in the instruction it is said moreover, what button has what number. Here this not very well, since game does not know how you there to taxi intend, and what lever where is located. There everything is strict: Button 4, Button 9, and you already itself be investigated. To explain this is possible only by experimental way that 4 it made. In order to save your time, I will give the table of the numeration of control elements Guillemot Force Feedback Racing Wheel:

editor represents the very simple, intelligible and convenient program of creation and editing it is file tuning. , including each of eight positions of kheta, it is possible to appropriate to each control element any combination of keyboard commands. When I speak "any combination", this actually indicates "any". First, a quantity of keys in one command can reach 32, which hardly sometimes will be required, if only text communications to drive in. In the second place, it is possible to use any modifiers and their combinations, for example, Shif-Ctrl-Alt- S. But thirdly, it is possible to use practically all keys on the keyboard, including such, as Esc, Scroll Lock, Pause/Break, Start Menu (right and leftist separately) and even key for contextual menu! On my standard keyboard Win95 did not work only keys Print Screen and Turbo, everything else could be forced in any combination. 4 already it began to izgalyat'sya and to torture by its any bad things, checking the possibilities of program. As a result it is quiet sglotnul such things as Alt-F4 and Ctlr-Esc, and could not manage only with Alt-Tab and Ctrl-Alt- matters!

Created file can be preserved on the disk and loaded from it. For activating the file of tuning it is necessary to call on Run Preset, after which the editor is minimized into taskbar, and control begins to emulate keyboard commands. In this case the program must remain active during the game.

Only censure, which I can turn into the address of editor - absence of the possibility to appropriate names to keyboard commands. It is sometimes complicated to memorize, that precisely in what game you appropriated to one or other button or another, and after opening file, you will see only keyboard command.

V the matter

A in the matter it is good, oh, it is good! First, it seemed me that in the new model the more powerful servomotors were established - at the "maximum" of tuning intensity with it to straight-away fight necessary! In me in "zhigulyakh" the control on the hummocks so strongly from the hands does not pull out. Effects still are qualitative, are clear, if you want, juicy. Baranka in the hands - as poured, all buttons on the spot, shifiterami to use one pleasure, the change-gear lever is very convenient, with the well distinguishable flicks. Support to the new version of interface, I -Force 2.0, guarantees the presence of the most contemporary effects. Old good NFS IV - High Stakes reached true enjoyment from the realization and sensations of the thin nuances of control Ferrari F50 or BMW M5, in this case with the passage on the block in the language twisted themselves neparlamentskiye expressions in the address of road services. But ride with the killed suspension and the autopilot became the present torture. Here is only slippers for the adjacent pedal, it is caught yes pedals themselves they aim forward to leave. But these are - unessential trifles in comparison with that sensation of realism, sinking, kayfa and fana, which you obtain, sitting at this "control from Ferrari"!

Conclusion

you will purchase to itself Ferrari!

Beza any reservations, boldly I can say: if you actually love virtual races, if you search for realism and if you value a good style - do not stint on blood 165 u. e. and try Guillemot Force Feedback Racing Wheel - you will not be sorry. And even not very successful pedals - nonsense in comparison with the fact, to what extent control, is good. It to the head, no, to two heads it overgrew its predecessor. Relative compactness will make it possible to place it practically on any table, and the possibility of connection both to COM and to USB, it makes with its with compatible with any apparatus configuration. And still - do not forget, on your table will beat by hoof black stallion against the yellow background, but this anything stands!

V delivery set for the domestic market enters CD with game Rally Championship 2000 SE. This is the completely license localized version of game, localization was executed by company "DOCA media". Naturally, toy supports FF.

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