Logitech G29 Driving Force
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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1,361 words · ~6 min read
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so we're not exactly fully moved into the new office but videos must roll so
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let's check out the Logitech G29 driving
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force by the way like the video if you're a huge fan of 5 gallon buckets
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free the G29 driving force doesn't look
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a ton different compared to a G27 or G25 for that matter other than the buttons
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on the steering wheel and that's fair because well that's about it but uh
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we'll come on to that again closer to the conclusion for now let's just focus
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on the G29 for internal Hardware the G29
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steering wheel has dual force feedback Motors anti-backlash single reduction
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helical gearing automatic calibration all that kind of stuff which actually
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the calibration at least looks really badass when you first plug it in it has
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900° of overall rotation and a hall effect sensor the force feedback feature
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takes in-game conditions and transfers them to the wheel so that you feel more
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like you're actually in the vehicle that you're driving for instance I was
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playing project cars and did a bunch of career cart racing I had a tendency to
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cut Corners a little bit too close and it was very apparent when two of my
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wheels would run up onto the curb because the steering would change very
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cool the Dual feedback motor was also pretty fantastic it was nice to have it
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fight with me as I would try to drag my cart around a corner at a way too high
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speed when the game was giving me red arrows all over the place speaking of
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fighting with it while doing so my hands were surprisingly comfortable Logitech
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claims that they constructed the G29 with materials that were selected for
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long-term durability precision and comfort and especially that last one
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Comfort was was apparent pretty quick the leather wrapped around the steering
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wheel feels great we talked about Precision components earlier and in
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terms of durability they do have anodized aluminum through the steering
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wheel which is great although the rest of the body is mostly plastic but that
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being said that's probably fine as the only other things that you're directly
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interacting with are usually metal or leather moving down to the pedals which
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feature throttle breake and clutch which a lot of other solutions kind of skip
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out on you have metal plates for each pedal and then a hole whole whack ton of
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plastic which again is probably fine I don't know of many people having issues
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with the G27 pedals and the overall design of these is more or less the same
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the pedals are all self-calibrating and the brake pedal is nonlinear in order to
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mimic a pressure sensitive brake system for more responsive feel you can make
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adjustments to the pedals to move them left or right by small amounts by using
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a 2.5 mm hex key which can help people with big or small feet just fine-tune
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things to themselves moving back back up to the steering wheel we have the controls all of these can be macro set
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into pretty much whatever you want but most games will have some sort of profile that the Logitech gaming
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software included with the steering wheel will pick up on and set up for you
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you can change things within the software or say Force profile override
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so that the wheel will act the exact same way in every game that you try it
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in overall this software was intuitive and very easy to use in addition to your
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standard PlayStation buttons you have a plus and minus buttons a dial and an
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Enter key which will most often be unused in a lot of different games
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default profiles leaving it up to you to bind additional options to this and
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behind the steering wheel there's your left and right paddle shifters and up on
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top you have a Playstation 3 or PlayStation 4 selector switch by the way
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for PC select PlayStation 4 on the bottom of the steering wheel there are
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cable routing holes for whatever accessories you may have and there are
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arms that can grab onto most desk surfaces and hold it in place the metals
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have an optional mini plastic spike thing that can drop out and grab onto
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the carpet in order for it to not slide around as much if you're an advanced
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user and have a gaming cockpit like the auto which you can see lus review here
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there is standard kind of threaded bolt holes on both the bottom of the steering
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wheel and the pedal Mount using this thing was pretty great it didn't
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automatically work in every game that I tried but it picked up in Project CARS
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immediately and it was a lot of fun to play with a good feeling comfortable
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steering wheel with a fair amount of force feedback Logitech has done a
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really good job with their profiles and game detection was a breeze when it
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worked my only gripe was that I couldn't get dirt or grid to to detect the wheel
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at all but that may be more their fault than logcs if you can I would definitely
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recommend mounting both of these units to something pretty solid overall it was
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fine but there were a few times where I would react to something a little
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strongly and either caused the pedal unit to slide out or Tilted the whole
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steering unit not 100% ideal but not bad
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for something that took me about 2 minutes to set up in conclusion this
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thing was a ton of fun but to jump back to the beginning of the video for a
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second it's a lot like the G27 and at a
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suggested retail price of $399 I think it would be hard pressed to
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actually recommend someone replace their still perfectly fine G27 with this thing
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unless they need it for compatibility reasons the price is pretty steep and
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definitely the main detracting feature of this product and it's getting into
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