It really needs a solid cockpit, stand or table to keep it in position. If you’re thinking of using this for a casual PS4 or PS3 race on the living room sofa, I’d think again. That works, should you have that sort of desk. A friend of mine has nailed a plank to the underside of his desk. It’s not so good on DiRT Rally where you can actively be fighting the wheel for control and, as previously mentioned, wind up dragging it and the books across the desk. This works great for ETS2 where all you want is a bit of rattling when you drift onto the rumble strips or smack into a barrier. Instead, my solution was to grab a couple of nearby notebooks and clamp them to the desk with the motor. Not using the clamp is simply not an option, thanks to the powerful force feedback and the heavy weight of the servomotor that powers it. Instead, the plastic presses against the bar, leaving it vulnerable to damage, as pictured. My desk has a metal bar running along the front – fairly standard for office desks – which prevents the clamp from actually reaching the table. I’ve been told that this is also fairly standard with racing wheels. Less useful when trying to whip a rally car through gravel, but you can reduce the available rotation and just about everything else you can think of, through the software downloadable from Thrustmaster’s support website. The T300 GTE is a 1080° wheel, which is fabulous when you’re driving a large, unwieldy truck around the streets of Europe. Doesn’t make it any less frustrating when blindly flipping back and forth through menus. And yes, I realise that the average racing wheel newbie is probably not going to opt for a £300 wheel plus an leather-covered add-on costing a further £140. If I were keeping the wheel, I’d be all over that with a label maker but alas, this was to be sent on to other reviewers. I realise this is probably standard fare with a racing wheel, but for your first one, it can get pretty tedious trying to work out which of the many, blank options is “Button 6” when trying to progress through a game’s menu. What’s not so good is that the buttons are all referred to by number in the software, with no matching labels on the wheel itself.
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