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v0.5.0: Trueforce EQ, a one-time setup wizard, Simple mode, and TF4ALL goes international

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@Mhytee Mhytee released this 07 Nov 19:20

Trueforce EQ

Some Trueforce frequencies make your rig rattle or the buttons on your wheel
buzz, and others you can barely feel. The Trueforce EQ lets you cut the
frequencies causing a problem, or boost the ones that feel too quiet. Drag
points on a curve, start from a preset, and save your own. It works on every
effect at once, in every game and preset, and starts flat. A new Trueforce
EQ
guide, under the ? button, walks through taming a rattle.

TF4ALL goes international

TF4ALL now ships in five languages, and any other one can be translated
from inside the plugin.

  • Five languages are done already. Spanish, German, Portuguese, Simplified
    Chinese and Russian are each translated in full. They are machine
    translations, so some of it will read wrong or awkward, and corrections are
    welcome.
  • Translate it yourself. Press Translate… in Settings and a window opens
    with the English text on one side and your language on the other. Type your
    changes and they're applied right away.
  • Your corrections reach everyone. Everyone else on that language picks them
    up within about a day, with no account and no plugin update. If your language has
    not been started yet, start it.

A new Languages and translating guide, under the ? button, covers
choosing a language and translating one. The guides themselves are still in
English for now.

One time setup, and a Simple view of the Effects tab

A new install now opens with a short walkthrough instead of the whole panel:
three quick checks that the PC is ready, how much tuning you want to see, what
the wheel's lights do while you are not driving, and the few things worth
knowing up front. It takes about a minute, and you can skip it.

  • Simple or Advanced. Simple keeps each effect's on and off, its gain and
    its frequency, and hides the fine tuning. Advanced shows all of it. Switch at
    the top of the Effects tab whenever you like; the controls you cannot see keep
    working exactly as they are. A new install starts in Simple.
  • Nothing moves if you already have TF4ALL. You stay in Advanced with every
    control where you left it, and the walkthrough only runs if you ask for it,
    from the Settings tab.

Updated defaults

  • Default FFB scale changed from 0.8 to 1. Every built-in preset and a fresh
    install now start at full strength. Your own presets keep the strength you
    set.
  • Reduced damper strength to better match DirectInput.
  • G923 master gain default lowered from 1.5 to 1.

Bug fixes

  • Force feedback no longer cuts out mid-corner when clipping. A game stops
    resending a force that is clipped at maximum, and the plugin mistook that
    silence for the game letting go of the wheel. A clipped force now stays on
    the wheel, in custom games too, where the plugin cannot tell via telemetry
    whether the car is moving.
  • Force feedback no longer drops out in custom games. With "Hand the wheel
    back to the game while paused" enabled, force feedback buzzed in hard corners
    and died whenever it held steady, because the plugin waited to see the car move
    and a custom game never reports that via telemetry.
  • The wheel no longer jolts when force feedback comes back. Some games
    leave a spring playing that commands no force, and this caused a jolt each
    time the real force was sent. A spring with 0 force is now ignored.