rec.autos.simulators

Here is the user file info:
Joy1=0,65535,31000,33000,0,65535,28000,36000,0,0
Joy2=300,64400,28000,36000,354,64400,28000,36000,0
,0
JoystickTimeouts=0,0
DisableForceFeedBack=0
NumSelectableFFBDevices=5
NumKnownFFBDevices=5
FFBDeviceName1="MS SideWinder FFB Pro Joystick"
FFBDeviceName2="CH Products ForceFX FFB Joystick"
FFBDeviceName3="ANKO FFB Steering Wheel"
FFBDeviceName4="MS SideWinder FFB Steering Wheel"
FFBDeviceName5="Generic FFB Device"
FFBDeviceName6=""
FFBDeviceName7=""
FFBDeviceName8=""
FFBDeviceSignature1="Microsoft SideWinder Force Feedback Pro"
FFBDeviceSignature2="ForceFX"
FFBDeviceSignature3="ANKO"
FFBDeviceSignature4="Microsoft SideWinder Force Feedback Wheel"
FFBDeviceSignature5="Generic FFB Device"
FFBDeviceSignature6=""
FFBDeviceSignature7=""
FFBDeviceSignature8=""
FFBDefaultJolt=100,20,20,100,15,0,0,0
FFBDefaultShudderOn=0,0,100,0,0,0,0,0
FFBDefaultRoadVibration=11,30,20,20,15,0,0,0
FFBDefaultKerbVibration=51,30,20,75,15,0,0,0
FFBDefaultEngineVibration=0,35,20,0,15,0,0,0
FFBDefaultSkiddingVibration=44,20,20,20,15,0,0,0
FFBDefaultSteeringResistance=100,5,20,100,15,0,0,0

useavis=1

Marc

Regards, Ruud

I can't tell you, really (don't have the game), but this is just a rough
guess (if you don't mind messing around with the player file).

This line,

Joy1=0,65535,31000,33000,0,65535,28000,36000,0,0

looks much like it could be a description of ranges. My bet is,
min, max, deadzone left start, deadzone right start, and then a repetition
of the same.

If you change that to, say, the following, does that help?

Joy1=16384,49151,32256,33280,16384,49151,28672,36864,0,0

What I did was to increase the minimum by a quarter of the range, and
decrease the maximum by the same amount. I also made the suspected deadzone
fields symmetrical around the real center, with roughly the same range as
before.

In a parameterized form, this is what I did:

Fringe F (how much of the full range (65536) is not used, if you set it to
0, you will have to go lock-to-lock, if you set it to 16384 (a quarter of
full range), the left quarter and right quarter of motion will the "maxed
out area")

Deadzone width 1 DZ1 (in my example 512)
Deadzone width 1 DZ2 (in my example 4096)

Then, the line shapes up to be the following:

Joy1=0+F,65535-F,32768-DZ1/2,32768+DZ1/2,0+F,65535-F,32768-DZ2/2,32768+DZ2/2
,0,0

Don't know what Joy2 is, but you could try the same values.

Of course this could be completely wrong, and you should back up the
previous values first ;)

..tom