rec.autos.simulators

by **Aaron Menchion** » Tue, 31 Aug 1999 04:00:00

Subject: Nascar 99 and Interact V3 wheel
Date: August 29, 1999 8:48 PM

First, I must explain something. I am trying to provide remote support to
my father who lives in Nunavut, and I in Ontario. I was on the phone with
him trying to help him set up his V3 wheel in N99. It appeared to calibrate
fine (or so I am told) but when he tries to assign commands to the wheel,
such as shifting, it is reading the buttons on the wheel as axis on the
joystick. So, since he has steering and pedals set up on the axis, it is
conflicting because it is reading a press of one of the buttons as a
joystick axis(confused yet?> :) Is there something that you have to do to
the wheel to get it to recognize a buttion press as such? My T2 reads my
buttons as JOY1 Button 3 for example.......

by **Mortado Fil** » Tue, 31 Aug 1999 04:00:00

On Mon, 30 Aug 1999 00:50:18 GMT, "Aaron Menchions"

>First, I must explain something. I am trying to provide remote support to
>my father who lives in Nunavut, and I in Ontario. I was on the phone with
>him trying to help him set up his V3 wheel in N99. It appeared to calibrate
>fine (or so I am told) but when he tries to assign commands to the wheel,
>such as shifting, it is reading the buttons on the wheel as axis on the
>joystick. So, since he has steering and pedals set up on the axis, it is
>conflicting because it is reading a press of one of the buttons as a
>joystick axis(confused yet?> :) Is there something that you have to do to
>the wheel to get it to recognize a buttion press as such? My T2 reads my
>buttons as JOY1 Button 3 for example.......

It's doing that because the game (and Windows is getting input from
the wheel. Some of the V3s are really bad that way. Have him look at
the test area in the Game Controllers applet and I will be willing to
wager that the crosshair will be moving on it's own. There are some
patches on Interact's website, http://www.interact-acc.com that might
help.
Chris