rec.autos.simulators

Thrustmaster Nascar pro wheel. GPL, Nascar2, ICR2, SODA. How do I setup to use
seperate pedals when possible? Why does the win95 controller setup box look
like it has space for several controllers when you can only have one in the box
at a time that works? Shouldn't I be able to have several controllers setup and
just select one when ready to play each different sim? Do I have to reboot to
switch from seperate pedals in one sim to combined pedals in another sim? I am
way confused, please help. Thanks, John
btw should I be running n2 in dos rather than windows?

Excellent question.  I've been trying to figure this out for several
days.
I just got a new computer and have been splitting my time playing sims
and Battlezone (joystick) - which came with my new Voodoo2.  I have a
Thrustmaster
T2 wheel and a CH Flightstick Pro joystick. My system is a
new Dell (400 MHz, Win98, Turtle Beach Montego soundcard with an
accelerated game port, Monster 3D2).  All my controllers are
switched via a CH Switch Box.

Battlezone, which is played in Windows via DirectX, definetly requires
that the joystick be the first id'ed controller.  This seems to be true
for other games as well.  I don't see any way to change the id's among
the controllers that you add.  Even if you delete the controller in id
1,
the controller in id 2 stays there, and "none" is displayed in id 1.

I thought I had found the solution at the CH website.  They have a
program
called "QuickJoy" which supposedly allows you to select the current
controller from all the ones you have set up.  But it didn't work for
me.
You might want to give it a try though --
http://www.chproducts.com/supp-pc.html

Important note: if you are playing games via DOS, even in a DOS box,
what you have set up under the Windows game controller interface is
completely
irrelevant.  DOS doesn't look at this information and loads its own
drivers, etc.

Right now I'm just playing GP2 (DOS), but when GPL comes out (which runs
under Windows), I am not going to want to have to re-set up the game
controller every time I switch.

Anyone else have any ideas?

Dave Ewing

You can't put more than one active controller on a port at a time. You can get
round this if you have a dedicated game card that has two ports - then you can
configure one port to use your controller with separate pedals and the other
combined - but some of your racing games will need to be able to run off the
secondary game port and not all can. A more serious problem is that you'll have to
pull the controller out of the one port and plug it into the other while the
computer is on. This is a bit of a risk because if the static charges on the
controller and the port are different you could blow your game card or apparently
your mother board as well. Probably the static charges are the same because you've
just disengaged one from the other - apparently some people do this all the time
but I'm not prepared to risk it.
Paul