rec.autos.simulators

Well, I don't have a steering wheel, but I have the same problem using a
Logitech Wingman Extreme joystick. The only way to calibrate it is by
manually tuning the dials on the joystick itself- Win95 joystick calibration
is useless. If I calibrate it in win95 and center the dials on the joystick,
the car pulls heavily to the left also.
    So if your thrustmaster happens to have a similar dial, you could
probably fix the problem (steering sensitivity left and right doesn't seem
to be affected by what I did).
    I'm not sure what version of TOCA I have, but I did run some patch
called patchefg.exe.
    Jack

Finally found TOCA in a store that imports games, but I'm having a
serious problem with the game.

TOCA won't work with my Thrustmaster T2 steering wheel. The wheel is
calibrated fine under Win95 (with the tiniest bit of stutter) and
works perfectly in other Win95 driving games (such as I76). But in
TOCA it's constantly steering fairly hard to the left. Using the view
hat shows the steering wheel inside the car, it appears to be leaning
about 25% of it's radius to the left. I can barely turn right at all,
and the car is basically uncontrollable. (I selected an analogue
controller in TOCA of course.)

The wierd thing is the TOCA demo worked fine on this system with the
same wheel. And all other games work fine. So there seems to be a
serious controler bug in the TOCA game, which unfortunately renders it
completely unplayable. Any ideas?

Note: I have downloaded and applied the v1.1 TOCA patch witch claims
to fix this problem, but it does not.

Joe

I have a Sidewinder I use for action games, and I can run the game
with that, but it really sucks. The tight steering model NEEDS a
wheel, the Sidewinder's just way too sensitive (even with the TOCA
sensitivity turned to low). The most annoying thing is that it appears
to be a bug introduced in the final product, not in the demo. So I
tried the demo, liked it, bought the game, and the thing doesn't work!

Joe

It must be just a bug with the T2 because I use a Thrustmaster Grand
Prix 1 and I have no problems at all.
Hope they sort it out for you though.

Regards

Andrew

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Joe

I do know that TOCA uses the DirectX 5 joystick handlers which is
probably asking for trouble.

Bry.

writes
I had the same problem until I installed TMs Propanel and used that
instead of the DirectX joystick applet. Now it works fine.
I also set the deadzone to zero using a batch file that was recently
mentioned in the group to solve a problem with 'need for speed'. This
also makes a big difference to being able to keep the car in a straight
line.
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I have a Thrustmaster T3 (or Formula 1/Nascar, whatever) and it works just
fine, both before and after applying the TOCA patch.

TOCA uses DirectInput from DirectX 5. Are you sure you have that installed?
The version nr. of DirectInput should be 4.05
and something.

Jussi

Joe

Joe

I tried that utility, tried setting the dead zone both small (0 and 1)
and large (25). It didn't seem to make any difference at all (it said
it patched the file correctly). When is DINPUT.DLL loaded? Do I have
to reboot my computer for changes to this file to take effect? Or can
I change it and go right into recalibration?

(As an aside, why does Microsoft always have to be so god-damn
useless? Win95 has needed a joystick deadzone setting for YEARS, and
given this utility it would obviously take MS all of five minutes to
program that option into Win95. Bit we can't have that, it would
violate Microsoft's fundemental operating procedures to actually spend
a few minutes to fix a serious problem that affects millions of it's
users on a daily basis.)

Joe

Yes, I understood you have got DirectX 5, otherwise TOCA wouldn't run at
all. But DirectX has a number of components, and if one of them were
missing or of an older version (DirectInput in this case), something like
this could happen. Interstate 76, which you mentioned, uses DirectX 3, so
it works OK with an older version of DirectInput.

Mind you, this just a thought, I have no idea if it has anything to do with
your problem...

Hope this helps, though.

Jussi

(PS. I'm sending this from somebody else's computer at work, so the
sender's info is propably wrong...)