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> I have a TSW Sport.  I'm having a problem that I'm wondering if anyone can
> help me out with.

> First a little background.  I was primarily using Papyrus Nascar Racing 3,
> with a Voodoo3 3000 AGP video card and a SoundBlaster Live Value.
> Everything was fine.  Then I got Nascar Racing 4, and the video card just
> wasn't meaty enough for N4.  So I purchased an Asus V7700 (GeForce2 GTS, 32
> MB RAM).  I plugged in the card, and installed the default Asus drivers,
> fired up N4 and the TSW was going nuts.  The steering was jerking severely
> to the right, and the throttle was jumping back and forth.  I didn't suspect
> that it was the POTS because the wheel was perfect just less than an hour
> earlier.  I did various things to try to correct it, like installing latest
> Creative drivers, Latest Detonator drivers for the video card, and tried to
> find if there were any IRQ conflicts.  Some how, through changing things,
> the wheel was fine again.  But I wasn't able to pinpoint what fixed the
> problem.  So I was back racing.  Since then, I've reinstalled Windows 98 SE
> again, and had the same problem with the TSW again.  And again, I farted
> around and was able to get it working, but again, I was unable to pinpoint
> what the solution to the problem was.  Well....  I just went through the
> process of re-installing Windows 98 SE, yet again, to try to fix a problem
> with the card reader for my digital camera.  And low and behold, when I went
> into N4 for a league race, the TSW was going crazy again.  Only this time, I
> can't get the the wheel working.

> Does anyone have any experience with this type of problem.  It's very
> frustrating that I can't figure out what's causing the problem.

> Thanks in advance,
> Dean

> Funny, I have exactly the same video card (except the 64 meg of RAM
> flavor) and a TSW 2 stock wheel and it works perfectly with N4 and N2k2.

> You might want to check in the following menu "settings =>control panel
> => *** options => controller IDs" and see if the "Poll with
> interrupts enabled" box is checked. You have to leave this unchecked.

> > I have a TSW Sport.  I'm having a problem that I'm wondering if anyone can
> > help me out with.

> > First a little background.  I was primarily using Papyrus Nascar Racing 3,
> > with a Voodoo3 3000 AGP video card and a SoundBlaster Live Value.
> > Everything was fine.  Then I got Nascar Racing 4, and the video card just
> > wasn't meaty enough for N4.  So I purchased an Asus V7700 (GeForce2 GTS, 32
> > MB RAM).  I plugged in the card, and installed the default Asus drivers,
> > fired up N4 and the TSW was going nuts.  The steering was jerking severely
> > to the right, and the throttle was jumping back and forth.  I didn't suspect
> > that it was the POTS because the wheel was perfect just less than an hour
> > earlier.  I did various things to try to correct it, like installing latest
> > Creative drivers, Latest Detonator drivers for the video card, and tried to
> > find if there were any IRQ conflicts.  Some how, through changing things,
> > the wheel was fine again.  But I wasn't able to pinpoint what fixed the
> > problem.  So I was back racing.  Since then, I've reinstalled Windows 98 SE
> > again, and had the same problem with the TSW again.  And again, I farted
> > around and was able to get it working, but again, I was unable to pinpoint
> > what the solution to the problem was.  Well....  I just went through the
> > process of re-installing Windows 98 SE, yet again, to try to fix a problem
> > with the card reader for my digital camera.  And low and behold, when I went
> > into N4 for a league race, the TSW was going crazy again.  Only this time, I
> > can't get the the wheel working.

> > Does anyone have any experience with this type of problem.  It's very
> > frustrating that I can't figure out what's causing the problem.

> > Thanks in advance,
> > Dean

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> Philippe "Philster" Sergerie