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USB in W95 vB

John Booke

USB in W95 vB

by John Booke » Thu, 03 Aug 2000 04:00:00

Anyone using a USB wheel (meant for W98) under W95 with working USB drivers?
Tossing up whether to go this way or install W98 (v.evil) and whether the
software for the wheels will still work ok.

Also, what is the problem with GP3 and Voodoo2 excatly?  I've a PII 350 8meg
vid ram.
Book
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Member of Victorian Flagmarshalling Team
CAMS Accredited Official F3 O3 U3
Produciton crewmember of In Pit Lane, Channel 31, Melbourne
AKA The man with the green flag when Lowndes rotated at Calder

Greg Cisk

USB in W95 vB

by Greg Cisk » Thu, 03 Aug 2000 04:00:00


You are better off all around by going with W98.

Well I just read that one message about the Voodoo2 being crippled
by a bad 2D card and MPS suggests getting a new 2D card. They
probably intend for people to remove their current 2D card and the V2
card to get a V5 5500.

No patches planned sounds good though doesn't it?

--


Stefan Magnusso

USB in W95 vB

by Stefan Magnusso » Thu, 03 Aug 2000 04:00:00

My LWFF worked great with Win95/USB. It was a little tricky to install
with the LWFF 3.30 drivers (the installation program seemed somewhat
allergic to Win95 and didn't really allow me to install the wheel with
USB support without some tricks with a special LUsbSYS.drv file) and
Win98 would be much easier.

Stefan


> Anyone using a USB wheel (meant for W98) under W95 with working USB drivers?
> Tossing up whether to go this way or install W98 (v.evil) and whether the
> software for the wheels will still work ok.

> Also, what is the problem with GP3 and Voodoo2 excatly?  I've a PII 350 8meg
> vid ram.
> Book
> --
> Member of Victorian Flagmarshalling Team
> CAMS Accredited Official F3 O3 U3
> Produciton crewmember of In Pit Lane, Channel 31, Melbourne
> AKA The man with the green flag when Lowndes rotated at Calder

Steve Garrot

USB in W95 vB

by Steve Garrot » Thu, 03 Aug 2000 04:00:00

I have found Win98 to be a nice upgrade to Win95, I use Win95B at work
and have since it came out, at home I use Win98 (non SE, but have the
disk) and I can see the improvements with 98. I would also recomend
that you do a clean install of Win98 and do not upgrade over an
existing Win95 install. My reasoning on this is that if you upgrade
your Win95 to Win98 and 95 was not 100% correct, then you now have a
problems being compounded by 2. I could be totally wrong about that,
but I do notice less problems with clean installs.

I would try the wheel on 95 and see, if no go then I would install a
new Win98.

SLG


>Anyone using a USB wheel (meant for W98) under W95 with working USB drivers?
>Tossing up whether to go this way or install W98 (v.evil) and whether the
>software for the wheels will still work ok.

>Also, what is the problem with GP3 and Voodoo2 excatly?  I've a PII 350 8meg
>vid ram.
>Book
>--
>Member of Victorian Flagmarshalling Team
>CAMS Accredited Official F3 O3 U3
>Produciton crewmember of In Pit Lane, Channel 31, Melbourne
>AKA The man with the green flag when Lowndes rotated at Calder

(All spelling errors are intentional and are there to show new
and improved ways of spelling old words. Grammatical errors are
due to too many English classes/teachers)
Zoll

USB in W95 vB

by Zoll » Fri, 04 Aug 2000 04:00:00



Could you get more specific about that trick?

TIA
Zolli

Stefan Magnusso

USB in W95 vB

by Stefan Magnusso » Fri, 04 Aug 2000 04:00:00

You can find information as well as the necessary file LUsbSys.sys (not
*.drv as I mistakingly stated in my first entry) at:

http://www.wingmanteam.com/Latest_Software/Win_95_Patch/win_95_patch.htm

If I remember correctly I had to copy the sys-file to the
C:\Windows\System32\Drivers directory when the installation program
reached the point where it is time to restart Win 95. The WingMan site
says nothing about this, but I remember vaguely the system having
difficulties to recognise the wheel connected to the USB port if I did
otherwise. I know I installed and uninstalled a few times before I got
it right.

Of course you need the USB-supporting version of Win 95. OSR2, 4.00.950B
I think it is.

Stefan




> > My LWFF worked great with Win95/USB. It was a little tricky to install
> > with the LWFF 3.30 drivers (the installation program seemed somewhat
> > allergic to Win95 and didn't really allow me to install the wheel with
> > USB support without some tricks with a special LUsbSYS.drv file) and
> > Win98 would be much easier.

> Could you get more specific about that trick?

> TIA
> Zolli


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