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I have a very annoying problem in F1RS. At the end of most strait aways just as
i start to brake the car will dive to the left, and skid out of control.

The only parallel I can draw is when one time a car came out of the pits and ran
right into my side pod... that's how fast and hard the movement to the left is.

Machine: Pentium 233, Creative Labs 3D blaster 12meg (voodoo 2), Fighterstick
and CH pedals, 32megs SDRAM.

What I have tried:

        - re-calabrating the joystick and Pedals. (Although it appears to work
          fine through out the rest of F1RS and other Games)

        - Turning down the visual detail level. (Two notches on the Eye candy
          scale and the sky and replays are turned off.)

Anybody have any suggestions? Would a ACM or Gamecard III help? Perhaps it's a
bug?

Thank You
Darren S.

Sounds like a problem I have with my GP1 wheel. At random points (usually as
I'm approaching a turn) the wheel will twitch, quite often sending me off
the track. This problem makes GP2 virtually unplayable as you never know when
it's going to happen.
I got the tmscope utility and found that all three pots spike simultaneously.
I took the wheel back to the store but they couldn't reproduce the problem. It
was rock steady on their machine.
Pat Dotson's suggestion is below, which I haven't tried yet.

And BTW you should uncheck the "poll with interrupts" box in the conroller
screen of Win95. This was Thrustmasters' suggestion. If anyone from
Thrustmaster is listening, have you got any other suggestions ?? Please.

Thanks.

Pat Dotson said:

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Andrew Fielden.
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On Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:49:21 +0100, Andrew Fielden

I have a TM GP-1, and experienced very severe twitches, especially
with F1RS and N.I.C.E. 2 demo. They were practically unplayable. So I
reinstalled about everything: DirectX, gameport drivers, game
software, you'd name it. I tweaked BIOS settings, cleaned the pots,
resoldered the wires... Nothing helped.

Then I started to wonder why the MS Game Controllers window in Control
Panel sometimes during the testing stopped responding with the error
message "You're conroller is not connected correctly. Retry?" (or
something like that). TM ProPanel sometimes just stopped responding.
The problem was that springlike wire which connects the wheels
gas/brake levers and two buttons to the rest of the controller case.
It was quite loose and the turning of the wheel simply disconnects the
connector occasionally, thus making those awful twitches.

So I taped the connector really tight to the contoller case and that
was it. My contoller now works perfectly! For some of you, this could
be a solution for unbearable twitching problems. So check your wires
for disconnections.

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I've had the same problem with my GP1. It's the "Plug" that plugs the wheel
into the base unit ! Even though I have mine taped, It still works itself
out so I check
it every couple of days !

Tim

Done.

I tried this and it appeared to fix the problem, however ten or so laps later it
was back although much less severe. Now the Car twitches off maybe once every
second or third lap. So it's ok to practice with, but racing is out of the
question.

I have one more thing to try. Tuomas Koskela from this news group had a problem
which was caused by a loose wire inside his GP1, so I guess I'll try to see if
that is a problem.

Thanks for your help

Darren S.

Note to Tim: I'm aware that the connector can work lose from the base
unit, but that's not the cause of this problem.

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