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F1-2000 ; looses controller settings

David Er

F1-2000 ; looses controller settings

by David Er » Wed, 26 Apr 2000 04:00:00

Anyone else seeing this?

Often F1-2000 just completely looses its calibration for the brake pedal.
It does it at what appear to be random times when the track is loaded so
that I scream into the first corner and discover NO BRAKES!!!! (at which
point I break a lot :) ) .   It never looses calibration during a race, only
at the start.   Usually when I go to recalibrate afterwards there are
problems such as the brakes being stuck *on*.   Many times the only solution
is to reboot the computer and then reassign the brake pedal within F!-2000.
The only other driving game that has given me this much controller grief was
RC2000 . Every other driving game I own works fine on my system and the
windows 98 game controller applet shows the brake pedal properly connected
and calibrated with very steady signal from the potentiometer. The steering
controls and the throttle pedal have never lost calibration in F1-2000.
F1-2000 always assigns the brake pedal to RZ+ axis on those occasions it can
be made to assign at all.

TM Nascar Pro wheel, DX 7a, digital gameport on Monster sound card,Win98

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David
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PS The AI in F1-2000 bites. It makes a VROC pick up race appear sane in
comparison and John Surtees in GPL look like a paragon of risk avoiding
conservative make-it-to-the-finish line driving.

Pat Dotso

F1-2000 ; looses controller settings

by Pat Dotso » Wed, 26 Apr 2000 04:00:00

If I am moving the pedals while F12K is launching,
the pedals won't work when I get into the driving
session.  I only have to re-start F12K (and not
push the pedals) to get it working again.

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Pat Dotson


> Anyone else seeing this?

> Often F1-2000 just completely looses its calibration for the brake pedal.
> It does it at what appear to be random times when the track is loaded so
> that I scream into the first corner and discover NO BRAKES!!!! (at which
> point I break a lot :) ) .   It never looses calibration during a race, only

Patrick Bloui

F1-2000 ; looses controller settings

by Patrick Bloui » Wed, 26 Apr 2000 04:00:00

I have solve the trouble with my MSFF with directx 7.0a from microsoft, the
complete installation, the patch don't correct the trouble for my. F1 2k
install directx 7.0 instead of 7.0a. Ask me why ?

And viva microsoft and their buggy product



> If I am moving the pedals while F12K is launching,
> the pedals won't work when I get into the driving
> session.  I only have to re-start F12K (and not
> push the pedals) to get it working again.

> --
> Pat Dotson


> > Anyone else seeing this?

> > Often F1-2000 just completely looses its calibration for the brake
pedal.
> > It does it at what appear to be random times when the track is loaded so
> > that I scream into the first corner and discover NO BRAKES!!!! (at which
> > point I break a lot :) ) .   It never looses calibration during a race,

only
David Er

F1-2000 ; looses controller settings

by David Er » Thu, 27 Apr 2000 04:00:00

Well I know that at least one time calibration was lost when my feet were
nowhere near the brake pedal. Perhaps though it is a deadzone thing and a
small spike is disturbing F1-2000 during the load stage.   I'll try
increasing deadzone in Win 98 by using DxTweak and see if this helps. Thanks
for the hint.

David


> If I am moving the pedals while F12K is launching,
> the pedals won't work when I get into the driving
> session.  I only have to re-start F12K (and not
> push the pedals) to get it working again.

> --
> Pat Dotson


> > Anyone else seeing this?

> > Often F1-2000 just completely looses its calibration for the brake
pedal.
> > It does it at what appear to be random times when the track is loaded so
> > that I scream into the first corner and discover NO BRAKES!!!! (at which
> > point I break a lot :) ) .   It never looses calibration during a race,

only

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