rec.autos.simulators

Any ideas on troubleshooting before I got buy a wheel on EBay and
reload GPL? I'd buy a TSW, but $350 is a bit rich for my *** at the
moment, especially since I've devoted so little time over the last 5
years to the hobby.

But, there might been newer "XP" compatable "game port" drivers.  I gave up
on TM many moos before XP was released.  IMHO your best bet for a wheel
upgrrade that is USB connected.  Cheaply, a lot of friends are getting good
use from the logitech DFP (digital force feedback pro?) it has like more
than (shoot I cannto recall more than 360 dgrees of movement of the wheel.
I personally bought me a logitech G25 (they are about $250 now) last week
and LOVE that dang thing, but I have understanding that the driver for Vista
is not out for it yet and the current driver is not fully functional
(profiles and settings not yet), so I have held off on installing vista
right now.

good luck.  PS helps in most "Games" {as apposed to SIMS} to have the
joystic seen as ID 1 (sometimes depending on drivers entails disconnection
of all other joystick, some drivers though, will let you set each joystick
seperately).

good luck.

Ah, tried that. I think that's how I had it working the last time when
I had a W2000 machine long ago. However, XP, in all its brillant
glory, doesn't allow you to set up a controller independently with
more than 4 buttons. The wheel has 8. The sad part is that if I had my
ancient and crusty T2, I would probably be able to play right now, as
I have a preset for that. Installing the drivers accomplished
absolutely nothing, and their instructions in the read me and on their
website (entirely different, BTW) don't work. I don't feel like
reinstalling Windows and starting from scratch, because I have a
feeling that's not the problem. I do wish I had another computer
around to test with, but I'm without such.

I'm gonna be running XP for awhile until I feel comfortable with Vista
having the bugs worked out and when I go buy a new computer for
myself. No rush.

That was another idea of mine. I tried hooking up the wheel without
the pedals to see if I could trick the computer into only seeing that
axis. No luck.

Ah well. Ebay it is, at least just to get something to start
with....thanks a bunch though.

Bob Simpson