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Win 95 & Joystick Calibration Not working

bbu..

Win 95 & Joystick Calibration Not working

by bbu.. » Sat, 14 Dec 1996 04:00:00

I can calibrate my joystick in Win 95 once, test it and it works fine.
But if I go back into the same calibration and test window it will be
offset a little to the left.
It makes playing GP2 a little hard.  Anybody have any ideas other than
play in dos.  I have a laptop and GP2 won't load properly in dos mode.

B

Brian Wo

Win 95 & Joystick Calibration Not working

by Brian Wo » Thu, 19 Dec 1996 04:00:00


>I can calibrate my joystick in Win 95 once, test it and it works fine.
>But if I go back into the same calibration and test window it will be
>offset a little to the left.
>It makes playing GP2 a little hard.  Anybody have any ideas other than
>play in dos.  I have a laptop and GP2 won't load properly in dos mode.

Gee, I had the same problem. I used to run my sims in DOS (as in boot
form DOS floppy...) and I never had any problems. I did this because I
only had NT on my disk. (Well, it worked... not too well, but...)

Anyway, when I got my Reactor, I *HAD* to "up"grade to Win95, since it
has no NT drivers at present, and when I did that, I discovered that I
oculdn't calibrate worth diddly in Win95. In fact, it was so bad that
I couldn't even get ICR2 to recognize my wheel!  I went to the device
manager and tried resetting the calibration there, but that didn't
help. Finally, in desparation, I just copied the controls.cfg file
from the original ICR2 directory. Voila! I could recalibrate
trivially, and even so, it worked fine without doing so. I was quite
surprised. Incidently, I have one of those Thrustmaster ACM game
cards, so I know the "gain" wasn't wrong, too. I suspect it's a bug in
ICR2 - in fact, I seem to remember a very early version of ICR2 had a
calibration problem...


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