rec.autos.simulators

That is a huge drop, and it shouldn't happen in
properly coded software.  I believe the RS wheel
should require less cpu resources than, say, the MS
or Saitek FF wheel.

The Force RS, and any other I-Force based FF wheel,
has an on-board FF effects processor that controls
the wheel.  This processor should free the cpu from
most of the overhead associated with force feedback.
If I was more conspiritorially-minded, I might
theorize the the slowdown was intentionally produced
for Immersion products in CPR :)

Can someone with an MS or Saitek FF wheel comment
as to any slowdown it produces in CPR?

I don't notice a slowdown in the Viper demo,
but haven't done a comparison with and without
FF enabled.  The Viper FF effects are very
well done.

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Pat Dotson
IMPACT Motorsports
http://www.racesimcentral.net/

I have a quick question about the Force RS and framerates in games. I am
running a P2 300 with 64 megs of ram and voodoo2 SLI. In Cart Precision
Racing I usually get 85 - 100 frames per second. When I enable Force
feedback, however, the frame rate drops to 17-30 frames per second. Why such
a dramatic drop? Does Force feedback require that much of the cpu's power,
or is it just the way that particular game handles forcfeedback commands?
Will I see a drop like tat in all Force enabled games?

Any reply would be appreciated!

Cory

The MSFFW also has an on-board processor to handle this.

-Larry

I think that's the key in this case.  That's some pretty bad software,
and it probably doesn't have the best FF effects routines on the block.

-Larry