rec.autos.simulators

Hi everyone!
    I saw a T2 wheel at my local software retailer today.  It looked
great.  I'am thinking about buying it but I have a few questions:

1:  It says on the box that "a ACM game card is reccommended",  do I
really need this game card?  I heard somewhere that the ACM game card
reccommendation is just for advertising.  Will the T2 work fine if I
simply connect it to the joystick port on my SoundBlaster card?

2:  Does the T2 work with most of the popular racing sims?  I've heard
of people having problems getting it to work with GP2 especially.

Thanks in advance,
John

 -- Winners never quit, quiters never win

T2 will work fine with the SB gameport.

T2 works *very well* with the Papyrus sims, NASCAR, ICR1 & 2 and the
NASCAR 2 demo. The T2 also works well in GP2, but setting the wheel
sensitivity in the game can be a bit daunting.

Anyone else feel that no other company models steering as well as
Papyrus?

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Works with the joystick port on my PAS-16 soundcard just fine YMMV.

I have mine working with Nascar, IndyCar II, GP2, Need for Speed.
it is a little involved setting it up with the games (some games only
support 1 joystick, while other support 2 joysticks [both the wheel
and pedal inputs are translated into joystick moves/button presses for
the games).

It is a great purchase if you like racing games (I know I do !)
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I have a t2 and it works great with Gp2, nascar, indcar2 and NFSSE. I
have a ch auto3 game card and everything works fine together. I had
some trouble before I installed the ch game card, and I was also
told that I would have to have a seperate joystick port. I hope this
helps a little.

Ray

I have mine on Nascar, Indycar, Monster Truck, Screamer, NFSSE and a very
old DOS racing game...
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Recalibrating often was a workaround, but in longer races that was difficult.

I bought an ACM, and the thermal drift went to *ZERO*.  No problems since.

When I went to install it, I discovered that I had a near-worst case setup:
I had a cheap brand-Z sound card, it was horizontally mounted, and it was
directly above the heatsink from my cpu!  But the ACM in the same position
had no problems...

I have since gotten a Penitum Pro system, and between it and the large monitor
it's enough to heat up the tiny little room the computers live in in my house.
But I've had negligible thermal drift with a genuine Sound Blaster AWE32.

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Brian Wong                              Enterprise Engineering