>Does the Thrustmaster T1 NOT T2 work with GP2? Every time I try to
>calibrate it, my wheel moves the little red dot, but none of my buttons
>will trigger the "fire" button that is needed to exit calibration.
>It also says in the calibration menu that ESC aborts calibration, but
>when I press ESC nothing happens and I'm stuck on that screen! My only
>choice has been to reboot my computer.
>Does GP2 only work with the T2? Please, if anybody has an answer to
>these questions let me know asap! I'm dieing to try the sim out!
My next door neighbor had the exact same problem with both GP1 and
GP2, he always played them with keyboard because he could not figure
out why it was happening. All his other games worked fine with the
joystick.
I went over to help him yesterday and what I found was that he had two
joystick cards in the machine and both were enabled. One was on a
Soundblaster Vibra 16 card and the other was an IDE / I/O card for
which he had no manual. The first thing I did was remove the
SoundBlaster card to see if it would work with his I/O card game port.
It was a single port joystick card (only 6 wires on the ribbon cable).
It still did not work in GP2. I used the Thrustmaster TMS program to
see what was happening. TMS showed the joystick to be fully
functioning, but it also showed buttons 3 & 4 on constantly. I also
tried this on the Soundblaster card, but with the I/O card still
installed and the same buttons 3 & 4 showed as constantly on. I think
this is what confused GP1 & GP2. I then rebooted the machine many
times, each time pulling a different jumper on the IDE / I/O card
until TMS showed no response from the joystick. On the last jumper we
finally disabled it. I plugged the Soundblaster card back in and
hooked up the joystick and ran TMS again. This time it showed the
same functioning joystick but now the buttons 3 & 4 were showing up as
off. We ran GP2 and it worked fine.
I hope that made sense. The I/O card's joystick port was FUBAR, he
was lucky that the joystick worked at all before. I hope this will
give an idea of what to look for. Good Luck.
Jim Boka
