rec.autos.simulators

Is anybody out there running without steering help and using a joystick??
I don't have a wheel and can't seem to control the car at all without the
steering help on.

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Jason Nichols

Commissioner

SportSim Football League

http://www.racesimcentral.net/

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To be honest, I believe you might be one of the first 10 person to
think steering help actually helps. Most of the folks in the office at
Papyrus use joysticks, and in order to progress and get good at the
sim, I firmly believe you need to turn OFF steering help ASAP, and
turn off braking help as soon as you learn approximately how fast to
drive in the corners.

The only thing I can think of that would be causing an inability to
control with the joystick are:
1) Bad (or digital) joystick. Do you get smooth movement all the way
through the range (in the calibration screen)?
2) Bad calibration of joystick. Is the arrow centered when the
joystick is?
3) Game port drift. (Over time, as the game port heats up, sometimes
the values change somewhat.)
4) Using the Rendition DMA version on a non-Intel "Pentium" chip. No
real solution here at this time.

---Jim Sokoloff

Which game?

what type of joystick? (digital or analogue)

d:~)

#:~>  **Peter**

---Jim

David T.