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by **fluff..** » Sun, 28 Nov 1999 04:00:00

I just purchased an Andretti Racing Wheel and I cannot make it work. I
previously had a MS Sidewinder 3D Pro attached to my old Soundblaster 16
game port, and it worked fine. I tried installing the drivers off the
CD and, they seem to think they installed, however the system cannot
detect the wheel. So I downloaded the "awheelsetup" program from the
website, and it seems to think it installs, then it fumbles around with
USB drivers for a while (I don't have USB) but, the system cannot detect
the wheel with it either.

Interestingly, using the Win95 add hardware applet will allow me to
select the wheel but then it says "windows did not finish copying the
files because the installation was cancelled." Something is strange
with the driver.

I reconnected my Sidewinder and it worked fine. So I know the game port
is working correctly. I tried it with both DirectX 6 and 7. After
installing DirectX 7, the system no longer shows the wheel as an option
using the awheelsetup driver. But it does show it as an option with the
CD-ROM driver. (Of course that driver does not work).

Has anyone encountered similar problems and is there a solution?

Thanks. :}

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by **Ms.Goodwren** » Wed, 22 Dec 1999 04:00:00

>I just purchased an Andretti Racing Wheel and I cannot make it work. I
>previously had a MS Sidewinder 3D Pro attached to my old Soundblaster 16
>game port, and it worked fine. I tried installing the drivers off the
>CD and, they seem to think they installed, however the system cannot
>detect the wheel. So I downloaded the "awheelsetup" program from the
>website, and it seems to think it installs, then it fumbles around with
>USB drivers for a while (I don't have USB) but, the system cannot detect
>the wheel with it either.

>Interestingly, using the Win95 add hardware applet will allow me to
>select the wheel but then it says "windows did not finish copying the
>files because the installation was cancelled." Something is strange
>with the driver.

>I reconnected my Sidewinder and it worked fine. So I know the game port
>is working correctly. I tried it with both DirectX 6 and 7. After
>installing DirectX 7, the system no longer shows the wheel as an option
>using the awheelsetup driver. But it does show it as an option with the
>CD-ROM driver. (Of course that driver does not work).

>Has anyone encountered similar problems and is there a solution?

>Thanks. :}

Yikes. I'm running Windows 98 and my Andretti Racing Wheel runs fine -- although I did need to
reinstall the software after installing NASCAR3 over the weekend. I had to reinstall the ARW
software 4 times before everything was recognized and I could get everything working in the game.
For awhile, the wheel was backwards in the game -- never did find out what caused that, let alone
how I remedied it.

Ms.Goodwrench

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