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Is this a bad sound card?  The PC has a ESS 1869 sound chip.  

How can I stop this problem?  It has really destroyed the fun of this
game.  This PC is only a few months old!

Please help!

thanks,

tom

http://irlinsider.adnetweb.com/sims/pdpi/

Enjoy!

-- John Bodin
   Publisher, The IRL Insider Magazine
   http://irlinsider.adnetweb.com/

The HotSeat
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~sf5j-rdyn/

and regular sleep........................it works for me.

Seriously the problem is the soundcard
go to control panel, multimedia and some
where in there enable "DMA "

shutdown, power off and restart
you should have steady hands by then.

| I'm not sure if it's the exact problem I had, but my
sound card game
| port gave me the worst case of joystick drift I've EVER
seen.  If
| that's your problem, a PDPI L4 digital game card will
solve the
| problem.  If you'd like to see my review of the PDPI
board, check out
| this URL:
|
| http://irlinsider.adnetweb.com/sims/pdpi/
|
| Enjoy!
|
| -- John Bodin
|    Publisher, The IRL Insider Magazine
|    http://irlinsider.adnetweb.com/
|

Jiawei)
|
| >Please help if you know what is wrong with my GPL set
up.  I have a
| >PowerSpec with the 400 mhz Celeron running a 16 meg
VooDoo Banshee
| >graphics card.  The following problem happens when I
play GPL.  As
| >soon as I fire up the game and am in the practice
session I see the
| >drivers hands shaking slightly back and forth.  It
increases as I
| >increase the amount of linearity of the controller.  
This driver hand
| >shake causes driving to be very difficult as I like
driving with a
| >very linear setup.  There, the shake is highest.  Some
have related
| >this to me as a heat problem but it happens just as soon
as I turn on
| >my PC.  There isnt time for heat build up there.  Also,
I use an Ultra
| >PC racer as a controller.  Today I tried using a friends
controller
| >and the same thing happens.  One thing I noticed is that
the shaking
| >stops when there is no controller attached.  It returns
the second
| >that a controller is plugged in.  
| >
| >Is this a bad sound card?  The PC has a ESS 1869 sound
chip.  
| >
| >How can I stop this problem?  It has really destroyed
the fun of this
| >game.  This PC is only a few months old!
| >
| >Please help!
| >
| >thanks,
| >
| >tom
| >

| >
| >
|
|

8-)

*Peter*   #:-)

I had a Saitek R4 wheel and that had the shakes really badly (also yanked
the steering left evrytime I braked)

I exchanged it recently for a ThrustmasterFormula 1 (same as a Nascar Pro) -
end of shakes....

I.

I originally turned off the wheel and arms in
GPL because of all the joystick jitter.  With
the PDPI card, the wheel is perfectly solid,
but I decided I don't like having the wheel
on anyway :)

If you don't have one, *get one*!

--
Pat Dotson
IMPACT Motorsports
http://www.impactmotorsports.com/pd.html

turn sounds down to 8 and it smooths out

I had this exact same problem and I tried just about everything that
has been sugested here, all to no avail.  My kit includes Celeron

wheel.

Nothing fixed the problem until I bought a MS FF Wheel which has
digital/optical pot encoders.  Installed it and instantly everything
was steady as a rock.  I found that I could control the car with much
more precision once the jitters stopped (didn't stop me flying into
the bushes at every available opportunity though ;-) )

Mike