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I thought I should try the rbr demo, and I looks very interesting.
So, I looked up my ancient Thrustmaster Formula T2 wheel (analog, with
separate pedals for throttle and brake)
Removed the dust from the wheel and hooked it up to my precious game station
(pc).
Added and calibrated it in control panel (using xp sp2), and started up the
Rbr demo.
And here the fun-Sunday begins (time flies). I go into the control options,
and whatever I try, the x-axis, is when I centre the wheel, completely 2 the
right, and when I steer to the left, it's centred (would have been normal
after me driving and crashing ;))
y-axis, I choose the combined throttle/brake option, and here kinda same
story. with no pedals touched, it's full brake, and when throttle fully
pressed, it's 80% throttle.
I know it's an ancient wheel, but in the control panel of xp, it seems 2 be
fully functional.
I also googled, found some problems concerning FF and Thrustmaster wheels,
but nothing about my specific problem...

Any suggestions next to buying a new wheel?

Tia,

Xander

Get yourself a Logitech Momo FF, you'll thank yourself big time after a
few wonderful gravel powerslides in RBR. FF is amazing in this game!!

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Thanks,
Aaron Markham

*RATE MY CAR AT CARDOMAIN.COM*
http://www.cardomain.com/id/amarkham

*RIP AYRTON SENNA & DALE EARNHARDT*

Aaron,

Are you playing the demo? and also xp sp2?

thx,

Xander

Destroy,

I don't know if i'm gonna use the wheel often, so i wanted to try with the
Thrustmaster...

thx,

Xander

Olla,

Xander

Your wheel is not calibrated properly. Calibrate it again, and *carefully*
follow the steps (including clicking buttons, not pressing "Next").

Or get DXTweak2 and adjust the values until they are right.

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Thanks,
Aaron Markham

*RATE MY CAR AT CARDOMAIN.COM*
http://www.cardomain.com/id/amarkham

*RIP AYRTON SENNA & DALE EARNHARDT*

But in the control panel, the dot is in the middle, and it reacts correctly
with the input from the wheel and peddals.
Strange.. so perhaps sp2 is the problem...

Xander

 just like he ignoreed your post-->  (Any suggestions next to buying a new
wheel)

Here is probably the problem, in a generalized nutshell.  find the latests
and greatest drivers for the wheel, or are you using XP?  If so, might be
tough luck there...  XP doesnt seem to like the gameport as well.  next
thing could be dirty pots.

Second, RBR likes Seperate pedals, in the readme inside RBR (full version I
think), I thought that I read that the game looks for the controller and
tries to uncheck the "combined" axes for pedals.  So why not start with the
wheels setup like the game wants it?  IF yo do this, you will probably need
to uninstall, delete the demo dir, then reinstall?  (I dont know an easier
way, but Im sure others here might iknow exactly what files to get rid of,
so you dont have to delete & reinstall the demo).

PS TM wheels & drivers were/are just lousy, you might have better luck &
Enjoyment if you ebay them away (like Destroy said), & Ebay replace with
some better wheel-pedals

Xander Vlasveld enlightened us with:

"> just like he ignoreed your post-->  (Any suggestions next to buying a new

Thanx 4 the input Plowboy,

I finally downloaded the drivers 4 the thrustmaster, and now i could select
a wdm driver in the joystick list.
Calibrated again.. booted up rbr, and no reaction at all from the level
meters in options.
Tried Cmr 2005, and yes, in the options they worked perfectly.I even could
"steer" my way true the menus.
Started the race, and completely nothing... ahhhhhhhh..
I know that a new steering wheel probably will cure my problems.. it's just
that i want to try the games a bit first ;))
And i'm a system engineer, so i love solving problems, haha...

ok,

gonna try some more things, will let you know how it goes.

Xander

I would, if you havent already remove the demo, delete the dir it was in, or
if in the game, (only have it at home) there is a button to redetect input
devices?  also, if you click on the controller assignments you can then
change them, as the game waits for an input.  At that point you might be
able to figure out which "axis" is doing something funny?  I personally
never had this problem, I have XP SP2, but I have the MS wheel (force), so I
only read the 20 or 30 posts of others having the problem, more like
skimmed.  Most seemed to fix using some util to fix how Direct X saw and
passed the values of the inputs.  search for that DXtweak & RBR, via google
on this group maybe?

Xander Vlasveld enlightened us with:

Are your pedals set for combined or dual axis?  RBR's controller assigned is
funky.  You have to assign accelerator and brake separately for dual and
assign accelerator+brake for combined.  Whichever you use, you have to
manually unassign the option(s) you're not using.

Alan

Steve H

Marc