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by **metalflae** » Thu, 28 Jan 1999 04:00:00

howdy, i was wondering if u could help me, i bought a Logitech Wingman
Formula Force Wheel and i can't seem to get it
work with GP2. It is a serial device and i have it plugged into COM 2
(it can also be plugged into a USB port but i havent got
the connector yet) i'm not sure if that is a problem or not. I have my
sidewinder joystick in my game port (on the soundcard)
that works fine. i just cant seem to get GP2 to acknowledge my wheels
existance. any assistance or theories you may have
will be much apprecitated.
thanks in advance
nathan brooks

by **Michael E. Carve** » Thu, 28 Jan 1999 04:00:00

% howdy, i was wondering if u could help me, i bought a Logitech Wingman
% Formula Force Wheel and i can't seem to get it
% work with GP2. It is a serial device and i have it plugged into COM 2
% (it can also be plugged into a USB port but i havent got
% the connector yet) i'm not sure if that is a problem or not. I have my
% sidewinder joystick in my game port (on the soundcard)
% that works fine. i just cant seem to get GP2 to acknowledge my wheels
% existance. any assistance or theories you may have
% will be much apprecitated.
% thanks in advance

Unless Logitech provides a driver to "emulate" the device to appear on
the I/O port 201 as a "joystick", DOS games like GP2 simply can't see
the device on the serial port.

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by **Sasa Uzela** » Sun, 31 Jan 1999 04:00:00

>% howdy, i was wondering if u could help me, i bought a Logitech Wingman
>% Formula Force Wheel and i can't seem to get it
>% work with GP2. It is a serial device and i have it plugged into COM 2
>Unless Logitech provides a driver to "emulate" the device to appear on
>the I/O port 201 as a "joystick", DOS games like GP2 simply can't see
>the device on the serial port.

Maybe if you run the game from windows, doesn't think it will work, but it
win't cost you nothing....

by **Kev** » Mon, 01 Feb 1999 04:00:00

GP2 works fine for me running it in Win98. I dont think it will work at
all in pure DOS since the serial port won't be recognised as a game port.

by **Brad** » Fri, 05 Feb 1999 04:00:00

You ned to run GP2 from in a Windows DOS session.

In Windows we use a virtual joystick port so that DOS games won't know that
the WFF is actually on a faster port that uses less CPU bandwidth. I am not
aware of any DOS games that will look for a controller on the serial port. I
am certain that none of them will work with USB.

The answer is run your DOS games from inside of Windows, then there won't be
any problems.

Brad

>>% howdy, i was wondering if u could help me, i bought a Logitech Wingman
>>% Formula Force Wheel and i can't seem to get it
>>% work with GP2. It is a serial device and i have it plugged into COM 2

>>Unless Logitech provides a driver to "emulate" the device to appear on
>>the I/O port 201 as a "joystick", DOS games like GP2 simply can't see
>>the device on the serial port.

>Maybe if you run the game from windows, doesn't think it will work, but it
>win't cost you nothing....

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