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GPL Force Feedback in W2K

Mike Horto

GPL Force Feedback in W2K

by Mike Horto » Thu, 06 Jan 2000 04:00:00

Has anyone managed to get the LWFF wheel working with forces in W2K??
I can get the wheel to work but no force feedback and unfortunately
the drivers from www.wingmanteam.com only work on W95/98 systems.
Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks
Mike Horton
http://www.racesimcentral.net/
GPL F2/F3 Hotlaps and Other Downloadables

Hena Hakkane

GPL Force Feedback in W2K

by Hena Hakkane » Thu, 06 Jan 2000 04:00:00


>Has anyone managed to get the LWFF wheel working with forces in W2K??
>I can get the wheel to work but no force feedback and unfortunately
>the drivers from www.wingmanteam.com only work on W95/98 systems.
>Any help would be appreciated.

Nope. Logitech says that (don't have the exact quote at hand, but I can find
it when I get home) some games want to initialise all force effects when the
game loads, and if they can't they disable FF. Note that this probably isn't
Logitech's official statement.

GPL and RC2000 fall into this category I guess. However, force effects in
I-Studio work fine. Personally, I bet Logitech's drivers aren't up to speed,
and we'll probably have to wait until they port Profiler to W2k.

FWIW, my tests were made with RTM version.

Hena

Jaz

GPL Force Feedback in W2K

by Jaz » Fri, 07 Jan 2000 04:00:00

I couldn't even get LWFF to install under W2K RC2, even though the OS
detected it on the USB port and started the New Hardware Wizard. I just
couldn't figure it out... May be the problem will be solved in a few
months when the new Profiler is released for W2K.

Here is the response I got from the Winman Team when I inquired about
the installation problem:

"The drivers included in the OS for the WingMan Formula Force supports
force feedback. Which game are you using? There a few games which try to
create Force Effects for all the force types it needs and if any fail,
will disable the ff feature. The drivers included in the system do not
support Ramp, force type. It could be that you are using a game which
needs this force.

We are working on releasing the WIngMan Software on W2K platform. There
are numerous issues involved with updating of drivers on W2K.  Tthe
current driver has no significant differrences in features compared to
the one included in the. So you may want to wait until we release the
Software which  will have an elegant way of upgrading the drivers and
also provide the profiler functionality.

with best regards,
Avinash."


can find> it when I get home) some games want to initialise all force
effects when the> game loads, and if they can't they disable FF. Note
that this probably isn't> Logitech's official statement.
effects in> I-Studio work fine. Personally, I bet Logitech's drivers
aren't up to speed,> and we'll probably have to wait until they port
Profiler to W2k.

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Jaz

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Mike Horto

GPL Force Feedback in W2K

by Mike Horto » Fri, 07 Jan 2000 04:00:00

On Wed, 5 Jan 2000 12:31:00 +0200, "Hena Hakkanen"



>>Has anyone managed to get the LWFF wheel working with forces in W2K??
>>I can get the wheel to work but no force feedback and unfortunately
>>the drivers from www.wingmanteam.com only work on W95/98 systems.
>>Any help would be appreciated.

>Nope. Logitech says that (don't have the exact quote at hand, but I can find
>it when I get home) some games want to initialise all force effects when the
>game loads, and if they can't they disable FF. Note that this probably isn't
>Logitech's official statement.

>GPL and RC2000 fall into this category I guess. However, force effects in
>I-Studio work fine. Personally, I bet Logitech's drivers aren't up to speed,
>and we'll probably have to wait until they port Profiler to W2k.

>FWIW, my tests were made with RTM version.

>Hena

Thanks for your response. It's along the lines of what I was thinking.
Hopefully they'll have the new profiler ready to go when W2k goes on
the shelfs.

All my tests have been done on the RTM version also

Mike Horton
http://www.bus.nait.ab.ca/staff/mikeh/gpl
GPL F2/F3 Hotlaps and Other Downloadables


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