rec.autos.simulators

I've Celeron 300A (running with 450MHz), 64 Mb DRAM and a Matrox Millenium G200
8Mb AGP.

While playing Colin McRae Rally I can have all the details on and the game is
running smoothly and looks beautiful.

BUT if I use Logitech Formula steering wheel instead of keyboard, the car
obeys 0,5 sec after steering with the wheel. On a fair I experienced the
same with a MS steering wheel.

Is this about lack of processing power or what? Is it the same with every
steering wheel?  Anyway to fix this?

Thanks.

I've only got a PII 266, and CMR runs like a champ with my LWFF...

Jay J

PS: If that doesn't work, then you might want to upgrade to a better video
card, with more memory. That, and more ram are your two cheapest upgrades,
that will get you the most bang for your buck..

greets matthias

: greets matthias

Hi!

But mine's not a force feedback version. It's a 'forceless' Logitech
Wingman Formula and the problem was that there is a remarkable delay
between me steering and the car obeying. About 0.25 seconds or so.
Doesn't happen while playing some Formula games.

But maybe it's just normal for Colin McRae Rally. Some MS wheel did
exactly the same.

J.

Make sure you have the latest directx version ! ( 7.0a I think is the
latest).
Also get the latest driver for the wheel from logitechs site.
And the latest driver for your graphics adapter.

Also, are you sure it is really a delay ?
Sometimes a large deadzone can give the impression of a steering delay ?
So make sure the x-axis deadzone is set as low as possible.

To get the deadzone down to 0 you may need the DXtweak utility :
www.wingmanteam.com/files/Tools/DXTweak/

Joergen

I have not experienced any such problems with CMR using a LWFF, TM, TSW2
on a 400 Celery.