I just got a T2 and after awhile I can't play the game because of
drifting. I'm using my game port off my sound card. Which is the
better choice, Thrustmaster's ACM adjustable game card OR an automatic
game card like the one CH Products sells? I'm running 90 mhz Pentium
16 meg ram. All help is appreciated. Thanks
Craig Ostertag
I own both the CH Gamecard 3 automatic and the Thrustmaster ACM.
I bought the CH card first and ran into documented bugs with the
CH card and Apache, Need for Speed and also Windows95 had terrible
problems calibrating with it. With ICR2 and Nascar1 I had to recalibrate
each racing session and the joystick setting had a lot of drift.
Well after a while I got pretty fed up with it and finally decided to
go out and grab the Thrustmaster ACM, and I have not regreted doing this.
The ACM has a nice knob that lets you manually adjust the speed in a
much more controlled way than the lack of control that CH's "automatic"
card does, and I have not had anymore problems in any games including apache
Need for Speed or Win95.
Note that I own both Thrustmaster and CH controllers, and have been very
happy with CH's quality and durability of their controllers, it's just that
in my opinion their CH gamecard 3 automatic is a piece of junk.
Some people will say that you won't need a gamecard at all, but with all
the different hardware combinations out there, some of us do really need
better performance out of a joystick port than that provided by the
port on the SB16. After all the $$$ I have spent on Flightsticks and a T2
wheel, it's worth $25-$30 to have a decent Thrustmaster ACM card giving
you steady and stable readings off your expensive controllers.
This of course is MY opinion and MY experience with the two different
gamecards, please no flames, this is not meant to be a bash on any company
in particular.
Cheers.
--John
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>Craig Ostertag
That's interesting as I had hell trying to get Apache to work with my
CH. I don't use it for anything at all under Win95. I haven't had any
problems with ICR2, NCR1, GP2 etc at all. Calibrate and forget. I use
both ports for the ECCI CDS wheel.
Even though I don't play with Apache any more it's reassuring to know
I wasn't alone!
Stuart
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Stuart Booth
Somewhere in Oxfordshire, England, UK
>>I bought the CH card first and ran into documented bugs with the
>>CH card and Apache, Need for Speed and also Windows95 had terrible
>>problems calibrating with it. With ICR2 and Nascar1 I had to recalibrate
>>each racing session and the joystick setting had a lot of drift.
>That's interesting as I had hell trying to get Apache to work with my
>CH. I don't use it for anything at all under Win95. I haven't had any
>problems with ICR2, NCR1, GP2 etc at all. Calibrate and forget. I use
>both ports for the ECCI CDS wheel.
>Even though I don't play with Apache any more it's reassuring to know
>I wasn't alone!
>Stuart
The choice came down to keeping the CH card and have to play NFS with
the keyboard, or getting rid of the CH card and being able to play NFS
using my T2.
I still ask myself how CH can make such great quality joysticks (I own a
CH Flightsick Pro that has given me almost 4 trouble free years)
and at the same time come out with such an inferior gamecard.
Cheers.
--John
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