rec.autos.simulators

Hello,

What is the secret to getting a three axis steering wheel (L/R, brake, and
throttle) set up for GPL in Windows NT4 SP5? GPL only seems to recognize two
out of the three no matter how I set the wheel up in NT (custom vs. 2 axis
controller with rudders).

If anyone has gotten this to work please let me know what the magic steps
are (short of using a single axis brake/throttle setup). If not I guess we
can add this to the list of GPL 1.1 disappointments.

- George

I've got my rewired T2 to work on NT4 SP5 with split axis. Steerin joy A
horizontal ( X ), Throttle joy B vertical ( Y ) and Brake joy A vertical
( Y ). When i installed the analog joystick driver i selected joystick with
throttle or sometnih like this. Didn't change anything in controller setup,
just calibrated it and it works perfectly. BTW do you have 100% crash free
GPL 1.1 under NT. Which graphic card and which sound card are you using?

Borut

What axes (or whatever the plural of axis might be) is your setup
using? I seem to remember that some versions of Windows don't like it
when you skip an axis in your setup (i.e. use joy1-x, joy1-y, don't
use joy2-x, but use joy2-y again.) There was a workaround which
involved soldering in a 100kOhm resistor which fooled Windows into
believing that the missing input axis was indeed present. IIRC.

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