GP3 - Joystick Problems - Still No Solutions

I have been without GP3 now for about 6 months. While playing it, the Joystick spikes erratically - every few seconds. Enough to throw you off the track sometimes. I have tried every configuration change suggested and not suggested, with little success... from turning on/off the interrupt polling to removing/reinstalling the 1.13 patch. I *think* it's just a case that my PC hates GP3. There are no hardware conflicts, but the computer does have a lot of kit inside it - two SCSI cards, two USB devices connected, the soundcard, both serial ports used, parallel port used, Ethernet card... The joystick is plugged into the normal joystick socket on the sound card (a Creative SB16). It's a Microsoft Wingman digital stick, so it's not an analogue pot problem. I've tried new joysticks and a new soundcard too - all with no effect what so ever. The behaviour isn't repeated in any other game (it's meant I usually play either GT3-ASpec, or GPL) It's not like I'm totally thick either - I work as a software developer and have built loads of PCs in the past... Anybody have any ideas what could solve it? Jonathan

In article <[email hidden]>, [email hidden] says... >It's a Microsoft Wingman digital stick Oops... meant to just say Microsoft digital stick - I bought a Wingman to figure out if that was causing it...

On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 12:38:01 +0100, kafooey <[email hidden]> wrote: > >I have been without GP3 now for about 6 months. > >While playing it, the Joystick spikes erratically - every few seconds. >Enough to throw you off the track sometimes.[snip] In "Control Panel", go to "Joystick" or "Gaming Options", trying turning off the "Polling with interrupts" or something similar to that. It worked for me. -- Kulvinder Singh Matharu E-mail : ksmatharu # ieee . org [without the spaces and where #=@] Website: http://www.matharu.demon.co.uk/ World Trade Center Tribute : http://www.matharu.demon.co.uk/myphotos/usa/worldtradecenter.htm

On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 19:53:57 +0100, Kulvinder Singh Matharu <[email hidden]> wrote:

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>>While playing it, the Joystick spikes erratically - every few seconds. >>Enough to throw you off the track sometimes. >[snip] > >In "Control Panel", go to "Joystick" or "Gaming Options", trying >turning off the "Polling with interrupts" or something similar to >that. It worked for me.

I actually said about that... reduced it, but it's still there...

On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 08:34:09 GMT, [email hidden] (J Beckett) wrote: [snip] >I actually said about that... reduced it, but it's still there... Ooops! Missed it...mustn't try and read too fast...sorry! I can't really suggest anything else as it looks like that you tried everything! -- Kulvinder Singh Matharu E-mail : ksmatharu # ieee . org [without the spaces and where #=@] Website: http://www.matharu.demon.co.uk/ World Trade Center Tribute : http://www.matharu.demon.co.uk/myphotos/usa/worldtradecenter.htm

Try de-selecting polling if that does not fix the problem, then in GP3: Goto: - Main menu, then - Options, then - Controls, then - Advanced, then - Turn up ( i.e. towards 100% ) the amount of: - Steering Help - Low Sensitivity Zone until the steering wheel doesn't "flick" back and forth and your car doesn't jump around too much in the straight-aways. Also: the control file settings you need to go fast differ from: - track to track - different years of carsets >> So have a different control file for each track and for each track'sweather, and if you play different carsets, then again for each different carset. P.S. I use GP3 v1.13 98 carset because it is the "lowest common denominator" for all versions of GP3 = we can fairly compare times. John Bickmore www.bicyclecam.com www.feed-zone.com "kafooey" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> > I have been without GP3 now for about 6 months. > > While playing it, the Joystick spikes erratically - every few seconds. > Enough to throw you off the track sometimes. > > I have tried every configuration change suggested and not suggested, > with little success... from turning on/off the interrupt polling to > removing/reinstalling the 1.13 patch. > > I *think* it's just a case that my PC hates GP3. There are no hardware > conflicts, but the computer does have a lot of kit inside it - two SCSI > cards, two USB devices connected, the soundcard, both serial ports used, > parallel port used, Ethernet card... > > The joystick is plugged into the normal joystick socket on the sound > card (a Creative SB16). It's a Microsoft Wingman digital stick, so it's > not an analogue pot problem. I've tried new joysticks and a new > soundcard too - all with no effect what so ever. > > The behaviour isn't repeated in any other game (it's meant I usually > play either GT3-ASpec, or GPL) > > It's not like I'm totally thick either - I work as a software developer > and have built loads of PCs in the past... > > Anybody have any ideas what could solve it? > > Jonathan

I had this problem in GP2 and the 'polling' solution helped. I had the problem again in Hockenheim/GP3. My solution here[since 'polling' didn't help] was similar to what John B says, I "reduced sensitivity with speed" and while I could see the spikes, they didn't toss me off the track! Dennis "kafooey" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> > I have been without GP3 now for about 6 months. > > While playing it, the Joystick spikes erratically - every few seconds. > Enough to throw you off the track sometimes. > > I have tried every configuration change suggested and not suggested, > with little success... from turning on/off the interrupt polling to > removing/reinstalling the 1.13 patch. > > I *think* it's just a case that my PC hates GP3. There are no hardware > conflicts, but the computer does have a lot of kit inside it - two SCSI > cards, two USB devices connected, the soundcard, both serial ports used, > parallel port used, Ethernet card... > > The joystick is plugged into the normal joystick socket on the sound > card (a Creative SB16). It's a Microsoft Wingman digital stick, so it's > not an analogue pot problem. I've tried new joysticks and a new > soundcard too - all with no effect what so ever. > > The behaviour isn't repeated in any other game (it's meant I usually > play either GT3-ASpec, or GPL) > > It's not like I'm totally thick either - I work as a software developer > and have built loads of PCs in the past... > > Anybody have any ideas what could solve it? > > Jonathan