F1RC lost MSFF!?

I made the latest "security update" from MS pages. I suppose that it is not the reason, but it is the only change before the problem: Now F1RC has lost its understanding of my (split axis) MSFF wheel! Other sims have no problems (GPL, N4, GP3, F1CS200, Viper...) First try: the gas and brake were working the opposite way! The more you push, the less it effects! Then I tried to give new values to the controls: the only effect was that my mouse left click seems to want to become the only control device... Any ideas? Is there something strange with UbiSoft's way of programming? Arto -- -------------------- [email hidden] http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/wikla/

On 23 Jun 2001 02:13:44 +0300, [email hidden] (Arto Wikla) wrote:

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>I made the latest "security update" from MS pages. I suppose that it >is not the reason, but it is the only change before the problem: >Now F1RC has lost its understanding of my (split axis) MSFF wheel! >Other sims have no problems (GPL, N4, GP3, F1CS200, Viper...) > >First try: the gas and brake were working the opposite way! The more >you push, the less it effects! Then I tried to give new values to >the controls: the only effect was that my mouse left click seems >to want to become the only control device... > >Any ideas? Is there something strange with UbiSoft's way of programming? > >Arto

Yea, it's a problem with Ubisoft's programming. Just go into the gmae options and select the axis for brake and pedals again and it should be fine again. I have to do this everytime I play F1RC (which isn't often). Someone said to depress the gas pedal as you start F1RC to fix it, but it never worked for me. I have a MSFF wheel too.

Bert Middleton <[email hidden]> writes:

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>On 23 Jun 2001 02:13:44 +0300, [email hidden] (Arto >Wikla) wrote: >>you push, the less it effects! Then I tried to give new values to >>the controls: the only effect was that my mouse left click seems >>to want to become the only control device... >Yea, it's a problem with Ubisoft's programming. Just go into the gmae >options and select the axis for brake and pedals again and it should >be fine again. I have to do this everytime I play F1RC (which isn't >often). Someone said to depress the gas pedal as you start F1RC to fix >it, but it never worked for me. I have a MSFF wheel too.

Yes this has happened to me, too. But now the problem in re-selecting the controls! I cannot activate the selections: When I click for example "turn left" or "brake", I get just "Y+" there! No possibility of telling the game, what I really want to be the that axis... Arto -- -------------------- [email hidden] http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/wikla/

On 23 Jun 2001 11:31:47 +0300, [email hidden] (Arto Wikla) wrote: >Yes this has happened to me, too. But now the problem in re-selecting the >controls! I cannot activate the selections: When I click for example >"turn left" or "brake", I get just "Y+" there! No possibility of telling >the game, what I really want to be the that axis... > >Arto Yea, I've seen that too. If you keep diddling with it eventually it will work. Ubisoft really needs to get that patch out soon. I deleted F1RC off my HD until I can evaluate it post-patch.

Had the same problem. I d'l the KI-, Performance & Physicsupdate2001 (v1.3) by Marc Wessels from www.f1-rc.de and that new mecacar.de solved that problem for me. Rolf

Bert Middleton <[email hidden]> writes: >>I cannot activate the selections: When I click for example ... >Yea, I've seen that too. If you keep diddling with it eventually it >will work. Ubisoft really needs to get that patch out soon. I deleted >F1RC off my HD until I can evaluate it post-patch. Funny: now when I changed to Magny, and "diddled" for a while with setting the axis, it works again! I still think there is something quite unprofessional in their programming! (I teach programming at the Univ. of Helsinki...:-) And as a paying customer I think UbiSoft owes me a patch that corrects this kind of clear bugs in their commercial software! Arto -- -------------------- [email hidden] http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/wikla/

On 24 Jun 2001 21:36:12 +0300, [email hidden] (Arto Wikla) wrote:

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>Funny: now when I changed to Magny, and "diddled" for a while with >setting the axis, it works again! I still think there is something >quite unprofessional in their programming! (I teach programming at >the Univ. of Helsinki...:-) And as a paying customer I think UbiSoft >owes me a patch that corrects this kind of clear bugs in their >commercial software! > >Arto

They said there would be a patch released April 16th, it's now June 25th. Not only are they crap programmers, they are also liars. P.S. There will be a patch eventually.

> often). Someone said to depress the gas pedal as you start F1RC to fix > it, but it never worked for me. I have a MSFF wheel too. That was me, and just to clarify, it doesn't work if you push it to the floor. You only push it halfway to the floor. -Phasor