GPL Directinput/Generic?

Can someone help me please. For some reson I can only select Direct input as my driving preferance. If i try Generic I cant calibrate my wheel. I have a Guillemong Ferrari wheel and voodoo5 running on a pIII 500 system. What is my problem, Im sure I had the choice originally. Which is best? I was just trying to give Generic a go to see if it solves a few minor problems i get from time to time. Hope someone can help Thanks Kev BArnes

Nothing wrong, GPL cannot see the modern USB & FF wheels direct (which is the generic setting) it has to use direct X and the windows game controllers (direct setting). Basically to use generic setting you'd need a standard gameport wheel. -- Ian P <email invalid due to spam> Kevin Barnes <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:0SUH6.15519$[email hidden]... > Can someone help me please. For some reson I can only select Direct input as > my driving preferance. If i try Generic I cant calibrate my wheel. I have a > Guillemong Ferrari wheel and voodoo5 running on a pIII 500 system. What is > my problem, Im sure I had the choice originally. Which is best? I was just > trying to give Generic a go to see if it solves a few minor problems i get > from time to time. > Hope someone can help > Thanks > Kev BArnes > >

Ian P <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:9cp869$gnf$[email hidden]... > Nothing wrong, GPL cannot see the modern USB & FF wheels direct (which is > the generic setting) it has to use direct X and the windows gamecontrollers > (direct setting). Basically to use generic setting you'd need a standard > gameport wheel. Okay, so why can't my system see my gameport wheel since I reinstalled Win98SE? There's a "Creative Gameport Joystick" device installed OK... Jonny

Without knowing which wheel it is I'd have absolutely no idea. If your wheel requires specific drivers though, that would be a good starting point. Then you'll of course need to tell windows which wheel you're using. -- Ian P <email invalid due to spam> Jonny Hodgson <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > Okay, so why can't my system see my gameport wheel since I reinstalled > Win98SE? There's a "Creative Gameport Joystick" device installed OK... > > Jonny > >

Ian P <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:9cpo37$akb$[email hidden]... > Without knowing which wheel it is I'd have absolutely no idea. > If your wheel requires specific drivers though, that would be a good > starting point. Then you'll of course need to tell windows which wheel > you're using. It's an Interact V3, which operates as a regular PC joystick. It used to work fine on Generic before I invoked the dread incantation "format c:"... Jonny

Only thing I can think of is to try deleting control.cfg (or just rename it) from your player folder, then start GPL and try to calibrate it again. -- Ian P <email invalid due to spam> Jonny Hodgson <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > > Ian P <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:9cpo37$akb$[email hidden]... > > Without knowing which wheel it is I'd have absolutely no idea. > > If your wheel requires specific drivers though, that would be a good > > starting point. Then you'll of course need to tell windows which wheel > > you're using. > > It's an Interact V3, which operates as a regular PC joystick. It > used to work fine on Generic before I invoked the dread > incantation "format c:"... > > Jonny > >

Hello "Jonny Hodgson" <[email hidden]>! Wed, 2 May 2001 22:05:04 +0100 you wrote: >It's an Interact V3, which operates as a regular PC joystick. It >used to work fine on Generic before I invoked the dread >incantation "format c:"... I have same problem. After reinstalling Win98 i can't use "generic" driver anymore. Before reinstall it worked fine. Maybe re-installing GPL would help, but since my wheel (TM Sprint) works fine with directx driver i see no reason. -- Tuomas Paasiala | Multitasking in Windows? | Save bandwidth, no | - Use UAE | longer signatures Helsinki FINLAND | Remove _NO-SPAM_ for reply | than four lines ! -95

Tuomas Paasiala <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> Hello "Jonny Hodgson" <[email hidden]>! Wed, 2 May 2001 22:05:04 > +0100 you wrote: > > >It's an Interact V3, which operates as a regular PC joystick. It > >used to work fine on Generic before I invoked the dread > >incantation "format c:"... > > I have same problem. After reinstalling Win98 i can't use "generic" > driver anymore. Before reinstall it worked fine. Maybe re-installing > GPL would help, but since my wheel (TM Sprint) works fine with directx > driver i see no reason.

Well, I'll try the suggestion in the other recent reply to this thread (if I find some time soon!); my other idea is to try installing the legacy DOS drivers (e.g. by doing a "restart in MS-DOS mode") and see if that works. I think it's a whole joystick port thing, since a small QBasic program fails to read anything off the joystick either. Will keep you posted if I get it fixed. Jonny

On Fri, 29 Jun 2001 13:26:58 +0200, [email hidden] (Uwe Schuerkamp) wrote:

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>yep, re-installing gpl helps! Just install to a different directory >\sierra\gpl_new and the installation process will drop a file called >"papyjoy.sys" into your windoze system thingy, then all should be fine >again. I have not tried deleting the new installation afterwards, but >certainly it's 130 megs well spent. DirectX input is far inferior >compared to the generic driver, just what you would expect from >microsoft.

In what way is it inferior Uwe? I never tried the generic drivers, I vaguely remember that I couldn't select them on my former system. I don't seem to have any response problems with the DX input, but I'm allways interested in any improvements I can make.. Andre

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> > I have same problem. After reinstalling Win98 i can't use "generic" > driver anymore. Before reinstall it worked fine. Maybe re-installing > GPL would help, but since my wheel (TM Sprint) works fine with directx > driver i see no reason. > > -- > Tuomas Paasiala | Multitasking in Windows? | Save bandwidth, no

yep, re-installing gpl helps! Just install to a different directory \sierra\gpl_new and the installation process will drop a file called "papyjoy.sys" into your windoze system thingy, then all should be fine again. I have not tried deleting the new installation afterwards, but certainly it's 130 megs well spent. DirectX input is far inferior compared to the generic driver, just what you would expect from microsoft. Hope that helps, uwe -- Uwe Schuerkamp http://www.schuerkamp.de/ uwe.schuerkamp at telemedia.de for direct mail (from: is spambox) PGP Fingerprint: 2E 13 20 22 9A 3F 63 7F 67 6F E9 B1 A8 36 A4 61

> > I have same problem. After reinstalling Win98 i can't use"generic" > > driver anymore. Before reinstall it worked fine. Maybere-installing > > GPL would help, but since my wheel (TM Sprint) works fine withdirectx > > driver i see no reason. > > -- > > Tuomas Paasiala | Multitasking in Windows? | Save bandwidth,no Sorry about the late follow-up, but I *finally* (!) solved this one by adding a DOS driver for my soundcard (with onboard joystick port) to Autoexec (sbinit.exe I think). Worked fine after that. Jonny