Viper Racing controller erratic

With Viper Racing the controller is erratic on my 350 MHZ AMD system with Windows98. The manual shift buttons work on the starting line, but as the green light hits, they stop working. The steering is erratic, and there is a delay in the accelerator pedal. I've run this game on my other (similarly spec'd) computer under Windows95 and know how its supposed to work. I thought that the problem was my NASCAR Sprint Wheel, but the same syptoms occur with my new ANCO Force Feedback USB Wheel, which I've tested successfully with my other favorite games (GPL, CART, GP2 w/ patch for USB, NASCAR3, SCGT, etc.) My system includes: AMD 350 MHZ DFI mainboard SIS 6236 video card with Voodoo2 64 MEG RAM ANCO AVB Force Feedback Wheel. Tom Harrington -- Posted from mail.planetkc.com [209.176.185.1] via Mailgate.ORG Server - http://www.Mailgate.ORG

You can play Viper Racing on the W95 system with the Sprint wheel. You can play other games on the W98 system with the ANCO wheel. Is the Sprint wheel gameport, serial, or USB? You could have a flaky gameport that messes up the Sprint. Have you patched Viper Racing to 1.1? Does the wheel seem to behave correctly on the options menu? [email hidden] ("Tom Harrington") wrote:

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>With Viper Racing the controller is erratic on my 350 MHZ AMD system with >Windows98. The manual shift buttons work on the starting line, but as the >green light hits, they stop working. The steering is erratic, and there is >a delay in the accelerator pedal. > >I've run this game on my other (similarly spec'd) computer under Windows95 >and know how its supposed to work. I thought that the problem was my NASCAR >Sprint Wheel, but the same syptoms occur with my new ANCO Force Feedback USB >Wheel, which I've tested successfully with my other favorite games (GPL, >CART, GP2 w/ patch for USB, NASCAR3, SCGT, etc.) > >My system includes: > >AMD 350 MHZ >DFI mainboard >SIS 6236 video card with Voodoo2 >64 MEG RAM >ANCO AVB Force Feedback Wheel.

-- Jon Willeke <j dot willeke at verizon dot net>

>You can play Viper Racing on the W95 system with the Sprint wheel.Right, which has a PCChips mainboard, and had a Voodoo2 installed before I moved it to the DFI computer. (PCChips computer is for our entire family and son's games, DFI is a backup computer for racing games). >You can play other games on the W98 system with the ANKO wheel. Is >the Sprint wheel gameport, serial, or USB? You could have a flaky >gameport that messes up the Sprint.I've put up the Sprint wheel, but it was gameport, having to go through a Thrustmaster ACM game card after DirectX7 install messed up its calibration going through the SoundBlaster Live Value card. What is weird to me is that I just put up the Sprint and installed the ANKO wheel last week, and the symptoms were the same with both controllers. It makes me wonder if there is a stray file or a Windows setting that is causing the problem, or if Viper Racing just doesn't like the DFI mainboard. >Have you patched Viper Racing to 1.1?Yes - symptoms are exactly the same before and after the patch >Does the wheel seem to behave correctly on the options menu?Yes it does - that's also why this problem is so wierd - it just "loses the manual shift buttons" right at the green light. Then I put Viper Racing into automatic shifting mode to get through a lap and noticed that the steering was wierd and the lag in the accelerator. I also tried the latest 3dfx Voodoo2 drivers with no success [email hidden] ("Tom Harrington") wrote:

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>With Viper Racing the controller is erratic on my 350 MHZ AMD system with >Windows98. The manual shift buttons work on the starting line, but as the >green light hits, they stop working. The steering is erratic, and there is >a delay in the accelerator pedal. > >I've run this game on my other (similarly spec'd) computer under Windows95 >and know how its supposed to work. I thought that the problem was my

NASCAR >Sprint Wheel, but the same syptoms occur with my new ANCO Force FeedbackUSB

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>Wheel, which I've tested successfully with my other favorite games (GPL, >CART, GP2 w/ patch for USB, NASCAR3, SCGT, etc.) > >My system includes: > >AMD 350 MHZ >DFI mainboard >SIS 6236 video card with Voodoo2 >64 MEG RAM >ANKO AVB Force Feedback Wheel.

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Funny this should come up. I haven't run Viper in awhile, not since upgrading to Windows Me and I'm having exactly the same problem. I calibrate the Thrustmaster wheel via the control panel and within Viper and the shifting seems to work just fine. I begin a race and before the light goes green I can up and down shift. But once the light is green I can't up or down shift. I can use auto shifting. The braking does not seem to be affected. Any help or thoughts would be appreciated. Phil ""Tom Harrington"" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:000301c0b726$6386e900$88c1bcd0@amd350...

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> >You can play Viper Racing on the W95 system with the Sprint wheel. > Right, which has a PCChips mainboard, and had a Voodoo2 installed before I > moved it to the DFI computer. (PCChips computer is for our entire family > and son's games, DFI is a backup computer for racing games). > > >You can play other games on the W98 system with the ANKO wheel. Is > >the Sprint wheel gameport, serial, or USB? You could have a flaky > >gameport that messes up the Sprint. > I've put up the Sprint wheel, but it was gameport, having to go through a > Thrustmaster ACM game card after DirectX7 install messed up its

calibration > going through the SoundBlaster Live Value card. What is weird to me isthat

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> I just put up the Sprint and installed the ANKO wheel last week, and the > symptoms were the same with both controllers. It makes me wonder if there > is a stray file or a Windows setting that is causing the problem, or if > Viper Racing just doesn't like the DFI mainboard. > > >Have you patched Viper Racing to 1.1? > Yes - symptoms are exactly the same before and after the patch > > >Does the wheel seem to behave correctly on the options menu? > Yes it does - that's also why this problem is so wierd - it just "loses

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> manual shift buttons" right at the green light. Then I put Viper Racing > into automatic shifting mode to get through a lap and noticed that the > steering was wierd and the lag in the accelerator. > > I also tried the latest 3dfx Voodoo2 drivers with no success > > > [email hidden] ("Tom Harrington") wrote: > > >With Viper Racing the controller is erratic on my 350 MHZ AMD system with > >Windows98. The manual shift buttons work on the starting line, but as

the > >green light hits, they stop working. The steering is erratic, and thereis > >a delay in the accelerator pedal. > > > >I've run this game on my other (similarly spec'd) computer underWindows95

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> >and know how its supposed to work. I thought that the problem was my > NASCAR > >Sprint Wheel, but the same syptoms occur with my new ANCO Force Feedback > USB > >Wheel, which I've tested successfully with my other favorite games (GPL, > >CART, GP2 w/ patch for USB, NASCAR3, SCGT, etc.) > > > >My system includes: > > > >AMD 350 MHZ > >DFI mainboard > >SIS 6236 video card with Voodoo2 > >64 MEG RAM > >ANKO AVB Force Feedback Wheel. > > > > -- > Posted from mail.planetkc.com [209.176.185.1] > via Mailgate.ORG Server - http://www.Mailgate.ORG

Could you have auto clutch turned off and not be pressing the clutch while you shift? "Phil" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:Do_y6.576$[email hidden]... > Funny this should come up. I haven't run Viper in awhile, not since > upgrading to Windows Me and I'm having exactly the same problem. Icalibrate

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> the Thrustmaster wheel via the control panel and within Viper and the > shifting seems to work just fine. I begin a race and before the light goes > green I can up and down shift. But once the light is green I can't up or > down shift. I can use auto shifting. The braking does not seem to be > affected. > > > Any help or thoughts would be appreciated. > > > > Phil > > ""Tom Harrington"" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:000301c0b726$6386e900$88c1bcd0@amd350... > > >You can play Viper Racing on the W95 system with the Sprint wheel. > > Right, which has a PCChips mainboard, and had a Voodoo2 installed before

I > > moved it to the DFI computer. (PCChips computer is for our entirefamily > > and son's games, DFI is a backup computer for racing games). > > > > >You can play other games on the W98 system with the ANKO wheel. Is > > >the Sprint wheel gameport, serial, or USB? You could have a flaky > > >gameport that messes up the Sprint. > > I've put up the Sprint wheel, but it was gameport, having to go througha > > Thrustmaster ACM game card after DirectX7 install messed up its > calibration > > going through the SoundBlaster Live Value card. What is weird to me is > that > > I just put up the Sprint and installed the ANKO wheel last week, and the > > symptoms were the same with both controllers. It makes me wonder ifthere

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> > is a stray file or a Windows setting that is causing the problem, or if > > Viper Racing just doesn't like the DFI mainboard. > > > > >Have you patched Viper Racing to 1.1? > > Yes - symptoms are exactly the same before and after the patch > > > > >Does the wheel seem to behave correctly on the options menu? > > Yes it does - that's also why this problem is so wierd - it just "loses > the > > manual shift buttons" right at the green light. Then I put Viper Racing > > into automatic shifting mode to get through a lap and noticed that the > > steering was wierd and the lag in the accelerator. > > > > I also tried the latest 3dfx Voodoo2 drivers with no success > > > > > > [email hidden] ("Tom Harrington") wrote: > > > > >With Viper Racing the controller is erratic on my 350 MHZ AMD system

with > > >Windows98. The manual shift buttons work on the starting line, but as > the > > >green light hits, they stop working. The steering is erratic, andthere

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> is > > >a delay in the accelerator pedal. > > > > > >I've run this game on my other (similarly spec'd) computer under > Windows95 > > >and know how its supposed to work. I thought that the problem was my > > NASCAR > > >Sprint Wheel, but the same syptoms occur with my new ANCO Force

Feedback > > USB > > >Wheel, which I've tested successfully with my other favorite games(GPL,

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> > >CART, GP2 w/ patch for USB, NASCAR3, SCGT, etc.) > > > > > >My system includes: > > > > > >AMD 350 MHZ > > >DFI mainboard > > >SIS 6236 video card with Voodoo2 > > >64 MEG RAM > > >ANKO AVB Force Feedback Wheel. > > > > > > > > -- > > Posted from mail.planetkc.com [209.176.185.1] > > via Mailgate.ORG Server - http://www.Mailgate.ORG > >

Dave, I think you have something there. I think I remember auto clutch being off. I'll check it out tonight and let you know. Thanks for the tip. Phil "Dave Pollatsek" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:3acc8e13$0$842$[email hidden]...

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> Could you have auto clutch turned off and not be pressing the clutch while > you shift? > > "Phil" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:Do_y6.576$[email hidden]... > > Funny this should come up. I haven't run Viper in awhile, not since > > upgrading to Windows Me and I'm having exactly the same problem. I > calibrate > > the Thrustmaster wheel via the control panel and within Viper and the > > shifting seems to work just fine. I begin a race and before the light

goes

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> > green I can up and down shift. But once the light is green I can't up or > > down shift. I can use auto shifting. The braking does not seem to be > > affected. > > > > > > Any help or thoughts would be appreciated. > > > > > > > > Phil > > > > ""Tom Harrington"" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > > news:000301c0b726$6386e900$88c1bcd0@amd350... > > > >You can play Viper Racing on the W95 system with the Sprint wheel. > > > Right, which has a PCChips mainboard, and had a Voodoo2 installed

before

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> I > > > moved it to the DFI computer. (PCChips computer is for our entire > family > > > and son's games, DFI is a backup computer for racing games). > > > > > > >You can play other games on the W98 system with the ANKO wheel. Is > > > >the Sprint wheel gameport, serial, or USB? You could have a flaky > > > >gameport that messes up the Sprint. > > > I've put up the Sprint wheel, but it was gameport, having to go

through > a > > > Thrustmaster ACM game card after DirectX7 install messed up its > > calibration > > > going through the SoundBlaster Live Value card. What is weird to meis > > that > > > I just put up the Sprint and installed the ANKO wheel last week, andthe > > > symptoms were the same with both controllers. It makes me wonder if > there > > > is a stray file or a Windows setting that is causing the problem, orif

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> > > Viper Racing just doesn't like the DFI mainboard. > > > > > > >Have you patched Viper Racing to 1.1? > > > Yes - symptoms are exactly the same before and after the patch > > > > > > >Does the wheel seem to behave correctly on the options menu? > > > Yes it does - that's also why this problem is so wierd - it just

"loses > > the > > > manual shift buttons" right at the green light. Then I put ViperRacing

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> > > into automatic shifting mode to get through a lap and noticed that the > > > steering was wierd and the lag in the accelerator. > > > > > > I also tried the latest 3dfx Voodoo2 drivers with no success > > > > > > > > > [email hidden] ("Tom Harrington") wrote: > > > > > > >With Viper Racing the controller is erratic on my 350 MHZ AMD system > with > > > >Windows98. The manual shift buttons work on the starting line, but

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> > the > > > >green light hits, they stop working. The steering is erratic, and > there > > is > > > >a delay in the accelerator pedal. > > > > > > > >I've run this game on my other (similarly spec'd) computer under > > Windows95 > > > >and know how its supposed to work. I thought that the problem was my > > > NASCAR > > > >Sprint Wheel, but the same syptoms occur with my new ANCO Force > Feedback > > > USB > > > >Wheel, which I've tested successfully with my other favorite games > (GPL, > > > >CART, GP2 w/ patch for USB, NASCAR3, SCGT, etc.) > > > > > > > >My system includes: > > > > > > > >AMD 350 MHZ > > > >DFI mainboard > > > >SIS 6236 video card with Voodoo2 > > > >64 MEG RAM > > > >ANKO AVB Force Feedback Wheel. > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Posted from mail.planetkc.com [209.176.185.1] > > > via Mailgate.ORG Server - http://www.Mailgate.ORG > > > > > >