While fooling around with my new sound card, I came across an old
GPL bug that I had forgotten. I'm posting this hoping it might help
some of the newbies. The problem is anti-lock brakes ("braking help")
that won't go away -- even if the check box is toggled off! Go down
any straight and jam on the brakes -- your front wheels should lock
up. If they don't, you're experiencing this bug.
It seems to happen when keyboard driving is selected, which
automatically selects braking help and traction help, but it doesn't
get switched off when you go back to joystick or wheel driving. I'm
not a keyboard driver, but in my case my joystick port was disabled in
the midst of my fiddling and GPL defaulted to keyboard driving.
The solution for this bug is to go into the PLAYERS directory, into
the individual player's name directory, and deleting the CONTROLS.CFG
file. When you restart GPL, you'll be required to re-calibrate your
controller and braking help should be fully and truly eradicated.
"But in a way, fear is a big part of racing, because if there was
nothing to be frightened of, and no limit, any fool could get into
a motor car and racing would not exist as a sport." -- Jim Clark
On Sun, 24 Dec 2000 01:52:11 GMT, [email hidden] (Jeff Vincent)
wrote:
Finally an explanation as to why braking-help can mysteriously become
enabled. I've had this happen before, didn't know why.
Thanks.
