F1CS2000 - two questions

I have two questions for experienced F1CS2000 players: 1 - There seems to be a large deadzone in the steering input no matter how I configure things. A few weeks ago there was a post mentioning a definitive fix for this problem, and now that I have the game I can no longer find the post. Can someone repeat the fix info for me? 2 - Another issue was making sure all driving aids were turned "off" to get the full whack of the physics model. In addition to turning off the driving aids there was one other setting reported that was required to get the full effect - this is another post I can't find. Would someone kindly repeat this info for me as well? Many thanks for any and all helpful posts. - Woody

the "all cars equal" needs to be off.im curious about the rest of the question myself as i do not have a deadzone fix. but i have the deadzone problem Woodrow Stool wrote:

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> I have two questions for experienced F1CS2000 players: > > 1 - There seems to be a large deadzone in the steering input no matter how I > configure things. A few weeks ago there was a post mentioning a definitive > fix for this problem, and now that I have the game I can no longer find the > post. Can someone repeat the fix info for me? > > 2 - Another issue was making sure all driving aids were turned "off" to get > the full whack of the physics model. In addition to turning off the driving > aids there was one other setting reported that was required to get the full > effect - this is another post I can't find. Would someone kindly repeat > this info for me as well? > > Many thanks for any and all helpful posts. > > - Woody

Woody, I'm not sure what you mean by the second question--but another fellow has suggested something. But . . . as for the first, you need to go into the player .plr file that was created under the name you typed in when you set up yourself as a driver. This will be in the EA Sports\F1 Championship Season 2000\Save\"your name" folder. Look for "Woody.plr" or whatever. Open the file with notepad and scroll down to "game options" then look for JoystickDeadZone=(0.20) and change that 2 to a 0. Now--and this is important--when you start up the game again, DON'T go into the options. Every time you do that, the game automatically sets the deadzone back to 0.20. So get your graphics, sounds, and gameplay options set the way you want them, and THEN exit the game, and edit that .plr file. It's annoying problem, and damned insane, but there it is. It needs a patch, to be sure. cheerio, David set where you want them, "Woodrow Stool" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:XTq%5.1520$[email hidden]... > I have two questions for experienced F1CS2000 players: > > 1 - There seems to be a large deadzone in the steering input no matter howI > configure things. A few weeks ago there was a post mentioning adefinitive > fix for this problem, and now that I have the game I can no longer findthe > post. Can someone repeat the fix info for me? > > 2 - Another issue was making sure all driving aids were turned "off" toget > the full whack of the physics model. In addition to turning off thedriving > aids there was one other setting reported that was required to get thefull

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> effect - this is another post I can't find. Would someone kindly repeat > this info for me as well? > > Many thanks for any and all helpful posts. > > - Woody > >

The 2nd question is in the "difficulty" settings of the main menu. It is the "driving assistance" button. all the other difficulty settings can be toggled in the cockpit, but the driving assistance option must be turned off or on from the menu section. dave henrie "Woodrow Stool" <[email hidden]> wrote in > 2 - Another issue was making sure all driving aids were turned "off" to get > the full whack of the physics model. In addition to turning off thedriving > aids there was one other setting reported that was required to get thefull

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> effect - this is another post I can't find. Would someone kindly repeat > this info for me as well? > > Many thanks for any and all helpful posts. > > - Woody > >

David's response is correct, but you might need to use the DXTweak deadzone utility, too -- I think this is primarily a Logitech problem, as I have NO dead zone problems at all with my trusty TSW2, and even though the ISI folks use Logitech wheels themselves, I believe that they pretty much feel that although the Logitech hardware is good, their drivers are weak at best. This thread from the High Gear forums describes the *.plr file tweak procedure in greater detail, with links to explanatory pictures as well: http://forums.simracingnews.com/ubb/Forum13/HTML/002108.html Also, you might try setting the "dead zone" slider to zero in the menus, and the "sensitivity" slider to 100%. Someone here in this newsgroup reported that this solved their problem. -- JB In article <91mf1k$r0m$[email hidden]>, "David Karr" <[email hidden]> wrote: > Woody, > > I'm not sure what you mean by the second question--but another fellowhas > suggested something. But . . . > > as for the first, you need to go into the player .plr file that wascreated > under the name you typed in when you set up yourself as a driver.This will > be in the EA Sports\F1 Championship Season 2000\Save\"your name"folder. > Look for "Woody.plr" or whatever. Open the file with notepad andscroll

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> down to "game options" then look for > > JoystickDeadZone=(0.20) > > and change that 2 to a 0. > > Now--and this is important--when you start up the game again, DON'T

go into > the options. Every time you do that, the game automatically sets the > deadzone back to 0.20. > > So get your graphics, sounds, and gameplay options set the way youwant

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> them, and THEN exit the game, and edit that .plr file. > > It's annoying problem, and damned insane, but there it is. It needs a > patch, to be sure. > > cheerio, > David > > set where you want them, > "Woodrow Stool" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:XTq%5.1520$[email hidden]... > > I have two questions for experienced F1CS2000 players: > > > > 1 - There seems to be a large deadzone in the steering input no

matter how > I > > configure things. A few weeks ago there was a post mentioning a > definitive > > fix for this problem, and now that I have the game I can no longerfind > the > > post. Can someone repeat the fix info for me? > > > > 2 - Another issue was making sure all driving aids wereturned "off" to > get > > the full whack of the physics model. In addition to turning off the > driving > > aids there was one other setting reported that was required to getthe > full > > effect - this is another post I can't find. Would someone kindlyrepeat

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> > this info for me as well? > > > > Many thanks for any and all helpful posts. > > > > - Woody > > > > > >

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In article <XTq%5.1520$[email hidden]>, "Woodrow Stool" <[email hidden]> wrote: > I have two questions for experienced F1CS2000 players: > > 1 - There seems to be a large deadzone in the steering input nomatter how I > configure things. A few weeks ago there was a post mentioning adefinitive > fix for this problem, and now that I have the game I can no longerfind the > post. Can someone repeat the fix info for me? See my response in a separate post elsewhere in this thread. > 2 - Another issue was making sure all driving aids were turned "off"to get > the full whack of the physics model. In addition to turning off thedriving > aids there was one other setting reported that was required to getthe full > effect - this is another post I can't find. Would someone kindlyrepeat > this info for me as well? Make sure you have "Driving Assistance" set to "OFF" -- it's easy to turn this on by accident while disabling all the other driving aids (the default for this is "OFF," while everything else defaults to "ON," so if you go through and turn all the aids "OFF," it's easy to turn this "ON" by mistake, which REALLY affects the driving model). One of the best places to get F1CS2K info is High Gear's F1 2000 forum: http://forums.simracingnews.com/cgi-bin/forumdisplay.cgi? action=topics&forum=F1+2000&number=13 -- JB F1CS2K Rank 119.434 http://f1cs2krank.dhs.org/ Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/

On Tue, 19 Dec 2000 03:59:05 GMT, [email hidden] wrote:

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>David's response is correct, but you might need to use the DXTweak >deadzone utility, too -- I think this is primarily a Logitech problem, >as I have NO dead zone problems at all with my trusty TSW2, and even >though the ISI folks use Logitech wheels themselves, I believe that >they pretty much feel that although the Logitech hardware is good, >their drivers are weak at best. This thread from the High Gear forums >describes the *.plr file tweak procedure in greater detail, with links >to explanatory pictures as well: > >http://forums.simracingnews.com/ubb/Forum13/HTML/002108.html > >Also, you might try setting the "dead zone" slider to zero in the >menus, and the "sensitivity" slider to 100%. Someone here in this >newsgroup reported that this solved their problem. > >-- JB

John, I have my doubts about setting the sensitivity to 100%. With a LWFF, setting the deadzone in the ini file to (0.00) and using DXTweak to set the deadzone to 0 should really solve the deadzone problem. First I had my sensitivity set to 100%, but handling improved when I set the sensitivity to 30%. Andre

Klopt als een bus. Spot on ! That's wha I did too. After using a 100% sensitivity I had to stop breathing to prevent the car to go from one side of the track to the other. I'm using a 25% to 35% sensitivity, depending on other settings. But it's still far from perfect. locl "Andre Warringa" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> On Tue, 19 Dec 2000 03:59:05 GMT, [email hidden] wrote: > > >David's response is correct, but you might need to use the DXTweak > >deadzone utility, too -- I think this is primarily a Logitech problem, > >as I have NO dead zone problems at all with my trusty TSW2, and even > >though the ISI folks use Logitech wheels themselves, I believe that > >they pretty much feel that although the Logitech hardware is good, > >their drivers are weak at best. This thread from the High Gear forums > >describes the *.plr file tweak procedure in greater detail, with links > >to explanatory pictures as well: > > > >http://forums.simracingnews.com/ubb/Forum13/HTML/002108.html > > > >Also, you might try setting the "dead zone" slider to zero in the > >menus, and the "sensitivity" slider to 100%. Someone here in this > >newsgroup reported that this solved their problem. > > > >-- JB > > John, I have my doubts about setting the sensitivity to 100%. With a > LWFF, setting the deadzone in the ini file to (0.00) and using DXTweak > to set the deadzone to 0 should really solve the deadzone problem. > First I had my sensitivity set to 100%, but handling improved when I > set the sensitivity to 30%. > > Andre >

<[email hidden]> wrote in message news:91mme6$ih$[email hidden]... > David's response is correct, but you might need to use the DXTweak > deadzone utility, too -- I think this is primarily a Logitech problem, I have a Logitech LWFF and don't have *ANY* deadzone problems. It set itself up and is working just fine. I never noticed any deadzone issues. So assuming it is there, maybe I like a big dead zone? -- [email hidden]

On Tue, 19 Dec 2000 19:59:29 -0600, "Greg Cisko" <[email hidden]> wrote:

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><[email hidden]> wrote in message news:91mme6$ih$[email hidden]... >> David's response is correct, but you might need to use the DXTweak >> deadzone utility, too -- I think this is primarily a Logitech problem, > >I have a Logitech LWFF and don't have *ANY* deadzone problems. >It set itself up and is working just fine. I never noticed any deadzone >issues. So assuming it is there, maybe I like a big dead zone?

Did you change the deadzone value in the player.PLR (or whatever the filename was) to 0.00? If not, it should be at 0.20, and that would indicate that you like a big deadzone indeed.. Really, setting the deadzone to 0.00 was a big improvement for me. Andre

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