Re: F1CS ---> Deadzone fix here!

Has anyone gone back into the .plr file? I did this and it was reset back to 0.20 Hmmm Richard "ZZ" Busch Official member: Screamers Racing League IGPS Season 3 Sim Racing Mag Honda Challenge Sim Racing Mag F2 Ferrari GPL Rank 33.000008 ---------------- Busch Motorsports: Remember racecar is racecar spelled backward ----------------- Busch Carpentry: Plans?, Oh, you mean that napkin sketch? ----------------- Stressed is just Desserts backwards

It worked! Thank you! Dave Pawlikowski [email hidden] www.cushdrive.com Happiness is your face on a milk carton.

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> > This morning, my friend dropped the F1CS w**ez CD off at my > house. I installed it, set the deadzone to 0 inside the game, > and had the same excessive deadzone. I started snooping around > in the files and located what is apparently the fix!! > > All you have to do is to browse into your F1CS folder and > go into the following folder, substituting your player's name > for 'yourname': > > \SAVE\YOURNAME > > Then, edit the following file with notepad or any text editor: > > YOURNAME.PLR > > Locate the following line: > JoystickDeadZone=(0.20) > > Change it to: > JoystickDeadZone=(0.00) > > That fixes it! Apparently, ISI thinks we should still have > a deadzone, even if we selected a 0 deadzone... :) > > Here is a picture I made to illustrate it: > ftp://ftp.mindspring.com/users/rrev/dead-fix.gif >

On Sun, 03 Dec 2000 12:14:52 -0600, rrevved <[email hidden]> wrote: <snip> >That fixes it! Apparently, ISI thinks we should still have >a deadzone, even if we selected a 0 deadzone... :) > >Here is a picture I made to illustrate it: >ftp://ftp.mindspring.com/users/rrev/dead-fix.gif Yup, that does the trick, John Bodin allready mailed me this solution this morning. By the way, thanks for the illustration, without it I could never have figured out how to edit the file ;) Andre

On Sun, 03 Dec 2000 23:01:03 GMT, "Richard \"ZZ\" Busch" <[email hidden]> thus spoke: >Has anyone gone back into the .plr file? I did this and it was reset back to >0.20 > >Hmmm Argh! You're right, mine is set back to 0.20 too.

I haven't tried it, but it may reset to .20 if you change the deadzone inside the game, change controller settings or when you create another player. Did you do any of these? Just a guess, I'm away from the 'puter with the game right now. Nope didn't touch nothing. Richard "ZZ" Busch Official member: Screamers Racing League IGPS Season 3 Sim Racing Mag Honda Challenge Sim Racing Mag F2 Ferrari GPL Rank 33.000008 ---------------- Busch Motorsports: Remember racecar is racecar spelled backward ----------------- Busch Carpentry: Plans?, Oh, you mean that napkin sketch? ----------------- Stressed is just Desserts backwards

On Mon, 04 Dec 2000 00:13:03 GMT, "Richard \"ZZ\" Busch" <[email hidden]> wrote:

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>I haven't tried it, but it may reset to .20 if you change the deadzone >inside the game, change controller settings or when you create >another player. Did you do any of these? > >Just a guess, I'm away from the 'puter with the game right now. > >Nope didn't touch nothing.

You're right, it changes back to 20 after leaving the game. Now we have to edit the file each time we start up F1CS... ISI: PATCH! Andre

On Mon, 04 Dec 2000 00:44:11 GMT, Andre Warringa <[email hidden]> wrote: >You're right, it changes back to 20 after leaving the game. >Now we have to edit the file each time we start up F1CS... Or set the file to read only for the time being? Jan

I tried this a few days ago, and it has never worked for me. Well, it might have made the deadzone a little smaller for me (maybe) but there is still 1/2 inch or more deadzone On Sun, 03 Dec 2000 12:14:52 -0600, rrevved <[email hidden]> wrote: > >That fixes it! Apparently, ISI thinks we should still have >a deadzone, even if we selected a 0 deadzone... :) > >Here is a picture I made to illustrate it: >ftp://ftp.mindspring.com/users/rrev/dead-fix.gif

Well after downloading DXTweak and finding out my deadzone was at %5 for some strange reason, I changed it back to %0 and now the editing of the *.plr file works......Im still confused as to how my deadzone was at %5 in windows. Also it seems making the *.plr file readonly doesnt work, as the program changes it back. (strange)

On Mon, 04 Dec 2000 02:50:07 +0100, Jan Loebzien <[email hidden]> wrote:

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>On Mon, 04 Dec 2000 00:44:11 GMT, Andre Warringa <[email hidden]> >wrote: > >>You're right, it changes back to 20 after leaving the game. >>Now we have to edit the file each time we start up F1CS... > >Or set the file to read only for the time being?

Don't think that'll work, it's writing all kinds of data to it (latest used track etc) But while I didn't change anything, I did went to the config screen to check the settings. It could be that it saves and resets the value to 20 automatically after leaving the options screen even when I didn't change anything. Have to check this when I get home from work. Andre > > >Jan

On Mon, 04 Dec 2000 01:56:42 GMT, Leviticus <[email hidden]> wrote: > >I tried this a few days ago, and it has never worked for me. >Well, it might have made the deadzone a little smaller for me (maybe) >but there is still 1/2 inch or more deadzone Have you used DXTweak to set the deadzone to 0? It works fine here.. Andre

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>On Sun, 03 Dec 2000 12:14:52 -0600, rrevved <[email hidden]> wrote: >> >>That fixes it! Apparently, ISI thinks we should still have >>a deadzone, even if we selected a 0 deadzone... :) >> >>Here is a picture I made to illustrate it: >>ftp://ftp.mindspring.com/users/rrev/dead-fix.gif >

On Mon, 04 Dec 2000 08:30:15 GMT, Leviticus <[email hidden]> wrote: >Well after downloading DXTweak and finding out my deadzone >was at %5 for some strange reason, I changed it back to %0 >and now the editing of the *.plr file works......Im still confused as >to how my deadzone was at %5 in windows. Ok :) >Also it seems making the *.plr file readonly doesnt work, as the >program changes it back. (strange) Because it apparently needs to write data to it. Andre