Re: DX8 killed my T2

If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Pete wrote:

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> > Well, after reading that direct3d had been rewritten in assembler I went and > installed this beast. Ran some benchmarks... whooo.. it was a bit quicker. > > Fired up GPL... entered the ring... engaged first gear... mashed the > accelerator expecting a cloud of smoke. Nada... zip... zippo. > > Basically, my Thrusmater T2 pedals are no longer working :( > > Uninstalled the T2 driver, reinstalled the driver... tried with the > adapter... tried a generic driver... kicked the box a few times... All to > no avail. > > The steering works fine (x axis?) but nothing is coming through on the > pedals (y axis?). Has anyone else had this problem and been able to resolve > it? > > At this point I'm looking at a reinstall of the OS and everything else... > which I would really, really like to avoid. > > For the love of god, please help. > > Oh, i'm using a SBLive value soundcard (joystick port) if that matters. > > Pete

I have the same problem , my pedals are dead. I can play nascar3 by using the papyrus driver but I have no pedals with anything using the directx driver. Murray "Pete" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:Gq2Q5.2207$[email hidden]... > Well, after reading that direct3d had been rewritten in assembler I wentand > installed this beast. Ran some benchmarks... whooo.. it was a bitquicker.

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> > Fired up GPL... entered the ring... engaged first gear... mashed the > accelerator expecting a cloud of smoke. Nada... zip... zippo. > > Basically, my Thrusmater T2 pedals are no longer working :( > > Uninstalled the T2 driver, reinstalled the driver... tried with the > adapter... tried a generic driver... kicked the box a few times... All to > no avail. > > The steering works fine (x axis?) but nothing is coming through on the > pedals (y axis?). Has anyone else had this problem and been able to

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> it? > > At this point I'm looking at a reinstall of the OS and everything else... > which I would really, really like to avoid. > > For the love of god, please help. > > Oh, i'm using a SBLive value soundcard (joystick port) if that matters. > > Pete > > > > > > > >

Well, after reading that direct3d had been rewritten in assembler I went and installed this beast. Ran some benchmarks... whooo.. it was a bit quicker. Fired up GPL... entered the ring... engaged first gear... mashed the accelerator expecting a cloud of smoke. Nada... zip... zippo. Basically, my Thrusmater T2 pedals are no longer working :( Uninstalled the T2 driver, reinstalled the driver... tried with the adapter... tried a generic driver... kicked the box a few times... All to no avail. The steering works fine (x axis?) but nothing is coming through on the pedals (y axis?). Has anyone else had this problem and been able to resolve it? At this point I'm looking at a reinstall of the OS and everything else... which I would really, really like to avoid. For the love of god, please help. Oh, i'm using a SBLive value soundcard (joystick port) if that matters. Pete

I don't understand this, I have a T2 on Win98 with DX8 and have no troubles. Did you check the gameport interface tabs on your soundcard in DevMan, or try to reinstall your soundcard drivers (I'm using a MX300 soundcard). And what do you mean by 'T2 driver' I've never needed one. Also there is a dx8 uninstaller if you really need it. rms [email hidden]

I've heard this exact thing too. I'll wait for 8.1 when they fix the inevitable bugs :-) James "Dwayne White" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > If it ain't broke, don't fix it. > > Pete wrote: > > > > Well, after reading that direct3d had been rewritten in assembler I wentand > > installed this beast. Ran some benchmarks... whooo.. it was a bitquicker.

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> > > > Fired up GPL... entered the ring... engaged first gear... mashed the > > accelerator expecting a cloud of smoke. Nada... zip... zippo. > > > > Basically, my Thrusmater T2 pedals are no longer working :( > > > > Uninstalled the T2 driver, reinstalled the driver... tried with the > > adapter... tried a generic driver... kicked the box a few times... All

to > > no avail. > > > > The steering works fine (x axis?) but nothing is coming through on the > > pedals (y axis?). Has anyone else had this problem and been able toresolve > > it? > > > > At this point I'm looking at a reinstall of the OS and everythingelse...

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> > which I would really, really like to avoid. > > > > For the love of god, please help. > > > > Oh, i'm using a SBLive value soundcard (joystick port) if that matters. > > > > Pete

I have a T2 and when I installed DX 8.0 it died also. Well, I remembered that Thrustmaster sent me an adaptor to go on the end of the T2 gameport connector. I dug it up, snapped it on, and it works great now. I have no idea what it does but if you look under the "game controller" setting in Windows you'll see "T2 w adaptor", and "T2 w/o adaptor". Somehow DX8 hates the T2 w/o the adaptor..... Thanks, Aaron Markham *Kart44* --------------------------------------- Inaugural Talladega Tournament 2000 Champion Weekly Competitor at www.ameliamotorraceway.com *In Memory of Ayrton Senna 1960-1994* "Pete" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:Gq2Q5.2207$[email hidden]... > Well, after reading that direct3d had been rewritten in assembler I wentand > installed this beast. Ran some benchmarks... whooo.. it was a bitquicker.

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> > Fired up GPL... entered the ring... engaged first gear... mashed the > accelerator expecting a cloud of smoke. Nada... zip... zippo. > > Basically, my Thrusmater T2 pedals are no longer working :( > > Uninstalled the T2 driver, reinstalled the driver... tried with the > adapter... tried a generic driver... kicked the box a few times... All to > no avail. > > The steering works fine (x axis?) but nothing is coming through on the > pedals (y axis?). Has anyone else had this problem and been able to

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> it? > > At this point I'm looking at a reinstall of the OS and everything else... > which I would really, really like to avoid. > > For the love of god, please help. > > Oh, i'm using a SBLive value soundcard (joystick port) if that matters. > > Pete > > > > > > > > >

If this does not work try this. Go into control panel and game controllers. Click on yours and click REMOVE. Then add it again and re-callibrate. This should fix the problem. Aaron Markham wrote:

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> > I have a T2 and when I installed DX 8.0 it died also. Well, I remembered > that Thrustmaster sent me an adaptor to go on the end of the T2 gameport > connector. I dug it up, snapped it on, and it works great now. I have no > idea what it does but if you look under the "game controller" setting in > Windows you'll see "T2 w adaptor", and "T2 w/o adaptor". Somehow DX8 hates > the T2 w/o the adaptor..... > > Thanks, > Aaron Markham *Kart44* > --------------------------------------- > Inaugural Talladega Tournament 2000 Champion > Weekly Competitor at www.ameliamotorraceway.com > > *In Memory of Ayrton Senna 1960-1994* > > "Pete" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:Gq2Q5.2207$[email hidden]... > > Well, after reading that direct3d had been rewritten in assembler I went > and > > installed this beast. Ran some benchmarks... whooo.. it was a bit > quicker. > > > > Fired up GPL... entered the ring... engaged first gear... mashed the > > accelerator expecting a cloud of smoke. Nada... zip... zippo. > > > > Basically, my Thrusmater T2 pedals are no longer working :( > > > > Uninstalled the T2 driver, reinstalled the driver... tried with the > > adapter... tried a generic driver... kicked the box a few times... All to > > no avail. > > > > The steering works fine (x axis?) but nothing is coming through on the > > pedals (y axis?). Has anyone else had this problem and been able to > resolve > > it? > > > > At this point I'm looking at a reinstall of the OS and everything else... > > which I would really, really like to avoid. > > > > For the love of god, please help. > > > > Oh, i'm using a SBLive value soundcard (joystick port) if that matters. > > > > Pete > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >

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In article <[email hidden]>, rmurray <[email hidden]> wrote: >I have the same problem , my pedals are dead. >I can play nascar3 by using the papyrus driver but I have no pedals with >anything using the directx driver. > >Murray > Anything from Microsoft sucks, some find out the hard way ;-) While it�s easy to look onto your troubles in a most gleeful manner, have you tried setting the input device to four buttons / two axis joystick and then calibrated it? I have never used any special drivers for the T2, just used the plain old joystick thingy. Oh yeah, and to quote from the Microsoft web site: "DX8 is a system component and cannot be uninstalled." hehehe. Cheers & HTH, uwe -- Uwe Schuerkamp http://www.schuerkamp.de/ GnuPG Fingerprint: 2093 20B8 B861 9358 A356 B01A E145 9249 5D27 33EA PGP Fingerprint: 2E 13 20 22 9A 3F 63 7F 67 6F E9 B1 A8 36 A4 61