Hello-
I have the current game hardware setup:
MS Percision Pro Joystick (game port)
MS Percision Racing Wheel (USB)
When I run Midtown Maddness, the wheel is not used. I set the control
options to use "steering wheel" and it will not work. Surprisingly
though, the joystick seems to be working in the game (not the plan at
all!) So I tried to rearrange the order of the game controllers to
wheel = 1 and joystick = 2 but it did the same thing. So then I just
removed the joystick and the wheel worked! Anyideas of how I can fix
this since I don't want to remove my joystick before I play, and
reinstall it later. Thanks
-capt.
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Before you buy.
I have the exact same 2 controllers, and had the exact same problem. Since I
didn't use the joystick much, I just left it disconnected. I couldn't find a
way to fix it until I got a couple extra USB ports, and plugged the joystick
into one of them too. Then the wheel worked fine in all my games, including
Midtown. I guess the fact that the joystick was in the gameport must somehow
make it take priority over the wheel, but when they are both in USB, they
are on equal priority so the wheel works fine. My problem was that I
couldn't actually assign the wheel to postion 1 in the game controlers panel
(it always returned the joystick back to 1, no matter what), but once they
were both on USB it worked fine. Try putting it in USB if you have extra
ports. If not, you may want to get a USB card that just has a PCI connection
inside the computer and gives 2 extra ports. I found this a lot cheaper than
a hub. Hope this helps,
Marc
I set mine up as wheel in options and when the game starts it "forgets" and
sets it back to keyboard causing me to have to escape and set it to wheel
again. Needless to say this removes my button setup. Any ideas?
"Marc Goldstein" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:n0AE4.4235$[email hidden]...
> I have the exact same 2 controllers, and had the exact same problem. SinceI
> didn't use the joystick much, I just left it disconnected. I couldn't finda
> way to fix it until I got a couple extra USB ports, and plugged thejoystick
> into one of them too. Then the wheel worked fine in all my games,including
> Midtown. I guess the fact that the joystick was in the gameport mustsomehow
> make it take priority over the wheel, but when they are both in USB, they
> are on equal priority so the wheel works fine. My problem was that I
> couldn't actually assign the wheel to postion 1 in the game controlerspanel
> (it always returned the joystick back to 1, no matter what), but once they
> were both on USB it worked fine. Try putting it in USB if you have extra
> ports. If not, you may want to get a USB card that just has a PCIconnection
> inside the computer and gives 2 extra ports. I found this a lot cheaperthan
> a hub. Hope this helps,
> Marc
>
>
>
Boy, I had that problem too. Weird. I changed some files from read-only to
non-read-only. It was not storing the information you entered and going back
to the default. Not sure why this happened, or what files to change. Try
things that would make sense, like player data or controller stuff. Go
through the Midtown Madness folder and change anything that you think
shouldn't be read-only.
Marc.
> I set mine up as wheel in options and when the game starts it "forgets"and
> sets it back to keyboard causing me to have to escape and set it to wheel
> again. Needless to say this removes my button setup. Any ideas?
> "Marc Goldstein" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
> news:n0AE4.4235$[email hidden]...
> > I have the exact same 2 controllers, and had the exact same problem.Since
> I
> > didn't use the joystick much, I just left it disconnected. I couldn'tfind
they
> > are on equal priority so the wheel works fine. My problem was that I
> > couldn't actually assign the wheel to postion 1 in the game controlers
> panel
> > (it always returned the joystick back to 1, no matter what), but oncethey
