Well, with my recent acquisition of ICR, I've been upgrading the 'ol PC
to further support my racing career. At the advice of many, I picked
up a joystick. But, when playing ICR I can not make any menu
selections. Yeah, the joystick is calibrated, etc. But I can not make
menu selections either through the keyboard or through the joystick. I
do not have a sound card but am using the game port on my I/O card.
The stick will work fine in Flight Sim & other games just fine. I
called Papyrus and they acknowledged that this problem has happened in
the past and is due to some HW conflict.
What gives? If I disable my game port, then I can play the game
through the keyboard. W/ the port enabled, I can hit return to
eventually get into practice mode. At which time the stick will allow
me to steer & accelerate (so it kinda works).
Anyway, I'm going today to buy a Soundblaster card today, but I wanted
to make sure this would solve my problem. Does anyone have any info.
on this problem? I'm looking at getting the cheapie Soundblaster
card...what are the pros & cons of this...or should I opt. for one of
the other models (regarding the CD scene, I'll pick up a quad speed
drive in a few months).
Thanks...
Tim
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> Well, with my recent acquisition of ICR, I've been upgrading the 'ol PC > to further support my racing career. At the advice of many, I picked > up a joystick. But, when playing ICR I can not make any menu > selections. Yeah, the joystick is calibrated, etc. But I can not make > menu selections either through the keyboard or through the joystick. I > do not have a sound card but am using the game port on my I/O card. > The stick will work fine in Flight Sim & other games just fine. I > called Papyrus and they acknowledged that this problem has happened in > the past and is due to some HW conflict. > What gives? If I disable my game port, then I can play the game > through the keyboard. W/ the port enabled, I can hit return to > eventually get into practice mode. At which time the stick will allow > me to steer & accelerate (so it kinda works). > Anyway, I'm going today to buy a Soundblaster card today, but I wanted > to make sure this would solve my problem. Does anyone have any info. > on this problem? I'm looking at getting the cheapie Soundblaster > card...what are the pros & cons of this...or should I opt. for one of > the other models (regarding the CD scene, I'll pick up a quad speed > drive in a few months). > Thanks... > Tim> I had a similar problem (I think). I could use the joystick to select
> menu options and to play the game, but I couldn't redefine the joystick from
> the 'Set Controls' menu! So I ultimately called Papyrus Tech Support, and the
> guy I talked to sent me a copy of the CONTROLS.CFG file set up the way I wanted
> it, via modem.
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Thanks for the info. AJ, but the problem was resolved when I picked up
a sound card. It appears the control problem was w/ my I/O card.
I'm styl'n now!
TR
