Thrustmaster T2 & Carmageddon

Hi peeps, quick one for you... Running a T2 with Carmageddon, I get a sort of calibration fault whereby the car slowly accelerates... it's as if the throttle pedal is being held down 1/4 of an inch. It obviously isn't :-). I've recalibrated many times but to no avail. I was about to blame a shite joystick interface in my no-name 16-bit soundcard, but all other games seem fine with it (except air warrior 2 which, with my joystick/pedals, doesn't quite behave properly either). F1GP2, for example, is fine. As if MTM, NFS2. Anyone else have this problem with Carmageddon? Anyone any ideas other than the usual "ditch your shite sound card and get a SB16/SB32/AWE64/dedicated game card/etc." :-] Cheers, Dan Howell

I have something similar going on, though I'd say it's just an overall lag in response from the T2. I think it's the way the joystick software was written. I found the number keys to be so much more responsive that I gave up. Are you running it over Windows 95? Maybe it would be better in a pure DOS mode?

% Running a T2 with Carmageddon, I get a sort of calibration fault whereby % the car slowly accelerates... it's as if the throttle pedal is being held % down 1/4 of an inch. It obviously isn't :-). I've recalibrated many times % but to no avail. % I was about to blame a shite joystick interface in my no-name 16-bit % soundcard, but all other games seem fine with it (except air warrior 2 % which, with my joystick/pedals, doesn't quite behave properly either). % F1GP2, for example, is fine. As if MTM, NFS2. % Anyone else have this problem with Carmageddon? Anyone any ideas other than % the usual "ditch your shite sound card and get a SB16/SB32/AWE64/dedicated % game card/etc." :-] If you are running this in a Win95 environment this maybe your problem (along with a solutions): Basically the y1 axis in the Win95 control panel is limited to a center value of 600. Soooo, if your device has values from 700 to 1000 on the y1 axis, Win95 can't give it a center value and it fails to see the device. ProPanel fixes this. Here is the blurb from Thrustmaster's page on ProPanel ([link lost in import] ThrustMaster has developed and made available an exciting new utility called the "ProPanel". The ProPanel is an alternative to the Windows 95 Control Panel and therefore is only useful to users calibrating their TM devices in Windows 95. We are primarily providing the ProPanel for our driving wheel customers, however the ProPanel will work with all of TM's *** devices. Here is the latest release of the ProPanel available for download at ThrustMaster's FTP site in Hillsboro, Oregon. -- **************************** Michael E. Carver ************************* Upside out, or inside down...False alarm the only game in town. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=<[ /./. [- < ]>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

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> % Running a T2 with Carmageddon, I get a sort of calibration fault whereby > % the car slowly accelerates... it's as if the throttle pedal is being held > % down 1/4 of an inch. It obviously isn't :-). I've recalibrated many times > % but to no avail. > % I was about to blame a shite joystick interface in my no-name 16-bit > % soundcard, but all other games seem fine with it (except air warrior 2 > % which, with my joystick/pedals, doesn't quite behave properly either). > % F1GP2, for example, is fine. As if MTM, NFS2. > % Anyone else have this problem with Carmageddon? Anyone any ideas other than > % the usual "ditch your shite sound card and get a SB16/SB32/AWE64/dedicated > % game card/etc." :-] > If you are running this in a Win95 environment this maybe your problem > (along with a solutions): > Basically the y1 axis in the Win95 control panel is limited to a center > value of 600. Soooo, if your device has values from 700 to 1000 on the > y1 axis, Win95 can't give it a center value and it fails to see the > device. ProPanel fixes this. > Here is the blurb from Thrustmaster's page on ProPanel > ([link lost in import] > ThrustMaster has developed and made available an exciting new utility > called the "ProPanel". The ProPanel is an alternative to the Windows 95 > Control Panel and therefore is only useful to users calibrating their TM > devices in Windows 95. > We are primarily providing the ProPanel for our driving wheel customers, > however the ProPanel will work with all of TM's *** devices. Here is > the latest release of the ProPanel available for download at > ThrustMaster's FTP site in Hillsboro, Oregon. > -- > **************************** Michael E. Carver ************************* > Upside out, or inside down...False alarm the only game in town. > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=<[ /./. [- < ]>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Nope - I've run Carmageddon in full DOS mode and the thing still speeds up. :( I have an ACM game card installed so that won't fix the problem either. The only way I've gotten the thing to idle lower is to adjust the ACM game card within a race, then exit, recalibrate the T2 at the options page in Carmageddon and start the race again. BTW, I am using the ProPanel from Thrustmaster and it works well - even under DX5. The bad thing about doing the ACM adjustment thing is that the T2 gets weird; often the wheel doesn't center properly and once the shift lever-button one stopped working. The problem seemed to get worse the higher you get in rank. At level one, the idle really runs high. Must be a bug but they'll fix it in the next release (nudge, nudge, wink, wink.) Cordially, Buddha

Thanks for the ideas .... I'm just downloading ProPanel so will try it out. I agree with the point about running in DOS; I generally do this as a matter of rule on all games as I prefer the performance bonus in most games (but let's not get into that). However Carmageddon on my machine seems to *hate* DOS... while the waits between menu and starting game are rather long in Windows (medium install) if I try and run the game in DOS the wait becomes totally unacceptable (~2 minutes plus). I have a x6 cd-rom but it's not a cd-rom speed issue because it's better in 95. I presume it's a disk cacheing thing, but basically unless CD performance improves in DOS (I've tried smartdrive but to no avail) it's not worth it; I'll have to stick to 95. A shame, because I've tried the 3dfx beta patch and am loving it, but it means I have to wait 5 minutes just to get a look at the thing....! Besides, it soon crashes (but hey, it *is* a beta). Thanks guys, Dan