Can anyone please tell me how to use a wheel and a joystick using the
joyswitch?When I have them both hooked up when I go to control panel
there are error's,with thrustmaster wheel on the list and 2 axis joystick on
the list.
I have to remove 1 then it says ok on the propanel.Have the joyswich hooked
into my soundcard.
I use a joyswitch to switch between a joystick, gamepad, and TM GP1 wheel. As
far as I can tell, Win95 only lets you have one controller set up at a time.
So what I have to do is turn the switch to the appropriate controller and then
go set it up and calibrate it in the joystick app. each time I change
controllers. Sort of annoying, but it works. I think I have heard of people
using a utility to save calibration settings for their joysticks, but I'm not
sure what utility that is or how it works.
First setup your joystick properly and check to be sure it works
in W95. Then put your joyswitch switch to the Driving pedal.
In order to get the TM wheel to work, the steering and brake/gas
need to be on the X & Y axis of joystick #1. Then go to the
joystick applet in the control panel and remove your joystick
from the devices (remember which one it is. Next time you use
it you remove your wheel and reinstall the joystick. The calibration
should even be saved for each different device.). Then add a
new device using the instructions on www.thrustmaster.com .
You are basically setting you a CUSTOM device and selecting the
box for DRIVING CONTROLLER. I have never gotten and of the
canned DirectX devices to work (like selecting THRUSTMASTER
T2 from the list of devices). Then calibrate & play.
The #1 thing to remember is that W95 will only use the device
connected to ID#1 in the joystick applet. So you do have to
add/remove the devices as appropriate. But as I said you should
not have to recalibrate. I don't...
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>I use a joyswitch to switch between a joystick, gamepad, and TM GP1 wheel.
As
>far as I can tell, Win95 only lets you have one controller set up at a
time.
>So what I have to do is turn the switch to the appropriate controller and
then
>go set it up and calibrate it in the joystick app. each time I change
>controllers. Sort of annoying, but it works. I think I have heard of
people
>using a utility to save calibration settings for their joysticks, but I'm
not
>sure what utility that is or how it works.
I went back and switched between my joystick / wheel / gamepad, and low and
behold, you are correct (was there ever any doubt) I don't have to recalibrate
every time. Win95 does save calibration settings, I just assumed since the
device was removed from the list and then added back on I would have to
calibrate again. Silly me. Thanks for your input.
