HELP: Corrupt Wheel Control

Hi All... Need a little help. I've had N2, ICR2, GP2 up and running for a year or so on my machine w/T2 with no problemo. However tonight, while running N2, I glanced the wall. From that point, I had a hard pull to the right. Never happened before like this. Hmmm. Went to the calibration screen... center pointer was way off. Recalibrated. Worked fine... cut down on the apron to go the pits... hard pull back. Another Hmmm. Steering pot? Exit N2, load GP2. First thing: The game didn't remember my previous control settings/calibrations. Never done that before. Calibrate... drive the car... everything's fine. Brush the wall... hard pull. ????? Is this a DOS problem, or what? Any input appreciated. Bummer... Thanks in advance... Andre Ming

HIYA ANDRE, I think I would get a can of pot cleaner, or replace pot again, if there is one speck of dust on pot it will act like you said, sometimes. I HOPE THIS HELPS Also will you go by my site and look at it and tell me what you think of it it is my first one. Its www.tsw2.com. Bob Hawkins

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>Hi All... >Need a little help. I've had N2, ICR2, GP2 up and running for a year or >so on my machine w/T2 with no problemo. However tonight, while running >N2, I glanced the wall. From that point, I had a hard pull to the right. >Never happened before like this. Hmmm. Went to the calibration >screen... center pointer was way off. Recalibrated. Worked fine... cut >down on the apron to go the pits... hard pull back. Another Hmmm. >Steering pot? Exit N2, load GP2. First thing: The game didn't remember >my previous control settings/calibrations. Never done that before. >Calibrate... drive the car... everything's fine. Brush the wall... hard >pull. ????? Is this a DOS problem, or what? Any input appreciated. >Bummer... >Thanks in advance... >Andre Ming

Hi Bob, I had just cleaned it a short while back. It works FINE until I hit something (wall, etc)... THEN it loses calibration. Even if you hit the "Shift R" keys (in N2) to restart with a non-damaged/new car... it's still out of calibration. I'm absolutely baffled. And, as stated, it does this in my other driving sims also. Beats me... any other ideas? Anyone? Andre

> I had just cleaned it a short while back. It works FINE until I hit > something (wall, etc)... THEN it loses calibration. Even if you hit the > "Shift R" keys (in N2) to restart with a non-damaged/new car... it's > still out of calibration. I'm absolutely baffled. And, as stated, it > does this in my other driving sims also. Beats me... any other ideas? > Anyone? Well, I'm sorta thinking that it's not the hitting a wall that;'s causing the problem, but maybe a hard over control trying to avoid the wall just before you hit... Suppose you take a car out on the track and stop, then while stopped, imagine yourself about to hit the wall and make the same control gesture you would normally make in that situation. Does that corrupt your steering, or do you actually have to tag a wall for the problem to happen? If' it happens from the hard control gesture, you may just have a faulty pot that doesn't center properly... normal smooth driving gestures might not affect it, but a hard avoidance type gesture might be enough to throw it off it's center. Does that make any sense? It's the only thing I can think of at this point... Trips