multi game pedal problem

Thrustmaster Nascar pro wheel. GPL, Nascar2, ICR2, SODA. How do I setup to use seperate pedals when possible? Why does the win95 controller setup box look like it has space for several controllers when you can only have one in the box at a time that works? Shouldn't I be able to have several controllers setup and just select one when ready to play each different sim? Do I have to reboot to switch from seperate pedals in one sim to combined pedals in another sim? I am way confused, please help. Thanks, John btw should I be running n2 in dos rather than windows?

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> Thrustmaster Nascar pro wheel. GPL, Nascar2, ICR2, SODA. How do I setup to use > seperate pedals when possible? Why does the win95 controller setup box look > like it has space for several controllers when you can only have one in the box > at a time that works? Shouldn't I be able to have several controllers setup and > just select one when ready to play each different sim? Do I have to reboot to > switch from seperate pedals in one sim to combined pedals in another sim? I am > way confused, please help.

Excellent question. I've been trying to figure this out for several days. I just got a new computer and have been splitting my time playing sims and Battlezone (joystick) - which came with my new Voodoo2. I have a Thrustmaster T2 wheel and a CH Flightstick Pro joystick. My system is a new Dell (400 MHz, Win98, Turtle Beach Montego soundcard with an accelerated game port, Monster 3D2). All my controllers are switched via a CH Switch Box. Battlezone, which is played in Windows via DirectX, definetly requires that the joystick be the first id'ed controller. This seems to be true for other games as well. I don't see any way to change the id's among the controllers that you add. Even if you delete the controller in id 1, the controller in id 2 stays there, and "none" is displayed in id 1. I thought I had found the solution at the CH website. They have a program called "QuickJoy" which supposedly allows you to select the current controller from all the ones you have set up. But it didn't work for me. You might want to give it a try though -- http://www.chproducts.com/supp-pc.html Important note: if you are playing games via DOS, even in a DOS box, what you have set up under the Windows game controller interface is completely irrelevant. DOS doesn't look at this information and loads its own drivers, etc. Right now I'm just playing GP2 (DOS), but when GPL comes out (which runs under Windows), I am not going to want to have to re-set up the game controller every time I switch. Anyone else have any ideas? Dave Ewing

You can't put more than one active controller on a port at a time. You can get round this if you have a dedicated game card that has two ports - then you can configure one port to use your controller with separate pedals and the other combined - but some of your racing games will need to be able to run off the secondary game port and not all can. A more serious problem is that you'll have to pull the controller out of the one port and plug it into the other while the computer is on. This is a bit of a risk because if the static charges on the controller and the port are different you could blow your game card or apparently your mother board as well. Probably the static charges are the same because you've just disengaged one from the other - apparently some people do this all the time but I'm not prepared to risk it. Paul

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> Thrustmaster Nascar pro wheel. GPL, Nascar2, ICR2, SODA. How do I setup to use > seperate pedals when possible? Why does the win95 controller setup box look > like it has space for several controllers when you can only have one in the box > at a time that works? Shouldn't I be able to have several controllers setup and > just select one when ready to play each different sim? Do I have to reboot to > switch from seperate pedals in one sim to combined pedals in another sim? I am > way confused, please help. Thanks, John > btw should I be running n2 in dos rather than windows?