GPL Calibration Weirdness - Anyone seen this?

Hmmm, i get this too on my wheel and pedals, it always goes to the left though. and always about 10-15 degrees. I'm using a Thrustmaster Gamecard so i'm sure it's not the gameport. It seems to only occur in gpl too? Does gpl have a bug? Ian Lake

I was wondering if anyone else had run into this one, or if it's my PERSONAL slice of Heaven. My wheel's center calibration will not stay put. Oddly, it occurs between menus and not while driving. For instance; I start GPL and do some training laps, having calibrated the wheel after PC startup. All is well so far. After doing some laps, I decide to race. I go into race mode - without touching the wheel or pedals. Then, as soon as I'm in the car again, it pulls badly to one side, forcing me to turn the wheel 20+ degrees to keep going straight, even coasting on a straight(not a cold tire thing). If I then go into the calibration (direct input option) menu in the game, I can sometimes get it to center again, but usually the center ends up significantly off after the normal left-right routine. If I quit the game and go back to the Windows game controllers/properties box, the settings look fine. But if I recalibrate there and then restart the game, it sorts it out till the next occurrence. Sometimes the center moves right, others left. Sometimes it happens going from practice to race, others going back and forth to the setup menu (even without making any changes), still others when reloading a saved race. But it ALWAYS happens as soon as you hit the driving mode from a previous screen, and never changes once you're driving. My wheel works fine in other games and looks ok with various joystick utlities - no jitter, etc. Any takers? Thanks, Steve B. remove "edy" from address for email

This happens to me too. I dont have wheel but i have a joystick and it seems to mis-calibrate itself for no reason. I keep having to play with the axis adjuster sliders on the stick to keep it straight. I wish i knew what to do to fix it permanantly. Chris

Try renaming controls.cfg to something else so gpl creates a fresh one. It is in the gpl\players\yourname directory. Bart Westra >>My wheel's center calibration will not stay put. Oddly, it occurs between >>menus and not while driving. For instance; I start GPL and do some training

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>>laps, having calibrated the wheel after PC startup. All is well so far. >>After >>doing some laps, I decide to race. I go into race mode - without touching >>the >>wheel or pedals. Then, as soon as I'm in the car again, it pulls badly to >>one >>side, forcing me to turn the wheel 20+ degrees to keep going straight,

even >>coasting on a straight(not a cold tire thing). >This happens to me too. I dont have wheel but i have a joystick and it seems >to mis-calibrate itself for no reason. I keep having to play with the axis >adjuster sliders on the stick to keep it straight. >I wish i knew what to do to fix it permanantly. >Chris

>Does gpl have a bug? It's beginning to appear so. I've been working on this with Tom at Logitech, (super support, by the way) who wrote the drivers for my wheel, and the problem's not there. The values that the driver is delivering to DirectInput are as intended, perfect even, on initial in-game calibration, and unless you go through the GPL menus, the problem doesn't surface. The numerical error, when it occurs, is only about 3-4%, but as sensitive as GPL is, you can't ignore it. If you start the game in one mode and don't change anything, no problem. Go to fiddling, and you're likely to get a crooked wheel. Highly annoying. Steve B. remove "edy" from address for email

I have the problem in germany. When starting to practice there I have calibrated the wheel. All works fine and at the end on this long straight I see that I have to steer mostly about 10 to the right to drive straight up. So the calibration changes during racing on the track. I use the Thrustmaster Formula 1 and thought that it would be a problem of the wheel but Im "happy" to hear that it seems to be not the wheel... :o) Has anyone finish a lap in germany without some donuts or crashes? ;o)? Andreas Gaida

Happens to me too, very annoying. A. Renault

Yes it is a bug in GPL Ian... I have no problems with my wheel shifting off center with every other sim i own, but GPL does it all the time. I have deleted the cfg files plenty of times, re-installed the game a few times, made up and deleted new driver profiles, tried generic & direct, you name it, i have tried it. I wish a patch could be released to fix this, it is damm annoying driving along with your steering wheel about 10 degrees of center to the left. I am seriously thinking about adding a centering trim pot to my steering wheel's base. Sheesh! i shouldn't have to do that to get straight ahead steering. Cheers, Ron

>Hmmm, i get this too on my wheel and pedals, it always goes to the >left though. and always about 10-15 degrees. I'm using a Thrustmaster >Gamecard so i'm sure it's not the gameport. It seems to only occur in >gpl too? Does gpl have a bug? >Ian Lake Ian, I'm using a T2 without the gamecard,and I haven't had any problems with calibrating my wheel in gpl. Joel Willstien

I have a homemade wheel/pedal system. Up to this point I have been using inexpensive pots in it. I noticed when those pots started to fail I'd have problems calibrating and playing GPL. Other racing games would work and calibrate fine. New pots always solved the problem. I'm not sure if bad pots are your problem but it is a possibility. Good luck. John Boles

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>>Hmmm, i get this too on my wheel and pedals, it always goes to the >>left though. and always about 10-15 degrees. I'm using a Thrustmaster >>Gamecard so i'm sure it's not the gameport. It seems to only occur in >>gpl too? Does gpl have a bug? >>Ian Lake >Ian, > I'm using a T2 without the gamecard,and I haven't had any problems with >calibrating my wheel in gpl. >Joel Willstien