Gamecard are they any good

Having just purchased a hyper stimulator and am about to upgrade to a P11400. Has anyone out there any experience with gamecard and what are the best. I am mainly playing gp2 and gpl.Any suggestions on best upgrade options and game card coments appreciated. -**** Posted from RemarQ, http://www.remarq.com/?b Real Discussions for Real People

For analog controllers, there is really only one gamecard to choose, the PDPI L4 digital gamecard. Check it out here http://www.pdpi.net

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>Having just purchased a hyper stimulator and am about to upgrade to a >P11400. >Has anyone out there any experience with gamecard and what are the best. >I am mainly playing gp2 and gpl.Any suggestions on best upgrade options and >game card coments appreciated. > -**** Posted from RemarQ, http://www.remarq.com/?b ****- > Real Discussions for Real People

Congrats to the hyper you will have a lot of fun with it. Im driving my one for 2.5 years now and just recently changed the pots. That unit is really rock solid and a PDPI L4 fits nice to it. The L4 Thrustmaster driver and the Hyper drivers, both work fine with that card. I had some trouble with setting up the card, but after I bought a "SB Live Value" everything is fine. For the L4 it is neccessary that the E/A resources from the sound cards game port are adjustable. Hope to see you on the track Jo Lueg Daniel Collins schrieb:

>I had some trouble with setting up the card, but after I bought a "SB >Live Value" everything is fine. For the L4 it is neccessary that the E/A >resources from the sound cards game port are adjustable. >Jo Lueg Are you saying that the L4 is somehow better than the Lives game port ? Did you try the Live's port by itself to compare ? I'm asking because I'm about to receive a new system with a Live Value and was hoping I would not need a game card. Thanks for any input. Don Scurlock Vancouver, B.C.

The Live's gameport is awesome. While I have not had a ldpi, I can vouch for the Live's port for smoothness. It's the best I've seen so far, -- Don Burnette > >I had some trouble with setting up the card, but after I bought a "SB > >Live Value" everything is fine. For the L4 it is neccessary that the E/A > >resources from the sound cards game port are adjustable. > >Jo Lueg > Are you saying that the L4 is somehow better than the Lives game port ? > Did you try the Live's port by itself to compare ? > I'm asking because I'm about to receive a new system with a Live Value and was > hoping I would not need a game card. Thanks for any input. > Don Scurlock > Vancouver, B.C.

Anyone have any comparisons between the gameports of the Live and the MX300? Is a PDPI worth it if you have either of these cards? They're digital gameports on those soundcards anyway aren't they? Would the PDPI be saving any fps over the soundcards?

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> The Live's gameport is awesome. While I have not had a ldpi, I can vouch for > the Live's port for smoothness. It's the best I've seen so far, > -- > Don Burnette > > >I had some trouble with setting up the card, but after I bought a "SB > > >Live Value" everything is fine. For the L4 it is neccessary that the E/A > > >resources from the sound cards game port are adjustable. > > >Jo Lueg > > Are you saying that the L4 is somehow better than the Lives game port ? > > Did you try the Live's port by itself to compare ? > > I'm asking because I'm about to receive a new system with a Live Value and > was > > hoping I would not need a game card. Thanks for any input. > > Don Scurlock > > Vancouver, B.C.

Hi Byron, both of the soundcards have analoge gameports. The PDPI is giving some relieve to the CPU because it dont need to poll the gameport but I doubt that this will cause any sinificant increase of fps. The PDPI improves controller precision. You see it when calibrating the controller. There is no flicker at all from the indicators in the calibration menue. Most important, the driving feeling in GPL is smother and you have better control. I dont know about the performance of the Live gameport, I did not try or compare it with the PDPI port. Jo Lueg Byron Forbes schrieb:

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> Anyone have any comparisons between the gameports of the Live and the > MX300? Is a PDPI worth it if you have either of these cards? They're > digital gameports on those soundcards anyway aren't they? Would the PDPI > be saving any fps over the soundcards? > > The Live's gameport is awesome. While I have not had a ldpi, I can vouch for > > the Live's port for smoothness. It's the best I've seen so far, > > -- > > Don Burnette > > > >I had some trouble with setting up the card, but after I bought a "SB > > > >Live Value" everything is fine. For the L4 it is neccessary that the E/A > > > >resources from the sound cards game port are adjustable. > > > >Jo Lueg > > > Are you saying that the L4 is somehow better than the Lives game port ? > > > Did you try the Live's port by itself to compare ? > > > I'm asking because I'm about to receive a new system with a Live Value and > > was > > > hoping I would not need a game card. Thanks for any input. > > > Don Scurlock > > > Vancouver, B.C.