Problem with calibration

Hi, since 1.2 and new 3dfx drivers, allmost all of my gpl problems are solved (hardly any hangups anymore). But I've still got one very annoying problem. Very often, when I join a race from within Spyboy, GPL starts, and it goes to the calibration screen. My wheel and pedals don't respond. I have to quit, start gpl without spyboy, calibrate again (my wheel does work then), quit gpl, and after that Ican join a race again. This seems to happen irregulary, but quite often, maybe one out of five races that I join. I have GPL 1.2, the newest spyboy version (xx.xx.17 or something like that), LWFF and CH pedals. Any suggestions would be highly appreciated :) Andre

same problem here, but I get this less often. I have the same wheel and I suspect the logitech drivers ;-) Lio

Andre, Could it be that's the wingman profiler which causes these problems? Try disabling it and assign the keys within GPL itself. Jan.

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> Hi, since 1.2 and new 3dfx drivers, allmost all of my gpl problems are > solved (hardly any hangups anymore). But I've still got one very > annoying problem. Very often, when I join a race from within Spyboy, > GPL starts, and it goes to the calibration screen. My wheel and pedals > don't respond. > I have to quit, start gpl without spyboy, calibrate again (my wheel > does work then), quit gpl, and after that Ican join a race again. > This seems to happen irregulary, but quite often, maybe one out of > five races that I join. > I have GPL 1.2, the newest spyboy version (xx.xx.17 or something like > that), LWFF and CH pedals. > Any suggestions would be highly appreciated :) > Andre

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> when I join a race from within Spyboy, > GPL starts, and it goes to the calibration screen. There's a known problem with the LWFF drivers and DX7: the controller isn't recognised by W98, so the game wants to calibrate. If that's your problem, this is the solution. Before going into GPL (or Spyboy), open the controller applet from the W98 configuration screen, after a second the ID will turn from 'unknown' to 'OK'. Confirm it by clicking the OK button. In my case I also have to open 'Properties', then 'Settings', and 'OK' my way back. Otherwise GPL still wants to calibrate. I've made a shortcut to the applet on my desktop, to minimise the annoyance. I do it routinely now before starting up GPL. BTW I'm using the 3.20 drivers without the Profiler. -- Groet, Leo

Though this won't be of any hope it may be interesting. I have a similar problem with the DTR demo, most of the time the controls are okay but every so often when I try and race on-line I get no response from the controls and have to reasign them and reconnect to the server, not all the time and not in single player mode yet. Strange but true!

I am having a very similar problem with my homemade wheel. When I join a race using SpyBoy, the calibration screen comes up, I have to calibrate, adjust the linearity slider and then it joins the server. It seems to happen about 50% of the time. As a side note: I discovered how poorly a non-linear setting feels to me. It felt like I was trying to drive with a full dose of cold medicine... dis-connected... Chris

Funny, in the beginning I read that full linear is the best setting, but I found it impossible to drive with full linearity. A few weeks ago I tried again, full linearity, and it was such a big improvement! Andre

Yes, the same thing happened to me when I went frpom DX 6.1 to DX7--I'm hoping for a workaround, without having to try the difficult step back to DX 6.1. In my case, going to game controllers usually works: I then see "unknown" in controllers, followed by an "OK" as the wheel (TM SuperSport) becomes "seen." But it won't become seen unless I actually go into control panel and game controllers . . . --DK