SBlive gameport

Have recently installed Soundblaster live card and can no longer calibrate NascarPro thrustmaster sterring wheel with dual axis mode selected. It doesn't seem to detect the brake and never allows you to calibrate it. Single axis mode works just fine. Anybody else have any problems along this line? Steve Moore

Yeah, had the same problem. The SB Live puts the gameport under "Creative Devices" or something along those lines in Device Manager, not under "Sound, video and game controllers" where it usually is. What I did was install a standard Microsoft gameport, so I had two of them listed, one in each place. Then reinstall the Thrustmaster software, then remove the MS gameport. Things worked after that. Just so you know, I did all this with DirectX 7 installed. Hope this helps. Doug > Have recently installed Soundblaster live card and can no longer calibrate > NascarPro thrustmaster sterring wheel with dual axis mode selected. It > doesn't seem to detect the brake and never allows you to calibrate it. > Single axis mode works just fine. Anybody else have any problems along this > line? > Steve Moore

>Have recently installed Soundblaster live card and can no longer calibrate >NascarPro thrustmaster sterring wheel with dual axis mode selected. It >doesn't seem to detect the brake and never allows you to calibrate it. >Single axis mode works just fine. Anybody else have any problems along this >line? >Steve Moore I had the same problem trying to calibrate my TSW2mod with split-axis and PDPI. I finally gave up and I'm running in single-axis mode. I'd be interested in a solution, too. Eldred -- Tiger Stadium R.I.P. 1912-1999 Own Grand Prix Legends? Goto http://gpl.gamestats.com/vroc Never argue with an idiot. He brings you down to his level, then beats you with experience... Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

>Have recently installed Soundblaster live card and can no longer calibrate >NascarPro thrustmaster sterring wheel with dual axis mode selected. It >doesn't seem to detect the brake and never allows you to calibrate it. >Single axis mode works just fine. Anybody else have any problems along this >line? >Steve Moore I have a SB Live and a ECCI wheel/pedal dual axis system, and I must enter it as a "2 Axis, 4 button joystick" and have "Rudder Pedals" checked in the properties box. -- Don Scurlock Vancouver,B.C.

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>>Have recently installed Soundblaster live card and can no longer calibrate >>NascarPro thrustmaster sterring wheel with dual axis mode selected. It >>doesn't seem to detect the brake and never allows you to calibrate it. >>Single axis mode works just fine. Anybody else have any problems along this >>line? >>Steve Moore >I have a SB Live and a ECCI wheel/pedal dual axis system, and I must enter it >as a "2 Axis, 4 button joystick" and have "Rudder Pedals" checked in the >properties box.

So the 'rudder pedals' are the brake axis? No WONDER I couldn't get the damn thing to work. The documentation for my TSW just said basically plug in and go... Eldred -- Tiger Stadium R.I.P. 1912-1999 Own Grand Prix Legends? Goto http://gpl.gamestats.com/vroc Never argue with an idiot. He brings you down to his level, then beats you with experience... Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

>>Have recently installed Soundblaster live card and can no longer calibrate >>NascarPro thrustmaster sterring wheel with dual axis mode selected. It >>doesn't seem to detect the brake and never allows you to calibrate it. >>Single axis mode works just fine. Anybody else have any problems along this >>line? >>Steve Moore [--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------] I have a SB Live and a ECCI wheel/pedal dual axis system, and I must enter it as a "2 Axis, 4 button joystick" and have "Rudder Pedals" checked in the properties box. [--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------] I am curious about the ECCi wheel/pedal here, I have seen the pedals and no doubt they must be excellent, the look convinced me already. But the wheel is what I don't know much about. Do you get force feedback in GPL or any other games? If not, then how does it work? In which way for you is it better than, let's say the LWFF -my current wheel. Thanks. Mauricio.

ECCI does not make a FF system. I purchase it a few years ago, before there was any FF. For a non FF wheel you couldn't find a higher quality product than the ECCI, super smooth, built to last, and with a very high level of finish. I would like to try a FF wheel but I'm waiting for a higher quality product than what I see available now. I am impressed enough with the build quality of ECCI products that I'm willing to wait a while for them to bring out a FF system, I just wish they would get with the program. Today, from what I hear on this newsgroup, a properly set up LWFF is the best wheel for gpl, but it also seems that gpl is the only software that has implimented FF in a way that actually aids driving. -- Don Scurlock Vancouver,B.C.

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>ECCI does not make a FF system. I purchase it a few years ago, before there >was any FF. For a non FF wheel you couldn't find a higher quality product than >the ECCI, super smooth, built to last, and with a very high level of finish. >I would like to try a FF wheel but I'm waiting for a higher quality product >than what I see available now. I am impressed enough with the build quality of >ECCI products that I'm willing to wait a while for them to bring out a FF >system, I just wish they would get with the program. >Today, from what I hear on this newsgroup, a properly set up LWFF is the best >wheel for gpl, but it also seems that gpl is the only software that has >implimented FF in a way that actually aids driving.

I see your point. Perhaps I'll wait as well until an ECCI FF system comes into the market, in the mean time I am waiting for the makers of the PDPI to release their implementation of USB on their new gamecard. Thanks for info though. Mauricio.