Need For Speed Hot Pursuit 2 - force feedback only works in the first race

I have a Logitech Wingman Formula Force GP wheel with the latest 4.25 drivers installed. When playing Hot Pursuit 2, I only get force feedback effects for the very first race I play after loading the game. There are no force feedback effects at all after that unless I exit and re-start the game. I cannot find any patches on the web for Hot Pursuit 2 and am simply running the version that came out of the box. All my other games including Need For Speed 3 and Porsche Unleashed are working fine with force feeback (except that maybe Porsche Unleashed does not do much for collisions). Thanks for any help.

My wheel would be very loose for the first race and then a little tighter for each subsequent race. I preferred the tighter feel so it wasn't too bad. There is a beta patch for HP2. Go to http://www.eagames.com/official/nfs/hotpursuit2/us/ It's in the bottom-right corner. Not sure if it addresses this issue though. - F50 GT NightSky 421 wrote:

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> I have a Logitech Wingman Formula Force GP wheel with the latest 4.25 > drivers installed. When playing Hot Pursuit 2, I only get force feedback > effects for the very first race I play after loading the game. There are no > force feedback effects at all after that unless I exit and re-start the > game. I cannot find any patches on the web for Hot Pursuit 2 and am simply > running the version that came out of the box. All my other games including > Need For Speed 3 and Porsche Unleashed are working fine with force feeback > (except that maybe Porsche Unleashed does not do much for collisions). > Thanks for any help. > >

"F50 GT" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:F3zkb.93810$[email hidden]... > My wheel would be very loose for the first race and then a little > tighter for each subsequent race. I preferred the tighter feel so it > wasn't too bad. > Funny, I noticed the *exact* same thing. I prefer a "tighter" wheel as well.

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> There is a beta patch for HP2. Go to > > http://www.eagames.com/official/nfs/hotpursuit2/us/ > > It's in the bottom-right corner. Not sure if it addresses this issue > though. >

Thanks for the reply and link. I will at least check it out.

I tried the 242 but my Logitech Momo USB still feels sort of sloppy compared to older NFS racers.

"magnulus" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:y2Jkb.13903$[email hidden]... > > I tried the 242 but my Logitech Momo USB still feels sort of sloppy > compared to older NFS racers. > Things don't look too promising when you consider the date of the beta patch. Heh, I have to laugh in a way that Need For Speed 3, which is five years old now, has better and less buggy force feedback support than last year's Hot Pursuit 2!

The big difference is that the PC version of NFS:HP2 is a lazy port of an Xbox game. There are a few of those games around. The PS2 version of the game has much nicer steering wheel controls and much better force feedback. "NightSky 421" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> "magnulus" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:y2Jkb.13903$[email hidden]... > > > > I tried the 242 but my Logitech Momo USB still feels sort of sloppy > > compared to older NFS racers. > > > > > Things don't look too promising when you consider the date of the beta > patch. Heh, I have to laugh in a way that Need For Speed 3, which is five > years old now, has better and less buggy force feedback support than last > year's Hot Pursuit 2! > >

The xbox doesn't have force feedback support, so something was kinda hacked on for the pc version. Kind of a common event nowadays... Anyway, who let an NFS thread into rec.autos.simulators? :D

> The xbox doesn't have force feedback support, so something was kindahacked > on for the pc version. > > Kind of a common event nowadays... > > Anyway, who let an NFS thread into rec.autos.simulators? :D NFSPU is still the most realistic and best sounding games out there...sim or not heh

In article <Z4plb.34265$At.25223@edtnps84>, "Rich" <[email hidden]> writes: >NFSPU is still the most realistic and best sounding games out there...sim or >not heh Is it? Hmm...I'll have to load that again. So many games...so little time(or money). One day, I'm going to put my entire collection up for sale. Buying so many games in the past is one of the reasons I'm broke NOW. "Hi, my name is Eldred, and I'm a computer game junkie..." -- Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett Member Screamers Racing League IICC League GPLRank -2.4 MoGPL rank +302.38 ChallengeRank +54.48 MoC +743.77 Hist. +82.82 MoH in progress N2k3 rank:in progress Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

Just tried the new NFS Underground demo for PC. Force feedback with a Logitech wheel is terrific!! Nothing to do with the previous version! Looks like they re-write the wheel support every time... Chris [email hidden] (EldredP) wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

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> In article <Z4plb.34265$At.25223@edtnps84>, "Rich" <[email hidden]> > writes: > > >NFSPU is still the most realistic and best sounding games out there...sim or > >not heh > > Is it? Hmm...I'll have to load that again. > So many games...so little time(or money). One day, I'm going to put my entire > collection up for sale. Buying so many games in the past is one of the reasons > I'm broke NOW. > > "Hi, my name is Eldred, and I'm a computer game junkie..." > > > > > -- > Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett > Member > Screamers Racing League > IICC League > GPLRank -2.4 MoGPL rank +302.38 > ChallengeRank +54.48 MoC +743.77 > Hist. +82.82 MoH in progress > N2k3 rank:in progress > > Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.