Rally Championship Controls

I have a TM Nascar Pro Digital Wheel/Pedals and am trying to get them to function well in RC. I have set up the pedals on the Y and Z axes but the wheel, instead of showing X axis shows <left> and <right> in the contol setup. When I play, the wheel feels very "digital" and the cars are hard to control (the wheel feels very good in GPL demo or N3). Has anyone had this problem? Does anyone know a fix. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Chris Hansen

It's just the way things work in this game, the feeling of the steering wheel is very digital, and that is one of the few critisism against this game. The car just dont have any realistic feeling, it just feels to digital.

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>> I have a TM Nascar Pro Digital Wheel/Pedals and am trying to get them to >> function well in RC. I have set up the pedals on the Y and Z axes but the >> wheel, instead of showing X axis shows <left> and <right> in the contol >> setup. When I play, the wheel feels very "digital" and the cars are hard >to >> control (the wheel feels very good in GPL demo or N3). Has anyone had >this >> problem? Does anyone know a fix. Any help would be greatly appreciated. >It's just the way things work in this game, the feeling of the steering >wheel is very digital, and that is one of the few critisism against this >game. The car just dont have any realistic feeling, it just feels to >digital.

Get the following free utility: http://home.att.net/~stickworks/ctfj12.zip CTFJ Joystick Centering Utility. It modifies the calibration values used by W95/W98 to compensate for some problems in the Windows joystick routines and will improve the centering of the joystick and rudder pedals with many W95 games. ..and set 2 or 3 clicks up in the X-Axis in it. I use a TSW and RC2000 steering feels great with this utility. Other titles that steer -much- better are NFS-HS, Driver, OF1R, TOCA2 and LeMans. Give it a try. -- * rrev at mindspring dot com *

What do you have the steering sensitivity sliders set to? There is one in your player settings screen, and another at your car set up screen. All the way to the left would be best to start with, then as you get used to the steering you might want to move the slider in the car set up screen more towards the middle to give you a tighter turning radius. David G Fisher

You need to adjust the steering sensitivity, it takes a few minutes to fine tune the steering, but it is well worth it, see my webpage (tips section) for more info on how to do this.... 8-) *Peter* - http://www.cix.co.uk/~peterpc/home.html

[posted and mailed] [email hidden] (The Mighty Puck) wrote in <SiUh4.1011$[email hidden]>:

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>I have a TM Nascar Pro Digital Wheel/Pedals and am trying to get them to >function well in RC. I have set up the pedals on the Y and Z axes but >the wheel, instead of showing X axis shows <left> and <right> in the >contol setup. When I play, the wheel feels very "digital" and the cars >are hard to control (the wheel feels very good in GPL demo or N3). Has >anyone had this problem? Does anyone know a fix. Any help would be >greatly appreciated.

I have same Wheel/Pedals, and the Thrustmaster driver doesn't appear to work very well. There is a dead area around the center, and when it leaves the dead area, it jumps (it should move out smoothly). Thrustmaster has not fully admitted this problem to me, but they say they are investigating it. In the mean time, I am using the "HID-compliant game controller", rather than the Pro Digital one, and my problems when playing NFS4 have gone away.

Thanks, I solved the problem the old fashioned way. I took back my TMPD wheel (the bastards had the temerity to hit me up for 15% "restocking" fee) and got a LWFF. The pedals aren't that bad (not as good as the tm) and once you've felt the force you will never go back. In RC2k FF really adds to the experience. Chris Hansen Greg Larson wrote in message <[email hidden]>...

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>[posted and mailed] > >[email hidden] (The Mighty Puck) wrote in ><SiUh4.1011$[email hidden]>: > >>I have a TM Nascar Pro Digital Wheel/Pedals and am trying to get them to >>function well in RC. I have set up the pedals on the Y and Z axes but >>the wheel, instead of showing X axis shows <left> and <right> in the >>contol setup. When I play, the wheel feels very "digital" and the cars >>are hard to control (the wheel feels very good in GPL demo or N3). Has >>anyone had this problem? Does anyone know a fix. Any help would be >>greatly appreciated. > >I have same Wheel/Pedals, and the Thrustmaster driver doesn't appear to >work very well. There is a dead area around the center, and when it leaves >the dead area, it jumps (it should move out smoothly). Thrustmaster has >not fully admitted this problem to me, but they say they are investigating >it. In the mean time, I am using the "HID-compliant game controller", >rather than the Pro Digital one, and my problems when playing NFS4 have >gone away. >