ACT Labs RS Wheel Compatibility Questions

Thanks to the excellent assistance from 'Aidee' I have sucessfully managed to get my Act Labs RS (non-FF, gamport model) wheel running under Win XP with quite a number of games. But some of them are proving a bit more difficult to get to run smoothly than others, so i've come to get some help from you guys as i'm sure somebody has had the same issues as I have. I've just been playing it in the following games and have had some issues: F1 2k, IRL Indycar Series demo - runs great, no problems whatsoever [Australian] V8 Challenge (EA Sports). - I can't seem to calibrate this properly at all. It seems to want to put the handbrake on constantly or drive in rear view. I've tried using the Act-Labs RS force setup, the 4 button one, and a custom one and they all seem to go a bit loopy in some way or another. TOCA Race Driver/V8 Supercars - This seems to work ok, except that the accelerator seems to be on the left rather than the right. It seems to be quite difficult to callibrate the controls for this too. It doesn't seem to let me have many options for calibration at all. Have you got any tips/ have you played this?? Maybe I should post this as another more general post now. It seems to be getting a bit buried down here :-) Haven't tried other games yet. Will be interested to see how the NASCAR games [Nascar 2k3 and Nascar 2] run, especially since they ran like a pig using a keyboard. Thanks for your help Allstarnz PS Where's button 1, 2, 3 & 4 on the wheel. There's lots of buttons that I can see. I haven't got around to figuring out that whole macro thing either yet. I'll do it when I get some more time. I have downloaded something called RBJoy which is meant to help, though I haven't had time to play with it yet.

ok here we go... V8 Challenge i have not played so sorry there. Toca Race Driver i have and it works perfectly,but i do remember some people had this switched pedals problem and there was/is a simple cure. Best read the Toca Race Driver forums. http://community.codemasters.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?s=73baacd4947b9983204ff8d4606f2772&forumid=21 Nascar works perfectly and IMO has the easiest controller set up. Tools you might find very helpful are the stuff at Wingman Team http://www.wingmanteam.com/latest_software/gadgets.htm My overall advice is that all games do controller setup/calibration very differently some are a joy to setup and some are pigs(Rally Trophy!!) so a little imagination is required sometimes and a very open mind...lol Its a great accurate wheel you have so enjoy it mate.I have many sites if you want to enhance it or make improvements. Again just ask... AD

"Aidee" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:bifev5$7l6$[email hidden]... > ok here we go... ><snip> Thanks again for your help. I managed to fix most of the problems myself in the end during the course of the day. V8 Supercars. One of the axis buttons was assigned to look back, all I did was change that button to something on the keyboard Racedriver. I just assigned the pedals to different functions, getting both of them in there was a bit of a mission, but once i did it works fine. Now the only thing that remains to be done is to get the rest of the buttons working alright, so maybe you know a bit about this too :-) How do I get the gear levers, 6 buttons on the inside of the wheel, and the d-pad to work??? The Windows drivers that it's using the the are for the 2-axis 4 button generic controller (which is what Act-Labs said to use for this wheel). I have no idea how to get these buttons to work. I tried to use the RS Profile manager to assign keystrokes to the buttons and then tell the game to use those keystrokes to do what i wanted. But that doesn't seem to work in anything. Any ideas?? Thanks once again Allstarnz

When calibrating in Game Controllers which buttons do you press as the 4 buttons..? Mine is slightly different to yours as i also have the Act Labs shifter which blocks two of the buttons so i only have 5 on the wheel now not 7(only..lol) When i calibrate i do everything it asks of me then i press all the buttons at the end before clicking Finish,this lights up the ones that are functional. Let me know ... AD

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> When calibrating in Game Controllers which buttons do you press as the 4 > buttons..? > > Mine is slightly different to yours as i also have the Act Labs shifter > which blocks two of the buttons so i only have 5 on the wheel now not > 7(only..lol) > > When i calibrate i do everything it asks of me then i press all the

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> at the end before clicking Finish,this lights up the ones that are > functional. > > Let me know ... > > AD >

Being new to this whole calibration thing, i kind of missed the whole point of pushing all the buttons I wanted to use. I guess i'll have a play later on today, when I have some time. :-) Thanks once again for your help Allstarnz

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> "Aidee" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:bifod7$pb0$[email hidden]... > > When calibrating in Game Controllers which buttons do you press as the 4 > > buttons..? > > > > Mine is slightly different to yours as i also have the Act Labs shifter > > which blocks two of the buttons so i only have 5 on the wheel now not > > 7(only..lol) > > > > When i calibrate i do everything it asks of me then i press all the > buttons > > at the end before clicking Finish,this lights up the ones that are > > functional. > > > > Let me know ... > > > > AD > > > > Being new to this whole calibration thing, i kind of missed the whole

point > of pushing all the buttons I wanted to use. I guess i'll have a playlater

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> on today, when I have some time. :-) > > Thanks once again for your help > > Allstarnz > >

I managed to get the four buttons working ok (2 gear shifters + middle button on either side). Is it possible to get the other 4 buttons to work?? If so how?? Thanks

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> "Allstarnz" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:urQ2b.128082$[email hidden]... > > "Aidee" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > > news:bifod7$pb0$[email hidden]... > > Being new to this whole calibration thing, i kind of missed the whole > point > > of pushing all the buttons I wanted to use. I guess i'll have a play > later > > on today, when I have some time. :-) > > > > Thanks once again for your help > > > > Allstarnz > > > > > > I managed to get the four buttons working ok (2 gear shifters + middle > button on either side). Is it possible to get the other 4 buttons to

work?? > If so how?? > > Thanks > I asked Act-Labs about this and got the following reply: Hello, Unfortunately, there are no drivers for the Gameport cartridge on that wheel. It is not possible to get around this situation other than purchase a USB cartridge and power adapter. With the USB cartridge, you will have full button use minus the Force-feedback. Regards,

Have no idea if this will work, especially with XP, but try one of the drivers at http://www.massey.ac.nz/~jcmarsha/Wheel/ (click on "Drivers") Using the 10button+pov driver instead of the 2axis-4button driver *may* allow the extra buttons to be detected. Good luck Ken PS The current USB cartridge is not worth buying, it gives very poor wheel resolution (about 100 points). It'd be easier and much cheaper to get a gameport to USB adapter, most of which give a least 128 points (which is still not great). Before spending the money on the USB Cartridge and power supply, look at what it would cost to get another entirely new wheel.

"Ken MacKay" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > Have no idea if this will work, especially with XP, but try one of thedrivers > at http://www.massey.ac.nz/~jcmarsha/Wheel/ (click on "Drivers") > > Using the 10button+pov driver instead of the 2axis-4button driver *may*allow > the extra buttons to be detected. > > Good luck > Ken > PS The current USB cartridge is not worth buying, it gives very poor wheel > resolution (about 100 points). It'd be easier and much cheaper to get agameport > to USB adapter, most of which give a least 128 points (which is still not > great). Before spending the money on the USB Cartridge and power supply,look > at what it would cost to get another entirely new wheel. > Thanks for that advice Ken, unfortunately my system didn't seem to like that driver on the site. I'm quite happy with my wheel, it's 1000x better than a keyboard anyhows, even if it is only entry level. The funny thing about that link you gave me is that the university that hosts it, is 5 minutes from my house :-) Allstarnz