GPL axis 0

Hi, GPL newbie here. In my haste to get up and running I didn't plug in my ms SWFF wheel, pre-install. I had it unplugged due to some flight sims not wanting to share the I/O properly with a joystick. The game installed, updated and ran fine with the joystick. When I plugged the wheel and started GPL the game intelligently went to the GPL controller cal screen which saw all 3 axis (0,1,2) and the all worked fine. Upon hitting ok the steering selection yelled UNRECOGNIZED. I clicked the shout and received a dialog to steer one direction. Upon moving the wheel nothing happened. No feedback, nothing. I tried pressing buttons to designate steering and GPL saw them ok. I even renamed papyjoy.sys with no success. Short of reinstalling, would anyone here have an idea of a fix? Thanks in advance, Blake

"Rail" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> Hi, > > GPL newbie here. In my haste to get up and running I didn't > plug in my ms SWFF wheel, pre-install. I had it unplugged > due to some flight sims not wanting to share the I/O > properly with a joystick. The game installed, updated and > ran fine with the joystick. When I plugged the wheel and > started GPL the game intelligently went to the GPL > controller cal screen which saw all 3 axis (0,1,2) and the > all worked fine. Upon hitting ok the steering selection > yelled UNRECOGNIZED. I clicked the shout and received a > dialog to steer one direction. Upon moving the wheel nothing > happened. No feedback, nothing. I tried pressing buttons to > designate steering and GPL saw them ok. I even renamed > papyjoy.sys with no success. > > Short of reinstalling, would anyone here have an idea of a > fix?

I have a similar problem on one of my setups, it turned out to be a dodgy wire to one of the pedals, and windows was only intermittently detecting the device. It could also be the power cord to your controller for much the same reason. As far as gpl is concerned, it can see & use anything windows can see, so you don't need to keep going back into gpl to test it, use the game controllers control panel applet instead to troubleshoot. Malc.

Malc wrote: > > As far as gpl is concerned, it can see & use anything windows can see, so > you don't need to keep going back into gpl to test it, use the game > controllers control panel applet instead to troubleshoot. > > Malc. Everything test fine in Windows control panel->gaming options->controller->properties. The steering axis (0) inside GPLs calibration dialog test ok also. It's just on the Controls page of the GPL it doesn;t see the steering axis...? Blake

Did you steer to the left? It only works in that direction. rms

"Rail" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > Malc wrote: > > As far as gpl is concerned, it can see & use anything windows can see,so

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> > you don't need to keep going back into gpl to test it, use the game > > controllers control panel applet instead to troubleshoot. > Everything test fine in Windows control panel->gaming > options->controller->properties. The steering axis (0) > inside GPLs calibration dialog test ok also. > > It's just on the Controls page of the GPL it doesn;t see the > steering axis...?

iirc gpl supports up to 8 axies so maybe you need to swap your controllers around so that your wheel is detected before something else. Does gpl remember the settings if you assign a different axis to the steering? Malc.

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> Hi, > > GPL newbie here. In my haste to get up and running I didn't > plug in my ms SWFF wheel, pre-install. I had it unplugged > due to some flight sims not wanting to share the I/O > properly with a joystick. The game installed, updated and > ran fine with the joystick. When I plugged the wheel and > started GPL the game intelligently went to the GPL > controller cal screen which saw all 3 axis (0,1,2) and the > all worked fine. Upon hitting ok the steering selection > yelled UNRECOGNIZED. I clicked the shout and received a > dialog to steer one direction. Upon moving the wheel nothing > happened. No feedback, nothing. I tried pressing buttons to > designate steering and GPL saw them ok. I even renamed > papyjoy.sys with no success. > > Short of reinstalling, would anyone here have an idea of a > fix? > > Thanks in advance, > Blake >

You did move all the controllers through their full range of movement at the calibration screen, didn't you? Gerry

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> > "Rail" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:[email hidden]... > > Malc wrote: > > iirc gpl supports up to 8 axies so maybe you need to swap your controllers > around so that your wheel is detected before something else.

The wheel is set to Controller ID 1. > > Does gpl remember the settings if you assign a different axis to the > steering? Yeah, tho I haven't tried to drive it that way. The reason I set it to a button was it would not let me out of the steering selection dialog until I gave it something recognizable. Blake

Roger Squires wrote: > > Did you steer to the left? It only works in that direction. > > rms I tried both directions of left :)

Gerry Aitken wrote: > > You did move all the controllers through their full range of movement at > the calibration screen, didn't you? > > Gerry Yeah, the feedback was there. The range numbers adjusted testing each input full swing. Blake

It appears that I found the fix. If I move the Steering Linearity slider off it's initial center position the GPL sees axis 0 as steering now. After moving the slider it recognizes the steering axis regardless of where the linearity slider sits. Strange. Thanks for the input everyone. Blake

> Thanks for the input everyone. Glad we steered you in the right direction. rms