Guillemot FF Wheel & CMR2 - Help required

Using a Guillemot (Thrustmaster) Ferrari Force Feedback Wheel in Colin McRae Rally 2. The wheel works fine for about 2 minutes (enough for one stage if I'm lucky), then just stops responding completely, requiring a restart of the game and switching the wheel off and on again before Windows can see it again. Problem is identical in Win XP and 98, but TOCA2 works fine. Using 1.09 patch of CMR2 and latest drivers for the wheel (2.63), along with DirectX 8.1 and Nvidia 41.09 drivers on Geforce Ti 4200. Anyone any ideas? TIA Carl Remove the obvious when replying by email

Using a Guillemot (Thrustmaster) Ferrari Force Feedback Wheel in Colin McRae Rally 2. The wheel works fine for about 2 minutes (enough for one stage if I'm lucky), then just stops responding completely, requiring a restart of the game and switching the wheel off and on again before Windows can see it again. Problem is identical in Win XP and 98, but TOCA2 works fine. Using 1.09 patch of CMR2 and latest drivers for the wheel (2.63), along with DirectX 8.1 and Nvidia 41.09 drivers on Geforce Ti 4200. Anyone any ideas? TIA Carl My Logitech used to lose FF. Found out there's an on board thermistor that would overheat. Turning down the FF effects solved it, but the thermistor probably needs to be replaced or bypassed. I don't know if that's what yours is doing but you might try turning off FF and see if it still does it. Bill Berry

Carl, Had the exact same problem - turned out to be a faulty wheel, odd that it did seem to work for longer periods in some games than others, some I had no problem with at all - but, replacement wheel solved all probs. You may find you can get it to be recognised again by just unplugging and plugging it back into USB - sometimes in-game will work (it did is motocross madness 2 but not in Nascar Heat. Maxx On Sun, 19 Jan 2003 23:03:26 -0000, "Carl Smethurst" <[email hidden]> wrote:

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>Using a Guillemot (Thrustmaster) Ferrari Force Feedback Wheel in Colin McRae >Rally 2. The wheel works fine for about 2 minutes (enough for one stage if >I'm lucky), then just stops responding completely, requiring a restart of >the game and switching the wheel off and on again before Windows can see it >again. Problem is identical in Win XP and 98, but TOCA2 works fine. > >Using 1.09 patch of CMR2 and latest drivers for the wheel (2.63), along with >DirectX 8.1 and Nvidia 41.09 drivers on Geforce Ti 4200. Anyone any ideas? > >TIA > >Carl > > >Remove the obvious when replying by email >

Thanks guys Maybe a new wheel is the answer - but I've had this one just over 12 months, so it's out of guarantee :-( I'll try some of the other suggestions... Carl "Maxx" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> > Carl, > > Had the exact same problem - turned out to be a faulty wheel, odd that > it did seem to work for longer periods in some games than others, some > I had no problem with at all - but, replacement wheel solved all > probs. > > You may find you can get it to be recognised again by just unplugging > and plugging it back into USB - sometimes in-game will work (it did > is motocross madness 2 but not in Nascar Heat. > > Maxx > > On Sun, 19 Jan 2003 23:03:26 -0000, "Carl Smethurst" > <[email hidden]> wrote: > > >Using a Guillemot (Thrustmaster) Ferrari Force Feedback Wheel in Colin

McRae > >Rally 2. The wheel works fine for about 2 minutes (enough for one stageif > >I'm lucky), then just stops responding completely, requiring a restart of > >the game and switching the wheel off and on again before Windows can seeit > >again. Problem is identical in Win XP and 98, but TOCA2 works fine. > > > >Using 1.09 patch of CMR2 and latest drivers for the wheel (2.63), alongwith > >DirectX 8.1 and Nvidia 41.09 drivers on Geforce Ti 4200. Anyone anyideas?

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