Quote from dougie-lampkin :

Press the PS button, then start the driver, then press the PS button again...That outta do it

Make sure that it is listed in Windows game controllers, and that it isn't the game not detecting it...

blink blink and blink... i dunno why, and it is listed on windows game controllers, tough i cant use any button..

You can use the g25 for ps3, too, so its a ps3 controller :P

I use my XBOX wheel, as said 110 deg turn sucks but its better than buying a $234.99 wheel, my pedals are set up as axis, with the XBCD drivers.

Is there any feedback if using PS3 Dualshock3 Controller?

Quote from akheirax :

Is there any feedback if using PS3 Dualshock3 Controller?

feedback on a controller.........................no

Perhaps he meant does it vibrate lol.
If it does thats pretty cool. But i doubt it.

Quote from Migz :

Perhaps he meant does it vibrate lol.
If it does thats pretty cool. But i doubt it.

oh he meant vibrate , i dont think it will

BUMP!

I found a way to use wireless, at last! Check out here for instructions. It is a lot more complicated than the cable method, but it is really cool! My bluetooth dongle is incompatible, and I'm waiting for another to be shipped to me, so I can't say much on how it works

i might wanna try that out sometime

It´s the same sadly awkward design so you would think it would work the same

Though I just sold my 360 anyway for a PS 3 because it´s better wheel support. You can´t have it all obviously... Wii controls plus proper wheel support and the power of my PC that is the ultimate gaming console lol.

Quote from oqvist :

It´s the same sadly awkward design so you would think it would work the same

Though I just sold my 360 anyway for a PS 3 because it´s better wheel support. You can´t have it all obviously... Wii controls plus proper wheel support and the power of my PC that is the ultimate gaming console lol.

Actually, the PS3 can pretty much do all that

The standard SIXASIS has wii-like features, and if you know what to do, you can connect a wiimote to the PS3. Not that any game will support it right now, but it can be done.

It has brilliant wheel support, my G25 has full manual support in all games I've tried.

It can run Linux or Windows, and has amazing graphics potential.Granted, you need a rocket science degree to be able to unlock that potential, but it is there.

Quote from dougie-lampkin :

Actually, the PS3 can pretty much do all that

The standard SIXASIS has wii-like features, and if you know what to do, you can connect a wiimote to the PS3. Not that any game will support it right now, but it can be done.

It has brilliant wheel support, my G25 has full manual support in all games I've tried.

It can run Linux or Windows, and has amazing graphics potential.Granted, you need a rocket science degree to be able to unlock that potential, but it is there.

That excuse that you need rocket science degree to unlock the potential... This is the biggest console myth ever. You know the PS 3 has a 7800 GTX under the hood more or less? It´s not any secret and it´s not that people can´t develope for the console it´s not even near PC quality in term of graphics or anything. Same as for the CPU considerably lower performance then a 150$ Core 2 Duo. You could argue that the 360 is more powerful it has a faster GPU at least. The benefit is that you easier can get the max out of it because you know the limits but that still doesn´t help when you are sitting on a 7800 GTX and an lower clocked AMD X2.

SixAxis is not the same as the wiimote. It only has an accelerometer whereas the big thing about Wii mote is the IR thing which makes it so much more precise and the separate controller scheme which allows more free movement then a clumsy hand control does. You can have a Wii mote very easilly on PC even works on some games like HL 2 but if games aren´t built for it what is the point??? Though PC beats it here as well just got the Novint Falcon

So no PS 3 has no "Wii remote" until Sony gives it one so it gets official game support. Won´t happen I suspect though. Nintendo made it right forcing everyone to use the wii remote on their console. Traditionalists would probably stick with the sixaxis

Wheel support is brilliant when I see you can use multiple controllers (separate pedals and wheel plus shifters 3 usb devices) and adjust force feedback via a control panel like on PC.
Running Linux on it could be fun though not that I need it myself

You'll see if you install Linux that you do need a rocket science degree to unlock the full power. Sony have limited the full power of the CPU/GPU to only work on the Sony OS. It is possible to get it unlocked for Linux, but you do need to have a rocket science degree for it.

It's a little bit better than a 7800:

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Sony also unveiled the PS3's graphics chip, the RSX "Reality Synthesizer," which is based on Nvidia technology. The GPU will be capable of 128bit pixel precision and 1080p resolution--some of the highest HD resolution around. The RSX also has 512MB of graphics render memory and is capable of 100 billion shader operations and 51 billion dot products per second. It also has more than 300 million transistors, larger than any processor commercially available today. It will be manufactured using the 90nm process, with eight layers of metal. The RSX is more powerful than two GeForce 6800 Ultra video cards, which would cost roughly $1,000 total if purchased today.

It's more powerful than two 6800 Ultras

I don't see how the wiimote having IR makes it any more accurate. The PS3 controllers weren't made for doing that anyway, it's more of a gimmick. Which works quite well If you use the wireless method to connect it to PC, you also have SIXAXIS support, which works just as well as the wiimote, as I've tried both here. Plus you have normal buttons too

It does support 3 wheels, in games that support 3 controllers of course. You adjust force feedback per game too. I've run 2 wheels at the same time (OK, only one was a G25. I'm not that rich to have 3 yet ), both worked no problems.

Linux isn't great, as I've said. It doesn't have full hardware use, so really it's just like running Linux on a PC. Boring

Easy you point it to the screen so it always knows where you aim. It´s a bit like a light pistol but not quite since you are not aiming at the screen but a sensor bar picks up the IR . You can´t do that with a Sixaxis it has no clue where on screen you are since it really only has a basic accelerometre.

About performance If you instead of reading what they say and look how it´s built you see it´s more or less a 7800 GTX . You remember when they bragged about the cell processor having super computer performance. You can lie to no end with statistics. The PS 3 wasn´t even supposed to have a video card in the beginning but they couldn´t get the Cell to perform like they wanted it to.

It was the same deal when the xbox was released it would take 5 years for computers to catch up despite it already at launch having faster video cards, CPUs...

So dual controller works then fantastic. I wonder if my CST pedals will work anyway it has it´s own calibration programmes and what not but maybe I can use my SST Lightning shifter

True I suppose...I'm not a PS3 fanboy, I just hate 360s

I'm not sure on using different pedals and shifters, I don't think it would support them, as you can't install your own drivers. G25 drivers come preloaded

sst lightning shifter didn´t come with any drivers. It´s essentially just 8 buttons so perhaps. I could always dream lol. But yeah I don´t expect being able to use multiple controllers on the PS 3. I do have a Fanatec 911 Turbo wheel so I am home free anyway but it´s more fun to run with the best gear available