Ive starting experiencing the same problem again.

Ive got a replay of what happens i started off with my wheel on and i get bad lagg. I then change my settings to mouse and the lag goes.

Check the Limits at the bottem left

Ive just been playing for about an hour and its been ok

I did a few tests first,

I drove with having my wheel unplugged and exited the software which came with it. used the mouse and keyboard and it worked perfectly well.

then i

Plugged my steering wheel in and used the windows conf. It worked fine

then i Used my steering wheel again with the software which came with it and thats when it messed up.

I reistalled the drivers and updated them and now it seems to be working a treat

The game pauses for the 0.5sec every 5 seconds. its really strange. Only happens when playing online.

Ive tried increasing the min sleep as ive read that in other posts but still get the problem.

Ill just have to wait until the end of the month untill i get a new unlock

Ive just bought a Logitech formula wheel. It works wonders when i play a single player or do hotlapping.

The problem is when i play online it pauses for about 0.5sec every 5 seconds

I checked my connection Download 2212.6 Kbps and my upload is running slowish upload 271.1 K bytes/sec

But when i use a mouse or keyboard the lag doesnt seem so bad.

My specs are

Intel Pentium 4, 2600 MHz
512MB RAM
256MB NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500
Windows xp

WHAT COULD IT BE

Regards

Stu

The only sound that you will get with the vtec kicking in is with these settings

Cylinders 12 12
Displacement 1600 1600

Power 0.155
Power width 0.55
time2rev 0.4
Redline 1.00
Idle 104.710

Still needs some tweeking but you do get a sound differnce