Sorted! The correct procedure is to turn off the force feedback before hitting Shift+C, then wait for the re-initialising message before steering fully left, then fully right. After doing this, turn the FF back on and away you go!!
Thanks for everyone's advise, I can race again without having to re-install!!
Cheers,
Mark
Thanks for everyone's advise, I can race again without having to re-install!!
Cheers,
Mark
Sorry, doesn't work. When I press Shift + C, I don't have time to move from lock to lock. As soon as I start to steer left the message comes up that it's re-initiated the controllers and the wheel keeps jerking violently from side to side!!
Mark
Mark
MS Sidewinder Gone Mad - AGAIN!
I'm getting really hacked off with S2 & my MS Sidewinder now. When I first installed S2, all was well for a couple of races, but then the calibration went on the wheel. I couldn't get it back with any of the options and none of the suggestions at the time worked either.
In the end I re-installed S2 and didn't touch any of the default settings for the wheel. This worked for a few weeks and now it's gone again....
Starting S2 up, the wheels is canted to left by approx 15 degrees. This is kinda drivable, but very frustrating as you over-compensate when returning back to the centre, 'cos the centre isn't where it should be! So, I went into the options and tried to re-calibrate - now, the wheel is completly unusable and the steering jumps from lock to lock with only 1 degree of wheel movement.
As MS haven't made XP drivers for the Sidewinder USB FF wheel (they're built into XP), the only ones around are from Win2K or 98 and as such are useless. So, I can't go the driver route. Instead, there must be a bug in S2 somewhere which is preventing this wheel from working properly.
I stress that my wheel is fine and works perfectly well in every other PC driving game I have, so I know it's not the hardware at fault. And as this has happend to me twice now, I assume it must have happened for other folks??
Has anyone had problems with the USB MS Sidewinder FF?? Did you get them fixed without re-installing S2 and loosing all your built up credits??
If anyone can help, I'd really apreciate it. I was wondering if there was an ini file that I could modify back to std settings to get the wheel working again??? Or some other trick in the book maybe!!
Thanks,
Mark
In the end I re-installed S2 and didn't touch any of the default settings for the wheel. This worked for a few weeks and now it's gone again....
Starting S2 up, the wheels is canted to left by approx 15 degrees. This is kinda drivable, but very frustrating as you over-compensate when returning back to the centre, 'cos the centre isn't where it should be! So, I went into the options and tried to re-calibrate - now, the wheel is completly unusable and the steering jumps from lock to lock with only 1 degree of wheel movement.
As MS haven't made XP drivers for the Sidewinder USB FF wheel (they're built into XP), the only ones around are from Win2K or 98 and as such are useless. So, I can't go the driver route. Instead, there must be a bug in S2 somewhere which is preventing this wheel from working properly.
I stress that my wheel is fine and works perfectly well in every other PC driving game I have, so I know it's not the hardware at fault. And as this has happend to me twice now, I assume it must have happened for other folks??
Has anyone had problems with the USB MS Sidewinder FF?? Did you get them fixed without re-installing S2 and loosing all your built up credits??
If anyone can help, I'd really apreciate it. I was wondering if there was an ini file that I could modify back to std settings to get the wheel working again??? Or some other trick in the book maybe!!
Thanks,
Mark
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