Control Devices & Wheel Issues

[novatekk]

Rob_G: Eventhough his notebook isn't the most powerful out there, by looking at the topic title, I think he meant to say that before using the wheel the game ran at least somewhat acceptable.

cVGhost: I think the performance decrease is caused by your steering wheel. The Microsoft SideWinder Force Feedback Wheel has the exact same issues in many other games. Many people playing Testdrive Unlimited with that particular wheel for example experienced the exact same loss in performance as you describe.

I think the reason for this decrease has to do with the fact that older wheels, like the one you have, use a different (outdated) force feedback technique compared to most recent wheels. If you haven't done this already, you might want to try and disable force feedback alltogether and see if the performance gets better.