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I think the reason for this decrease has to do with the fact that older wheels, like the one you have, use a different (outdated) force feedback technique compared to most recent wheels.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.

[Whiskey]

Originally Posted by novatekk

...older wheels, like the one you have, use a different (outdated) force feedback technique compared to most recent wheels.

I thought it was the Xbox 360 who used different FFB. In PC they use DirectInput, a part of DirectX

(I could be wrong, as I don't know much about this)

[cVGhost]

That sucks .. well I guess that's the price for having an .. idk .. 8 year old steering wheel

btw: the game runs perfecly smooth with medium-to hight settings .. (texture filtering at max, other setting at 3/4, AI traffic at 100%)
but not with the steering wheel it doesn't

I'll try to disable the force feedback . . even tough i think I already did that and it had no effect ..

aren't recent wheels using USB 2.0 ?

[novatekk]

Originally Posted by Whiskey

I thought it was the Xbox 360 who used different FFB. In PC they use DirectInput, a part of DirectX

Well I am not a 100% sure on the Microsoft wheel but I have the old Logitech Formula Force wheel (same era I guess) and here is what a Logitech employee had to say:

Originally Posted by CharlesB

It's a technological issue where the wheel itself, and how it manages force feedback effects, has effectively become so outdated that we made the cut with LGS 5.0

[Whiskey]

Oh, then I have learned something new today hehe

[Ticky]

How can I play with wheel and keyboard? My wheel have only 10 functions. Settings options are: keyboard or wheel. In other games I have a third option: wheel + keyboard. Can I do in this games?