Hey
New Thrustmaster Force Feeback steering wheel giving me problems under
Windows ME.
The wheel shows up fine in the joystick control panel, and it works in
NASCAR 4. However the TM wheel programming software does not
recognize it. When I launch this software it says "Make sure your
wheel is plugged into a USB or Serial Port", then the interface to the
software flashes on screen for about 1/20th of a second, and that's
it, no program running.
I'm hooked up to USB. I've tried plugging it into every USB port on
the machine, same result.
Also Windows won't let me put the wheel on "controller 1", I have to
assign to controller 2 because Windows thinks there is something
already assigned to controller 1, but in fact controller 1 is empty.
Weird. Related to the other problem? I dunno.
Thirdly if I cut the power switch on the wheel off or unplug it from
the USB port it sometimes causes Windows ME to give a blue-screen
error message (you know those fullscreen ones that scare you but then
put you back in Windows eventually). I thought USB was hot swappable;
I thought that was the whole point with it. Certainly at work I hot
swap USB devices on my Macintosh. What gives?
Thanks for any advice you can muster,
Patrick
There should be a "clean.exe" utility on the installation CDROM to
remove any previous joystick drivers (at least there was for Win9x).
This should allow you to place the wheel on controller 1 and hopefully
fix the other problems. USB is hot-pluggable so you're just getting
wierd errors.
I would recommend running the clean program then reinstalling the TMFF
drivers.
Jason.
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