Can't find non USB wheel anywhere....and other stuff

Man, what's up with the USB thing? For years USB was ignored now its getting shoved down our throats. Here is the story: Last week I bought a MS FF Sidewinder Wheel USB. Well to make a long story short. The FF-USB combination caused severe stuttering in my graphics performance. The only thing that sort of helped out was when I turned of FSAA on my GeForce 3. So posted some comments here and found out that I was not the only one suffering from this problem. Some people recommended to get a non USB wheel. I thought that was a great idea so I returned the FF wheel and went shopping or a non USB FF wheel. Well I CAN'T find one anywhere. It's either the MS USB or Logitech USB FF wheels. The selection really sucks locally and we have all the big stores here. Best Buy, CompUSA, etc... So my question is does anyone manufacture or sell a non USB FF wheel anymore? I heard the Act-Labs USB is much better than MS so I am very interested in trying out that wheel. I just hate getting things like this in mail order when you are not sure its going to work to your satisfaction. However, it will be one of my few options. My system: P4 1.5 Ghz 512 Rambus Visiontek GeForce 3 Asus P4T mobo etc... ------------------------------ Here are couple of other things not totally related to the wheel thing. I read somewhere that by setting your monitor's refresh rate as high as it can go and disabling v-synch you gain FPS. This is very true. I picked up nearly 20 FPS when I did this. :) Here is my settings: N4 1024x768x32 World Detail Full Draw distance 75%, mirror 25% All graphical options on and/or full FSAA GeForce Quincunx FSAA (quality of 4X at the performance loss of 2X) Full field at Talladega start getting solid 44FPS. Once the race starts and the gets up to 50-55. When not surrounded by cars or in a online race solid 55-60FPS. I must say the GeForce 3 Quincunz FSAA looks really amazing. The difference is huge when it off. Any comments or suggestion are appreciated. Eric

Thomas enterprises does and its a very good wheel. I am not sure of the addy, but I do have one and well its provided fantastic service for me and my two kids. Dave El Mandaito <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:atp27.87568$[email hidden]...

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> Man, what's up with the USB thing? > > For years USB was ignored now its getting shoved down our throats. > > Here is the story: > > Last week I bought a MS FF Sidewinder Wheel USB. Well to make a long story > short. The FF-USB combination caused severe stuttering in my graphics > performance. The only thing that sort of helped out was when I turned of > FSAA on my GeForce 3. So posted some comments here and found out that I

was > not the only one suffering from this problem. Some people recommended toget > a non USB wheel. I thought that was a great idea so I returned the FFwheel > and went shopping or a non USB FF wheel. Well I CAN'T find one anywhere. > It's either the MS USB or Logitech USB FF wheels. The selection reallysucks

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> locally and we have all the big stores here. Best Buy, CompUSA, etc... > > So my question is does anyone manufacture or sell a non USB FF wheel > anymore? > > I heard the Act-Labs USB is much better than MS so I am very interested in > trying out that wheel. I just hate getting things like this in mail order > when you are not sure its going to work to your satisfaction. However, it > will be one of my few options. > > My system: > P4 1.5 Ghz > 512 Rambus > Visiontek GeForce 3 > Asus P4T mobo > etc... > > ------------------------------ > Here are couple of other things not totally related to the wheel thing. I > read somewhere that by setting your monitor's refresh rate as high as it

can > go and disabling v-synch you gain FPS. This is very true. I picked upnearly

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> 20 FPS when I did this. :) > > Here is my settings: > N4 1024x768x32 > World Detail Full > Draw distance 75%, mirror 25% > All graphical options on and/or full > FSAA GeForce Quincunx FSAA (quality of 4X at the performance loss of 2X) > > Full field at Talladega start getting solid 44FPS. Once the race starts

and > the gets up to 50-55. When not surrounded by cars or in a online racesolid > 55-60FPS. > > I must say the GeForce 3 Quincunz FSAA looks really amazing. Thedifference

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> is huge when it off. > > Any comments or suggestion are appreciated. > > Eric > > >

DAVID J ROBINSON wrote: > > Thomas enterprises does and its a very good wheel. I am not sure of the > addy, but I do have one and well its provided fantastic service for me and > my two kids. http://www.thomas-superwheel.com/ -- Fester