T2 wheel - questions

Hi everyone! I saw a T2 wheel at my local software retailer today. It looked great. I'am thinking about buying it but I have a few questions: 1: It says on the box that "a ACM game card is reccommended", do I really need this game card? I heard somewhere that the ACM game card reccommendation is just for advertising. Will the T2 work fine if I simply connect it to the joystick port on my SoundBlaster card? 2: Does the T2 work with most of the popular racing sims? I've heard of people having problems getting it to work with GP2 especially. Thanks in advance, John -- Winners never quit, quiters never win

T2 will work fine with the SB gameport. T2 works *very well* with the Papyrus sims, NASCAR, ICR1 & 2 and the NASCAR 2 demo. The T2 also works well in GP2, but setting the wheel sensitivity in the game can be a bit daunting. Anyone else feel that no other company models steering as well as Papyrus? *****Proponent : comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.space. ********************

Works with the joystick port on my PAS-16 soundcard just fine YMMV. I have mine working with Nascar, IndyCar II, GP2, Need for Speed. it is a little involved setting it up with the games (some games only support 1 joystick, while other support 2 joysticks [both the wheel and pedal inputs are translated into joystick moves/button presses for the games). It is a great purchase if you like racing games (I know I do !) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This space intentionally left blank

I have a t2 and it works great with Gp2, nascar, indcar2 and NFSSE. I have a ch auto3 game card and everything works fine together. I had some trouble before I installed the ch game card, and I was also told that I would have to have a seperate joystick port. I hope this helps a little. Ray

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> Hi everyone! > I saw a T2 wheel at my local software retailer today. It looked > great. I'am thinking about buying it but I have a few questions: > 1: It says on the box that "a ACM game card is reccommended", do I > really need this game card? I heard somewhere that the ACM game card > reccommendation is just for advertising. Will the T2 work fine if I > simply connect it to the joystick port on my SoundBlaster card? > 2: Does the T2 work with most of the popular racing sims? I've heard > of people having problems getting it to work with GP2 especially. > Thanks in advance, > John > -- Winners never quit, quiters never win

> >1: It says on the box that "a ACM game card is reccommended", do I > >really need this game card? I heard somewhere that the ACM game card > >reccommendation is just for advertising. Will the T2 work fine if I > >simply connect it to the joystick port on my SoundBlaster card? Works fine on my Sound Blaster Card I have mine on Nascar, Indycar, Monster Truck, Screamer, NFSSE and a very old DOS racing game... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- > This space intentionally left blank

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>> >1: It says on the box that "a ACM game card is reccommended", do I >> >really need this game card? I heard somewhere that the ACM game card >> >reccommendation is just for advertising. Will the T2 work fine if I >> >simply connect it to the joystick port on my SoundBlaster card? >Works fine on my Sound Blaster Card >> Works with the joystick port on my PAS-16 soundcard just fine YMMV.

Before everyone jumps on TM for advertising their card, I want to point out that the T1/T2 work just as well as your cards do. I had a cheap card in a Gateway 486DX2 and it had HORRIBLE thermal drift. I would fire up the system, shred a few hot laps, post a new best time. Then I'd start the race, practice some more and by the time I got to the green flag not only could I not duplicate my laps, I was 1s or worse per lap! Same setup! Inspection of the boost level (in ICR) showed that I was only running 42in of boost at "max throttle" - and taking notes on the calibration screens showed that the inputs were being read differently by the computer. Recalibrating often was a workaround, but in longer races that was difficult. I bought an ACM, and the thermal drift went to *ZERO*. No problems since. When I went to install it, I discovered that I had a near-worst case setup: I had a cheap brand-Z sound card, it was horizontally mounted, and it was directly above the heatsink from my cpu! But the ACM in the same position had no problems... I have since gotten a Penitum Pro system, and between it and the large monitor it's enough to heat up the tiny little room the computers live in in my house. But I've had negligible thermal drift with a genuine Sound Blaster AWE32. -- Brian Wong Enterprise Engineering