Help with Grand Prix 1 Racing Wheel

I have a brand new P200MMX and am running Win95. I have got Nascar v1 to run in a dos mode but I cannot get this Thrustmaster Grand Prix Racing Wheel to work. I am not running a special game port card. I have contacted Micron (my computer manufacturer) and they were very helpful in getting everything else to work in dos mode. I contacted Thrustmaster by email and never received a reply. What can I do to get this to work? I can calibrate it in Win95 but everything I try in dos mode doesn't work. Any help would be grealty appreciated. Thanks, Janelle Broyles http://www.oneimage.com/~jbroyles

R: You probably have OSR2 and there is a known bug with the joystick routine with Nascar 2 V1 and OSR2. The patches for N2 fix this. I would guess 80% in your situation had this problem. I was one with that problem as well. I replaced OSR2 with standard Win 95, since at that time the patch was still a country mile away... Q.B.M.

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> > I have a brand new P200MMX and am running Win95. I have got Nascar v1 to > > run in a dos mode but I cannot get this Thrustmaster Grand Prix Racing > > Wheel to work. I am not running a special game port card. I have > > contacted Micron (my computer manufacturer) and they were very helpful > > in getting everything else to work in dos mode. I contacted Thrustmaster > > by email and never received a reply. What can I do to get this to work? > > I can calibrate it in Win95 but everything I try in dos mode doesn't > > work. Any help would be grealty appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Janelle Broyles > > http://www.oneimage.com/~jbroyles > R: > You probably have OSR2 and there is a known bug with the joystick routine with > Nascar 2 V1 and OSR2. The patches for N2 fix this. I would guess 80% in your > situation had this problem. I was one with that problem as well. I replaced > OSR2 with standard Win 95, since at that time the patch was still a country > mile away... > Q.B.M.

I think what you are describing is 180 degrees from what most people had problems with. You say it works in Win95, but doesn't work in Dos. I've seen this once and it was related to hardware conflicts. First make a list (if you can) of what functions your motherboard provides for you, and what your add in cards provide. You are looking for duplicates. The example I ran into was a printer card and a sound card both had a joystick port. Windows somehow made just the Soundcard port work while Dos couldn't clear up the problem. Once the joystick port on the printer card was disabled, the joystick port on the sound card was usable in Dos. mykey