Dead-Zone in F1RS

I've been playing a copy of the English verision of F1RS (while wating for my US copy to be mailed to me), and there is a very distracting dead zone in the joystick control. It's almost like I'm playing with a gamepad. The control is a BIT more precise, but not much. Any ideas how to fix this? Someone game me a patch for direct input that is supposed to fix the dead zone problem in several games, but it didnt seem to work with F1RS. Brian Short

It made the problem more bearable for me to recalibrate my joystick using only 1/3 of it's travel. The DZ is still there, but it's smaller. -- Suck The Goat

Hmm, I just posted a similar post about joystick control. My post was long and drawn-out..<g>, your post is probably closer to the problem. I described joystick control as "twitchy", the car has a side-to-side "sway", (reminds me of a Lincoln Town car!). Maybe the whole problem is just a very large dead-zone. Also saw a generic type patch for joystick (at an F1RS URL), but never tried it. Teehole

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>I've been playing a copy of the English verision of F1RS (while wating >for my US copy to be mailed to me), and there is a very distracting dead >zone in the joystick control. It's almost like I'm playing with a >gamepad. The control is a BIT more precise, but not much. Any ideas >how to fix this? Someone game me a patch for direct input that is >supposed to fix the dead zone problem in several games, but it didnt >seem to work with F1RS. >Brian Short

First, and foremost - make sure that you have calibrated your wheel as a "wheel" in Win95 (if you are not using a joystick, that is). Second, if that still does not resolve the issue, then get the deadzone adjustment utility from www.f1racingsim.com. Hope that helps, Rob

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> still does not resolve the issue, then get the deadzone adjustment > utility > from www.f1racingsim.com. > Hope that helps, > Rob

where exactly on the site is this util?

Thanks for the responses... is was misreading one of the responses that solved my problem. I just went to the game controllers setup screen, and set up my joystick as a Thrustmaster T1/T2 with adapter... presto!, the dead zone was gone! I had to turn the steering sensitivity down a bit, bit it it MUCH better... anyone with deadzone problems in F1RS should try this. Brian Short

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> I've been playing a copy of the English verision of F1RS (while wating > for my US copy to be mailed to me), and there is a very distracting dead > zone in the joystick control. It's almost like I'm playing with a > gamepad. The control is a BIT more precise, but not much. Any ideas > how to fix this? Someone game me a patch for direct input that is > supposed to fix the dead zone problem in several games, but it didnt > seem to work with F1RS. > Brian Short

I had the same problem, big dead zone made it very hard to steer. The problem was the controller was set up as a joystick. If you go into the control section of F1RS you will see it says joystick. You must set up your controller under win95 as a steering wheel, if you do this you will see the control section in F1RS will say wheel instead of joystick. This will make a huge improvement and you will find it will steer very precisely Happy racing.

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> I've been playing a copy of the English verision of F1RS (while wating > for my US copy to be mailed to me), and there is a very distracting dead > zone in the joystick control. It's almost like I'm playing with a > gamepad. The control is a BIT more precise, but not much. Any ideas > how to fix this? Someone game me a patch for direct input that is > supposed to fix the dead zone problem in several games, but it didnt > seem to work with F1RS. > Brian Short

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> I've been playing a copy of the English verision of F1RS (while wating > for my US copy to be mailed to me), and there is a very distracting dead > zone in the joystick control. It's almost like I'm playing with a > gamepad. The control is a BIT more precise, but not much. Any ideas > how to fix this? Someone game me a patch for direct input that is > supposed to fix the dead zone problem in several games, but it didnt > seem to work with F1RS.

Use a wheel calibration in Win 95. Joystick calibrations have a built in dead zone. Then adjust sensitivity in the game. Should work. -- We are the Hosh! You will be assimilated! Lower your defences and surrender! Your technological and biological distinctiveness will be added to our own. Your culture will be adapted to service us. Resistance is futile. Have a nice &*($ing day!

I found it at cdrom.com; the file name is DXDZFIX.ZIP. Read the readme file, and cut-paste to a dos-window (easier to install this way). Teehole