ACT LABS RS wheel (non-force) jittering severly

I am having severe problems with my ACT LABS RS in that I can't play any games in RS mode due to jittering. I can't even calibrate it because of this. I can only use the wheel in DOS mode and therefore can only use 2 buttons and the 2 paddles. If anybody out there has a solution, I'd be more than willing to try it. I just wish I could figure it out. My system: Asus P2B mainboard 64 MB PC100 SDRAM 3dfx Voodoo3 2000 AGP 3dfx Voodoo2 12 MB PCI SoundBlaster 32 PnP ISA Diamond Monster Sound II MX300 PCI Quantum Fireball 5.1 GB HDD Seagate Medallion 1.2 GB HDD Creative Labs Vibra 24X CD-ROM 3Com Etherlink III PnP ISA USRobotics 56k data/fax external Logitech Mouseman PS/2 MS Sidewinder gamepad MS Sidewinder Precision Pro Act Labs RS Kodak DVC 300 USB Mustek 600III EP Plus parallel SyQuest SparQ 1.0 GB parallel Windows98 I have tried the wheel in both the SB32 and the MX300 and I have also tried both at 266 and 400 MHz but with no change. Thanks for ANY help!!! Craig

On Tue, 8 Jun 1999 00:11:10 -0300,

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>I am having severe problems with my ACT LABS RS in that I can't play any >games in RS mode due to jittering. I can't even calibrate it because of >this. I can only use the wheel in DOS mode and therefore can only use 2 >buttons and the 2 paddles. >If anybody out there has a solution, I'd be more than willing to try it. I >just wish I could figure it out. >My system: >Asus P2B mainboard >64 MB PC100 SDRAM >3dfx Voodoo3 2000 AGP >3dfx Voodoo2 12 MB PCI

TWO 3dfx cards? TWO Sound cards? Yank out one of the sound cards and try again. -- // email: rrevved at mindspring dot com

I tried running the wheel without my SB32 and Voodoo2 but it made no difference. Craig

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>On Tue, 8 Jun 1999 00:11:10 -0300, >>I am having severe problems with my ACT LABS RS in that I can't play any >>games in RS mode due to jittering. I can't even calibrate it because of >>this. I can only use the wheel in DOS mode and therefore can only use 2 >>buttons and the 2 paddles. >>If anybody out there has a solution, I'd be more than willing to try it.

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>>just wish I could figure it out. >>My system: >>Asus P2B mainboard >>64 MB PC100 SDRAM >>3dfx Voodoo3 2000 AGP >>3dfx Voodoo2 12 MB PCI >TWO 3dfx cards? >>SoundBlaster 32 PnP ISA >>Diamond Monster Sound II MX300 PCI >TWO Sound cards? >Yank out one of the sound cards and try again. >-- >// email: rrevved at mindspring dot com

Have you tried going to Control Panels/Game Controllers/Advanced, and un-checking "Poll with interrupts enabled"? I assume both of your sound cards (!) have game ports--have you tried disabling one or the other, or using one or the other's game port driver? The word on the street seems to be that getting multiple sound cards to coexists often involves installing them in a certain order, phases of the moon, etc., so I would still be worried about this if the "interrupts enabled" doesn't fix it. Even if it does, it would mean that something on your system is firing off a ton of interrupts, which would hamper framerate. -Dave P

I have tried with one of the sound card completely removed from my computer and I have tried with interrupt polling on and off but it makes absolutely no difference. Do you think it's something else in my system? Craig