F1 Challenge controller setup

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Tim Hall - 24 Jun 2005 02:06 GMT

Sorry if this has been asked, but I just bought F1 Challenge 99-02 and
found when trying to use my wheel it wouldn't recognize it. Then I
found that the real problem is that it only looks at the first two
game controllers you have (I have 3, a gamepad, joystick and wheel).
So, I can get around the problem by unplugging my gamepad and now it
sees the wheel. Is there another way around this though? I couldn't
find a patch for this game, maybe is there a way to somehow fudge
things in the Windows Control Panel?

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Dave Henrie - 24 Jun 2005 07:34 GMT

> Sorry if this has been asked, but I just bought F1 Challenge 99-02 and
> found when trying to use my wheel it wouldn't recognize it. Then I
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> find a patch for this game, maybe is there a way to somehow fudge
> things in the Windows Control Panel?

No patches for F1c for anything. You could reassign in Windows the order
of the controllers, The wheel needs to be number 1 afaIk. Of course this
will probably cause the same problems with the other controllers in other
games. I long ago gave up trying to have 3 or 4 input devices all hooked
up. I've got a joypad around here somewhere, but it's been so long since I
used it...

dave henrie

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Tim Hall - 25 Jun 2005 02:41 GMT

>> Sorry if this has been asked, but I just bought F1 Challenge 99-02 and
>> found when trying to use my wheel it wouldn't recognize it. Then I
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>dave henrie

Doesn't appear to be any way to order the controllers in Win XP, and
it doesn't seem to make a difference if I set the wheel to be the one
used with older programs, which I thought was supposed to make it
number 1. Oh well, I"ll just have to go the old unplug and plug
route, because I want to keep all 3 controllers installed (which I
thought was the advantage of USB!).

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jason moyer - 26 Jun 2005 00:20 GMT

Start--->Settings-->Control Panel--->Game Controllers--->Advanced

Setting your wheel as the primary device should allow badly written
software to access it correctly.

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Tim Hall - 28 Jun 2005 00:43 GMT

>Start--->Settings-->Control Panel--->Game Controllers--->Advanced
>
>Setting your wheel as the primary device should allow badly written
>software to access it correctly.

I tried it, but it still refused to see my wheel. It must be
*really* badly written software. At least, the UI is. The rest of it
looks pretty cool so far.

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