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Hello All! First off I want to say What a great program! I have a 3 LED setup and am using an Eye Toy with XP drivers. I am amazed at how well it works! Awesome!.. I do have one problem though and was wondering if any technically minded people could help me somehow..
I am using XP I have a Microsoft Sidewinder force feedback steering wheel the serial port kind (lol its old). When I use it with Live For Speed the force feedback Is really good I can feel everything. The problem is however, as soon as i start freetrack the steering wheel goes limp as in returns to the center and goes in normal mode no force feed back effects, then when i turn Freetrack off i can feel everything from the game again, i have no idea whats causing this. Is Freetrack using or conflicting with the serial port i have my wheel plugged into? or is it using some core components of Xp that have to do with FF effects ? the wheel is plugged into the serial port on my creative soundblaster Live card unfortunately I dont have any serial ports on my other pcs i could try. I really hope there is a simple solution that i overlooked  Thanks In Advance for any help And thank you for your time. |
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What I can just think of is to try this :
 I'm not a developper myself so I can't really help you. Don't worry about the PPjoy thing, it's ok. I think it's due to DirectX which manage the input like hitting a key or force feedback, but I'm not really sure about this... Rémy |
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no go unfortunately however i seem to have maybe found a temporary workaround at least until someone can help me. I have no idea how it worked but i had LFS running.. open freetrack.. no force feedback then i go to task manager close freetrack then i find in processes an svchost that was using 21,436k memory i terminated the process. then i reopened freetrack and woohoo i had both , headtracking in game as well as force feedback.. Great!...
but when i exit live for speed then try to open it again it throws up a red error saying could not enable FF or something or rather the wheel still worked in game but no FF even with freetrack off! lol ok so a restart of the pc and everything was back to normal again LFS opened with no errors and force feedback working but then when i open freetrack no force feedback! lol so i repeated the above procedure.. killed the process then opened freetrack bingo! both working in game again.. so if anyone has any idea whats going on here their input would be greatly appreciated. Ok i can officially say that this works tried like 7 times now every time a winner.. but please i need a permanent solution, hahah!!! method: start live for speed... open task manager... remove a certain svchost that is using 21,436k memory on average... open freetracker and Im good to go.. anything else that i have tried has failed so far.. what could this be!!!????  also anyone know how to find out exactly what this particular svchost is for? as i have like 6 or more svchosts in task manager  if i could find out what it is it would be of greater help to someone more knowledgeable im sure. |
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Srory for not having found a real solution...
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