Controller Woes!

I'm attempting to set up my controller so I can use the analog sticks for steering/brake/throttle control, which I think I've done right, and saved the results to a user set. The problem is I cant access any of the in-car menus now so i cant actually leave the pits alter car set up etc! How do you get round this? The controller has a seperate profiler if that helps although i have tried several different buttons without success. It works fine set up to replicate the keyboard commands but this isnt very controllable. HELP!

i have a logitec controller (similar layout to ps2 controller) and have it set so left analogue stick controls steering, and right stick controls throttle and brake. shoulder buttons ( imagine L1 L2 R1 R2 ) are set as: L2 change gear down R2: change gear up. in game, waiting to qualify etc... steering and throttle sticks move the highlighter around the options, and pressing one of the gear buttons will select that option, and once in to car-setup for example it goes back to using the mouse to change any options.


hope that helps.

"Racing is LIFE. Anything before or after is just waiting"
Steve McQueen.

I think my controller is very similiar only its some rubbish thing from pc world! Your advice was spot on - i've got the same set up (eventually) for some reason the in game set up didnt recognize buttons 1-4, so i had no gear control- which isnt handy for getting your car back out of the wall which i do frequently! howver problem fixed-thanks again! btw how do you have the steering assist and sensitivity set up? Even more off topic - if you are trying to run a HW upgrade on software mode having changed it all over to software mode would you get a black screen when starting gpx or could these be dud season packages? the only one i've got to work is 1 from 1987, which is cool cos i can remember watching all the guys in it but i have 2 2007 packages which are complete in gpx menu but both just go to a black screen of death when i start em
Also appologies for double post-couldnt work out how to remove it!

no worries well this is how the sensitivity is set-up on mine but i don't think i've actually changed it, which is probably why when i take steering and throttle assists off it's a little wild.




As far as running HW and SW modes i've always run in HW mode so not entirely sure what you mean... if you have the game set up to run in HW mode then if you run a HW upgrade or season(?) then it should run without any probs.

Although in theory even if you have your game set to run as software mode, it should still work, it will just reduce the graphics quality. I think?


I always get a black screen when firing GPXdata up because i use vista so it asks permission to run it, but mine works ok.


I hope that helps if not hopefully somone else may hold the answer.

"Racing is LIFE. Anything before or after is just waiting"
Steve McQueen.

Actually just thought does it run ok without any variations? you may have to put the original settings back in and retrace your steps when you edit or change anything to find out where the problem starts. could possibly be a dud download, it's all trial and error.

i'm running GP3 V.1.13 with no cd patch, GP3Edit to manage all my settings and of course GPXdata 3.91 for everything else. and i have no problems swapping between seasons or individual settings like lids cars etc...

"Racing is LIFE. Anything before or after is just waiting"
Steve McQueen.

I,m running all those patches too- the 87 pack works fine(which is from this site) I have to run in sw due to not having a graphics card in my pc at moment, so i think i have to use 'generate software' on all the cars etc in order to get it to go, actually not sure now-cant remember doing that with 87 pack......pity it doesnt go cos it looks quite good, proper honda livery etc whereas other one has black preseason honda. I did try doing my own using the car and helmets etc from this site but i have to admit not really understanding the process and couldnt get all the info downloaded anyway as many of the files come up as corrupt unreadable or damaged. It did run ok unpatched until i accidentally overwrote the original 98 pack..oops
RE your settings mine are run at higher percentages to try and calm it down with the lock on full(just for monaco!)

hmm, using the generate software function shouldn't cause a problem... i'll investigate later (i use hardware mode (average PO 9%!) but i know about software mode-had to use it for years!)

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harjinator Wrote:
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> hmm, using the generate software function
> shouldn't cause a problem... i'll investigate
> later (i use hardware mode (average PO 9%!) but i
> know about software mode-had to use it for years!)


How do you get hardware mode and a PO of 9%?

Overkill machine: Core2Duo, Radeon X1950, 2 gig RAM, P35 chipset etc etc. it does increase at times, but not had it over about 90% for a good while... it is at top res and framerate too. think i do have the reduce texture detail option checked, but that's just for the back of the grid at belgium in the rain where it used to nudge me above the magic 100... it's a bizarre machine :S

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Actually now its developed a new problem, the 07 updates now work but are prone to freezing mid game(while in-car) for upto 20 secs at atime before playing normally again. Very odd cos the orig game and the 87 season pack dont do this, just the 07 stuff, cos i thought it was just the pc overworking the processor and hanging.

u haven't installed a different nvidia driver have you? sounds like the ol' nvidia bug...

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I dont think so - my machine only has integrated graphics at moment not a seperate graphics card (it defo needs one though!) which as far is i know doesnt have any nvidia bits. If it is a driver issue would it not afffect all of the patches?

that's true... very very strange then :S

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