Author Topic: F1 Decade on Speed (Read 431 times)

funkedup · « **on:** June 20, 2003, 04:40:01 PM »

Anybody else recording these? Replays of races from the '93 season. That was one of my favorite seasons, watching Senna, and watching cars with technical sophistication which may never be seen again in racing. Senna's car was tremendously slower than the Williams, but he managed to steal several victories with incredible driving. Last night they showed the Brazilian GP, which was one of my favorites ever. Senna is miles behind, gets penalized... Then the rains came. In '93 a bunch of us got liquored up and stayed up all night to watch this one. We had a Brazilian with us and I still remember the celebration we had when Prost had problems and Senna got around Hill.

rpm · « **Reply #1 on:** June 20, 2003, 04:54:26 PM »

Not a big F1 fan, but I watch Speed Channel almost daily. NASCAR is my thing, but I really enjoy the Rally racing and off-track shows they do like "Wind Tunnel with Dave Despain" (remember him from 70's Motocross racing on ABC) and "Trackside at ...".

Saurdaukar · « **Reply #2 on:** June 21, 2003, 01:26:14 AM »

Watched South Africa.. when was it... yesterday?

I would have prefered the original announcing, but Im not going to argue with classic F1 races... god knows we've been tortured enough with NASCAR "Classics."

Funked - you catch the Gorden/Montoya PR event?

funkedup · « **Reply #3 on:** June 21, 2003, 03:01:30 AM »

I dinnae see the whole thing, but they showed highlights during the Canadian GP.

Solberg is leading the Cyprus rally so I am going to be watching that on Sunday. Got my Subaru pompoms out and everything.

Woohoo Mäkinen just won a stage.

MrCoffee · « **Reply #4 on:** June 21, 2003, 06:05:51 PM »

Ok well my Logitech Wingman Formula Force wont work. I've downloaded the latest lgs425enu.exe drivers from the wingmanteam.com website. The installation went ok but when I plug the USB connector for the wheel in, it goes bling bling then says that the driver failed to load for the hardware properly.

...

(this message comes from XP hardware wizard)
Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39)

Click Troubleshoot to start the troubleshooter for this device.

....

Basically the driver wont load for the hardware. I've even uninstalled the driver set and replugged the USB connecter for the wheel in without any drivers installed and the error message from the hardware wizard remains the same. So the conclusion is it doesnt matter if the driver is installed or not, XP cant associate the proper driver~hardware combo. I hate XP. So Im in the process of extracting the raw drivers and .inf files for a manual force update pointing to the location of the extracted files. Dont even know if this will work as the problem could be within the set of driver files or information in the .inf itself.

While Im doint that and bugging around, thought Id ask if anybody happens to have an "older" like 4.11 (I got 4.25) version of the driver set for this FF wheel. If so can you provide me a copy by email. Funked, what version of the drver are you running?

Then there is always the possibility that my OS is already hosed which is very likely since I hate XP and never keep my system "well maintained" like a good MS boy would.

Any help with those files would be appreciated, thanks.

MrCoffee · « **Reply #5 on:** June 21, 2003, 06:38:09 PM »

Well the manual update of the driver for the wheel didnt work either. I think the driver ver 4.25 for the FF wheel may be corrupt. The Microsoft website said that (error code 39) pertains to corrupted driver files. Got ver 4.11 from wingman site but my OS says its corrupt as well.

Guess I wont be racing anybody after all.

funkedup · « **Reply #6 on:** June 21, 2003, 07:08:15 PM »

Uninstall all the Logitech software, go to Windows update and make sure you are up to date, make sure your DirectX is up to date, make sure you have the latest drivers for everything, etc.

MrCoffee · « **Reply #7 on:** June 21, 2003, 07:12:55 PM »

That sounds way too hard.

Well if I get it sorted out then I'll let you know. BTW, what versions of the driver have you run before. Latest is 4.25, previous was 4.11 and I believe that was the first XP version of the driver. If you or anyone (HELLP) can confirm that they arehave run XP with any of these two drivers, that would mean my OS/registry may be a little broken. With or without a fix, would be nice to know what problem was.

funkedup · « **Reply #8 on:** June 21, 2003, 07:29:27 PM »

I've run just about every version in Win2k. 4.0X, 4.11, 4.20, 4.25. Never had any problems with driver installs. No experience with XP though.
Check out the forums at http://www.wingmanteam.com
They are pretty responsive in my experience.

MrCoffee · « **Reply #9 on:** June 21, 2003, 09:29:17 PM »

I did it, its working now. Ok, what it needed was the generic gameport driver in XP. Went to control panel (driver ver 4.25), add--> custom --> chose wheel --> named it TEST

It then blinged then found the wheel, found the generic gameport driver, and was listed in the controlers menu but status as not connected. A reboot fixed that. Adding any other type of controller listed as Logitech whatever did not work. What it wanted was the Generic Gameport driver which is loaded if you add a cutom type of controller. I had my thrustmaster gamports disabled and had resorted back to the SBL!ve gameport which the driver doesnt like at initial load.

funkedup · « **Reply #10 on:** June 21, 2003, 09:46:52 PM »

Are you connecting the wheel with USB? Strange that gameport settings would screw it up.
First thing I do on each new computer is disable all gameports.