Problem with red dots in tracking window
Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2006 6:19 pm
Hello there, I really love TrackIR and I have been using TrackIR3 Pro with Vector Expansion for quite some time now. However I recently noticed a problem that seems to be growing bigger and bigger. The view starts to jump and sometimes just cuts off in games ( LockOn, FS9, FSX, IL-2 ). I already tried many tweaks posted in this forum but none of them seems to work. I noticed some red dots in my tracking Window which only appear when using the Vector Expansion. I am not using the standard TrackIR hat so that shouldn't cause the problem. I also do not think that those red dots have been there before. They always show up when moving the head to the right or left side.
The Problem with the loss of track and the red dots only seem to appear with Vector Expansion.
Red dots on the left reflector, when moving the head slightly to the left side:
[image]http://tattinet.ath.cx/IR/trackir01.JPG[/image]
Red dots on the right reflector, when moving the head to the right side (might be hard to see, since the screenshot is cropped):
[image]http://tattinet.ath.cx/IR/trackir02.JPG[/image]
Here you can see that tracking cuts off, when moving the head to the left side ("no data" is shown in the main window), however the ingame view isn't completely to the left, at all:
[image]http://tattinet.ath.cx/IR/trackirmax02.JPG[/image]
Same head movement, but this time the flight profile is loaded:
[image]http://tattinet.ath.cx/IR/trackirmax03.JPG[/image]
I have tried a lot to fix this problem. But I haven't found any solution and this really starts to drive me nuts, because it spoils the TrackIR Vector Experience completely.
Despite the loss of tracking when looking left or right, I discovered that moving the whole head to the opposite side helps keeping the Trackir tracking the yaw movement. That means, if I want to look left TrackIR will not track but if I move my whole head right at the same time it most of the time keeps tracking. However doing that is not an option to me, since it is totally unnatural and annoying plus it only works 6 out of 10 times. I hope there are some people out there, who can help me solving this issue.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
With best regards,
Tatti
The Problem with the loss of track and the red dots only seem to appear with Vector Expansion.
Red dots on the left reflector, when moving the head slightly to the left side:
[image]http://tattinet.ath.cx/IR/trackir01.JPG[/image]
Red dots on the right reflector, when moving the head to the right side (might be hard to see, since the screenshot is cropped):
[image]http://tattinet.ath.cx/IR/trackir02.JPG[/image]
Here you can see that tracking cuts off, when moving the head to the left side ("no data" is shown in the main window), however the ingame view isn't completely to the left, at all:
[image]http://tattinet.ath.cx/IR/trackirmax02.JPG[/image]
Same head movement, but this time the flight profile is loaded:
[image]http://tattinet.ath.cx/IR/trackirmax03.JPG[/image]
I have tried a lot to fix this problem. But I haven't found any solution and this really starts to drive me nuts, because it spoils the TrackIR Vector Experience completely.
Despite the loss of tracking when looking left or right, I discovered that moving the whole head to the opposite side helps keeping the Trackir tracking the yaw movement. That means, if I want to look left TrackIR will not track but if I move my whole head right at the same time it most of the time keeps tracking. However doing that is not an option to me, since it is totally unnatural and annoying plus it only works 6 out of 10 times. I hope there are some people out there, who can help me solving this issue.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
With best regards,
Tatti