Strange TIR 5/TCP v5 beta 2 behaviour
Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 1:07 am
Everything was working fine previously until I went online last night. From the word go things were fouled up :-
1. Everything was jerky. When I centered TIR my KP8 forward view came up! If I nodded my head very slightly it flicked into 'TIR view'. The same was happening with ALL my FOV's - constantly jumping between my AH keypad views and TIR. TIR had lost complete view control.
2. When I attacked a plane I got unwanted zoom and stuck there.
3. I went offline, reloaded TIR and AH and the problem remained.
I hadn't changed any of the settings since it worked properly. I fly with a 24" 1920 x 1200 monitor with AH FOV set at 110 which has the effect of pushing me back in the cockpit. However, things had worked fine previously at 110.
The feeling I have is that AH will only allow TIR to take full control within certain parameters which have not been fully addressed for widescreen monitors. I should be interested in your view.
Thanks
EDIT :- I think I have discovered the cause of the problem. I had disabled the Z axis. The above problem is consistent when the Z axis is disabled. However, I do not want the Z-axis as it is more of a nuisance than a help to me. It would seem that AH is looking for a Z-axis and throws a wobbler when it cannot find it.
EDIT_2 :- Oh no! Now everything is working fine with Z disabled and AH FOV at 110 just as it was until last night. It would seem that the problem is intermittent - the worst possible scenario. I have changed nothing. I have not unloaded any other programs or rebooted etc etc. The only thing I did do was to exit the 5 software, load the 4 software to see if the problem happened there (it didn't but unless I moved very close to the TIR unit, tracking was terrible), unload the 4 and reload the 5.
EDIT_3 :- Whilst testing the Zoom problem posted by Squash I discovered that turning off x and y (z was already off) caused the exact same problem to recur. Moreover, when I unloaded AH, set TIR back to X and Y on, AH would not reload! I suspect the cause of this problem may well be a memory leak because, after re-booting, everything worked fine.
EVGA nforce 750i SLI mainboard
Intel Core2 Duo E8500 @3.8MHz
4gb DDR2 PC2-6400 Corsair Ram
750W PSU
Nvidia Geforce 9800GTX+ 185.85 drivers
Benq 1920x1200 FP241q monitor
logitech G9 mouse
Logitech G15 keyboard
Windows Vista x64
Thrustmaster Hotas Cougar + uber 2 conversion + Hall sensors
Simped rudder pedals
TrackIR 5 + Trackclip Pro (beta 2 software)
AH settings maxed
1. Everything was jerky. When I centered TIR my KP8 forward view came up! If I nodded my head very slightly it flicked into 'TIR view'. The same was happening with ALL my FOV's - constantly jumping between my AH keypad views and TIR. TIR had lost complete view control.
2. When I attacked a plane I got unwanted zoom and stuck there.
3. I went offline, reloaded TIR and AH and the problem remained.
I hadn't changed any of the settings since it worked properly. I fly with a 24" 1920 x 1200 monitor with AH FOV set at 110 which has the effect of pushing me back in the cockpit. However, things had worked fine previously at 110.
The feeling I have is that AH will only allow TIR to take full control within certain parameters which have not been fully addressed for widescreen monitors. I should be interested in your view.
Thanks
EDIT :- I think I have discovered the cause of the problem. I had disabled the Z axis. The above problem is consistent when the Z axis is disabled. However, I do not want the Z-axis as it is more of a nuisance than a help to me. It would seem that AH is looking for a Z-axis and throws a wobbler when it cannot find it.
EDIT_2 :- Oh no! Now everything is working fine with Z disabled and AH FOV at 110 just as it was until last night. It would seem that the problem is intermittent - the worst possible scenario. I have changed nothing. I have not unloaded any other programs or rebooted etc etc. The only thing I did do was to exit the 5 software, load the 4 software to see if the problem happened there (it didn't but unless I moved very close to the TIR unit, tracking was terrible), unload the 4 and reload the 5.
EDIT_3 :- Whilst testing the Zoom problem posted by Squash I discovered that turning off x and y (z was already off) caused the exact same problem to recur. Moreover, when I unloaded AH, set TIR back to X and Y on, AH would not reload! I suspect the cause of this problem may well be a memory leak because, after re-booting, everything worked fine.
EVGA nforce 750i SLI mainboard
Intel Core2 Duo E8500 @3.8MHz
4gb DDR2 PC2-6400 Corsair Ram
750W PSU
Nvidia Geforce 9800GTX+ 185.85 drivers
Benq 1920x1200 FP241q monitor
logitech G9 mouse
Logitech G15 keyboard
Windows Vista x64
Thrustmaster Hotas Cougar + uber 2 conversion + Hall sensors
Simped rudder pedals
TrackIR 5 + Trackclip Pro (beta 2 software)
AH settings maxed