2.0 Driver issues

[honda346]

Some thoughts:

1. Installed fine. Sees everything and is tracking my mouse in windows.

2. Problem with the TrackIR window being too small to show the whole thing... It is cutting off all of the options on the right hand side as well as the bottom. I think there is a problem with a screen resolution of 1280x1024 (my current setting)

3. Currently I get a lot of "drift" from the mouse cursor even when I'm not moving my head. Without being able to select any of the options in the application above I can't test changing any settings.

System information:
Windows XP
DirectX 9
ATI Radeon 9500 Pro Catalyst 3.1 drivers
512M PC 2700 memory
Athlon XP 2100+

[honda346]

I should have mentioned I can't resize the window for the application either as it won't give me access to any of the edges nor the other sizing controls.

[Halstead York]

Honda-

Try setting your text size to normal, and see of that helps.

Do it in START:Control Panels:Display

Choose the Appearance tab and select Normal in the Font size pulldown.

[ February 19, 2003, 12:45 PM: Message edited by: Halstead York ]

[honda346]

That worked for the window problem! Thanks.

Next couple questions/thoughts (hope you folks like feedback!):

1. The profile screen is a little bit confusing. I've read the pdf doc and I think I understand it pretty well but... the window isn't intuitive enough to tell you the only profiles you are dealing with editing/loading/saving are the "left side of the screen, non enhanced" ones. The pdf doc explains that the enhanced features are automatically loaded for those games but this screen makes you think you are loading both a profile from the left and an enhanced one from the right. Which begs the question "how do I edit my enhanced profiles and save those changes?" If I want a "dead band" enhanced profile to load with IL2 FB how do I get that profile auto-loaded when IL2 FB runs? I assumed the trackIR feature tweaking would happen in the game itself but I don't think that is the case since the Motion screen lets me edit profiles there for "enhanced" usage. Writting this sounds more confusing than I really am but I hope you get the idea...
In summary, I look at a profile as just a collection of information about settings that may or may not be enhanced types of settings, and that profile has a user defined name that I can save and load when the game runs right? If so I don't get why we have the list of games on the right side of the profile screen...

2. When I load a profile I saved using Mouse Emulation it changes the current mode to enhanced mode. I then have to hit the F8 twice to get it into Mouse Emulation mode.

[honda346]

After spending some more time with it I have the profile loading figured out... although I'm not sure how you are going to load the profile automatically if they change the launch executable on FB or another game that comes out...

I'm still having trouble with the enhanced mode vs. mouse mode loading correctly when a profile is loaded. The F8 quick key works of course but the profile example I followed in the pdf doc doesn't change it to enhanced mode which is what it was saved under.

[Guest]

hi
i downloaded trackir software 2.0
it is good but i can't find START IN STARTUP AND RUN MINIMIZE

it is working well

[Charlie251]

Hey Carlo. Neither of these are in the TIR software. Here is what you do....

1. For launch on startup, make a short cut to the TIR executable (just go on your desktop and copy / paste the icon already there) and then drag that into your start menu under PROGRAMS / STARTUP. That will have windows automatically start the TIR software on boot up.

2. You can not "run minimized" but you can have it minimize to the tray. I beleive the button is on the first page.

Having it run minimized is a good idea though. Post it in the FEATURE REQUESTS forum and see what NP thinks. I think they could easily do this and it would be kinda cool.

Hope this helps.