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| Thread ID: 56822 | 2005-04-16 02:54:00 | Just two little questions | JennyD (7907) | Press F1 |
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| 345500 | 2005-04-16 02:54:00 | Hi :) Two quick questions I'd really appreciate some advice from someone on . Firstly I bought a Logitech wingman force 3d force feedback joystick from PC World today . I've never used one before but, when I'm calibrating it, it's very loose when centring . I have to manually hold it centered as if I let the stick go it hangs down a little or moves off it . There's no rigidity at all in a centred fixed position . Is this normal? I rang logitech support and was told it was`, the stick just flops around though making the initial "x" calibration very difficult . Also I'm using a Dell dimension 8400 with an Ati Radeon PCI express 128mb graphics card . I previously had a bfg geforce 5200 fx oc 256mb graphics card on an old pc but am not sure if it's worth switching my current card to this one, I know both are fairly low end cards but would I see any advantage in taking out my current one and sticking the geforce into its pci slot? Anyway, thanks so much for any help you can give me with these questions :) |
JennyD (7907) | ||
| 345501 | 2005-04-16 03:17:00 | Some joysticks have a switch on the bottom that you can switch to make the joystick "rigid" or not - check to see if you have one of these switches. My logitech joystick is rigid (ie it stays firmly centred when not being used), but it is not the same model as yours. As for the video card - is the Geforce card a PCI Express card? Or is it AGP or standard PCI? If it is not PCI-E then I would suggest that the card you are using would work better for you (I'm not sure that PCI-E motherboards have AGP slots?) Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 345502 | 2005-04-16 09:08:00 | Logitech joysticks are renowned for poor/less than ideal calibration. Have you got the very latest calibration software? Suggest see if there's a later version to download from their website. | Greg (193) | ||
| 345503 | 2005-04-16 09:20:00 | If you have an AGP graphics card, and your motherboard has an AGP slot, then use the AGP card. I see that your original graphics card comes in both AGP and PCI; so I'm not sure which one you have. If the motherboard has PCI-E; then no it won't have an AGP connector (well I have yet to see one that does) as both these ports are intended for graphics only. |
Myth (110) | ||
| 345504 | 2005-04-16 12:33:00 | Thanks so much for your help :) Both cards are pci, an ati radeon pci express x300 128mb and a geforce fx 5200 oc 256mb, should I stick with the radeon or install the geforce? |
JennyD (7907) | ||
| 345505 | 2005-04-16 21:21:00 | Both cards are pci, an ati radeon pci express x300 128mb and a geforce fx 5200 oc 256mb, should I stick with the radeon or install the geforce?From what I understand, PCI-E (PCI Express) is quite different from standard PCI (which I assume your geforce card is), and would be the better pick of the two. That said, the more v-ram in the geforce might make up for the difference... I believe the two models of cards are about equivalent (I could be wrong), so it would be a toss up between PCI-E and more v-ram. I'd probably go with the PCI-E if it were me, but I'm not always a great judge of that sort of thing :) As I understand it, PCI-E seems to be the new replacement for AGP, which replaced standard PCI for video cards a few years ago, so the technology there suggests PCI-E as the newer (and hopefully better) option... I hope this helps :p Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
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