Hi all! I have been having a heck of a time getting a wheel to work with these old games from the 90's. I have been following ACRacing's N2 series and has me wanting to play. I have installed n3 and NLegends from my actual cd's on my PCem. Problem is getting a wheel to work with this virtual machine. I have ended up digging out my 20 yr old Driving Force Pro and installed Directx 9c and the Logitech drivers in Windows 98 SE on this virtual machine but it seems there is no USB ports and therefore the wheel is not detected.
I would really like to play all these old sims without driving on a keyboard. Help would be immensely appreciated!
You should be able to run both N3 and NLegends from Win 10. Get nGlide and they should run fine.
(01-09-2024, 09:57 AM)Arenacale Wrote: [ -> ]You should be able to run both N3 and NLegends from Win 10. Get nGlide and they should run fine.
I'll look into that, thanks! Is there any way to get modern wheels to work with those 2?
I would still like to play N2/n99 and I know that would require me to use this PCem so my original problem would still require a solution.
You don't need PC emulator to run this old games. Main problem is to get wheel to work with them. Even if system will recognize wheel then there is chance of some lag from controller input.
As was mentioned above N3 and NL should run on Win10 and Win11. Only problem could be your video drivers and in-game direct3d mode. Even if you will be able to run game than gauges in cockpit view will not be working. So better and easy fix is to run games in 3dfx mode using nGlide wrapper. It's pretty easy to install and cofigure.
For N2/N99 you also don't need PC emulator for the same reasons. N99 widows executable should work in Win10/Win11. And N99 windows 3dfx executable can be run with same nGlide wrapper or dgVoodoo wrapper. N2 and N99 dos executables can be run through DosBox. DosBox should recognize all modern wheels. You can use GPlaps tutorial on how to run ICR2 through DosBox as a guide. Only starting command need to be replaced, 'nascar2.exe' instead of 'indycar.exe -h'.
Thanks Pavel for your reply. My issue with Dosbox is that I can use my Thrustmaster T300 wheel as joystick 1 but my SimGrade pedals never get picked up in game as joystick 2. So I have no throttle/brake.
Strange. DosBox can emulate two 2-axis joysticks. So first joystick should be T300 and second may be used by pedals. But it looks like your pedals are using some additional axis that are not recognized by DosBox.
I have similar problem with GP500 game. So for it I'm using virtual joystick tool. There I created simple 2-axis joystick that is recognized by the game, and I mapped axis from my pedals to this virtual axis.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/vjoystick/ - vjoy tool
https://github.com/evilC/AHK-Universal-J...k-Remapper - mapper that I'm using