Fanaleds plugin for you Fanatec steering wheel

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  1. Max Attack

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    When I run under Race/07/evo I see nothing but works perfect with rf2.
    It did crash my rf2 when exiting a track. Also my Race Evo crashed a few times even though I didn't see Fanaleds run my LEDS.

    I love It.
     
  2. Bose321

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    Could you show me a screenshot of your taskmanager is the process tab and performance tab?
    Good to hear it's better now on the USB 2.0 port.

    We are working on the weird FFB. Fanaleds currently refreshes the screen at 200Hz which might be too high for the wheel its CPU to handle. Did you already try firmware 745?

    The current detection to rumble the brake pedal is far from good right now. This is on our list of things to improve, so hopefully for 0.4 or 0.3b or something this will be fixed.

    Do you see "fanaleds" on your wheel when you start Fanaleds with admin rights?

    Did you apply the settings you need in order to make Race work? You have to edit you .ply .plr (don't know from the top of my head) file and put shared memory on '1'.
     
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  3. Knight of Redemption

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    Hi Bose321. No I run fanaleds and nothing on the wheel...Strangely it has stopped working in rF1 as well.
     
  4. Bose321

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    If you don't see the text on your wheel when you run Fanaleds something is wrong on your end. Did you run it with administration rights?

    Could you tell me what the black screen has to say?

    And to everyone: we will need beta testers soon to make sure the next release is alot more stable for everyone. Please contact me if you think you can help us out.
     
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    The black box says the usual, and detects the program starting...I'll try a reboot as I just put the comp into sleep mode last night and see if that wakes it up.
     
  6. Max Attack

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    Hi Bose. I did check the user PLR file in Race07 and it was already checked with a 1.
    I ran it from the desktop, ran it from the game folder and it made no diff.
    I found that under rf2 (win7/64) it didn't matter whether it was double clicked to start it or if it was right clicked and started with Admin rights, it worked both ways. It didn't matter where the files where either, it just worked.

    One thing I did find that might not of been explained fully was, To get it going on a CSR-E, you have to press the small button next to the LCD display to get it going. So you will not see any Fanaleds excelence if you can see any of the wheels setup modes on the LCD screen.

    I will put my hand up as a tester if you like.
     
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    Does the black console say it detects the game? If so, and rFactor 2 does work, but Race doesn't I'll have to look into it.

    It shouldn't matter where you run Fanaleds.

    About instructions for the CSR-E, I'm not sure if that's right. You shouldn't need to be doing that I believe, but thanks for pointing it out.

    I'll contact you soon about testing. :)
     
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    Okay rebooted and the situation is the same, not working in any game,
    Dos box contains
    Current Mode:
    Current system:
    Waiting for game to start
    Plugin is operational, press any key to exit...

    Log file
    Succesfully created shared memory object
    Succesfully created shared memory map
    Succesfully created event

    This was an rF1 Mod that it worked in when I first tried it...but now nothing.
     
  9. Bose321

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    Doesn't it say anything behind the mode and system? If it doesn't it may be your fanaleds.xml file that's missing or something.

    When you start Fanaleds you don't see anything on your screen right? If that's the case something else is wrong I think.
     
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    No everything is as I typed it and the xml file is still in the folder I unzipped the files to. It is strange I have changed nothing from it working to it not...
     
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    Okay I had created a shortcut to the fanleds exe on my desktop, I deleted that and used the one in the folder and everything works, including rF2 and the Enduro mod in rF1...don't know why that should be, but there you are. :)
     
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    That sounds really strange!

    I'm glad you figured it out. Don't hesitate asking other questions.
     
  13. Max Attack

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    One thing I found is i had a to download a few times because i kept getting an incomplete download (.3 more than .3a). I found this when i went to unrar using 7zip, it told me a few times the exe. was broken & I also noticed the file size was not the same as reported on the download page. This could be a problem my end or at the other end ;). Anyone else had this happen? Or is it just me.
     
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    No trouble my end with download.
     
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    Ok, see attached images.
     
  17. Bose321

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    Thanks for that. I'll look into it.
     
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    You were right. After setting fanaled to use core 3 only, its at 100%.
     
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    Is this 0.3a or the version I sent you? (check your mail).
     
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    the screens are using 0.3a
     

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