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I was going to say that the Montego card has a digital gameport and this operates thru
direct input. But from what you say about it being disabled, and by the sounds of it your
plugged into a gamecard, not possible. That gamecard isn't digi is it?

Dave Mack wrote:
> 
> "Michael E. Carver" mcarver@teleport.com wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, 12 Oct 1998 15:55:54 GMT Dave Mack <nospamfor_dmack@ultranet.com> wrote:
> >% I've never had CPR on my system, and I've seen similar framerate
> >% differences between the DirectInput and Generic driver selections.
> >% With DirectInput, I'll see 36fps in Training Mode, but only 17fps, in
> >% the same portion of a track, with the Generic driver selected.
> >
> >% It's not a big deal to me, as I'm having no problems using the
> >% DirectInput driver, but I'm just curious why this is occurring.
> >
> >% My system is:
> >% PII 300 (Dell Dimension XPS D300)
> >% 64MB RAM
> >% TB Montego
> >% (2) Orchid R3D-II 12MB in SLI
> >% Matrox Millennium II AGP
> >% CH GameCard3
> >% DX 5.2
> >% TSW with throttle/brake on separate axes
> >
> >I wonder if you actually have the game port on your soundcard disabled
> >totally.  Win95/8 might think it isn't being used, but "generic" may
> >actually be trying to poll both devices.  Just a shot in the dark...
> 
> Well, I have no idea how the polling might work.  Here's some more
> info:
> 
> Win95 Device Manager has the TBS Montego Gameport Interface "X'd out",
> says it is Disabled, and is not using any Resources.  Device Manager
> also says the Gameport Joystick (its name for the CH GameCard 3) is
> "working properly" and its Resource Settings are an Input/Output range
> of 0201-0201, with no conflicts.  So, it appears that the Montego
> gameport is not part of this loop, unless I'd need to Remove it from
> Device Manager.  But then, Device Manager will probably just reinstall
> it next time I reboot.
> 
> I don't recall seeing any posts about these two drivers before, so I'm
> wondering if anyone else has had similar framerate differences as
> mentioned above, or not.
> ============================
> Dave Mack
> nospamfor_dmack@ultranet.com
> 
> (remove "nospamfor_" for correspondence)

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