Anyone have this happen w/SVid ActLabs Gun?

[daveg2000]

Just recently aquired a TV-ActLabs light gun
and am using the s-video adapter on it.

I hooked up the USB, and the SVideo jack (right onto the video
card as a pass-thru)
Fired up WindowsXP...

The gun was recognized, then I went into the calibration
screen and went from side-to-side like what should be done.

When I went back to my desktop and tried to
'shoot' my cursor around the screen, I found that the
mouse will NOT go below a certain point in the screen.
(Maybe 1/3 of the way up from the bottom)

I've rebooted, recalibrated the crud out of it, and keep running into
this issue, where every 'shot' I take WILL flash the screen,
but if I am somewhere in the bottom 1/3 of the screen, the cursor
just goes down to a certain point and wont go down any more.

Any ideas?  (Moving horizontally works great... just the vertical is off)

 

[Xiaou2]

 Your Tv is incompatible.   

 So is mine   

  Options:
 
 - Return it
 - Sell it
 - Try another tv brand/model

[daveg2000]

 Your Tv is incompatible.

[daveg2000]

I calibrated the gun again this morning, but
when I did the UP DOWN LEFT RIGHT thing for
calibration, I didnt go all the way to the bottom of the screen.
I stopped with maybe two or more inches from the bottom
of the screen.

I was able to shoot the cursor on the bottom part of the screen
now, but the accuracy was WAY off, probably since I never
hit the edge of the screen during calibrating...

This isnt a solution.. but was an interesting find...

[Xiaou2]

 Sorry Daveg2000,

     I never  joke arround about controls.   I had the same problem  and called
actlabs.   They told me that some brands and models of tvs are incompatible...
and mine was one of them.   

  I also tried the trick you posted long ago.

  Heres my thoughts...

  Some tvs use special updating tricks to appear to have a higher quality picture...
Basically,  interlacing technology.   I may be wrong... as Im no tv expert.

  If there was interlacing.. it may be like adding 300 lines to be drawn... and when the gun tries to count them (or is timing the count)   Its failing cause theres too many lines.    Thus, if you calibrate it with half the screen... it kinda works... but you can see that it then makes other isssues with horizontal timings.

  The sad thing is... this Tv was the clearest picture I had ever seen on a tube type
set - not counting the flat tube ones that I couldnt afford at that time.   
 panasonic ct 27 d11e.   Though they did say some of the other models did work!
: (

 Ahh well... heres hopeing that a better gun set will arrive someday.