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Hotrod (or other controls) going tits-up?
Stein:
hmm... my hotrod has worked flawlessly on my computer for well over a year, suddenly it seems like it's going haywire, the hotrod test utility no longer works and some of the hotrods keystrokes are doubled up or even tripled or worse when pressing only one button once.
Funny how it exactly coincided with the latest installation of DirectX 9a.... I can't belive it's DXs fault, seems unprobable.
But I've torn my hair out for 2 days now trying to fix the problem with no luck...
Has anyone had a similiar experience? Or even if you have a Hotrod and the new DX and 'know' this isn't the case, that would be helpful too :)
Stein
Minwah:
Not sure why the test program has stopped working (I never really used it).
But getting 2 or 3 (or even more) keystrokes when hitting a button/stick direction once is common, or even normal. My HotRod has always done it, and I believe this is just the way they are. I even programmed a part into my FE to try and combat 'double-jumping' when moving through the game list.
I believe this 'problem' is just a characteristic of the keyboard encoder used. It doesn't have any bad effects when playing games in my experience.
I don't think DX would affect the HotRod...
J_K_M_A_N:
I don't have a hotrod but when my cp was giving 2-3 keypresses per press I found out after much testing that the cherry switches were wearing out. I put new ones in and everything works great again. Don't know if this is the problem for you and I know it doesn't have anything to do with the programming but it might help the multiple key presses. Good luck.
J_K_M_A_N
Stein:
thanks guys, Minwah, I know for sure that the hotrod is NOT supposed to work like this, I've never seen the problem before and I've used my hotrod LOTS.
JK that's funny, I thought the same thing... it sure seems like the cherry switches are wearing out, I pulled about a half dozen and swapped places and opened them up and checked out the insides... they seem perfect, and still brand new. In fact I switched buttons that weren't working right (switches and all) with my trackball controler, the 'bad' switches work fine in the trackball and the old TB switches give me the same problem in the Hotrod :'(
Distortion:
aren't cherry switches supposed to last a REALLY long time?