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boodroe:
I ordered an optipac and it was defective. It would pause before hitting the trackball and it made trackball games almost impossible. It even lagged when you would hit a mouse button, it would respond to the mouse click about 3 seconds after you hit the button. I got rid of the optipac and use the ps2 port now for my trackball, works great.

Santoro:
No issues on 2 cabs. Email Andy.

erictrumpet:
Thanks for the suggestions guys, I will try different connections, and also email Andy (probably should've done that first anyway!)

Eric.

walls83:
Andy will take care of you.  Hes great at helping out.

telengard:

--- Quote from: erictrumpet on January 28, 2006, 10:53:35 am ---Hi guys, I have an issue with the OptiPac and it seems like such a horribly glaring design flaw that I am thinking I might be missing something. Please let me know if I am misusing or have possibly misconfigured my OptiPac...

The way the optical input goes to sleep if not touched for a few seconds is deadly in gameplay. For example, I was playing Wheel of Fortune last night. The spinner acts like spinning the big wheel. The problem is, you often take a few seconds to think about your next move in this game (Should I guess "S" or "R"? Hmmm...), during which time the the spinner GOES TO SLEEP! Then the game is waiting for you to spin, while the turn countdown expires, and you lose your turn... all while you are frantically spinning the spinner, waiting for it to wake the hell back up. It totally sucks. This happens in other games as well, all the time. For instance, playing a game of Tempest? Phone rings? Hit pause. Take the call. Come back to your game. unpause, and... SUPRISE, THE SPINNER'S DEAD! OOPS, SO ARE YOU! GAME OVER! (Solution: spin spinner and count to ten... then unpause. Gimme a break!!!) What gives?

I am thinking of ditching this thing and just connecting my individual optical devices to USB directly. Am I missing something that would make the OptiPac less utterly infuriating to use? Can I configure the "sleep" time for the devices to be like 10 seconds, or 30 seconds, or whatever? Can I completely disable this "feature"? Why do I want the OptiPac at all, if I only use one spinner and one trackball?

Thanks,
Eric.


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I haven't seen this myself, but I find the OptiPac has some sort of short lag.  To me it's very noticable.  Andy was very nice in trying to help me figure it out.  We tried serial/usb, upgraded chips.  I was never able to nail it down.  Definitely email him though, he is very very helpful with issues that come up.

~telengard

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