Fanaleds plugin for you Fanatec steering wheel

Hi,

I'm the founder of Fanaleds and I wanted to tell you 0.3a is launched (with rFactor 2 support, haha! :p)

- Added rFactor2 support
- Added SimRaceWay support
- Added DiRT support
- Added Race Driver GRID support
- Added F1 2010 support
- Added Richard Burns Rally
 
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Hi Bose321,

thanks for your great work! But unfortunately it doesn´t work very good wit rF2, at least on my system.
-first thing i realized that it makes the game stuttering.
-then one time i´ve lost the FFB during racing and couldn´t get it back via "FFB reset (v-key)"
-another time suddenly the wheel was pulling to the right side all the time.
-when the last two cases happened i couldn´t get out of the game anymore. It keeps hanging at "Leave Track" and i couldn´t even stop the rF2 process via Task Manager. Had to use the Reset Button.

GT3RS V2
FW 742
Driver 129
Win 7x64
rF2 Build 90



Let me know if you need more information.
I will try a few things later or tomorrow, maybe it´s just interferring with my Antivir, MSI Afterburner, Speedfan or something!?

Greets
Digi
 
Digi Lauda said:
Hi Bose321,

thanks for your great work! But unfortunately it doesn´t work very good wit rF2, at least on my system.
-first thing i realized that it makes the game stuttering.
-then one time i´ve lost the FFB during racing and couldn´t get it back via "FFB reset (v-key)"
-another time suddenly the wheel was pulling to the right side all the time.
-when the last two cases happened i couldn´t get out of the game anymore. It keeps hanging at "Leave Track" and i couldn´t even stop the rF2 process via Task Manager. Had to use the Reset Button.

GT3RS V2
FW 742
Driver 129
Win 7x64
rF2 Build 90



Let me know if you need more information.
I will try a few things later or tomorrow, maybe it´s just interferring with my Antivir, MSI Afterburner, Speedfan or something!?

Greets
Digi
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Hi Digi,

Can you verify this is because of Fanaleds? Something like this shouldn't be possible, unless the rFactor 2 plugin system is buggy.

Does your game stutter as in low FPS?

The plugin doesn't do anything with FFB so I can't imagine Fanaleds is causing this. I'd appreciate if you could do some more testing and make sure it is Fanaleds causing it. I've tested for several hours on a CSW and GT3RSV2 without any problems.
 
Thx for your fast answer,

yes i will verify it. Alls i can say for now is that this things didn´t happen before the plugin was installed.
But i´m experienced enough to know that there can be many reasons for such behaviour.
The stuttering thing is a little weird. At the first start with your plugin it was like freezing for a tenth of a second every two seconds. Then i started rF2 with admin rights and got that small freezes every second.
Tried different sync options in the launcher but didn´t change anything. Then tried it again without admin rights for the game and last time i started it, the stuttering was still there but more irregular :confused:
I think next time i will try it with a new player.plr.......



Digi
 
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Did you run it with admins rights and followed the readme?

When you run Fanaleds, do you see the "fanaleds" text on your display? If you don't see this message something is wrong on your end.
Max Attack said:
I ran it and nothing happened?
v0.3
w7-64
CSR-E
RaceOn/evo
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Tried this and found it doesn't seem to work with the Enduro mod in rF1, working great with the TCM mod...Any ideas? Loving seeing my LED's working for a living :)
 
Knight of Redemption said:
Tried this and found it doesn't seem to work with the Enduro mod in rF1, working great with the TCM mod...Any ideas? Loving seeing my LED's working for a living :)
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Hi,

It it possible that his mod does not send out any telemtry. The plugin sends telemetry it gets to your wheel. So I'm afraid there's nothing to do about that, maybe contact the developers of that mod.

While you're running the mod (it's only visible while running the game) that doesn't work, can you look in your rFactor root map (where the rFactor .exe is) for a fanaleds log file. Tell me what it says.
 
Yep no worries...this
Succesfully created shared memory object
Succesfully created shared memory map
Succesfully created event
 
That all seems fine. I'm afraid there's not much I can do about this.
 
Okay, thanks for your attention. It works great in other mods and the guys in my club are enjoying it to. Nice work. :)
 
Hello guys
Thank you Bose321 for your work ,it's working very nicely with every game i tried so far ,very happy to have leds and lcd working on rfactor and rfactor 2!
thank you again
cheers
 
Excellent Bose321, thanks alot!

Its working here with CSR Elite + CSP (on PS2). Did only test the speedgear mode cause thats exactly what i wanted. Flashing gear (indicating the need for upshifting) is great, cause you notice the flashing without looking at the wheel.

Interestingly, although im using firmware 722, its working. (Never did a firmware upgrade)

Ive noticed that fanaled is having 25% CPU utilization here, getting this down would be a nice improvement (shouldnt be that high IMHO). Also noticed some stuttering one time, maybe thats cause of the high CPU utilization?
 
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That indeed is a very high number! Most PC's I ran it on used 0% of CPU usage.

Could you tell me what CPU you're running, and which game you were running?

I would also be interested in reproducing the error and look if for example one core in your CPU is on 100%.

About the firmware, not sure about that - I've had several reports of it not working like it should, but good that it does for you. :)

Was the stutter in your wheel, or the game?
 
My system:
CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 965 @ 3.4GHz
Motherboard: MSI 790FX-GD70
Memory: 8GB DDR3
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
Video: MSI N570GTX Twin Frozr III Power Edition/OC,
Tridef, LG 55LW659S
Audio: ASUS Xonar Essence STX, 5.1 Dolby Digital Live, SPDIF
Wheel: Fanatec CSR Elite + Clubsport Pedals

Ive noticed the stuttering on the graphics. Like freezing, going on, freezing, going on. Happend ~2 sec and everything was ok again.
Using rfactor2 build 90, offline, All tracks & cars, Clio v0.1, Monte Carlo, 10 AI, in race.

I dont see one core on 100%.
 
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Hi,

today i´ve tried a USB 2.0 Port instead my USB 3 PCI-E card. Needed to reinstall the drivers and restart the system (Without the full procedure rF2 was running/stuttering more than horrible)
Now i´m still having very small stuttering, about 2 or 3 times per lap which doesn´t happen when fanaleds.exe is not running. But not a big problem!
I´ve just played rF2 for about an hour and the Wheel did not "crash" anymore. So i´m very happy for now!
I also have the feeling that the FFB on USB 2.0 feels different. Just imagination? I´ve complained about bad and numb overdampened feeling of the new drivers+firmware in the 911wheel blog. But now it seems to be much better on USB 2. Hm, don´t know!
The funny thing is, i bought the USB 3 card 2 years ago because sometimes the wheel lost it´s connection on the normal USB Ports. And all was ok since that time with several games. And now it seems like the USB 3 card can not handle the higher updaterates of the new firmware, the game, fanaleds, all in common or whatever :p

Thx again, Bose321

Maybe one more question. How do you trigger the Breake Padel Rumble on the CSP?
I ask this because i can have:

-locking tyres without rumble
-rumble without locking tyres
-rumble with locking tyres

I´m not having a problem with that, just want to know if there is still something wrong here........
The CSPs are connected to another USB 2 Port not to the Wheel directly!
Greets
Digi
 
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I've tried it in rF2 and though the plugin graphic shows when the game starts, the LED's don't work.

Intel 2.3 quad
W7 64
Nvidia 570
4 gig ddr 2
 
Bose321 said:
Did you run it with admins rights and followed the readme?

When you run Fanaleds, do you see the "fanaleds" text on your display? If you don't see this message something is wrong on your end.
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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.
 
vittorio said:
My system:
CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 965 @ 3.4GHz
Motherboard: MSI 790FX-GD70
Memory: 8GB DDR3
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
Video: MSI N570GTX Twin Frozr III Power Edition/OC,
Tridef, LG 55LW659S
Audio: ASUS Xonar Essence STX, 5.1 Dolby Digital Live, SPDIF
Wheel: Fanatec CSR Elite + Clubsport Pedals

Ive noticed the stuttering on the graphics. Like freezing, going on, freezing, going on. Happend ~2 sec and everything was ok again.
Using rfactor2 build 90, offline, All tracks & cars, Clio v0.1, Monte Carlo, 10 AI, in race.

I dont see one core on 100%.
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Could you show me a screenshot of your taskmanager is the process tab and performance tab?
Digi Lauda said:
Hi,

today i´ve tried a USB 2.0 Port instead my USB 3 PCI-E card. Needed to reinstall the drivers and restart the system (Without the full procedure rF2 was running/stuttering more than horrible)
Now i´m still having very small stuttering, about 2 or 3 times per lap which doesn´t happen when fanaleds.exe is not running. But not a big problem!
I´ve just played rF2 for about an hour and the Wheel did not "crash" anymore. So i´m very happy for now!
I also have the feeling that the FFB on USB 2.0 feels different. Just imagination? I´ve complained about bad and numb overdampened feeling of the new drivers+firmware in the 911wheel blog. But now it seems to be much better on USB 2. Hm, don´t know!
The funny thing is, i bought the USB 3 card 2 years ago because sometimes the wheel lost it´s connection on the normal USB Ports. And all was ok since that time with several games. And now it seems like the USB 3 card can not handle the higher updaterates of the new firmware, the game, fanaleds, all in common or whatever :p

Thx again, Bose321

Maybe one more question. How do you trigger the Breake Padel Rumble on the CSP?
I ask this because i can have:

-locking tyres without rumble
-rumble without locking tyres
-rumble with locking tyres

I´m not having a problem with that, just want to know if there is still something wrong here........
The CSPs are connected to another USB 2 Port not to the Wheel directly!
Greets
Digi
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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.

Knight of Redemption said:
I've tried it in rF2 and though the plugin graphic shows when the game starts, the LED's don't work.

Intel 2.3 quad
W7 64
Nvidia 570
4 gig ddr 2
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Do you see "fanaleds" on your wheel when you start Fanaleds with admin rights?

Max Attack said:
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.
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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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Hi Bose321. No I run fanaleds and nothing on the wheel...Strangely it has stopped working in rF1 as well.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
Max Attack said:
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. :)
 
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.
 
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.
 
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...
 
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. :)
 
That sounds really strange!

I'm glad you figured it out. Don't hesitate asking other questions.
 
Knight of Redemption said:
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.
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Bose321 said:
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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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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