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RS Shifter Legacy Utility V 0.1
contact: julien.lardy@polymtl.ca
Web Site: http://www.geocities.com/jul654321/
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Excuse me for my English........ I am French ...
 
ABOUT:
This enables the use of the RS Shifter in games that
don't support it directly.
It will only work with the Act-Labs Wheel and Shifter.
 
HOW IT WORKS:
It takes the input from the shifter and converts them into 
successive Shift Up/Down command
 
USAGE:
Just launch the program (RSutil.exe) with the shifter in the NEUTRAL position.
Launch your game, and configure the ShiftUp/Down command to be the PageUp/Down keys.
If the car crashes or the game resets, put the shifter in neutral, push the Button 
11 on the dash (up-left button) to reset the application and go back in neutral in the game.
(You have do do it after each race too)
You now have the option to limit the maximum gear you can access (set it to 5 for GPL for instance)
You can also select the reverse position (select Nascar for GPL...)
 
SHIFT.INI:
The support is processor speed-dependent, it works for me.
I have a 500MHz P3 processor.
You will need to change the two variables in the shift.ini file
to make it work with another computer. 
The first is the wait interval between the KeyUp/KeyDown commands
(default:1500)
The second is the wait interval between the repetitive ShiftUp/ShiftDown commands
(default:2500)
 
To set the first variable:
First try it like this... maybe it will work!
If the game misses the shifts sometimes, or doesn't shift at all try this:
 -If your computer is faster try to add 250 for each 100Hz after 500.
 -If your computer is slower try to subtract 250 for each 100Hz under 500.
I haven't tested it on a different computer so I don't know wether it will work...
The second variable should be 2x the first one, but I am not sure.
You may have to try a lot of times to get the perfect settings...
 
RECOMMENDED SETINGS:
-for NFS5: 1500,2500
-for GPL 1500,15000


RECOMMENDATIONS:
-Put your wheel in joystick ID 1.
-if the game misses one of the shift, press the page Up/Down key to go back in the good gear.
 
BUGS:
The bigest problem is the synchronisation with the game.
-It still misses some shift.. (something likes 5% of the shift)
-It still has some trouble with the great shift gap (like going from 6th to Reverse: 7 shift down)
-It may not work at all on some computer... sorry :(
 
And please, e-mail me if it works for you...