I was rather hoping to see lots of reports of it all working seamlessly by now, with full FFB support and all the bells and whistles. Is it all still a bit hit and miss?
Well, you need 4 parts to get it running. I went for the cheapest way to get these, so the teensy is being sent from the US and the 3 cables are being sent from China. I can't do shit before they arrive and I assume others are in the same boat.
Drive Club is really nice with a wheel. Finally I can play cockpit view. Force feedback is pretty damn good and there is no noticeable input lag.
Where do you guys order parts?
A to-buy list (with links from where to buy, of course) from someone who got it working right would be much appreciated <3
I feel like the guy in the middle now.
edit: Thx desu.
Alright, finally got it to work! Now I just need to build a semi fancy box for the parts.
Matlo helped me in figuring out the issues. My two problems were:
- I had to swap the Rx and Tx pins. Sometimes the CP2102 adapters are mislabeled according to Matlo.
- Install USBDK. Matlo suggests to install it at the end of the GIMX installation (I think this is missing from the tutorials, or maybe I just did not see it).
The installer is located in "Crogram FilesGIMXtoolsusbdk".
Drive Club is really nice with a wheel. Finally I can play cockpit view. Force feedback is pretty damn good and there is no noticeable input lag.
The only way I'd try this is if a detailed guide existed.
Well I have to thank you probably, I suppose my issues will be the same as yours (like the swapped pins). So double thanks .
Yeah I had a issue with swapped pins aswell.
What wheel do you have?
Thanks. No excuse now, really.Assembling the USB adapter: http://gimx.fr/wiki/index.php?title=DIY_USB_adapter_for_dummies
Software installation: http://gimx.fr/wiki/index.php?title=Installation
Quick start: http://gimx.fr/wiki/index.php?title=Quick_Start
Assembling the USB adapter: http://gimx.fr/wiki/index.php?title=DIY_USB_adapter_for_dummies
Software installation: http://gimx.fr/wiki/index.php?title=Installation
Quick start: http://gimx.fr/wiki/index.php?title=Quick_Start
Alright, finally got it to work!
Drive Club is really nice with a wheel. Finally I can play cockpit view. Force feedback is pretty damn good and there is no noticeable input lag.
No problem! Finding the stuff here was easy, seems more difficult in other countries.
G27
can you post your .xml config to pastebin for me? it should be in the c:\users\..\appdata\roaming\gimx folder
Didn't get it working so far, either there is something with my cables or it hates my usb ports. Will try my old XP laptop and my W10 gaming rig now.
Damn, jealous! I'm pretty sure I know what my problem is, too... I soldered the TX/RX/GND pins right off the Atmel chip on the USB dev board, and I think it might not like that somehow (or maybe some of the pins aren't connected properly or something. Basically I could see the GIMX software was sending signals properly via the logs (so when I pushed a button on the G27 shifter, it detected it as the PS button) but the PS4 itself wasn't receiving them. So I reckon that dev board is the problem. I've since ordered the cheapest "Arduino Pro Micro ATmega32U4" board that was local.Alright, finally got it to work! Now I just need to build a semi fancy box for the parts.
Matlo helped me in figuring out the issues. My two problems were:
- I had to swap the Rx and Tx pins. Sometimes the CP2102 adapters are mislabeled according to Matlo.
- Install USBDK. Matlo suggests to install it at the end of the GIMX installation (I think this is missing from the tutorials, or maybe I just did not see it).
The installer is located in "Crogram FilesGIMXtoolsusbdk".
Drive Club is really nice with a wheel. Finally I can play cockpit view. Force feedback is pretty damn good and there is no noticeable input lag.
So Windom Earle and Fried Food which OS (32bit/64 bit are you using?)
It seems I am affected by this bug:
https://github.com/matlo/GIMX/issues/345
https://github.com/daynix/UsbDk/issues/7
I got this with 8.1 x64 and w10 x64.
So, having replaced what I suspect all the faulty parts will be, the grand total for what I've spent will come to about $25AUD shipped. ~$14AU for the dev board, $10AU for the serial converter and a few dollars from a B&M store for the wiring (and using USB cables from around the house). I have a USB hub too that I'm planning on using, maybe I can gut part of it to squeeze the adapter in there, keep it as compact as possible.
So Windom Earle and Fried Food which OS (32bit/64 bit are you using?)
It seems I am affected by this bug:
https://github.com/matlo/GIMX/issues/345
https://github.com/daynix/UsbDk/issues/7
I got this with 8.1 x64 and w10 x64.
Oh man, I guarantee you the solderless option is far easier and more likely to work. I should've just shelled out the extra $14 than wonder if my existing solution would work. At $30AU all up to be (relatively) guaranteed it'll work, I don't care.I hope you'll get the parts soon and things will work out! I can't really do any soldering here, so I just went for the noob solution. :/
One weird thing is that I couldn't get GIMX to work on Windows 10 (at least not straight away). I don't know why exactly but when I tried it on Ubuntu it worked straight away with absolutely no issues. I'll try it on a raspberry pi tomorrow.
What kind of error did you get ?
No G25 configuration? Why?
edit: Also to the people that have it working, is the DS4 behaving just as it normally would? Even my DS4 controls are totally messed up which I did not expect.
anyone got this working with a cronusmax adapter?
i guess i would have to build a completely new profile without the ds4 pad :-/
I believe the Cronusmax version doesn't let you use a wheel with FFB, just emulate a DS4 pad with a 360 pad or something.anyone got this working with a cronusmax adapter?
i guess i would have to build a completely new profile without the ds4 pad :-/
I don't think this was the issue I had, but I might try it again. I still think my issue was regarding the PS4 itself detecting the Maximus, not with the PC not doing anything.edit: possibly relevant to people that might struggle with the same problem I had (libusb_transfer failed with status LIBUSB_TRANSFER_ERROR on 8.1/10 x64).
A new version of usbdk has been released that mostly seems to fix this issue https://github.com/daynix/UsbDk/releases/tag/v1.00-7
Hi everyone.
I'm edu27ov from youtube channel.
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I just got my last needed part today, want to test it tonight but I think I'm staying at my girlfriend's tonight. If not, I'll post in here FWIW I'm using the cheapest method from scratch, using a "Pro Micro" Chinese board and an FT232RL.Thanks for your impressions, edu.
I have 3 of the 4 parts now, just need the male to female USB cable to arrive before I can try this out.
I believe it should... it's a firmware thing within the wheel itself and not on the console/PC end. How that setting interacts with whatever config is chosen on said PC/console though is anyone's guess.Just ordered the stuff, all the bits should be here in a day or two.
Does the G27's two red button wheel ratio selector still work?