Camera position snaps to the side?

[Whateverman]

Hi folks,

Just bought G2 during the Steam CodeMasters weekend. Loved G1, and with G2 being so cheap, i couldn't resist.

When the game starts at the "throwaway" race in the beginning, it defaults me to keyboard controls (WASD, etc) and the camera in Chase mode. Keyboard driving sucks, so I change the config to use my Sidewinder.

As soon as I do this, the camera angle refuses to stay in Chase, and snaps me to looking slightly left forward from the right side of the car. If I change the camera to bonnet, it's still angled to the left, rather than keeping the view straight down the center of the hood.

I've got two monitors, and there different sizes. Even if I disable (in Win7) the one I don't want the game to use, the camera still snaps to looking left.

At this point, I think I need to edit the XML/config files, but having looked through them, I can't find anything. I was expecting that the game thinks I'm still using two monitors somehow, even though the resolution is set to one (ie. 1280 x 1048).

Any hints? I can't find anything about this online so far.

Thanks in advance.

[the_MUKe]

Can confirm this bug (also Win7 in my case). I am using only a single monitor.

[Whateverman]

A quick follow-up:

Once I resubmitted my controller preferences and exited the game normally (rather than closing it with Task manager or closing the Window it was in), I came back in, and the camera issue was fixed. I'm now able to change the camera between chase and bonnet without problem.

I don't entirely understand the problem, but my guess is this: if you're trying to use a joystick in Win7, enter the game, find a way to change the controller settings, and then finish whatever race you're forced to play. Maybe once the settings have been established and saved (without closing the game abnomally), restarting things fixes the camera angle crap.

In any case, I'm now playing the game (and suck at it - damn I need a better controller) without issue!

Thx the_MUKe...

- Whateverman

[Whateverman]

Another follow-up:

The problem came back. I don't think it's solved, but I've been able to play the game a few times without having trouble.

For the most part, I was saving my joystick configuration in the "Direct Input Device" preset, and it seemed that every time I did this, the camera problem would occur. Since then I've found saving the config in the first default keyboard layout causes less trouble.

Additionally, I know a few other people have talked about this, but the configuration is lost every time I close the game. I believe this has to do with app not having permission to either create or write to the XML configuration files on the local machine. Yes: every time I want to play, I have to set it up again.

So, in short, I'm still having trouble, but it seems manageable. One of these days I'm gonna buy a frikkin driving wheel...