Question Hama Thunder V5 180 degree wheel does only 90 degree of he full resolution

[Deyan Dobromirov]

Hello,

I installed the drivers from Hama, on Windows 7 but there is no option to enable the full resolution of the steering wheel. I cannot even see the wheel in the device manager. After I calibrate it, sends a byte of information to the PC as when centered let's say it is at 0 degrees. The PC receives 0 for -45 degrees and 255 for +45 degrees. The rest is a dead zone and no higher or lower value is received after calibration.

Does anyone knows how can I extend the resolution from 90 degree turn to 180?

 

[MadsModsat]

Usually the rotation angle of steering wheels for gaming is the the rotation angle from full left position to full right position - not the steering angle from center position to left or right.

So if your wheel rotates 90 degress left and right, that is 180 degrees rotation.

From what I can see in reviews of the wheel, you only get 90 degrees rotation to each side, resulting in 180 degrees rotation mentioned in the product specs.

 

[Deyan Dobromirov]

@MadsModsat Maybe I did not say it right. It is advertised to get -90 to +90 degree rotation resulting in full 180 degree rotation, but when rotated the minimum and maximum values received are at -45 and +45 degrees instead of -90 to +90 degrees resulting in saturation ( in the [-45;-90] and [+45;+90] degree range ). I am aiming to remove the saturation and to have the minimum value at -90 degrees and maximum value at +90 degrees.

 

[MadsModsat]

@MadsModsat Maybe I did not say it right. It is advertised to get -90 to +90 degree rotation resulting in full 180 degree rotation, but when rotated the minimum and maximum values received are at -45 and +45 degrees instead of -90 to +90 degrees resulting in saturation ( in the [-45;-90] and [+45;+90] degree range ). I am aiming to remove the saturation and to have the minimum value at -90 degrees and maximum value at +90 degrees.

I apologize, I misread your post. Now that I look again, I see what you mean. I'm sorry for the confusion, I should have read it more carefully.

 

[Deyan Dobromirov]

@MadsModsat No probs.. Anyways.. It appears to be very weird problem. Looks like a driver issue of some sort. Tried adjusting the end saturation using vJoy with UCR but it is not working as it does not detect the 0-512 value range. I bet I need a custom driver or somebody actually opened the thing to really see that the potensimeter covers the whole 180 degree area instead half of it dunno. Must have like 0 to 511 instead of 0 to 255 to my observation, but I doubt that is the case here.. What do you think ...

 

[Deyan Dobromirov]

I am currently running it on USB 3.0, but it gives the same issue in USB 2.0