![]() ![]() Note that the adapter is pre-configured with the shifter firmware: Open up the properties dialogue and you’ll most likely see this dialogue. Open Windows Game Controllers and you should see it installed: When you connect the USB adapter, you have to install the driver for the device you’re converting to USB (if there’s a Fanatec driver already installed your PC will detect the device). ![]() It’s a tiny little circuit board with one of these chips. I was curious about this, so I took the lid off: Inside Fanatec’s USB adapter What does the USB adapter look like inside? To make it worthwhile I thought I’d try and squeeze a blog post out of it, too. I buckled and paid the £20 delivery fee for a £20 item. But it is present in order to soak-up the differences in the values output by the shifter. Often the calibration is near enough and it will work without the special driver. What it does internally is look at the values from the X and Y pots in the shifter, and then makes a decision which game port button to simulate based on the nearest gear it can deduce. Luckily the firmware out of the box is for the shifter. Secondly, there are two different firmwares one for the shifter and the other for the handbrake. Firstly, you have to install the Fanatec driver, otherwise you cannot calibrate it. The thing is it is not a normal game adapter. But there’s no other way to convert your Fanatec shifter to USB without this adapter. ![]() Unfortunately, the adapter is expensive (and delivery is extremely pricey too). If you’ve been dependent on your Fanatec wheelbase for game controller compatibility between your PC and Fanatec shifters, handbrake or pedals, it can come as quite a surprise to learn that upon migrating to a non-Fanatec wheelbase, the only way to maintain compatibility is to buy the Fanatec USB adapter.īasically, if you migrate to a non-Fanatec wheelbase you’ll be in need of a way to convert the RJ45 connector to USB. ![]()
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