IE 8 Virtual Earth SN issues

John305 · Post by **John305** » Mon Apr 13, 2009 8:04 am

Hi,

I have been using SN PE both in Google Earth and Virtual Earth for a number of months succesfull.
Recently I switched to IE 8. SN is still working in Google Earth.
But in Virtual Earth the movements are not what they used to be. There is also a difference to the movements in the 3dconnexion panel and what they are in reality.
In the panel they are ok. But when using SN what should be altitude becomes Spin.
Systems Windows Vista Home Premium.
Any one having same behavior and better any solutions?

Regards,

John

Fred · Post by **Fred** » Mon Apr 13, 2009 10:33 am

Virtual Earth is a natively supported application.
Check in the options and see if they added the ability to swap the directions.
If so this would cause the device to be reversed.
Also you could try swapping the axis in the 3d control panel and see if it switches direction or stays the same.
If it stays the same you may have to contact Microsoft and ask then where the Axis swap is located in the program.

thpope · Post by **thpope** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 11:22 am

This has to do with the recent update with Virtual Earth (Beta). I'm having the same issues with IE6 and Firefox. It worked great until I updated. Changing settings in the control panel didn't help.

Microsoft must have broken something with their last update.

Fred · Post by **Fred** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 11:26 am

Contact them and let them know of the current issue so they can implement a fix.

John305 · Post by **John305** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 12:28 pm

Fred,

There is also a difference in the versions of Virtual Earth. If I use Virtual earth in my region (Europe) I have a interface in IE which no options / menu. If I switch to location USA (did not check other locations) I have more menu buttons, including options. But in these options I can not reverse the Axis or make other major adjustments.

Thanks,

John

thpope · Post by **thpope** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 6:49 am

Fred wrote:Contact them and let them know of the current issue so they can implement a fix.

I tried. I spent 30 minutes trying to find some place to report the problem, but I don't think there is one. I did post it somewhere but I'm not confident it will reach the right people.

thpope · Post by **thpope** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 6:50 am

I got a response!

Hi Thomas,
We're aware of the issue. We're working to push out a patch ASAP.

jou_yun · Post by **jou_yun** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 7:34 pm

Any further word on this? I just updated VE as well unfortunately.

thpope · Post by **thpope** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 10:27 pm

Unfortunately, no.

thpope · Post by **thpope** » Thu Jun 04, 2009 8:09 am

I'm ready to tell them to "Bing off."

Nothing has changed.

Post by **rstadie** » Fri Jun 05, 2009 2:08 am

Hi,

As a workaround you can adjust the mapping to work as expected in VirtualEarth (until it gets fixed by Microsoft).

First make sure there is a custom configuration for VE, you can save one while VE is running in the 3Dconnexion Control Panel (e.g. as "Virtual Earth - Workaround").

A) Stop the 3DxWare driver, close VE
B) in Start-Run type:

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%appdata%\3dconnexion\3DxWare\profiles

C) Open the scg-file which contains "APPLICATION_NAME = "Virtual Earth - Workaround" with wordpad
D) Go to your 3D device section (e.g. it would be [SPACENAVIGATOR] if you own a SN or [SPACEEXPLORER] if you have a SpaceExplorer...)
E) It looks like this for SpaceNavigator:

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[SPACENAVIGATOR]
; Axis Mappings (XYZRUV is the default)
AXIS_MAP_HRZ_DFLT = "XzYRvU"
AXIS_MAP_VRT_DFLT = "XYZRUV"

AXIS_MAP_HRZ_USER = "XzYRvU"
AXIS_MAP_VRT_USER = "XYZRUV"

F) Replace these lines with the following:

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[SPACENAVIGATOR]
; Axis Mappings (XYZRUV is the default)
AXIS_MAP_HRZ_DFLT = "RUVXYZ"
AXIS_MAP_VRT_DFLT = "RUVXYZ"

AXIS_MAP_HRZ_USER = "RUVXYZ"
AXIS_MAP_VRT_USER = "RUVXYZ"

Then start the 3DxWare driver and launch Virtual Earth, make sure "Virtual Earth - Workaround" configuration is active. Once Microsoft fixed this issue just set the configuration to "Virtual Earth" - this will reset your configuration to the default. Please let me know if this worked for you.

thpope · Post by **thpope** » Fri Jun 05, 2009 8:35 am

That does seem to work. Thanks!

Post by **rstadie** » Wed Jul 15, 2009 11:46 am

Microsoft has introduced a fix for this issue. You will have to uninstall the Virtual Earth 3D component using Control Panel and then reinstall the new Bing 3D component. Please let us know if the new version works for you.

thpope · Post by **thpope** » Wed Jul 15, 2009 12:07 pm

Seems to be working. Thanks.