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ms strategic commander?
I may be the only person (except my husband, and my father) in the world
still to use this fantastic game controller, but I have just discovered that I can't install its software in vista, therefore it does not work. This is a big problem for me, It WILL stop me buying into Vista until I have NO option. Does anyone know if there is a way around this problem. thanks turbotoes |
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ms strategic commander?
Well having spent most of the afternoon moping about it I actually got the sidewinder to work, it’s quite simple. Install the sidewinder software, at a certain point you will be asked if “ you really want to quit the setup program?” say yes. Tootle off to the folder in which you installed the software and drag “DEAMON14” into startup and you might as well get yourself a shortcut to the program itself on the desktop while you are at it. Now get yourself off to Device manager by your favourite route. Under the heading “Human Interface Devices” you will see two ( maybe more) items. The ones we are interested in are Usb Human Interface Device, this equals your strategic commander And HID compliant device, this little fellow will become ms sw strat com hid drivers Two other devices will appear as we get the drivers installed, these are ms virtual keyboard and ms virtual mouse, hoorah. So to get the little devils working like you want, right click on the “Usb Human Interface Device” choose “update driver software” then click “browse my computer for the driver software” Then click “ let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer” then you will be given a list in that list will be “ Microsoft strategic commander” click on that, followed by “next” around this point you will get the usual warning that the driver is unsigned click on “install anyway” or the equivalent there of!! Rince and repeat for the HID compliant device and when you have done that you will find that the virtual kb and mouse will have appeared, you should not have to change their drivers. Windows will tell you that you need to restart your computer (that has not changed) and when you reboot your strat comm should work!!! You will need to repeat this process if you change usb ports, I’ve tested it in guild wars and nwn2 and all was fine. turbotoes |