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Sidewinder joystick not compatable for vista?
I have the sidewinder Precision 2 and it worked by default. I assume you're referring to like the original Sidewinder ? "xmang" wrote in message ... Any word if we can get a driver for this old joystick and if it will ever be usable with the new Vista OS? |
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Sidewinder joystick not compatable for vista?
"Dale "Mad_Murdock" White" wrote: I have the sidewinder Precision 2 and it worked by default. I assume you're referring to like the original Sidewinder ? "xmang" wrote in message ... Any word if we can get a driver for this old joystick and if it will ever be usable with the new Vista OS? I'm afraid so. It's called " Sidewinder Precision Pro" Designed for Win 98. After researching the web, I found the work around for xp.. But I ca not seem to find anything for Vista. In xp you was able to use the default game controller. Not so with Vista. At least I can't find it yet. :P |
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Sidewinder joystick not compatable for vista?
On reading your post I rushed to my wardrobe, hauled out my ms sidewinder
precision pro, plugged it in (using the game port to usb adapter that came with it) and vista popped up installed its own driver and when I go to game controllers in control panel all the buttons ans axis work. So Have You tried it with vista or are you assuming it won't work because you can't find a driver? turbotoes "xmang" wrote: "Dale "Mad_Murdock" White" wrote: I have the sidewinder Precision 2 and it worked by default. I assume you're referring to like the original Sidewinder ? "xmang" wrote in message ... Any word if we can get a driver for this old joystick and if it will ever be usable with the new Vista OS? I'm afraid so. It's called " Sidewinder Precision Pro" Designed for Win 98. After researching the web, I found the work around for xp.. But I ca not seem to find anything for Vista. In xp you was able to use the default game controller. Not so with Vista. At least I can't find it yet. :P |
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Sidewinder joystick not compatable for vista?
"turbotoes" wrote: On reading your post I rushed to my wardrobe, hauled out my ms sidewinder precision pro, plugged it in (using the game port to usb adapter that came with it) and vista popped up installed its own driver and when I go to game controllers in control panel all the buttons ans axis work. So Have You tried it with vista or are you assuming it won't work because you can't find a driver? turbotoes P.S. do a search for joytokey this is a great little proggie for those games that don't support joystick, it makes the joystick emulate keyboard stokes so any game that supports a keyboeard!! will support ALL the buttons and axis of your sidewinder. I have not tried it in vista (am at work now so can't) but it worth the download to see!! "xmang" wrote: "Dale "Mad_Murdock" White" wrote: I have the sidewinder Precision 2 and it worked by default. I assume you're referring to like the original Sidewinder ? "xmang" wrote in message ... Any word if we can get a driver for this old joystick and if it will ever be usable with the new Vista OS? I'm afraid so. It's called " Sidewinder Precision Pro" Designed for Win 98. After researching the web, I found the work around for xp.. But I ca not seem to find anything for Vista. In xp you was able to use the default game controller. Not so with Vista. At least I can't find it yet. :P |
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Sidewinder joystick not compatable for vista?
I'm new and I found your comments I too have sidewinder precision. How did
you make it the default and how did you check it? "turbotoes" wrote: On reading your post I rushed to my wardrobe, hauled out my ms sidewinder precision pro, plugged it in (using the game port to usb adapter that came with it) and vista popped up installed its own driver and when I go to game controllers in control panel all the buttons ans axis work. So Have You tried it with vista or are you assuming it won't work because you can't find a driver? turbotoes "xmang" wrote: "Dale "Mad_Murdock" White" wrote: I have the sidewinder Precision 2 and it worked by default. I assume you're referring to like the original Sidewinder ? "xmang" wrote in message ... Any word if we can get a driver for this old joystick and if it will ever be usable with the new Vista OS? I'm afraid so. It's called " Sidewinder Precision Pro" Designed for Win 98. After researching the web, I found the work around for xp.. But I ca not seem to find anything for Vista. In xp you was able to use the default game controller. Not so with Vista. At least I can't find it yet. :P |
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Sidewinder joystick not compatable for vista?
The problem i am havein is, in my device manager my gameport shows up as
unknown gameport. And My joystick doesn't show up in the control panel (under controllers). Is anyone else have this issue? "krine54" wrote: I'm new and I found your comments I too have sidewinder precision. How did you make it the default and how did you check it? "turbotoes" wrote: On reading your post I rushed to my wardrobe, hauled out my ms sidewinder precision pro, plugged it in (using the game port to usb adapter that came with it) and vista popped up installed its own driver and when I go to game controllers in control panel all the buttons ans axis work. So Have You tried it with vista or are you assuming it won't work because you can't find a driver? turbotoes "xmang" wrote: "Dale "Mad_Murdock" White" wrote: I have the sidewinder Precision 2 and it worked by default. I assume you're referring to like the original Sidewinder ? "xmang" wrote in message ... Any word if we can get a driver for this old joystick and if it will ever be usable with the new Vista OS? I'm afraid so. It's called " Sidewinder Precision Pro" Designed for Win 98. After researching the web, I found the work around for xp.. But I ca not seem to find anything for Vista. In xp you was able to use the default game controller. Not so with Vista. At least I can't find it yet. :P |
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Sidewinder joystick not compatable for vista?
usb to gameport adaptors will not work as they only support analogue controllers, I don't think the drivers support usb anyway. It appears that your gameport is recognised, but unknown, I had a similar problem, and had to auto detect several times, before the stick was recognised. perhaps your game port is not standard, try also reinstalling your sound card drivers which control your game port. calibrating your stick once it is finaly recognised. If that fails, try updating your sound card drivers. -- static6 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ static6's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/154412.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/windows-v...mes/678367.htm http://forums.techarena.in |
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Sidewinder joystick not compatable for vista?
I have an old Windows 98 computer that I sometime play games on and my Soundblaster sound card would not recognize my analog Sidewinder FF joystick. So I went to a RE-PC store and bought and old cheap sound card (definately worse quality) but the joystick worked in the game port on the sound card. I use a headset for sound in the game anyway, so no big deal. "static6" wrote in message ... usb to gameport adaptors will not work as they only support analogue controllers, I don't think the drivers support usb anyway. It appears that your gameport is recognised, but unknown, I had a similar problem, and had to auto detect several times, before the stick was recognised. perhaps your game port is not standard, try also reinstalling your sound card drivers which control your game port. calibrating your stick once it is finaly recognised. If that fails, try updating your sound card drivers. -- static6 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ static6's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/154412.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/windows-v...mes/678367.htm http://forums.techarena.in |
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