JBrave715

PowerQuest PartitionMagic 7.0 + Windows XP does nothing but freeze on me. Even froze during a resizing, lost most of my data, was able to recover a few files though. Very few.

Don't blame Windows XP because EA doesn't care about their customers. They knew about Windows XP long before Superbike waseven released but refused to do what 90% of what all the other developers were doing and make their games compatible with Windows 2000 so they would also be compatible with XP. And they could also come out with a patch to address compatibility but they don't care so they won't. Just don't hate Microsoft or XP when it's EA's fault. They had plenty of time to address this. Windows XP is a great OS far more faster and reliable then 98.

Sorry to disappoint you JBrave715, but you still have a Via component on your mobo. >> You didn't dissapoint me. I am already awhare of that. However I am not positive of the reason why the crackling is greatly reduced from past Motherboards with chipsets that entirely consists of a via cheapset. <<The VIA bridge is however a second revision (hence the , they claim to have fixed the VIA+Creative bug.>> It's fixed for the most part but still get's crackling here and there.

Crack down on what!? Getting opinions from a message board? Oh god forbid!!! BTW I have an 8k7a and it rocks. Upgraded from an A7V that froze like a mother. This Motherboard is rock solid and alot faster then that POS A7V was... And the 8k7a uses the AMD chipset so Creatives crappy Live sound cards don't crackle all the time as they do with the Via chipsets.

Call the publisher or developers and ***** at them for doing such an idiotic thing. All you can hope is they release a patch to address their idiotic actions.

Well I hope it works out for ya. Maybe in the meantime you should give Microsoft a call and see if they have any answers to your problems. Goodluck.

I don't know man. I don't deal with those problems, whenever I get weird error messages like that and don't know how to fix them I format and reinstall windows.

What error message did it give you? The game controller software installed fine when I installed it. Though the FF stick works natively in Windows 2000 and XP. I installed it to try to get a sidewinder game controller to work.

My gameport FF Joystick has Force feedback in both Windows 2000 and XP. I always thought the same would be true with the wheel. Have you tried downloading the latest game controller software? http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/sidewinder/downloads/default.asp

USB

Did you see it anywhere on that page?

http://www.microsoft.com/redirect.asp?Pa...lletins/sp2.asp

Works great for me. Just installed it and I was all set.

<<thery have since updated there site saying XP driver coming soon, so lets hope there idea of soon is around XP release time if not before>> In the manual for the Eliminator aftershock is said they would have their software available for windows 2000 soon. I bought that controller (which I returned after it died on me. It wasn't being recognized for some reason) in may or june (maybe even earlier) and STILL there hasn't been as much as a beta version. Yet there has been beta versions for Windows 98/me... Go figure. Gravis's controllers really really look nice but they suck. No drivers and they aren't built to last expecially the gamepad pro series.

Evidently nobody knows.