Windows 2000 Joystick Problem

[Jerry - 0]

I'm having a problem here with my joystick.

The one that hooks into the gameport.. allrighty. I have build 2195.no expiration version, and am using the default win2k drivers for my Sblive. A Microsoft Sidewinder (Not 3d or pro) hooked up to a y cable with some pedals. Problem is that in the Game Controllers control panel the joystick using the Microsoft Sidewinder (Auto Detect) driver, the joystick switches from Not connected to OK every five seconds. And it only stays at ok for about one second.

It does this connected directly or with the y cable. And come to think of it, it always did this with RC3 and Liveware 3 / hack installed. With liveware installed and not the gameport is listed as "game port for creative sb live!". While this does'nt exactly have me at my rapier's wits end, this is pretty annoying. Thanks for any help!

[riz 0]

Man, I have the same problem. I've got a Sidewinder Force Feedback Pro, and it's connected to a crappy ass Yamaha card, and every few seconds the joystick goes from "OK" status to "Not Connected". I can't play any of my games 'cause the joystick is crashing them.

Did you manage to fix this problem?

[Jerry - 0]

Hi,

 

Yeah i have seemed to fix it, but I had to settle using the 3 axis 2 button joystick driver and all seams well. But I had to fiddle with the IRQ settings in the bios to get it to work, for some reason DM says my video, usb, sound and network cards are all on the same IRQ, hmmm//

[riz 0]

HEY!

I fixed the problem, I think it was the Detonator 3.69 drivers for my TNT, I installed the new 3.75 drivers and I was surprised to see my Sidewinder have OK status without being Not Connected! So, if you have a nvidia card, try out the new driver (Ekstreme has a post on it) and let me know, YES! I dont' know about force feedback though, i'll have to try that out now..

 

riz

[Syncope 0]

Two items to add:

 

1) I had the same problem after installed the Sidewinder software (this was with Win95). Uninstalling the software didn't help, I had to reformat the HD. This was about a year ago. While the intended use of the software is helpful, I obviously never reinstalled it.

 

2) I've read in a few places that Sidewinder joysticks have problems with a 100MHz bus--they will only run properly on 66MHz busses. This, however, might have been specific to NT4 SP5.

 

Alas, I hope all problems will get fixed. I've been without a joystick for a year now, because the MX300 drivers don't support SMP in NT4, leaving me to use the onboard sound, and without a joystick port. I want to fly again.

[YuppieScum 0]

I've been using my SideWinder FF Pro plugged into both my SB AWE64 and SB Live under Beta3, RC1, RC2, RC3 and gold, with my FSB at 100mhz.

 

It works. No special drivers required. Just use "Game Controllers" in Control Panel and let it find the OS-provided native driver.

[jolmstead 0]

System:

SuperMicro MB P6DBE

dual Intel 500

SB live sound card with game port

Thrustmaster top gun 4 button with pov (game port) joystick

 

Has anyone gotten a thrustmaster joystick to work correctly in win2k?

 

Status on stick is "OK", but when two buttons are pushed at the same time they cancel each other out and the POV is unresponsive. I have recalibrated the stick many times does not help....

 

I just installed the win2k drivers from SB but it did not correct the problem.

 

Everything works fine in win98 so not a stick problem.

 

Any Ideas???

-jo

[Dragon-Lord 0]

I had to put my SBLive (grrrr) into another PCI slot and then the on/off problem with the Sidewinder Force Feedback Pro went away.

 

Between this and my weird "stalling out USB mouse" problem, I'd say that Win2K has problems managing resources under ACPI/SMP...

 

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