strawboss59 said:
Hi, I figure the driver for the sound card is there since I have audio; I
assumed
the retailer that sold me the tower would have a rudimentry game card on the
mother board at least, but I'm still sort of new to this, and a lot of
fingers are
pointing at MS not supporting joysticks under XP.
Was on the phone with retailer's tech support,they upgraded my drivers for
usb2.0 then threw up their hands and said talk to MS!
:
Most motherboard sound hardware doesn't have a gameport, thus the
drivers woun't support a gameport. Of couse in this situation there
wouldn't be a gameport to plug your controller into.
Add in sound cards require their own seperate drivers. You may have to
use the Add/Remove Hardware function in the Windows Control Panel to
activate the game port. The procedures are similar in Windows XP and
Windows 9x/ME. You woun't be able to install any gameport controllers
until after the gameport itself is activated.
Your system woun't recognize the presence of a USB device, game
controller or otherwise, unless the drivers for the computer's built in
USB controller/hub are installed and operating. Look for a USB Host
controller and USB Root Hub in the Device Manager.
There are adaptors on the market to connect ANALOG game controllers to
USB ports. Note that some gameport controllers, often labeled as
DIGITAL, utilize the gameport's MIDI circuits rather than the four axis/
four button game controller circuits. Digital gameport controlers woun't
work with many of the aftermarket USB adaptors, although they may
funtion with propietary adaptors that were included in the controller's
original package. Remember that contoller manufactures were utilizing
the gameport for purposes beyond those it was originally intended for.
Some functions of analog gameport controllers may not be available
through an aftermarket USB adaptor, since the controler's drivers
normally only work through a genuine gameport.
