Sidewinder forcefeed joystick

[peter grossi]

i was using my forcefeed back joystick ok on win98 but
have now moved on and changed computers and now have win
2000 professional but cant get joystick to work

getting LIMITATION EXISTS WITH YOUR COMPUTERS RESOURCES OR
CONFIGURATION. SETUP CANT INSTALL SIDEWINDER GAME
CONTROLLER ON YOUR CURRENT OPERATING SYSTEM. CHECK YOUR
SIDEWINDER GAME CONTROLLER SOFTWARE PRODUCT FOR SYSTEM
REQUIREMENTS

i have gone to microsoft site and looked for up
grades ,patches, service packs etc but cant seem to find
right one and am now lost

in my computer properties system says: WINDOWS 2000
5.00 .2195 SERVICE PACK 3

any help please?

cheers
pete

 

[namniar]

Is this connected to the games port or USB (not familiar with Sidewinder).
If game port connect try disabling force feedback in setup (if you get that
far). I thought I read on a CH Products website that WinXP games port does
not allow / capable of force feedback. Win2k might be the same.

P.S. you might try posting to Win2k newsgroup instead of WinXP newsgroups.

r.

 

[Jason Tsang]

Goto the Game Controller Control Panel
Then Add, Microsoft Sidewinder (auto-detect)...

Please note that any Profiling software that came with the gameport hardware
won't work as that was not designed for Windows XP (or 2000). There are
currently no plans for updates.