Sidewinder "Not Connected" on Windows XP

  • Thread starter Thread starter Jarom
  • Start date Start date
J

Jarom

There should be a driver for the Sidewinder 3D PRO for
windows XP. Or at least it could be detected being a plug
and play device. Please someone give me advice.
 
There is.

Open the Game Controllers control panel, and add a "Microsoft Sidewinder
(Autodetect)" device (without the quotes).

You won't get any capability to install profiles, but the stick may work. (I
use a 3D Pro on an XP system. I'd been accustomed to running it in analog
emulation mode under Win98 - drivers didn't like a 133 MHz FSB - but it's a
digital stick again under XP.)

The bad news is that if the XP drivers don't work, Microsoft appears to have
dropped all support for them. (As far as I can find at
www.microsoft.com/sidewinder, it's as if MS never sold gameport devices.) I
recently read that the whole Sidewinder line is being terminated soon.

HTH.

Bob Knowlden

Spam dodger may be in use. Replace nkbob with bobkn.
 
Just adding a little info in case someone wants to know. The "Microsoft
SideWinder (Auto Detect)" driver that you refer to is the 3.02 driver with
some bug fixes.
 
Back
Top