CH Analog Setup Issues

[Red Tail 444]

here's a puzzler

I have CH F-16 Fighterstick, Ch Pro Throttle, and Ch Pedals, all  non-USB, attached to soundcard. WinXP recognizes all three, but

Speedkeps cant find my stick, and it is not found in CH-DOS setup Program either.

In AH, I have no rudder control via pedals, and under stick mapping, the Yaw scale does not appear either. The slide and view buttons all work, as does the pinky fire button on the throtttle. All fire buttons on the trigger work also. I kow I am missing a very simple procedure, but I'm stumped...

I read a lot of threads, but none regarding this problem, so if this is an old story, my bad In any event, some feedback would be helpful, thanks!

[GeeWally]

I found this at the CH website support section.  Look under FAQ/IBM PC Knowledge Base/Windows XP.  I guess with XP, Speedkeys only works with USB connections, until they get the XP drivers out.

I am sorry but Microsoft has chosen to close the keyboard port to programming capability for game port devices in all of it's NT based operating systems, this includes Windows 2000 and XP (Home and Professional). They refer to this as a "security feature". This means there will be no possibility of programming the devices in Windows XP with Speed Keys as well as the impossibility to write new software to program the devices through the keyboard pass through. We have tried numerous work a rounds but the fact is we would have to edit the operating system in order to get this to work. USB is really the only connection medium that Microsoft has left open to the hard-core gamer set.
We will be coming out with just basic drivers for our game port controllers but they will not be programmable (unless you use a dual boot or separate computer and program them in another operating system and then use them in XP).
As of now there are no game port drivers for Windows XP, look for them on our web site summer 2002. Until then try the Windows 2000 work around .

[Red Tail 444]

thanks for the info, ge wallly...

[akak]

Originally posted by Red Tail 444
here's a puzzler

I have CH F-16 Fighterstick, Ch Pro Throttle, and Ch Pedals, all  non-USB, attached to soundcard. WinXP recognizes all three, but

Speedkeps cant find my stick, and it is not found in CH-DOS setup Program either.

In AH, I have no rudder control via pedals, and under stick mapping, the Yaw scale does not appear either. The slide and view buttons all work, as does the pinky fire button on the throtttle. All fire buttons on the trigger work also. I kow I am missing a very simple procedure, but I'm stumped...

I read a lot of threads, but none regarding this problem, so if this is an old story, my bad In any event, some feedback would be helpful, thanks!

SpeedKeys only works with Win9x and will not work with WinXP and is intended to be used with CH programmable analog devices such as the Pro Throttle and the F-16 Fighterstick and not with any of their USB products.

If you can boot into DOS in WinXP then you, in theory, could run the DOS version of Speedkeys, called PTSETUP, and use that to program your CH gear.

[Red Tail 444]

DOS does not exist in Win XP.(Who decided to do that!) ..

[akak]

Originally posted by Red Tail 444
DOS does not exist in Win XP.(Who decided to do that!) ..

There is a way of doing it, some of the guys in the Kraits squadron are using PTSETUP with XP.  I've asked on another board how to do it and when they reply, I'll post answer here.

[Red Tail 444]

Originally posted by akak



There is a way of doing it, some of the guys in the Kraits squadron are using PTSETUP with XP.  I've asked on another board how to do it and when they reply, I'll post answer here.

I'll really appreciate that!  I tried the Speedkeys work around and that didnt work (program on separate box, then DL to your system, and cross fingers)...

CH should still offer services for us analog fossils, however...my stuff works too good to discard.

[fuzeman]

It's not really CH's fault. MicroShaft and Bill are at it again.
He's making our systems 'more secure'. Ain't that a kick in the pants. MicroShaft put more holes in their operating systems than the swiss do in cheese. He probably wants us all to buy an X-box.

fuzeman