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Title: sidewinder and XP
Post by: rabbid on June 15, 2004, 12:00:10 AM

i was just given a MS sidewinder Force Feed Back Pro stick.Went to MS and got what i thought were the latest drivers. When i try to install them i get a message saying "SideWinder  Game Device Software 3.x installs drivers that are incompatable with this version of windows." are there Drivers are are compatable with winXP? were can i find them? can some one link it to the page. i have looked all over to no avail.
  Thanks in advance
    Rabbid

Title: sidewinder and XP
Post by: DAVENRINO on June 15, 2004, 12:06:34 AM

I use the MS FF2 stick on my Guam rig.  I just used the native XP drivers and didn't install the MS software.  In fact, I don't ever remember seeing software for that stick available for DL.

DJ229 - AIR MAFIA

Title: sidewinder and XP
Post by: rabbid on June 15, 2004, 04:56:11 PM

Dave
  Native XP drivers? bear with me ok.. you lost me on that one. I when to control panel, Game controllers, and the stick is listed, but the status is not listed. Any ideas?
    thanks
      Rabbid

Title: sidewinder and XP
Post by: beet1e on June 15, 2004, 05:30:31 PM

rabbid - no good news, I'm afraid.

When I first got my Sidewinder stick, quite a few years ago now, the CD that came with it was out of date - 3.0. The latest drivers are at version 3.02, where they have been for about four years - long before deployment of Windows XP.

One problem I identified with the profiling software was that it would not install to C:\WINNT\... - it would only install to C:\WINDOWS\... which is probably why the website says that you need W95 or W98 to use these drivers. I had them working on WMe, but not W2000.

See for yourself - go to http://www.microsoft.com/sidewinder and start from there. You should find a way to make your stick work, but you won't be able to use the profiling software.

Title: sidewinder and XP
Post by: DAVENRINO on June 15, 2004, 10:08:19 PM

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Originally posted by rabbid
Dave
  Native XP drivers? bear with me ok.. you lost me on that one. I when to control panel, Game controllers, and the stick is listed, but the status is not listed. Any ideas?
    thanks
      Rabbid

I just plugged in the stick and XP installed the "XP Native Drivers".  Then I assigned all the Axis/buttons in AH.  You don't need the Sidewinder software at all.

DJ229 - AIR MAFIA

Title: sidewinder and XP
Post by: ebgb on June 15, 2004, 10:59:32 PM

I have the profiler version 4.0

need em, post and i'll send it to you.