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Offline wizzer

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« on: December 15, 2000, 01:25:00 PM »
Just put in a new celery 667 and now running nicely at 832  

The problem is now my Sidewinder Pro is not being found in windoze 98. Reloaded software, no joy. No conflicts in the device manager. It does work if I put it in CH emulation, but obvious problems. Is my stick porked, or is this a software problem? Any useful replys accepted.

Thanks,

wizzer

Offline SKurj

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« Reply #1 on: December 15, 2000, 07:20:00 PM »
gameport or usb?
CH emulation... u got latest drivers for it? is it prec pro or 3d pro?
i don't have no CH emulation option fer my ppro with latest drivers, i remember something like that with a real old set of drivers

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Offline bloom25

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« Reply #2 on: December 16, 2000, 12:05:00 AM »
If it's the older Sidewinder 3d Pro, they had problems with CPUs over 350 Mhz.  There is a patch available to try to help with this, but it isn't always successful.  Try looking at www.microsoft.com/sidewinder  and see if you can find it.



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Offline 1776

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« Reply #3 on: December 16, 2000, 12:19:00 AM »
How about deleting the stick software and reinstalling?  OOps saw you did that

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Offline wizzer

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« Reply #4 on: December 16, 2000, 11:03:00 AM »
Thanks guys,

Will try the patch, once I get the ISDN up and running. (wizz lives in the sticks)  

I also have a new 3d pro II(USB) under the Christmas tree. May have to get the cat tear into it. Accidentally of course.

wizzer

PS. The 3d pro I'm using is old. Running it out of the gameport on the soundcard. It ran fine on my Celery 300A OCed to 450.

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« Reply #5 on: December 16, 2000, 12:17:00 PM »
I use to have a 3d pro and it ALWAYS did that crap, I just st it up as CH flightstick pro, you lose a few buttons but thats better than losing the whole stick IMO

Offline putz

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« Reply #6 on: December 18, 2000, 09:06:00 PM »
yeah man just do a stickw/thrt/4button  and you will be fine, the simple winnie98 stick drv will cure your aches.

Offline Laika

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« Reply #7 on: December 31, 2000, 02:43:00 AM »
Same problem here and with mates with MS 3D Pro's ... btw : The MS patch doesn't often work  

I bought a Cel 633 (to crack 1G o/c'ed) and it wont work at any speed   ... put my old 300A (o/c @ 504) and it works everytime. Pity I'm kinda attached to my old 3D Pro, same stick I started out in WB's in 97. USB versions dont seem to have a problem...sigh