Sidewinder Precision Pro drivers for vista? I found the cable to convert the 9 pin to a usb okay. When I tried to load the drivers via the dvd, get an error and the drivers will not load on the vista OS. Anyone know if there are drives for this stick for vista OS. I have looked on line without any luck. Originally Posted by Occasional Flyer. Posts 1, Same here using Vista Ultimate. No problems. Although, every now and then when I load FSX my joystick isn't recognized and I have to restart windows.
Any ideas? This device has no driver for Windows Vista provided by Microsoft. Therefore, some functions may miss, very possibly including the problems you encountered. For more information about compatibility, please refer to the following site:. For better experience in games, I personally suggest you to upgrade the game device, for example, Microsoft SideWinder Mouse. For more information about this product, please refer to the following site :.
Hello Tra c ker,. However, the website I mentioned is right for the device. Thank you for correction. Lionel Chen. Is there a way to use the old Microsoft Sidewinder steering wheel with force feedback under Windows XP? I installed my old Soundblaster in order to have a game port. The Soundblaster is recognized and the audio is ok but the game port is not recognized by the system. I tried to get my wheel to run on Vista and found the same problems as Tracker ie the Y axis is not split and the accellerator pedal shows on the Z axis.
I was intending to make it work on Colin Mcrae rally as it did OK with XP but, surely, Microsoft can put a driver into Vista for one of its own products. As a 54 year old gamer , the thought of driving a car using a wheel mouse made me laugh.
I'm having the same problem and will not throw a perfectly good working machine away.. Microsoft please develop drivers to support your own hardware on your own Windows platforms bit. The standard drivers, included in Windows, work but:. I didn't need to install any drivers; I just plugged in the wheel's power supply and the wheel into the USB port.
There is still no option to combine the Y axis for the pedals, however this is not an issue with F1 , as the game will happily detect the two separate axes. Force feedback works absolutely fine, too, with no apparent loss of functionality. I have remapped it to the cursor keys instead. All the predefined wheel button functions, gear change paddles,etc work absolutely fine.
I also increased the steering dead zone a little to prevent any force-feedback-induced wobbling on the straights. I had all but given up on ever being able to use my beloved wheel again without my trusty XP, but it appears that modern games are designed to work with separate axes for the pedals, so I'm happy again - I'll just have to use my old XP machine if I want to play an older game that relies on a combined Y axis, but as time passes, I feel less inclined to play those old games anyway.
But the drivers are included in Win-7 and are ok for race games but not for flightsims where combined-axis are needed. This is a shame for Microsoft: if they don't take responsibility for their own products they should not put the Microsoft logo in big characters on the device! A logical reaction would be to ask the source code from 'the device manifacturer' and update it. After all, making sofware is their business isn't it? Me and a friend of mine run an online gaming community and love our racing games, and quite a few of us own the Sidewinder Force Feedback Wheel including myself, we have all trawled the net for a solution to this issue since the release of Windows 7 but unfortunately there is no solution, Microsofts answer to this is 'buy a new wheel' which me and my friends are not going to do, we love our original ones!
The solution I used to combat this problem and I have also done this with a couple of my friends pc's is to make your pc a 'dual boot' system with windows xp and windows 7 or vista, that way you can boot into xp for all your racing games or windows 7 for everything else, unfortunately you will not get all the enhancements of windows 7 and direct x 11, but hey you will still be able to use your wheel Dual boot is a bypass, not a solution.
I am using it too, stuck with XP because MS refuses to write an usb driver for their own wheel. Just to let everyone know, Race 07 GTR evolution is almost unplayable on win7 because of the lost effects. The game was just fine on XP. I'm so disappointed after finally upgrading my XP to 7. I even paid for that update. What a sucker I must be. If only my games and other stuff worked on Mac or some other platform, I would switch immediately and never look back.
It's not that they cannot port the XP drivers with reasonable amount of work. It's about product life cycle management.
They want you to buy new versions of their hardware. So they make sure that the drivers work, only with mediocre performance. This way they can add another device to their precious list of unofficially supported hardware and brag how just about every piece of PC HW ever made just works. But with the sub-par performance, you get the message that maybe you need to upgrade your HW. Even if the HW is just fine, as is the case here, only a bit old.
After so many wasted hours, I'm tired fighting. So I just gave up and put an order to a new wheel. I'm willing to take my chances with Logitech. I fully agree but I refuse to replace good working hardware with other good working hardware. I only need pedals for flightsims but my son uses the wheel for racing. Today, there are some interesting new flightsims A Warthog, Cliffs of Dover, I don't like to install those new games on XP DX-9, disk full, Anyway, for the moment I don't buy new games and I don't buy any new hardware, This is what I think about win 7 - 64 bit.
I can;t use any of my old Xp Hard ware devices in win 7. Good Job you lame Screw balls at Microsoft. Microsoft knew this when they made it.. They can make Adroids with OS that us less space and work tons of apps.. I am a professional graphic designer. I have run and operated many different systems in my 27 years of working as a graphic designer and in my opinion; win 7 - 64 bit is a pig.
Linux has 2 different input systems for joysticks. The sidewinder 3d pro has its own protocol, which isn't supported by typical gameport-to-usb adapters. The thrustmaster more fluid so is better than either of them.
Plug in the simple analog module parameters are also using at. One is detected by typical gameport-to-usb adapters. The sidewinder line was a series of gaming peripherals produced by microsoft, starting in the s. The follow up joystick, that looked identical, was marked underneath as precision pro and this came with a simple usb adapter simple as just a series of wires links between the joystick game port and a usb. Tape everything up to make a decent looking cord.
The first major method is the simple gameport adapter, which has an old-school female pin joystick port on one end. The joystick driver for linux provides support for a variety of joysticks and similar devices. It comes with the other input systems for linux. I still have my ms sidewinder force feedback peripherals joystick and wheel.
One is the legacy joystick api and the other is the modern evdev api. Posted on april 6, by ruchi 5 comments. No joystick detected joystick was recognized as a 'microsoft sidewinder force feedback pro usb ' and working no ff. Because i added the left hand. The basic input functionality is all working, but now i want to get the force feedback working. Install old sidewinder precision pro joystick on windows 10 spent too much time looking for software,but answer to start, settings,type controllers, box will open, set up usb controllers,open, if you do not see it unplug and plug in and it should show up.
One is made the stick itself. The joystick rehab project is about locating, discussing, and reviewing various methods for converting joysticks from the old ibm da15 interface into usb, due to the fact that microsoft windows ceased support for da15 with windows vista.
Joy-usb adapter is for connecting old retro joysticks and pads. Be respectful, keep it civil and stay on topic. Are there any additional drivers or maybe a patch that I can download that will enable me to use this joystick? I hate to think I have paid this much money for something I can't use anymore. I appreciate any help that you folks can offer.
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