When you say "Old one" do you mean pre-USB?
I have a USB version of the formula force and I do not use the Wingman
software at all, XP does the job perfectly...
When I first pluged-it in it was immediatly recognised as such by XP (I
really thought it was cool since this was THE hardware I thought I might
have problem with in XP being old ( 4 Y) and all...)
There is a glitch in the Game Controller (what is it .pcl?) in the control
panel though, whenever I plug my four (4) old Sidewinder game pads (the ones
that could be plugged in each other) to play NHL 2002 with my friends I
first have to launch the control applet, there will be only one showing up,
after a while (10-15 sec.) all 4 will be listed, I can then launch the game.
If I do otherwise (Launch NHL first) there will be no controllers at all
(apart from the K-Board) showing-up in game.
Likewise, I cannot leave the Wingman plugged-in it will prevent me of using
my gamepads. I guess the contrary is also true.
*Note that we can launch an Internet *** session in NHL 2002 and be all 4
of us playing against any number of opponents that have joined through EA
hosted servers, as long as each and everyone has fast access and a good
ping, they're in for a beating!
I know that NHL has nothing to do with racing but since they're both from
the same editor, you would think that they would share knowledge between Dev
teams... Not so!...
In my Wish list :
1) Continued support for my "old" gamepads in NHL2003
2) Same kind of On-line *** functionnality in F1 2002 (In a patch) with
server and all...
3) Microsoft to fall back on their previous design Gamepadwise to ensure
that my #1 will happen.
*Not sure if 4 USB gamepads would work?
