Wish I'd had better news... least with newer hardware, things work. Other
option would be to boot 98 for his games... again still depends if you had
a gameport on the PC, I know for quite a while Dells didnt ship with
gamports, so your milage may vary depending on soundcard. My sounblaster
live had a gameport optional (IIRC, that took up a slot plate on the back of
the PC...)
Den enlightened us with:
> Appreciate your reply Sting32,as you say i may as well buy a new
> wheel,i've wasted enough money trying to get this one to work.
> cheers
> den
>> this will not ever work...
>> it iz unfortunately how drivers (thanks to Microsoft OS & wheel
>> drivers (on the MS wheel even) were written and recognized. best
>> you will be able to do IIRC, is combined axis, limited support of
>> wheel. you will have to get some other wheel. I helped with others
>> trying this too, never got lucky enough to see it work, lucky enough
>> back then you could buy a Microsoft usb version readily and easily...
>>> Thanks Uwe for your reply,unfortunatly i did not make myself
>>> clear,it comes
>>> up with 4 button 4 axis but it will not let me calibrate,also the
>>> wheel is
>>> not showing any calibration, (in any of the 4 modes on the
>>> rockfire) if i directly connect my own wheel (Msffb-usb} the system
>>> recognises it instantly,so the system is fine just will not
>>> recognise the gameport version
>>> connected through the Rockfire adaptor.
>>> TIA
>>> den
>>>> Hi Guys
>>>> I have been trying to get my son's old Msffb gameport wheel to
>>>> work for him,i ordered a rockfire rm203 (USB converter) from the
>>>> states,after connecting to computer using sidewinder 4.0 software
>>>> {mode 3} i get 4 button 4 axis,it comes up with z rotation etc,it
>>>> will not recognise it as a wheel,i have tried all modes to the
>>>> same response.If anyone out there has a similar config would you
>>>> please advise how you got the wheel to be recognised. Athlon 2000
>>>> A7N8X-X MB
>>>> 512 ram
>>>> GF2 ti card
>>>> wins XP
>>>> Thanks in Advance
>>>> Den
