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General question on input devices. Assist please

glen

General question on input devices. Assist please

by glen » Tue, 30 Jan 2001 06:42:06

I am a race sim nut, so i have my whell and pedals hooked up
constantly. But every now and again I just feel like having a fly, or
shooting the shit out of someone,both of which require a joystick.

I thought if I bought a USB joystick I could plug and play for those
games that reuire a joystick, whilst still having my wheel conected to
the games port.

It doesnt seem to work that way. Do I still have to disable the
steering wheel in the control panel / joystick panel even though my
joytck is USB?

its just a pain having to frig around if i just want to fly around for
a while.

would be interested if others have achieved this result.

thanks

glenn

David Er

General question on input devices. Assist please

by David Er » Tue, 30 Jan 2001 06:56:04


I have a USB wheel and pedals for racing and a gameport joystick and rudder
pedals for flying . Both sets stay hooked up all the time but I still
shuffle the desired controller into the first slot of the Win 98 joystick
applet. To make that operation easier I put a shortcut to the applet on my
taskbar next to the start button. Handy to get at and no particular pain to
use, IMO.

David

Jam

General question on input devices. Assist please

by Jam » Tue, 30 Jan 2001 07:07:52

I have a M$ Sidewinder FF and a Guillemot FF Wheel both on USB.. and had a
Precision Pro on gameport before.. never had a problem having both wheel +
joystick plugged in at the same time. Actually, I only ever encountered a
problem with European Air War, which reads Controller ID 1 (Second device)
if you have more than one, and had to unplug my wheel, since my M$ joysticks
would only work on ID 0 for some reason.


don hodgdo

General question on input devices. Assist please

by don hodgdo » Tue, 30 Jan 2001 08:02:09


I have a LWFF wheel and a Logitech Extreme Digital 3D joystick, both
connected to a USB hub. I just choose which I want to use in the Logi
Profiler and go to the game/sim with no problem. Occasionally I am forced to
recalibrate in GPL after using the joystick, but that only happens on rare
occasions.

--
don

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