Well, with my recent acquisition of ICR, I've been upgrading the 'ol PC
to further support my racing career. At the advice of many, I picked
up a joystick. But, when playing ICR I can not make any menu
selections. Yeah, the joystick is calibrated, etc. But I can not make
menu selections either through the keyboard or through the joystick. I
do not have a sound card but am using the game port on my I/O card.
The stick will work fine in Flight Sim & other games just fine. I
called Papyrus and they acknowledged that this problem has happened in
the past and is due to some HW conflict.
What gives? If I disable my game port, then I can play the game
through the keyboard. W/ the port enabled, I can hit return to
eventually get into practice mode. At which time the stick will allow
me to steer & accelerate (so it kinda works).
Anyway, I'm going today to buy a Soundblaster card today, but I wanted
to make sure this would solve my problem. Does anyone have any info.
on this problem? I'm looking at getting the cheapie Soundblaster
card...what are the pros & cons of this...or should I opt. for one of
the other models (regarding the CD scene, I'll pick up a quad speed
drive in a few months).
Thanks...
Tim