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Steering Wheels & Windows XP

12 posts by 11 people · 26 Feb 2002 02:26 UTC - 28 Feb 2002 12:06 UTC

Steve 26 Feb 2002 02:26 UTC#133818
Has anyone had trouble using either Microsoft SideWinder Force Feedback Wheel or the Logitech WingMan Formula Force PC Racing Wheel?
"Steve" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:tnCe8.42958$[email hidden]... > Has anyone had trouble using either Microsoft SideWinder Force Feedback > Wheel or the Logitech WingMan Formula Force PC Racing Wheel? > My LWFF USB is flawless in XP. Dale.
Same here with MSFF USB and Windows XP Pro. -- Chris H. "Dale Green" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > > "Steve" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:tnCe8.42958$[email hidden]... > > Has anyone had trouble using either Microsoft SideWinder Force Feedback > > Wheel or the Logitech WingMan Formula Force PC Racing Wheel? > > > > > My LWFF USB is flawless in XP. > > Dale. > > > >
Milhouse 26 Feb 2002 06:53 UTC↳ reply to Steve#133781
Can't complain about either of my Logitech FF wheels; one is the actual red PC one and the other is the original blue one intended for PS2. (The new blue one apparently no longer works on PC, and feels like crap anyway.) Milhouse "Steve" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:tnCe8.42958$[email hidden]... > Has anyone had trouble using either Microsoft SideWinder Force Feedback > Wheel or the Logitech WingMan Formula Force PC Racing Wheel? > > > >
Can you fiddle with force feedback settings? "Chris H." <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:cXEe8.225119$[email hidden]... > Same here with MSFF USB and Windows XP Pro. > -- > Chris H.
My old MSFF gameport model works fine too (just don't attempt to load the drivers). -- - Peter Ogden Perth, Western Australia "Steve" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:tnCe8.42958$[email hidden]... > Has anyone had trouble using either Microsoft SideWinder Force Feedback > Wheel or the Logitech WingMan Formula Force PC Racing Wheel? > > > >
In article <3c7b8cc7$0$[email hidden]>, [email hidden] says...
Quoted text (11 lines)> My old MSFF gameport model works fine too (just don't attempt to load the > drivers). > > -- > - Peter Ogden > Perth, Western Australia > > "Steve" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:tnCe8.42958$[email hidden]... > > Has anyone had trouble using either Microsoft SideWinder Force Feedback > > Wheel or the Logitech WingMan Formula Force PC Racing Wheel?
My Precision Racing wheel didm't work at first until I downloaded a compatability update from Windows Update. Works fine now, just need to work out if it's possible to get split axis on the pedals, and how to use the paddles for gear changes in GP3. -- AG Remove removes from address to remove anti-spam measures. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Alan Gauton E-Mail ag @ spd.eee.strath.ac.uk Never for me the lowered banner, never the last endeavour! (Damon Hill - 16th June 1999)
"Peter Ogden" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:3c7b8cc7$0$[email hidden]... > My old MSFF gameport model works fine too (just don't attempt to load the > drivers). >Can you post how you managed to get it working correctly then, please ? Because, it's utter shite with Microsoft's XP built in drivers and Microsoft themselves have publicly stated that they will NOT be supporting the gameport wheel. It will work, but it's anything but "fine" .
Biz 26 Feb 2002 19:49 UTC↳ reply to Steve#133473
From what I've read, USB versions of most wheels work flawlessly in XP, but gameport/serial port versions have little to no support. -- Biz "Don't touch that please, your primitive intellect wouldn't understand alloys and compositions and,......things with molecular structures,....and the....." - Ash Steve <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:tnCe8.42958$[email hidden]... > Has anyone had trouble using either Microsoft SideWinder Force Feedback > Wheel or the Logitech WingMan Formula Force PC Racing Wheel? > > > >
Mine's fine here.... Maybe Steve lives in Bizarro World! Or maybe I do! <:0O Mike :) "Biz" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:yFRe8.644$[email hidden]... > From what I've read, USB versions of most wheels work flawlessly in XP,but gameport/serial port
Quoted text (19 lines)> versions have little to no support. > -- > Biz > > "Don't touch that please, your primitive intellect wouldn't understand > alloys and compositions and,......things with molecular structures,....and > the....." - Ash > > > Steve <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:tnCe8.42958$[email hidden]... > > Has anyone had trouble using either Microsoft SideWinder Force Feedback > > Wheel or the Logitech WingMan Formula Force PC Racing Wheel? > > > > > > > > > >
"Chris H." <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:cXEe8.225119$[email hidden]...
Quoted text (10 lines)> Same here with MSFF USB and Windows XP Pro. > -- > Chris H. > > "Dale Green" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:[email hidden]... > > > > "Steve" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > > news:tnCe8.42958$[email hidden]... > > > Has anyone had trouble using either Microsoft SideWinder Force
Feedback
Quoted text (7 lines)> > > Wheel or the Logitech WingMan Formula Force PC Racing Wheel? > > > > > > > > > My LWFF USB is flawless in XP. > > > > Dale.
I had to get MS to send me the v4 of the sidewinder software for my Precision wheel - which is a) not the sam eas the one in the FF2 joystick box, and b) not available for download for some strage reason - though it claimed on install that XP was not supported.
Plug the wheel into the gameport, go to the Game Controllers Control Panel Applet, click on add, select Microsoft Sidewinder (Auto Detect), click on OK and then shutdown and restart your computer. When it comes back up, go back to the control panel applet and run the calibration utility and it should work. Of course you don't get any choice of configuration except what MS offers - which (thankfully) is separate axis for brake and accel. I don't have a lot of games to give it much of a workout, though, only my two favourites - GPL and SCGT, both work fine (as I said) on my PC. I'm not happy that MS has decided to no longer provide any support for game controller devices, but I would really be miffed if I couldn't use my wheel to run my sims. But then, if I had to, I would return to the way I used to have my PC set up - dual boot - Win98SE (for sims) and WinXP (for everything else). -- - Peter Ogden Perth, Western Australia "redTed" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:nvPe8.7681$[email hidden]... > > "Peter Ogden" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:3c7b8cc7$0$[email hidden]... > > My old MSFF gameport model works fine too (just don't attempt to load the > > drivers). > > > Can you post how you managed to get it working correctly then, please ? Because, it's > utter shite with Microsoft's XP built in drivers and Microsoft themselves have publicly > stated that they will NOT be supporting the gameport wheel. > It will work, but it's anything but "fine" . > >

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