Microsoft Sidewinder wheel VS WinXP

Hi all, I started asking round my league about anyone having experience with the Windows XP and Nascar 4, whether they are having any framerate problems. Well as it turns out the consensus is no! But !!!!!! Turns out very FEW of us in the league, use a Microsoft Sidewinder racing controller, especially the non Force Feedback ones? let alone the Windows XP. In fact only one other person replied that did both (sigh). He said he had to remove XP because the sidewinder would not operate in Separate Pedals mode after upgrading to XP. Well, now I need to ask the majority of gamers... Has anyone got this to work or not? and thanks. Sting32

Works fine here. You just need to install the Sidewinder 4.0 software that came with the wheel and you'll be able to set the pedals to separate in the Game Controllers control panel (note that Windows will complain at the beginning of the Sidewinder install, but go ahead and install it anyway). - Eric "Stingre" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > Hi all, > I started asking round my league about anyone having experience withthe > Windows XP and Nascar 4, whether they are having any framerate problems. > Well as it turns out the consensus is no! But !!!!!! Turns out very FEW > of us in the league, use a Microsoft Sidewinder racing controller, > especially the non Force Feedback ones? let alone the Windows XP. Infact > only one other person replied that did both (sigh). > > He said he had to remove XP because the sidewinder would not operatein > Separate Pedals mode after upgrading to XP. Well, now I need to ask the > majority of gamers... Has anyone got this to work or not?

> Works fine here. You just need to install the Sidewinder 4.0 softwarethat > came with the wheel and you'll be able to set the pedals to separate inthe > Game Controllers control panel (note that Windows will complain at the > beginning of the Sidewinder install, but go ahead and install it anyway). > > - Eric Same here. Just ignore the Windows messages and you're fine. Marc

Hey, Thanks guys, I guess I will be trying it this weekend... But for clarity, did you guys do fresh install of XP, or remove the wheel before upgrading or any other trick that I am willing to do, yet unaware of? Thanks for the good news!!! "Stingre" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > Hi all, > I started asking round my league about anyone having experience withthe > Windows XP and Nascar 4, whether they are having any framerate problems. > Well as it turns out the consensus is no! But !!!!!! Turns out very FEW > of us in the league, use a Microsoft Sidewinder racing controller, > especially the non Force Feedback ones? let alone the Windows XP. Infact > only one other person replied that did both (sigh). > > He said he had to remove XP because the sidewinder would not operatein

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> Separate Pedals mode after upgrading to XP. Well, now I need to ask the > majority of gamers... Has anyone got this to work or not? > > > and thanks. > Sting32 > >

> Thanks guys, I guess I will be trying it this weekend... But for > clarity, did you guys do fresh install of XP, or remove the wheel before > upgrading or any other trick that I am willing to do, yet unaware of? > Fresh install myself. No problems at all with the wheel or software, I was somewhat surprised to see that people were having problems. Marc

Yes, as long as it's the USB version, it should work. The SideWinder 4 software _will_ complain that it may not be compatible, but as far as I could ever tell it worked fine. -Larry "Eric Busch" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:9v8hcg$3cb$[email hidden]... > Works fine here. You just need to install the Sidewinder 4.0 softwarethat > came with the wheel and you'll be able to set the pedals to separate inthe

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> Game Controllers control panel (note that Windows will complain at the > beginning of the Sidewinder install, but go ahead and install it anyway). > > - Eric > > > "Stingre" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:[email hidden]... > > Hi all, > > I started asking round my league about anyone having experience with > the > > Windows XP and Nascar 4, whether they are having any framerate problems. > > Well as it turns out the consensus is no! But !!!!!! Turns out very

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> > of us in the league, use a Microsoft Sidewinder racing controller, > > especially the non Force Feedback ones? let alone the Windows XP. In > fact > > only one other person replied that did both (sigh). > > > > He said he had to remove XP because the sidewinder would not operate > in > > Separate Pedals mode after upgrading to XP. Well, now I need to ask the > > majority of gamers... Has anyone got this to work or not? > >

"Sting32" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:iYRR7.30811$[email hidden]... > Hey, > > Thanks guys, I guess I will be trying it this weekend... But for > clarity, did you guys do fresh install of XP, or remove the wheel before > upgrading or any other trick that I am willing to do, yet unaware of? I've done both fresh install and upgrade from Win2k, and my non-FF USB Sidewinder Wheel worked fine with the 4.0 Sidewinder software. GPL and N4 also work just as they did in Win2k. - Igor -

Same here - Sidewinder USB comes with the 4.0 software. Separate pedals works fine. "Marc Goldstein" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:_eRR7.88$[email hidden]...

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> > > Works fine here. You just need to install the Sidewinder 4.0 software > that > > came with the wheel and you'll be able to set the pedals to separate in > the > > Game Controllers control panel (note that Windows will complain at the > > beginning of the Sidewinder install, but go ahead and install it

anyway).

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> > > > - Eric > > > Same here. Just ignore the Windows messages and you're fine. > > Marc > >

Thanks again everyone! Still if anyone else has not gotten it to work let me know! PLEASE! "Stingre" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > Hi all, > I started asking round my league about anyone having experience withthe > Windows XP and Nascar 4, whether they are having any framerate problems. > Well as it turns out the consensus is no! But !!!!!! Turns out very FEW > of us in the league, use a Microsoft Sidewinder racing controller, > especially the non Force Feedback ones? let alone the Windows XP. Infact > only one other person replied that did both (sigh). > > He said he had to remove XP because the sidewinder would not operatein

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> Separate Pedals mode after upgrading to XP. Well, now I need to ask the > majority of gamers... Has anyone got this to work or not? > > > and thanks. > Sting32 > >