Microsoft Racing Wheel

Are the drivers for XP out yet? I have the sidewinder precision wheel.

"KJ" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > Are the drivers for XP out yet? I have the sidewinder > precision wheel. The wheel should still work, you just can't use the 3.02 profiling software. I have the MSFF usb wheel and it works fine under XP, but it uses v4.01 profiling software and that works on XP too.

On Sat, 3 Nov 2001 02:25:23 -0500, "STP" <[email hidden]> wrote:

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> >"KJ" <[email hidden]> wrote in message >news:[email hidden]... >> Are the drivers for XP out yet? I have the sidewinder >> precision wheel. > >The wheel should still work, you just can't use the 3.02 profiling software. >I have the MSFF usb wheel and it works fine under XP, but it uses v4.01 >profiling software and that works on XP too. >

It works without the sidewinder software (detects it as a regular usb device) but I don't get separate axis' for my brake and gas pedals. I don't really care about the profiling software. Do you get separate axis for gas and brake?

I run mine as a hid compliant game controller as well and DO get seperate axis for brake and gas. "KJ" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> On Sat, 3 Nov 2001 02:25:23 -0500, "STP" <[email hidden]> wrote: > > > > >"KJ" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > >news:[email hidden]... > >> Are the drivers for XP out yet? I have the sidewinder > >> precision wheel. > > > >The wheel should still work, you just can't use the 3.02 profiling

software.

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> >I have the MSFF usb wheel and it works fine under XP, but it uses v4.01 > >profiling software and that works on XP too. > > > > It works without the sidewinder software (detects it as a regular usb > device) but I don't get separate axis' for my brake and gas pedals. I > don't really care about the profiling software. Do you get separate > axis for gas and brake?

"KJ" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > It works without the sidewinder software (detects it as a regular usb > device) but I don't get separate axis' for my brake and gas pedals. I > don't really care about the profiling software. Do you get separate > axis for gas and brake? No, I thought the software worked becasue it installed fine (although XP whined about it) and all the options are there and it tests fine, but upon setting it to split axis and setting it up in F12001 I see brake and gas pedals are both on Y axis. :-( I bet MS never releases an update to fix it either, even though it would probably be a trivial matter.

"Willard VanderPloeg" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:RqbF7.1794$[email hidden]... > I run mine as a hid compliant game controller as well and DO get seperate > axis for brake and gas. Hmmm...I'll have to try that.

On Sun, 4 Nov 2001 08:36:50 -0500, "Willard VanderPloeg" <[email hidden]> wrote: >I run mine as a hid compliant game controller as well and DO get seperate >axis for brake and gas. Did you have to do anything special? It was detected as a HID device during installation of XP but I don't get separate axis.

"KJ" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > Did you have to do anything special? It was detected as a HID device > during installation of XP but I don't get separate axis. Niether can I. I played around with device manger and game controllers last night and forced it to use a few drivers that are not meant for it and none gave me split axis.

4.01? -Larry "STP" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:b_ME7.1065$[email hidden]...

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> > "KJ" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:[email hidden]... > > Are the drivers for XP out yet? I have the sidewinder > > precision wheel. > > The wheel should still work, you just can't use the 3.02 profiling

software. > I have the MSFF usb wheel and it works fine under XP, but it uses v4.01 > profiling software and that works on XP too. > >

Until last night, when I got a Momo, I used the USB MSFFW and 4.0 software on XP Home with no problems. Have been since RC1 all the way up through release 2600. -Larry "STP" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:ZEtF7.439$[email hidden]...

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> > "KJ" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:[email hidden]... > > Did you have to do anything special? It was detected as a HID device > > during installation of XP but I don't get separate axis. > > Niether can I. I played around with device manger and game controllers

last > night and forced it to use a few drivers that are not meant for it andnone > gave me split axis. > >

F1-2001 is a different story. That game has issues under XP. I've never gotten it to work right. All my others work fine. EA Sports is notorious for being "NT Hostile", so who knows... I read today that somewhere someone with EA Sports said that no games earlier than the 2002 series would be made to work properly with XP. -Larry "STP" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:J3hF7.12$[email hidden]...

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> > "KJ" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:[email hidden]... > > It works without the sidewinder software (detects it as a regular usb > > device) but I don't get separate axis' for my brake and gas pedals. I > > don't really care about the profiling software. Do you get separate > > axis for gas and brake? > > No, I thought the software worked becasue it installed fine (although XP > whined about it) and all the options are there and it tests fine, but upon > setting it to split axis and setting it up in F12001 I see brake and gas > pedals are both on Y axis. :-( > I bet MS never releases an update to fix it either, even though it would > probably be a trivial matter. > >

"Larry" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:donG7.117002$%[email hidden]... > 4.01? > > -Larry I've unistalled it now because it doesn't give me split axis in F12001 anyway, but if you say that's an EA issue then I will reinstall it. But yes, I think the software version I have is 4.01 and not 4.0. Will check when I reinstall it.