Hi,
I am trying to get back into NR2003 and am interested in the new EA
NASCAR sim.
I am running Windows 2000 Pro with Service Pack 4.
I plugged it back into a USB port and it got detected. I was asked to
insert the Sidewinder CD. I can't find it. Any way, I don't recall
needing it with Win2K SP4 (in fact, there are no drivers to be found
for it at the MS site).
So, just to make it happy, I found the two DLLs it was asking for
already installed on my system and pointed the install program to
them.
Well, now the controller appears to show up as a joystick and there
isn't the controller interface that I remember I used to use (FF
settings, etc....).
I tried to uninstall the device in the Game Controllers interface, but
it tells me I must use the Device Manager. Well, it isn't listed in
the Device Manager! It is listed as controller id 1 as a MS SW Force
Feedback Pro Wheel.
Maybe one DLL that I found was for the old SW FF Joystick I used to
use, and one was for the wheel?
Any way, does any one know how to get this wheel working?
And, will this wheel work in NSR?? If not, I may just end up getting
the MOMO FF Wheel.
Thanks!
-pw
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You need the cd to reinstall it. It will say it doesnt work with that
version or something, but you install anyway and it should work. I've got a
few extra copies of it laying around if you cant find it..
pw <***paulwilliamson@***spamcop.net> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...
Hi Paul,
Have you tried installing the Sidewinder Vers 4 software? It comes up
with a warning that it won't work when you try to install, but if you
ignore the warning and install anyway it should work fine I believe.
Good luck!
Ade.
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> Hi, > > I am trying to get back into NR2003 and am interested in the new EA > NASCAR sim. > > I am running Windows 2000 Pro with Service Pack 4. > > I plugged it back into a USB port and it got detected. I was asked to > insert the Sidewinder CD. I can't find it. Any way, I don't recall > needing it with Win2K SP4 (in fact, there are no drivers to be found > for it at the MS site). > > So, just to make it happy, I found the two DLLs it was asking for > already installed on my system and pointed the install program to > them. > > Well, now the controller appears to show up as a joystick and there > isn't the controller interface that I remember I used to use (FF > settings, etc....). > > I tried to uninstall the device in the Game Controllers interface, but > it tells me I must use the Device Manager. Well, it isn't listed in > the Device Manager! It is listed as controller id 1 as a MS SW Force > Feedback Pro Wheel. > > Maybe one DLL that I found was for the old SW FF Joystick I used to > use, and one was for the wheel? > > Any way, does any one know how to get this wheel working? > > And, will this wheel work in NSR?? If not, I may just end up getting > the MOMO FF Wheel. > > Thanks! > > > -pw > remove astericks (*) from e-mail address > (use paulwilliamson at spamcop dot net)Quoted text (50 lines)
>pw <***paulwilliamson@***spamcop.net> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>... >> Hi, >> >> I am trying to get back into NR2003 and am interested in the new EA >> NASCAR sim. >> >> I am running Windows 2000 Pro with Service Pack 4. >> >> I plugged it back into a USB port and it got detected. I was asked to >> insert the Sidewinder CD. I can't find it. Any way, I don't recall >> needing it with Win2K SP4 (in fact, there are no drivers to be found >> for it at the MS site). >> >> So, just to make it happy, I found the two DLLs it was asking for >> already installed on my system and pointed the install program to >> them. >> >> Well, now the controller appears to show up as a joystick and there >> isn't the controller interface that I remember I used to use (FF >> settings, etc....). >> >> I tried to uninstall the device in the Game Controllers interface, but >> it tells me I must use the Device Manager. Well, it isn't listed in >> the Device Manager! It is listed as controller id 1 as a MS SW Force >> Feedback Pro Wheel. >> >> Maybe one DLL that I found was for the old SW FF Joystick I used to >> use, and one was for the wheel? >> >> Any way, does any one know how to get this wheel working? >> >> And, will this wheel work in NSR?? If not, I may just end up getting >> the MOMO FF Wheel. >> >> Thanks! >> >> >> -pw >> remove astericks (*) from e-mail address >> (use paulwilliamson at spamcop dot net) > >Hi Paul, > >Have you tried installing the Sidewinder Vers 4 software? It comes up >with a warning that it won't work when you try to install, but if you >ignore the warning and install anyway it should work fine I believe. > >Good luck! > >Ade.Quoted text (8 lines)
> >Have you tried installing the Sidewinder Vers 4 software? It comes up >with a warning that it won't work when you try to install, but if you >ignore the warning and install anyway it should work fine I believe. > >Good luck! > >Ade.PW I saw at windrivers.com I think it was, the installer.. for the latest
drivers (from the CD) you do have to install it. I even have it somewhere
zipped but on a drive no longer in a machine at the momement It wans that
big maybe 13 megs?
IMHO that MS, is a Very good wheel, so if your going to get a new one
because you dont have the CD, Ill buy that one one from you :) I have my
buddy who wants one, and I have cd he can use.
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>> Have you tried installing the Sidewinder Vers 4 software? It comes up >> with a warning that it won't work when you try to install, but if you >> ignore the warning and install anyway it should work fine I believe. >> >> Good luck! >> >> Ade. > > Do you mean the Sidewinder Game Device Software for Windows 95 and 98? > > That is all I can find at Microsoft's site. > > Thanks > > > -pw > remove astericks (*) from e-mail address > (use paulwilliamson at spamcop dot net) > > ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet > News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the > World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - > Total Privacy via Encryption =----Quoted text (10 lines)
>PW I saw at windrivers.com I think it was, the installer.. for the latest >drivers (from the CD) you do have to install it. I even have it somewhere >zipped but on a drive no longer in a machine at the momement It wans that >big maybe 13 megs? > >IMHO that MS, is a Very good wheel, so if your going to get a new one >because you dont have the CD, Ill buy that one one from you :) I have my >buddy who wants one, and I have cd he can use. > >Quoted text (26 lines)
> >pw enlightened us with: >>> Have you tried installing the Sidewinder Vers 4 software? It comes up >>> with a warning that it won't work when you try to install, but if you >>> ignore the warning and install anyway it should work fine I believe. >>> >>> Good luck! >>> >>> Ade. >> >> Do you mean the Sidewinder Game Device Software for Windows 95 and 98? >> >> That is all I can find at Microsoft's site. >> >> Thanks >> >> >> -pw >> remove astericks (*) from e-mail address >> (use paulwilliamson at spamcop dot net) >> >> ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet >> News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the >> World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - >> Total Privacy via Encryption =---- >>PW I saw at windrivers.com I think it was, the installer..
$30 a year? I will look elsewhere. I doubt I'd ever use that site
again.
-pw
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>pw <***paulwilliamson@***spamcop.net> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>... >> Hi, >> >> I am trying to get back into NR2003 and am interested in the new EA >> NASCAR sim. >> >> I am running Windows 2000 Pro with Service Pack 4. >> >> I plugged it back into a USB port and it got detected. I was asked to >> insert the Sidewinder CD. I can't find it. Any way, I don't recall >> needing it with Win2K SP4 (in fact, there are no drivers to be found >> for it at the MS site). >> >> So, just to make it happy, I found the two DLLs it was asking for >> already installed on my system and pointed the install program to >> them. >> >> Well, now the controller appears to show up as a joystick and there >> isn't the controller interface that I remember I used to use (FF >> settings, etc....). >> >> I tried to uninstall the device in the Game Controllers interface, but >> it tells me I must use the Device Manager. Well, it isn't listed in >> the Device Manager! It is listed as controller id 1 as a MS SW Force >> Feedback Pro Wheel. >> >> Maybe one DLL that I found was for the old SW FF Joystick I used to >> use, and one was for the wheel? >> >> Any way, does any one know how to get this wheel working? >> >> And, will this wheel work in NSR?? If not, I may just end up getting >> the MOMO FF Wheel. >> >> Thanks! >> >> >> -pw >> remove astericks (*) from e-mail address >> (use paulwilliamson at spamcop dot net) > >Hi Paul, > >Have you tried installing the Sidewinder Vers 4 software? It comes up >with a warning that it won't work when you try to install, but if you >ignore the warning and install anyway it should work fine I believe. > >Good luck! > >Ade.pw <***paulwilliamson@***spamcop.net> wrote
Yes it does, it came on CD with the USB versions of the wheel, but
it's not available for download.
Let me know if you can't find it and I'll see about zipping it up from
the CD and putting it online somewhere for you.
Ade.
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> Sidewinder Version 4 software does not exist, only 3.2 (which is for > 95, 98, and Me). > > Thanks. > > > -pwSorry at one TIme I knew a username and PW... let me see if I can get the
the install copied off off the cd to "not my" webspace... or something.
contact me via stingre (yes spelled right) from yahoo.
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>> PW I saw at windrivers.com I think it was, the installer.. > > $30 a year? I will look elsewhere. I doubt I'd ever use that site > again. > > > -pw > remove astericks (*) from e-mail address > (use paulwilliamson at spamcop dot net) > > ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet > News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the > World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - > Total Privacy via Encryption =----Microsoft, for some bizarre reason never explained by them for 5 years now,
never made version 4.0 downloadable.
And, in fact, there are _multiple_ verisons of 4.0. Each SideWinder USB
device came with it's own version of 4.0.
Nice hardware. Antiquited software and boneheaded support.
-Larry
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> Do you mean the Sidewinder Game Device Software for Windows 95 and 98? > > That is all I can find at Microsoft's site. > > Thanks > > > -pw > remove astericks (*) from e-mail address > (use paulwilliamson at spamcop dot net) > > ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet > News==---- > http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ > Newsgroups > ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption > =----Larry are you sure (at least about the wheels)?
I am not positive but I have the non ff, and OK, it is different yes. but I
also have 2 black rubber ff wheels (version 1's), (actually lost one in a
move) and one Red rubber (aka version 2) these all 3 FF wheels seemed to
have the same SW.
I would be happy to burn the CD for PW, if he figures out how to contact me.
So again you PW adress a note to the one in thread, or stingre32 as the name
and send it to me at Hotmail. surely that is easy enough?
later gator
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> Microsoft, for some bizarre reason never explained by them for 5 > years now, never made version 4.0 downloadable. > > And, in fact, there are _multiple_ verisons of 4.0. Each SideWinder > USB device came with it's own version of 4.0. > > Nice hardware. Antiquited software and boneheaded support. > > -Larry > > "pw" <***paulwilliamson@***spamcop.net> wrote in message > news:[email hidden]... > >> Do you mean the Sidewinder Game Device Software for Windows 95 and >> 98? That is all I can find at Microsoft's site. >> >> Thanks >> >> >> -pw >> remove astericks (*) from e-mail address >> (use paulwilliamson at spamcop dot net) >> >> ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet >> News==---- >> http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! >> 120,000+ Newsgroups >> ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption >> =----The SideWinder USB Joystick and Wheel did indeed come with their own version
of 4.0.
-Larry
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> Larry are you sure (at least about the wheels)? > > I am not positive but I have the non ff, and OK, it is different yes. but > I also have 2 black rubber ff wheels (version 1's), (actually lost one in > a move) and one Red rubber (aka version 2) these all 3 FF wheels seemed to > have the same SW. > > I would be happy to burn the CD for PW, if he figures out how to contact > me. So again you PW adress a note to the one in thread, or stingre32 as > the name and send it to me at Hotmail. surely that is easy enough? > > later gator > > Larry enlightened us with: >> Microsoft, for some bizarre reason never explained by them for 5 >> years now, never made version 4.0 downloadable. >> >> And, in fact, there are _multiple_ verisons of 4.0. Each SideWinder >> USB device came with it's own version of 4.0. >> >> Nice hardware. Antiquited software and boneheaded support. >> >> -Larry >> >> "pw" <***paulwilliamson@***spamcop.net> wrote in message >> news:[email hidden]... >> >>> Do you mean the Sidewinder Game Device Software for Windows 95 and >>> 98? That is all I can find at Microsoft's site. >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> >>> -pw >>> remove astericks (*) from e-mail address >>> (use paulwilliamson at spamcop dot net) >>> >>> ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet >>> News==---- >>> http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! >>> 120,000+ Newsgroups >>> ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption >>> =---- > >The MSFFW 4.0 CD (without the MTM2 Installer) is 22.7MB Zipped.
-Larry
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> Larry are you sure (at least about the wheels)? > > I am not positive but I have the non ff, and OK, it is different yes. but > I also have 2 black rubber ff wheels (version 1's), (actually lost one in > a move) and one Red rubber (aka version 2) these all 3 FF wheels seemed to > have the same SW. > > I would be happy to burn the CD for PW, if he figures out how to contact > me. So again you PW adress a note to the one in thread, or stingre32 as > the name and send it to me at Hotmail. surely that is easy enough? > > later gator > > Larry enlightened us with: >> Microsoft, for some bizarre reason never explained by them for 5 >> years now, never made version 4.0 downloadable. >> >> And, in fact, there are _multiple_ verisons of 4.0. Each SideWinder >> USB device came with it's own version of 4.0. >> >> Nice hardware. Antiquited software and boneheaded support. >> >> -Larry >> >> "pw" <***paulwilliamson@***spamcop.net> wrote in message >> news:[email hidden]... >> >>> Do you mean the Sidewinder Game Device Software for Windows 95 and >>> 98? That is all I can find at Microsoft's site. >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> >>> -pw >>> remove astericks (*) from e-mail address >>> (use paulwilliamson at spamcop dot net) >>> >>> ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet >>> News==---- >>> http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! >>> 120,000+ Newsgroups >>> ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption >>> =---- > >Quoted text (16 lines)
>pw <***paulwilliamson@***spamcop.net> wrote >> Sidewinder Version 4 software does not exist, only 3.2 (which is for >> 95, 98, and Me). >> >> Thanks. >> >> >> -pw > >Yes it does, it came on CD with the USB versions of the wheel, but >it's not available for download. > >Let me know if you can't find it and I'll see about zipping it up from >the CD and putting it online somewhere for you. > >Ade.pw wrote:
...
>
> I plugged it back into a USB port and it got detected. I was asked to
> insert the Sidewinder CD. I can't find it. Any way, I don't recall
> needing it with Win2K SP4 (in fact, there are no drivers to be found
> for it at the MS site).
The reinstalled Win XP (motherboard and cpu upgrade) and didnt bother
with the Sidewinder CD or Sidewinder 4.0 or more likely I just forgot.
My MSFF (MS SW Force Feedback Wheel) is in my controller menu and
working fine. I use the separate axis for throttle and brake. I works
great in F1C, NR2003, NSR, and rFactor.
..Bob
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>pw wrote: >... > >> >> I plugged it back into a USB port and it got detected. I was asked to >> insert the Sidewinder CD. I can't find it. Any way, I don't recall >> needing it with Win2K SP4 (in fact, there are no drivers to be found >> for it at the MS site). > >The reinstalled Win XP (motherboard and cpu upgrade) and didnt bother >with the Sidewinder CD or Sidewinder 4.0 or more likely I just forgot. >My MSFF (MS SW Force Feedback Wheel) is in my controller menu and >working fine. I use the separate axis for throttle and brake. I works >great in F1C, NR2003, NSR, and rFactor. > >..BobYou got more mail again today PW. sorry I flubbed that zip up. I was gone
all day sunday.
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