TNFS joystick problem with GUS PnP. Any others?

Hi, I just got TFNS after a heart wrenching wait and after I joyously installed it and drooled at the opening screens, I was VERY disgusted to find that my joystick intermittently gets detected and even if it does at the beginning, by the time the race starts, the stick is gone. I pulled my GUS PnP out and put in my friend's regular GUS and it worked fine. Anyone else had similar experiences? Any ideas? Thanks Kevin

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>Hi, >I just got TFNS after a heart wrenching wait and after I joyously >installed it and drooled at the opening screens, I was VERY disgusted to >find that my joystick intermittently gets detected and even if it does at >the beginning, by the time the race starts, the stick is gone. I pulled >my GUS PnP out and put in my friend's regular GUS and it worked fine. >Anyone else had similar experiences? Any ideas?

By me the joystick gets detected up front, I can even calibrate it, but when the actual game starts, only the buttons are detected, and I can't even move the car forward. The josytick also gets "disabled" in the main menu, and only the buttons of the joystick seem to work. I also have a GUS PnP , BTW, and my joystick is plugged into the soundcard (not having any other game ports). I also have problems with it in most of the other games I have (like X-Wing, Duke 3D) but it works perfectly in MPF1GP and Descent. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- LaLa (Imre Olajos, Jr.) Magyar vagyok. _/ean /\/\ichel _/arre and WWW : http://homepage.interaccess.com/~lala -=\/=- angelis fan __o ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Music should be free." /Vangelis/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Oh, an important followup to my own post: all of the above mentioned games (TNFS included) work perfectly with my joystick, if I use SBOS! As soon as I try to use native GUS for sound, my joystick problems kick in. I suspect it is an HMI-driver problem in the games. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- LaLa (Imre Olajos, Jr.) Magyar vagyok. _/ean /\/\ichel _/arre and WWW : http://homepage.interaccess.com/~lala -=\/=- angelis fan __o ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Music should be free." /Vangelis/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

On 18 Apr 1996 18:26:35 GMT, "Imre Olajos, Jr." >Oh, an important followup to my own post: all of the above mentioned games >(TNFS included) work perfectly with my joystick, if I use SBOS! As soon as >I try to use native GUS for sound, my joystick problems kick in. This is a known problem with the GUS. Some people dont seem to complain about it though so it may even be motherboard related. Some examples of games that I cant play using native sound with the GUS are Mechwarrior2, TNFS, Wing Commander III and IV, Tie Fighter CD, EF2000 and my latest game FIFA96. Also Earthseige2 which is a Win95 game. So I'd expect every Win95 game to have joystick problems. It'll be interesting to see if the problem goes away when I upgrade my motherboard in a couple of months. Tony