SB PCI128 and DOS sims

I hope someone can shed a little light on this problem. I have a Creative PCI128 soundcard and use the joystick port on the sound card. This works fine in Win98 and use to work for DOS games played in a DOS box (GP2, Rally Championship, N2) until now. I don't know what happened but these games no longer recognize any joysticks or my TSW. Everything looks fine in Device Manager, Legacy support turned on, joystick port enabled, etc. The joystick port works fine for GPL, N99, MGPRS2, etc. Any ideas? Wayne Hutchison

Wayne, If it's only within a game, try reinstalling it. Failing that, try the following: 1) If you have updated card drivers, place them in a temp dir. 2) Remove the card from the device manager. 3) Shut down the system and remove the card. 4) Restart the system without the card. 5) Shut down again and reinstall the card. 6) Restart and allow Win98 to find the card. 7) Select the drivers either from the CD or the temp dir. you created. If the above don't do it for you, install Thrustmaster's Pro Panel. Cheers! Marc

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> I hope someone can shed a little light on this problem. I have a Creative > PCI128 soundcard and use the joystick port on the sound card. This works > fine in Win98 and use to work for DOS games played in a DOS box (GP2, Rally > Championship, N2) until now. I don't know what happened but these games no > longer recognize any joysticks or my TSW. Everything looks fine in Device > Manager, Legacy support turned on, joystick port enabled, etc. The joystick > port works fine for GPL, N99, MGPRS2, etc. > Any ideas? > Wayne Hutchison

-- Marc J. Nelson SimRacing Online - http://www.simracing.com * No animals were harmed in the making of this e-mail *

Hi Marc, Thanks for the help. I tried everything you listed and still no luck. I know these games use to work a couple of weeks ago. Since then I've updated the bios on my motherboard and installed a new video card. So I flashed the old bios back in...no change. I don't really want to swap out the VRaptor 8MB AGP for the old Stealth II S220 but I may have to just to be sure. Any other ideas? Wayne

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>Wayne, >If it's only within a game, try reinstalling it. Failing that, try the >following: >1) If you have updated card drivers, place them in a temp dir. >2) Remove the card from the device manager. >3) Shut down the system and remove the card. >4) Restart the system without the card. >5) Shut down again and reinstall the card. >6) Restart and allow Win98 to find the card. >7) Select the drivers either from the CD or the temp dir. you created. >If the above don't do it for you, install Thrustmaster's Pro Panel. >Cheers! >Marc >> I hope someone can shed a little light on this problem. I have a Creative >> PCI128 soundcard and use the joystick port on the sound card. This works >> fine in Win98 and use to work for DOS games played in a DOS box (GP2,

Rally >> Championship, N2) until now. I don't know what happened but these games no >> longer recognize any joysticks or my TSW. Everything looks fine in Device >> Manager, Legacy support turned on, joystick port enabled, etc. The joystick

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>> port works fine for GPL, N99, MGPRS2, etc. >> Any ideas? >> Wayne Hutchison >-- >Marc J. Nelson >SimRacing Online - http://www.simracing.com >* No animals were harmed in the making of this e-mail *

Found the solution finally. I have a Sidewinder Precision Pro USB joystick. If I unplug the joystick from the USB port, my regular joysticks / wheels work fine in DOS sims in Win98. With the USB joystick plugged in, the regular sticks just don't exist. Thanks for the help, Wayne Hutchison

Doh! > Found the solution finally. I have a Sidewinder Precision Pro USB joystick. -- Marc J. Nelson SimRacing Online - http://www.simracing.com * No animals were harmed in the making of this e-mail *

Is it possible the wheel has a Cat-Modified cord, or is broken in some other respect? -Larry > Thanks for the help. I tried everything you listed and still no luck. I know > these games use to work a couple of weeks ago. Since then I've updated the > bios on my motherboard and installed a new video card. So I flashed the old > bios back in...no change. I don't really want to swap out the VRaptor 8MB > AGP for the old Stealth II S220 but I may have to just to be sure.

Actually, I would have caught it right away if I knew about the PPUSBJS :) I have the same setup. The Joystick does, indeed, kill the Joystick port when in use! -Larry > Found the solution finally. I have a Sidewinder Precision Pro USB joystick. > If I unplug the joystick from the USB port, my regular joysticks / wheels > work fine in DOS sims in Win98. With the USB joystick plugged in, the > regular sticks just don't exist.