Hope this is not a dum question....I just bought a racing wheel and had to
remove my joystick from the game port to accomodate it. How can I easily
switch to my joystick without reinstalling everything and not buying a
second sound/game card???
Try a joystick switch box thingy....
http://www.gamesdomain.com/gdreview/zones/reviews/hardware/jan98/joy....
Jason.
> Hope this is not a dum question....I just bought a racing wheel and had to
> remove my joystick from the game port to accomodate it. How can I easily
> switch to my joystick without reinstalling everything and not buying a
> second sound/game card???
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Jason Monds
"My other car is a Ferrari"
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USB fixes all.
I tried everything with my Nascar pro wheel, and just never worked no matter
what the situation. Well, with USB joysticks, I left my wheel plugged in the
game port and just used my joystick control panel to turn them on or
off.......works like a charm.
I was able to find both USB gamepad and flight stik for very reasonable
price, and love them...........now I just need a biga$$ hub on the desk top
so i dont have to get under the desk to add a new device.
> Hope this is not a dum question....I just bought a racing wheel and had to
> remove my joystick from the game port to accomodate it. How can I easily
> switch to my joystick without reinstalling everything and not buying a
> second sound/game card???
You can use the PDPI L4 digital gameport card to get up to 4 gameport
devices which can be 'hot-swapped' by means of a utility of theirs.
I haven't used this facility though - I only got it because it reduces
the CPU overhead required to poll the gameport (as it's done on the card
rather than by the CPU) and it also gives a much smoother and more
stable reading.
Check it out at http://www.pdpi.net.
You could try a switchbox but I've heard these are unreliable with
many devices like FF wheels/sticks or controllers with many buttons as
they only connect a subset of all the pins on the port.
Alternatively, consider getting a USB stick and you should have no
problems. I have a Sidewinder FF wheel on the joystick port, with
Precision Pro and Freestyle Pro USB sticks/pads. No problems with
having to unplug anything. Just make sure you assign the correct
controller to ID 1 since some games only work with controllers if they
have the ID 1 within the joystick properties. There is a small program
on CH products website that will let you easily set any controller to ID
1 (regardless of manufacturer).
Gavan
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> > Hope this is not a dum question....I just bought a racing wheel and
> had to
> > remove my joystick from the game port to accomodate it. How can I
> easily
> > switch to my joystick without reinstalling everything and not buying a
> > second sound/game card???
> You could try a switchbox but I've heard these are unreliable with
> many devices like FF wheels/sticks or controllers with many buttons as
> they only connect a subset of all the pins on the port.
> Alternatively, consider getting a USB stick and you should have no
> problems. I have a Sidewinder FF wheel on the joystick port, with
> Precision Pro and Freestyle Pro USB sticks/pads. No problems with
> having to unplug anything. Just make sure you assign the correct
> controller to ID 1 since some games only work with controllers if they
> have the ID 1 within the joystick properties. There is a small program
> on CH products website that will let you easily set any controller to ID
> 1 (regardless of manufacturer).
> Gavan
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> There can be only one.............
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