The Software I just bought a Sidewinder Force Feedback 2 joystick at a garage sale for so cheap it wasn't funny. I'm fairly certain it has some problem but until I can find the software for the thing I can't check it out. The microsoft website, oddly enough, has the software for the original force feedback stick that is for win 95/98. But there is no sign of the software for the new stick. Where can I get this software?

I picked up a Sidewinder Force Feedback 2 joystick at a thrift store. I was having the same problem getting the joystick working on XP Pro. XP wasn't seeing the joystick. On a wim I tryed the Sidewinder on my Dell laptop (OS 98se) and it worked fine. I then pluged it back into the desktop sys (OS XP Pro). Now the Sidewinder works 100% fine. I just used the joystick with MicroSoft Flight Simulator 2004 A Century of Flight. All controls and buttons are working fine. I also delibertely bunny hoped the plane on landing, crashed the plane and ran the plane into a building to test the force feedback on the yoke. The feedback is fine also.


Steve

I have same stick, that same software wont work with xp or vista depending on what game you have you should be able to set up in input settings for the game , there was a patch at one time that someone made up you mite want to try here and do a search > http://forums.ubi.com/eve/ubb.x?a=frm&s=400102&f=49310655

Grazz.