Gamepad won't work

[donfm]

I have a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz sound card.....I tried connecting it for a game but I can't get the gamepad to work properly. The sound card works fine otherwise. The guy just seems to run in circles to the left. Only way to get him to go straight is to hold the rocker control to the right all the time. I've tried updating drivers....reinstalling the sound card and the gamepad. I tried to use a joystick and had similar problems. The game/midi port on my MOBO has been disabled. I have an Asus P4P800 MOBO. I've tried configuring the controller with different settings in the Game Controllers panel in Control Panel. I'm out of options. Any suggestions here?

 

[BlueWeasel]

Have you tried calibrating the gamepad within the control panel? Also, you might try updating the Santa Cruz drivers to the latest version (v4193) and see if that makes a difference.

I had problems with the SC gameport and my Nforce2 gameport on my motherboard, even though it was disabled in the BIOS. I had to use the motherboard gameport because the SC gameport wouldn't work and it had a yellow exclamation mark in Device Manager. Upgrading to the v4193 drivers fixed this problem for me.

 

[donfm]

Well..yes I did update the drivers and I disabled the onboard game port. I went to the Turtle Beach site but it looks like they quit supporting the card after they got bought out. The drivers are from June 2003. There is no yellow mark in device manager.... but the game port does not work work. I have an Nvidia Video card as well. I'm gonna try another sound card and see if it' Santa Cruz related. Everybody says to configure a new controller but the options to make one are the same as the stock controllers listed so not sure how that helps. My gamepad has 6 buttons and one 2-axis rocker switch....I just read the game info and it says you need an 8 button controller. Maybe that's the problem but I would think the forward/right/left/back control would be the same.

 

[0roo0roo]

try it on another system. the calibration shoulda fixed it.