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lost joystick when swiitching from sb live! to audigy

trenchfoot

trenchfoot

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i vaguely remember hearing about losing joystick function when removing/re-installing ms game controller profiler, but i didn't know that i'd lose the jstk when uninstalling sblive! software/card and replacing with audigy software/card. i got that 'ol conflict icon sitting on the joystick emulator in device manager, yet when i attempt to re-install or update the driver winblows98se tells me the best driver is already installed. any way of forcing the os to re-install the driver successfully short of a fdisk or a two month old recovery?
 
My audigy (OEM version) doesn't even have a joy-stick port. I understand that you need a seperate daughter card from Creative if you want a joy stick. I don't have need of one so, for me, it's moot. I figure if I really need to use a joystick I'll just enable the port built into my motherboard. Is that an option for you?
 
hi dan; yup, i have the little port connected to the soundcard and taking up an empty card slot.
anyway, thanks to you i've got the audigy gameport emulator enabled and recognized by bios and os. i had to take a very long and round-about way to get it enabled and have the joystick recognized by manipulating the bios, the device manager, the gaming options feature in the control panel and the ms game control profiler, but you put me on the right path and i appreciate it much. i sorta just followed my nose to get things to work so i'm still trying to figure out what triggered the os into successfully loading the drivers and get out of the "catch-22" cycle it was in, but i wrote everything that i did step by step so i'll analyze that and maybe even recreate the problem to find the answer. thanks again dan! 😉
 
What kind of joystick is it? By the sounds of it, you have a good ole' Sidewinder 3D Pro. If that's the case, you may be SOL, as the 3D Pro is a "digitally driven" stick(it takes digital measurements on its own, instead of having the game port provider "poll" the stick for its analogue data); but soundcards nowadays use "digitally driven" gameports(it used to be that the CPU would do all the actual work for polling, a digital port does the work on its own). Digital gameports were meant for analogue sticks, and digital sticks were meant for analogue ports; so they never did get along too well. Having the same problem myself, I just gave up once I got an SB Live, and bought a USB based stick. You can keep fiddling, but my advice is to save your pennies for a new stick; the 3D Pro is simply too picky to be worthwhile.
 
Dan your oem model should still have come with the seperate gameport connector card!
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Nope, no daughter card. I got the OEM Audigy from Thompson's on the deal that was going around here a couple of months ago.
 
virge, it's the old ms ff pro. it's going on three years of constant gaming in true timex tradition. i have two of those, a ff pro2 and logitech ff controller on a 4 station lan going constantly with my kids and the neighborhood kids camping out in my home office lan-gaming all the time. on the stations with winxp pro i have had no problems upgrading the soundcards. win2kpro also works fine. just this "test station" as i call it with win98se loaded gave me any probs in this regard. and thanks for the added input, it'll definetly help me sort things out. 🙂
 
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