Windows XP microsoft sidewinder joystick drivers

[KickItTwice]

I've got Windows XP and want to install the microsoft Sidewinder Precision Pro joystick. I went to microsofts website to get the drivers and they are not there. Their website for the drivers has a search feature to seach the data base for the drivers. I tried to find the drivers for Windows XP, 2000, 98, 95. and there were none there for any operating system. So what gives? Microsoft no longer supports the 3 year old joystick? Did they pull the drivers off their website?

 

[BlueWeasel]

I switched back from XP to W2K, but doesn't XP have built-in support for many of the MS Sidewinder gamepads and joysticks?

 

[LED]

switched back from XP to W2K, but doesn't XP have built-in support for many of the MS Sidewinder gamepads and joysticks?

XP read my Force Feedback Side Winder Joystick just fine

 

[KickItTwice]

Windows XP doesn't even recognize that a joy stick is plugged into the game port on the TB SC sound card. I tried to manually select the hardware that I want the drivers for which would be the microsoft side winder pro, but the list for microsoft hardware was supprisingly very short and didn't include any joysticks at all.

 

[bacillus]

IIRC MS will not be supporting that joystick in xp!

 

[KickItTwice]

I should probably get that force feed back side winder anyway. sounds like it would be really cool.

 

[Squibby]

Windows XP fully supports my original Sidewinder 3D Pro and Sidewinder gamepads. I just plugged them in and added them via the Game Controllers thing in the control pannel. Pick Microsoft Sidewinder, and it autodetects which one you have.

Squibby

 

[KickItTwice]

OMG!! It works!! I haven't tried it out yet, but it detected it. I was trying to do it through the device manager before. Thanks for the help.

 

[bacillus]

sorry, what I meant was the joystick will work but you can't program the buttons using the sidewinder software as MS aren't writing a program for use in xp!

 

[kgraeme]

Originally posted by: KickItTwice
OMG!! It works!! I haven't tried it out yet, but it detected it. I was trying to do it through the device manager before. Thanks for the help.

Yeah, it's the secret handshake. It took me forever to figure out to use the Game Controllers control panel. It didn't help that I still had my Control Panels on the Category View which doesn't show you that there is a Game Controllers control panel. Gah.