Fs. - Microsoft Force Feedback Steering Wheel Kit

[Gifted]

you all know the one im selling...

Microsoft Force Feedback wheel and pedels!
Game port version... not USB!

perfect condition and to be honest hardly used...

i have the driver CD although all you on Windows XP wont need it.. as its will just plug and play perfectly :D

improve all your driving games with sperb force feedback (imo - the best whell on the market)

to be sold at i15... Friday night


£40 ono

[Razorman[#1]]

This wheel does not support XP, i've just had to sell mine & upgrade to the usb version for that very reason, the gameport version of the sidewinder joystick does work with xp but not the ff wheel & microsoft are not releasing anymore drivers to support xp, tho it will work fine in win 98.
:mad:

[Gifted]

you what!?

i was using it the other month and im on XP!....

ill set it up for anyone that buys it :D

[Razorman[#1]]

Originally posted by Gifted
you what!?

i was using it the other month and im on XP!....

ill set it up for anyone that buys it :D

Well i know FOR SURE that it wont work on XP Pro & i can't see XP Home being much different, it's a well known fact about the gameport version of this wheel & XP being incompatible, do a little research with google & see what comes back.

[Darkblane]

The wheel DOES work in XP, cause I've got one, bought from Eskimo a while back ....

I admit, it doesn't work 100% in 100% of all games that I've got, but it's still pretty good.

I think without the proper software, even though XP detects it, the pedals aren't detected properly in most configurations ... i.e. I've found the brake is inversed so pedal down = brake off and visa versa, but I just don't use the brake :) and if I do need it, just bind it to one of the many keys on the wheel. And you just need to make sure you falsify the calibration of the accelerator, so the mid point is in fact when you have your foot completely off the pedal ... so when it's like that, acceleration = 0.

Other than that, I've noticed a few games which don't detect all the buttons i.e. the paddles, but that could just be the games themselves ...

Some of the driving games I use it in are Midtown Madness 2, Insane, Rally Championship or something ...

Other than those minor problems, I think it's an excellent wheel.

Incidently, I haven't investigated whether you can get gameport to usb converters and but if you can get them, I'm wondering if the usb software will work from the website?

oh, and I'm using XP Pro!

[Cabe]

Try before you buy people.

This site http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/sidewinder/Wheels.asp

states that there is only 1 FFB wheel, and its USB.....

also

http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/n1012388823

[Gifted]

yup... i will of COURSE allow peeps to try before they buy...

but i WAS using it the other day.. but the fact of the matter is that i have hardly used it so wouldnt know if some games ddnt support it!

[Endor]

Well I have a gameport version of the ff wheel, and it was great under 98.

Under XP Pro it gets detected, and most games detect it, but when u release the throttle, most games seem to think the brake is pressed.

Gifted, u running home or pro edition? As id change over to home if i could get the wheel working again.

ud think that MS hardware would be compatible with an MS o/s.

Thanks a lot Microshaft!!!

[Darkblane]

To fix the accelerator pedal, so that when you release it, it doesn't act like a brake, you've just got to fake the calibration.

When you are calibrating the wheel in control panel and it asks you to hold the accelerater pedal at halfway, leave it so that it is completely up i.e dont touch it, and say ok ....

Otherwise it treats the midpoint of the pedal as value 0, so when it is released, games think its negative acceleration. By making the midpoint the bit when its completely released, it sets it so accceleration is 0 when the pedal is released.

Bleh ....Endor .. just ignore the above, as I just reread your post and I see what you are on about. Do you mean when you set the controls in a game, your press pedal down as an input which it accepts as accelerator and then when you release it, it goes to the next control i.e. the brake and assumes pedal up is your input choice for that.

The only thing I've found to change that is to go back and change the brake after the control for it has been set to something else, or just accept that it means you just need one pedal ,as you usually have to brake when you take your foot of the accelerator anyway ....

Anyway, basically the wheel does work in XP, it's just not as easy to set up as in 98, and takes a bit of tweaking and compromise betweens games and the wheel.

[Gifted]

Anybody want this then!?

just make me an offer!

i never use it anymore as i dont play racing games.. but its great run with rally extreme!

NEed to sell people!

[Gifted]

OH FFS!! £20


COMON! lol

[Darkblane]

Gifted, if you get no buyers, next time I see my brother in law, I'll ask if he wants it.

He's already got a steering wheel, but he doesn't have a force feedback one (he's on xp as well), so he might want it, I just don't know when I'll next see him ....

[ninja-666]

being as this will be the highest bid.. 1p :P


hehe, i win :D

[Darkblane]

Sorry Gifted, my brother-in-law isn't interested ...