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Postby Gunny04 » Tue Jan 17, 2006 2:13 pm

I have a saitek R80 Racing wheel for gameport, with recent installation of Sound card I have a 15 port gameport on the pc.... Now, the wheel works, but not propperly, I read and it says it isnt recomended to be used on XP but in the control panel it detects it perfectly fine, but in 18 wheels of steel convoy and Driver (the original) Demo its all over the place without moving it.... any ideas?  Cheers, Gunny
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Re: Gameport Wheel

Postby Gunny04 » Tue Jan 17, 2006 2:18 pm

I take back the Control Panel working right, it seems to have gone a bit wacky their now... Hmmmmm Dunno any help? Cheers, Gunny
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Re: Gameport Wheel

Postby congo » Thu Jan 19, 2006 4:16 am

find an XP compatible driver for it?
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Re: Gameport Wheel

Postby Gunny04 » Thu Jan 19, 2006 6:49 am

are none.... one of the things that irritated a certain reviewer.... Going Windows 98SE For the games I use it in..... Cheers, Gunny
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Re: Gameport Wheel

Postby fireboss » Thu Jan 19, 2006 10:35 am

Try goining into Windows Compatability settings and setting up for your Wheel in Windows 98,or 2000. Good luck Ken
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Re: Gameport Wheel

Postby Gunny04 » Thu Jan 19, 2006 3:41 pm

Dont see the compatibility settings for control panel? Any help, Cheers, Gunny
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Re: Gameport Wheel

Postby fireboss » Thu Jan 19, 2006 11:29 pm

 Gunny,if the controls came with an installation CD try running
it. Then go to your Program Compatibility Wizard and see if it show's up.Ken
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Re: Gameport Wheel

Postby Gunny04 » Thu Jan 19, 2006 11:34 pm

if it had a cd its long gone, I found it out with an ancient computer lol But I will look into this, Cheers, Gunny
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Re: Gameport Wheel

Postby congo » Fri Jan 20, 2006 5:42 pm

Have you tried calibrating it in Gaming Options at all, it is actually showing up in there so you show see the calibration option.
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Re: Gameport Wheel

Postby Gunny04 » Fri Jan 20, 2006 6:04 pm

Windows XP wont detect it, I gotta manually make a profile for it in order to see it too calibrate, This whole 'Gameport' thing with this particular wheel is helpless for XP, Once I find a good partitioning util I'll just run XP/98SE Cheers, Gunny

Gaming Options? havent heard of this one
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Re: Gameport Wheel

Postby Gunny04 » Fri Jan 20, 2006 11:28 pm

What would a Gameport to USB Adapter do? Anything? Cheers, Gunny
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Re: Gameport Wheel

Postby 4_Series_Scania » Fri Jan 20, 2006 11:40 pm

What would a Gameport to USB Adapter do? Anything? Cheers, Gunny



I could do with one of those, my Audigy2 has no gameport, I have a gameport M$ FF stick!

Trouble is, Gameport to USB Adapter's (which would get round my problem) seem to be as rare as Rocking Horse Poo.  :(
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Re: Gameport Wheel

Postby Gunny04 » Sat Jan 21, 2006 12:00 am

Check Ebay and random Radio shacks, they arent cheap but hey, they might do the trick...... I saw many in UK and a few in the US like 20 bucks more or less! Cheers, Gunny
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Re: Gameport Wheel

Postby congo » Sat Jan 21, 2006 4:54 am

I've heard they don't work, if anyone knows different, do tell........
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Re: Gameport Wheel

Postby 4_Series_Scania » Sat Jan 21, 2006 9:29 am

I've heard they don't work, if anyone knows different, do tell........



They do work congo, I actually had such an adapter that came with my stick, alas, I've placed it somewhere "safe" and Lord knows where that is!  ::)
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