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Guest skybert
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I have a MS Sidwinder FF joystick. The old one with gameport connection. Vista does not support gameport but some cleaver minds have made it work via a Creative soundcard. http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs/board/message?board.id=Vista&message.id=13336

This worked out great for playing Lock On but I cant get it to work with DCS: Black Shark. The program will not start as long as the stick is added as a Game Controller in Vista. If I remove the stick DCS starts an I can start a mission. I have also tried starting DCS, then minimizing the game to add the joystick. This results in a runtime error as soon as I try to start a mission.

This is probably not a bug that affects many, but I hope someone have a quick fix. I like my old Sidewinder:)

 

Here are the error file form the temp folder:

Error running Config/autoexec.cfg: cannot open Config/autoexec.cfg: No such file or directory

09.01.2009 12:18 V808201900

 

Also found a text file named NewInputStart that shows:

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Try to create device. Device type is: 274. Device name is: Mus

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diDevice->GetCapabilities

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Mouse created[Mus].

2009.01.09 12:18:00:703

Try to create device. Device type is: 1043. Device name is: Tastatur

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diDevice->GetCapabilities

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Keyboard created[Tastatur].

2009.01.09 12:18:00:708

Try to create device. Device type is: 66068. Device name is: Microsoft SideWinder Force Feedback Pro

2009.01.09 12:18:00:712

diDevice->GetCapabilities

2009.01.09 12:18:00:714

Joyctick: try to set pov count: 4

2009.01.09 12:18:00:714

Joyctick: try to setCooperativeLevel

2009.01.09 12:18:00:714

Joyctick: try to setDataFormat

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Joyctick: try to setAxesRange

2009.01.09 12:18:00:715

Joyctick: try to createForceFeedback

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Joyctick: try to setSpringAutocenter

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