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Gameport Questions
I have a gameport enabled on my Creative (Audigy 2 ZS) sound card. It works
fine with either MS Sidewinder Forcefeedback pro joystick or my CH ProPedals. I'm now trying to configure the standard gameport on the motherboard, so that I have two gameports available, but I can't get it to work. I've enabled the onboard gameport in the BIOS and XP see's this as a Standard Gameport. Device manager also reports that it is functioning correctly and reports no conflicts (I've been careful to ensure different adrees ranges for the two ports). However, the game controller wizard reports the game controller as "not connected". The other symptom is that in the Device manager properties panel the "Device Usage" section is "greyed" out so I can't choose "use this device". The cost of moving to USB versions of these devices is pretty big. System is Intel Pentium 4 @ 2.6GHz with 1GB DDR400 Corsair XMS memory and 250GB Maxtor Sata hardrive PSU is 450Watts and OS is XPSP2. Are two gameports actually supported by XP? Anyone have a fix? Many thanks in advance Steve |
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On 23/08/2006 "Steve" steve wrote:
I have a gameport enabled on my Creative (Audigy 2 ZS) sound card. It works fine with either MS Sidewinder Forcefeedback pro joystick or my CH ProPedals. I'm now trying to configure the standard gameport on the motherboard, so that I have two gameports available, but I can't get it to work. I've enabled the onboard gameport in the BIOS and XP see's this as a Standard Gameport. Device manager also reports that it is functioning correctly and reports no conflicts (I've been careful to ensure different adrees ranges for the two ports). However, the game controller wizard reports the game controller as "not connected". The other symptom is that in the Device manager properties panel the "Device Usage" section is "greyed" out so I can't choose "use this device". The cost of moving to USB versions of these devices is pretty big. System is Intel Pentium 4 @ 2.6GHz with 1GB DDR400 Corsair XMS memory and 250GB Maxtor Sata hardrive PSU is 450Watts and OS is XPSP2. Are two gameports actually supported by XP? Anyone have a fix? Many thanks in advance Steve You can not have two Gameport connectors configured. Each use the exact same resources and XP will/could have conflicts. If you want to have two Gameports, you need to locate a joystick cable which splits into two ports. I have one made by Gravis. BTW: Gameports have been "discontinued." Microsoft no longer provides any drivers for them and have completely "drop" the Gameports in Vista. I am not sure about serial/parallel ports support in Vista. I know that newer motherboard no loner have any serial, parallel or PS/2 (mouse/keyboard) ports. You get more USB ports nowadays. -- --- Y. |
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Exactly. I used gameports years ago. Windows never did like combining 1
port from a game card and 1 port from the motherboard. You either need a game card with 2 ports or a splitter which only works on certain games. Just join us in the 21st century and get usb controllers. Microsoft likes to force us to upgrade hardware. I think I still have a keyboard around with a plug that looks like a PS2 plug but fatter, but I don't try to use it... "Yves Leclerc" wrote in message ... On 23/08/2006 "Steve" steve wrote: I have a gameport enabled on my Creative (Audigy 2 ZS) sound card. It works fine with either MS Sidewinder Forcefeedback pro joystick or my CH ProPedals. I'm now trying to configure the standard gameport on the motherboard, so that I have two gameports available, but I can't get it to work. I've enabled the onboard gameport in the BIOS and XP see's this as a Standard Gameport. Device manager also reports that it is functioning correctly and reports no conflicts (I've been careful to ensure different adrees ranges for the two ports). However, the game controller wizard reports the game controller as "not connected". The other symptom is that in the Device manager properties panel the "Device Usage" section is "greyed" out so I can't choose "use this device". The cost of moving to USB versions of these devices is pretty big. System is Intel Pentium 4 @ 2.6GHz with 1GB DDR400 Corsair XMS memory and 250GB Maxtor Sata hardrive PSU is 450Watts and OS is XPSP2. Are two gameports actually supported by XP? Anyone have a fix? Many thanks in advance Steve You can not have two Gameport connectors configured. Each use the exact same resources and XP will/could have conflicts. If you want to have two Gameports, you need to locate a joystick cable which splits into two ports. I have one made by Gravis. BTW: Gameports have been "discontinued." Microsoft no longer provides any drivers for them and have completely "drop" the Gameports in Vista. I am not sure about serial/parallel ports support in Vista. I know that newer motherboard no loner have any serial, parallel or PS/2 (mouse/keyboard) ports. You get more USB ports nowadays. -- --- Y. |
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"Yves Leclerc" wrote in message ... On 23/08/2006 "Steve" steve wrote: I have a gameport enabled on my Creative (Audigy 2 ZS) sound card. It works fine with either MS Sidewinder Forcefeedback pro joystick or my CH ProPedals. I'm now trying to configure the standard gameport on the motherboard, so that I have two gameports available, but I can't get it to work. You can not have two Gameport connectors configured. Each use the exact same resources and XP will/could have conflicts. If you want to have two Gameports, you need to locate a joystick cable which splits into two ports. I have one made by Gravis. BTW: Gameports have been "discontinued." Microsoft no longer provides any drivers for them and have completely "drop" the Gameports in Vista. I am not sure about serial/parallel ports support in Vista. I know that newer motherboard no loner have any serial, parallel or PS/2 (mouse/keyboard) ports. You get more USB ports nowadays. -- --- Y. Can you specify what the resource conflicts are? The I/O ports I've set differently and I've eliminated the Midi port conflict - what's left give us a clue then I can hunt down the solutions! Many thanks Steve |
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"Steve" steve wrote in message ... "Yves Leclerc" wrote in message ... On 23/08/2006 "Steve" steve wrote: I have a gameport enabled on my Creative (Audigy 2 ZS) sound card. It works fine with either MS Sidewinder Forcefeedback pro joystick or my CH ProPedals. I'm now trying to configure the standard gameport on the motherboard, so that I have two gameports available, but I can't get it to work. You can not have two Gameport connectors configured. Each use the exact same resources and XP will/could have conflicts. If you want to have two Gameports, you need to locate a joystick cable which splits into two ports. I have one made by Gravis. BTW: Gameports have been "discontinued." Microsoft no longer provides any drivers for them and have completely "drop" the Gameports in Vista. I am not sure about serial/parallel ports support in Vista. I know that newer motherboard no loner have any serial, parallel or PS/2 (mouse/keyboard) ports. You get more USB ports nowadays. -- --- Y. Can you specify what the resource conflicts are? The I/O ports I've set differently and I've eliminated the Midi port conflict - what's left give us a clue then I can hunt down the solutions! Many thanks Steve Resources that conflict are normally something like IRQ. If you don't already know how to find and fix an IRQ conflict, you probably shouldn't be messing with the resources. The single game port on a game card was not meant to work with the game port on the motherboard, but to replace it. Either find a game card with 2 ports, try a splitter, or buy modern gaming devices that use the USB. |
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"Eric" wrote in message ... "Steve" steve wrote in message ... "Yves Leclerc" wrote in message ... On 23/08/2006 "Steve" steve wrote: I have a gameport enabled on my Creative (Audigy 2 ZS) sound card. It works fine with either MS Sidewinder Forcefeedback pro joystick or my CH ProPedals. I'm now trying to configure the standard gameport on the motherboard, so that I have two gameports available, but I can't get it to work. You can not have two Gameport connectors configured. Each use the exact same resources and XP will/could have conflicts. If you want to have two Gameports, you need to locate a joystick cable which splits into two ports. I have one made by Gravis. BTW: Gameports have been "discontinued." Microsoft no longer provides any drivers for them and have completely "drop" the Gameports in Vista. I am not sure about serial/parallel ports support in Vista. I know that newer motherboard no loner have any serial, parallel or PS/2 (mouse/keyboard) ports. You get more USB ports nowadays. -- --- Y. Can you specify what the resource conflicts are? The I/O ports I've set differently and I've eliminated the Midi port conflict - what's left give us a clue then I can hunt down the solutions! Many thanks Steve Resources that conflict are normally something like IRQ. If you don't already know how to find and fix an IRQ conflict, you probably shouldn't be messing with the resources. The single game port on a game card was not meant to work with the game port on the motherboard, but to replace it. Either find a game card with 2 ports, try a splitter, or buy modern gaming devices that use the USB. That's my point - I have eliminated the IRQ, memory port mapping and priority issues - what I'm looking for is what's left, which is why I asked for specific conflicts, so I can understand how this works and track down the solutions. Best Regards Steve |
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