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Sidewinder Precision Pro

Anonymous
2021-04-03T15:56:59+00:00

Hello I recently found a sidewinder precision pro part number X03-57540 and I have been looking all over the web for some kind of adapter with mixed results. I just want to try it to give it as a gift to a friend who has some older pc games that has no keyboard/mouse/gamepad support. Only joystick support. Are there any Gameport to usb converters that are recommended. Thank you

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-06-05T23:30:04+00:00

    FWIW, I presently use an old Sidewinder Precision 2 Joystick (no F/Feedback) with my FSX (Part No. X05-92624) & it has worked flawlessly in both Win 7 & 10, plugged straight into a USB port using Microsoft's default drivers. However, I now have FSX installed in Win 7 and the Sim very rarely throws up an error than it did with Win 10. And usually the problem is with depleted VAS.

    Chris

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-06-05T21:15:11+00:00

    Hi Villan,

    Did you already tried?

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-04-05T04:03:08+00:00

    Thanks for the info I will do the best I can and hopefully it works out. I did order the gameport to usb connector and I will see if it works. if it doesnt I will be out 20 dollars or something. Thank you very much for the information though at least I know that there may be a work around.

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-04-04T07:46:32+00:00

    The problem is bigger than gameport to USB. There are no drivers for Win10 (not even Win7), so the buttons may work, but the very

    important force feedback function doesn't.

    Seems these old sticks and wheels were too good for their own good, and the mfg's wanted to sell new models, so they dropped support when

    Win7 (Vista maybe ?) was released.

    I have a similar Logitech Wingman flight controller that I bought not long before moving from XP to Win7, and even though it has

    both gameport and USB options it wasn't even compatible with Win7.

    There are 3rd party programs that can be used with many of the old sticks and wheels, but I believe you have to pay for the good one's.

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