SIdewinder Precision 2 Drivers

[ecco123]

Can somebody please send me the drivers for the sidewinder precision 2? Im sick to death of trying to get the damn thing to work,(see lower post on this board) so im gonna do it manually. You cannot even download the drivers from the microsoft sidewinder website!!
Thanks Steve steke@email.com

[ecco123]

It turns out that the joystick actually works in fs, but the computer will not recognise that there is a joystick attached (in the game controllers menu). It works, i dont care about the software, so dont bother posting a reply, unless you have a bright idea how to get the comp to reconise it.
Thanks guys.

[mmniemi]

Do you happen to have Colin Mcrae 2 installed on your computer? It seem to have tendency to screw up the hid.dll during the install. To fix that you need your windows CD. Insert the CD in cd-drive and from startup menu select run. Write SFC and run it. The FSC program should now be open. Select the option where you can select the file from windows installation CD yourself and write hid.dll in to that text box. Then just run the program and windows should fix that broken hid.dll...

Try this out. It worked for me. That hid.dll is a driver that joysticks use, and like I said, at least Colin McRae 2 installation screws it up. I don't know if some other programs do that but CMR2 is one of those for sure...

Let me know if this was a fix...

Mikko Maliniemi
mmniemi@hotmail.com

M.M.Niemi's FS Planes
http://www.flightsim.com/mmniemi

[mith]

I used to have a sidewinder 3dpro and it would NOT recognise... I never resolved the driver problem, but I WAS able to get the stick to work by doing a custom setting and choosing the buttons/axis myself. I Lost some of the hat positions... but at least the stick was functional.

Ultimately, I got rid of that joystick and got a precision pro (USB) and all was once again, well.

Hope you resolve your problems... I know how frustrating they can be.