USB or PCI joystick controller

[Technoid]

I have a SB Live model SB0100 sitting here, unused, if you want it

Untill recently, these cards where a pain to get drivers for.

The unified live drivers used to refuse to have anything to do with em.

Creatives support just said "It's an OEM card, talk with your computer manufactor"

but last time I downloaded the unified driwers they installed without a hitch, gues someone showed one of those cards up creatives ***

[schmosef]

Mechwarrior?

as I said, I have a Soundblaster Live card sitting here, if you want it

Thanks but I just found a first gen retail SB!Live card that I had laying around.

SitFlyer has generously offered to send me his unused USB/Joystick dongle. If that doesn't work I'll try this old card.

Oh, and to answer your question, the games in questions are FreeSpace (I and II), Descent 3, and StarLancer.

Space combat games are my favourite genre. It's too bad that the market for them fizzled. Everyone in the WC scene is praying that EA reboots the WC series. There's a rumour that they might already be working on a game.

[Nowhere]

BTW schmo, I'm planning to get into space sim genre (it was almost dead before PCs got popular here...), but since obviously I refuse to play those few games on anything else than a joystick, here's a sort of question...even for "arcade style" sims, like Freespace, 3-axis joystick only, right?

[schmosef]

BTW schmo, I'm planning to get into space sim genre (it was almost dead before PCs got popular here...), but since obviously I refuse to play those few games on anything else than a joystick, here's a sort of question...even for "arcade style" sims, like Freespace, 3-axis joystick only, right?

It's just not an immersive experience without one.

[az]

Nowhere, I felt like you, especially as I played those games when they were still popular, but surprisingly freelancer was good with the mouse! If the game is made for it, mouse flying can work in arcade spacesims. I still own a nice Saitek joystick though. I'll try and see if Darkstar One is any good (and my integrated graphics notebook powerful enough to run it...)

[schmosef]

Yeah, Freelancer was made for play with a mouse. Starlancer is still better with a good Joystick.

[KeiFront]

Nowhere, I played Freelancer with a mouse, and I'm currently playing Freespace 2 (FSOpen) with a mouse. Freelancer is perfectly playable, but I got a feeling that Freespace 2 works better with a joystick.

[SitFlyer]

Nowhere, I felt like you, especially as I played those games when they were still popular, but surprisingly freelancer was good with the mouse! If the game is made for it, mouse flying can work in arcade spacesims. I still own a nice Saitek joystick though. I'll try and see if Darkstar One is any good (and my integrated graphics notebook powerful enough to run it...)

The intel integrated graphics on my notebook will run FreeSpace Open okay (not to be confused with great)
I also use a Saitek joystick (my microsoft precision pro died last summer).

[az]

That's exactly my stick.