I have the force Microsoft Sidewinder Force Feedback Wheel, which is pretty old (from around 1999 and it does not have a USB connection. Even though I found the pedals and wheel, I can't find the power supply and am wondering if it's worth buying a 12V, 1.3A power supply since everything looks like it's in good condition and I'd like to use it vs.buying a whole new wheel and pedals. Also, what kind of adapter would be required to connect it to a modern PC with USB 3.0 and would the adapter work 100% I'm using Windows 7 and would like to play the relatively recent Need for Speed or other racing games.

Dec 12, 2013. I have the force Microsoft Sidewinder Force Feedback Wheel, which is pretty old (from around 1999 and it does not have a USB connection.Even though I found the pedals and wheel, I can't find the power supply and am wondering if it's worth buying a 12.

Force Feedback loses some effects with default driver supplied with vista ultimate 32bit after roughly 2+ effects are applied at once. (it happens in multiple racing games) I have noticed that it shows steer Left/Right and accelerate as X/Y axis but brake is listed as Z axis.

Shouldn't force feedback be tagged as Z axis? I have tested the controller with xp and the same games and the controller works fine with the default xp driver. Sidewinder software wont install on vista so i can't load any different drivers to check if this is the issue. Note: In the default xp driver it lists left/right/brake/accel. as x/y and z as feedback. Hello Tracker, According to your post, you are now using Microsoft Sidewinder Force Feedback Wheel mouse. This device has no driver for Windows Vista provided by Microsoft. Therefore, some functions may miss, very possibly including the problems you encountered.

For more information about compatibility, please refer to the following site: For better experience in games, I personally suggest you to upgrade the game device, for example, Microsoft SideWinder Mouse. For more information about this product, please refer to the following site: Regards, Lionel Chen. Hello Tracker, According to your post, you are now using Microsoft Sidewinder Force Feedback Wheel mouse. This device has no driver for Windows Vista provided by Microsoft.

Therefore, some functions may miss, very possibly including the problems you encountered. For more information about compatibility, please refer to the following site: For better experience in games, I personally suggest you to upgrade the game device, for example, Microsoft SideWinder Mouse. For more information about this product, please refer to the following site: Regards, Lionel Chen. Hi, Is there a way to use the old Microsoft Sidewinder steering wheel (with force feedback) under Windows XP? I installed my old Soundblaster in order to have a game port.

The Soundblaster is recognized and the audio is ok but the game port is not recognized by the system. When I try to install the Sidewinder (control/config panel & add game controller), the system's answer is that the 'game port driver is missing'. Is it possible to have the missing game port driver? Thank you, bests regards path133. Lionel, what you have shown is that Microsoft have not put a driver for the Microsoft USB Sidewinder Force Feedback Wheel in Vista.is there going to be one?

How To Install Cccam To Openbox V8 Pro. I tried to get my wheel to run on Vista and found the same problems as Tracker ie the Y axis is not split and the accellerator pedal shows on the Z axis. I was intending to make it work on Colin Mcrae rally 2005 as it did OK with XP but, surely, Microsoft can put a driver into Vista for one of its own products.That wheel has taken a lot of battering and I am not going to throw it away because it doesn't work on VISTA. As a 54 year old gamer, the thought of driving a car using a wheel mouse made me laugh. No, unfortunately.I have looked for a driver all over the web for VISTA, thought this would be a simple job for Microsoft and thought one of their employees would read this. So I use an older computer that still has XP on it and it runs fine but overheats from its efforts after a couple of hours, and crashes. Someone said try running the game in XP mode while using vista, but I have not tried that as it is easier to use the other machine.Here in the UK there is not a decent wheel for under £70 about the price of XP or VISTA OEM so dual boot would be cheaper.