Buddy of mine just set up WinXP, FS2k2...a PIC-head in the making... says he can't get his MS-SW FF v1 stick to work with XP and MS say they do not support it.Anyone confirm this or know a patch to get the stick working in XP?Serial plug MS ForceFeedback v1, Win XP, FS2k2.Rob.Have you hugged your PIC today?

I love it! MS doesn't support their own freaking hardware in XP.Too bad for your friend.Lee Hetherington (KBED)

Ah Yes,MS Release WIN XP.Around the same time the FF v2 stick becomes available.Guess what the FFv1 stick no longer compatible.Get a Gameport to USB adaptor - these cost about

No clue Rob. Let us know if the USB adapter solves your friends problem. I also have a friend who just purchased FS9 and is going through the flying lessons. He has done 2 PIC flights with me and is totally stoked to fly online with the PIC. He wants to go through all of the flying lessons first so that he doesn't look like a moron when he goes online. I actually gave him my old Logitech wingman piece of Crud to save him a few bucks in the peripheral department, but soon he'll be forking over money to get himself some CH products for sure.Perhaps it's people like you and your friend and your crazy power hungry video games who are causing rolling blackouts for Southern Ontario. This has lead to many amusing comments to the press by Ernie Eves including my favorite about "winning the Stanley Cup of energy reduction". Ok - end of morning rant - office coffee machine is beeping at me now.

hehe...you want a Rant...Ernie Eves is a corporate-double talking-mindless-fascist-preprogrammed-zombie. He is a classic product of the right wing elitist-inbreds. If I did not know better, I would say he was from out west - a kind of Preston Manning Reform freak on bad acid. The things his policies have done to our health care and education system are unspeakable. Then he turns around shortly before election time and offers a few bucks back to the systems...does he think people are really that incredibly stupid? When he speaks, it makes me want to do bad things. Instead, I turn on PIC767 and enjoy many hours of escapism where no one gets hurt, and no one feeds me the lies and well rehearsed #### like what spews from Eves mouth. Eves and Harris should get together and have a fascist barstad jamboree, a real 'knees up' of like minds celebrating the victories of big business at the expense of everything decent.The PIC767 does not give me any ####, feed me any lies, or pretend to be something it isn't. It is honest and treats me well.Rant off. Doctor's appointment, booked.PS - Mark - thanks for the tip on the USB/serial, I will let him know.Later.