Anyone have this problem? For some reason, I cannot use a joystick with a USB on Flight Simulator 2002...the joystick stops responding about 10 minutes into a flight. I built my own computer...SOYO P4VDA motherboard, Pentium 4, 512 RAM, Windows 98SE (did the same with Windows 2000), Soundblaster LIVE Soundcard. When I called Microsoft, they told me to disable the sound...great advice...(even though when I did, the joystick worked fine....duh). I am using a Logitek Wingman Digital joystick, but using it in the motherboard's gameport.I'd sure like to upgrade to a better joystick, and be able to use the USB inputs...any advice? THANKS!Chris

Do you have any onboard sound or game port?

Hi!...and thanks for responding!Yes...I DO have onboard sound, but I have it disabled in the BIOS because I have the Soundblaster card, which has better audio on it...(ie EQ, effects, etc). The onboard sound is pretty basic...As far as the game port, I have 4 onboard USB ports, a standard onboard game port, and the Soundblaster card has an standard onboard gameport, not USB.cg

In that case I had exactly same problem as you and on my BIOS, there areseperate settings for the sound and the game/midi port.Disabling only the sound wouldn't work so I looked for more settingsand found there were seperate ones for the Midi and game port.Disabled them both and everything got fixed. Give it a try.Sound:http://www.bgic.org/~georgi55/bios1.JPGGame/Midi Porthttp://www.bgic.org/~georgi55/bios2.JPG

Thanks LOADS!!! I'll try it later tonight and let you know!cg