Sidewinder Force Feedback 2 Joystick Compatibility

[vortex681 806]

On 18 August 2017 at 8:28 AM, BROGY said:

Yes indeed. I have installed FSW on monday and I suppose the latest update has been installed.

After removing the line "Joystick=0" FSW works as it is supposed to be.

Downloaded FSW today only to find that my FF2 joystick is recognised and has the basic functions (including stick centring) but no force feedback. I also have no "Joystick=0" entry in my FSW.cfg.

When you say it works for you as it's supposed to, do you mean you get all of the normal force feedback effects?

[AOB 78]

You could try this

 

http://fs-force.com/download.htm

[zmak 331]

1 hour ago, AOB said:

You could try this

 

http://fs-force.com/download.htm

good  point apart from being fantastic fully configurable software it also runs outside of the sim platform

The DEV is very active

[vortex681 806]

6 hours ago, AOB said:

You could try this

 

http://fs-force.com/download.htm

It's a great piece of software which I already use with FSX. However, it Only works with FSX and P3D.

[zmak 331]

2 minutes ago, vortex681 said:

It's a great piece of software which I already use with FSX. However, it Only works with FSX and P3D.

Im surprised to hear that. Have you contacted the DEV?

[vortex681 806]

4 hours ago, zmak said:

Im surprised to hear that. Have you contacted the DEV?

No, but that's what it says on the website and the dev specifically mentions it in his support forum: http://www.fs-force.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=603.

[zmak 331]

17 minutes ago, vortex681 said:

No, but that's what it says on the website and the dev specifically mentions it in his support forum: http://www.fs-force.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=603.

delete

[vortex681 806]

3 minutes ago, zmak said:

thats an old thread

Try this - the online manual (read the first paragraph): http://www.fs-force.com/help2/index.htm. No mention of FSW.

[zmak 331]

My mistake sorry, got the sim mixed up with P3D v4

you are indeed correct, no support

[Duamutef_MC 0]

Wouldn't it be simpler for Dovetail to just rollback the Sidewinder Force Feedback 2 block instead of forcing us to buy 3rd part software?

[vortex681 806]

18 hours ago, Duamutef_MC said:

instead of forcing us to buy 3rd part software?

As far as I'm aware, there is no third party software that will make it work in FSW.

[Duamutef_MC 0]

Any news on this front? :)

[DTG_Cryss 244]

Chased the devs on this when I got back from holiday, hoping to get FFB back in for a future update. 

Will update more in a set of patch notes in the near future! 

[vortex681 806]

8 hours ago, DTG_Cryss said:

Chased the devs on this when I got back from holiday, hoping to get FFB back in for a future update. 

Will update more in a set of patch notes in the near future! 

Thanks Cryss, this is good news! The lack of force feedback is one of the main things holding me back from using FSW more regularly.

[BROGY 1]

On 19-8-2017 at 8:20 PM, vortex681 said:

Downloaded FSW today only to find that my FF2 joystick is recognised and has the basic functions (including stick centring) but no force feedback. I also have no "Joystick=0" entry in my FSW.cfg.

When you say it works for you as it's supposed to, do you mean you get all of the normal force feedback effects?

I don't know why the joystick line was added in de FSW.cfg. It just did.

After removing this line the joystick works great.