Virtual Pilot Pro won't mix with XP Pro??

[jspocala]

:wacko:

Need some help installing Virtual Pilot Pro via gameport while running XP Pro. Have built a dedicated MsFSim puter. All other throttles owned by Gravis and Logitech load and run properly. My VPP does not. Just before install occurs, XP Pro states, Digital Signature is needed, If continue installing, program may fail or fail in the unknown future. I have downloaded every setup file or driver that I can find to no success. Anyone help me please, I am up in the air and can't get down!
jspocala :angry:
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[Bob Church]

The message is displayed whenever you install drivers in certain classes and they haven't been "signed" by MS. If you want to use the driver you have to tell it to use it anyway. It doesn't mean that Windows has found anything at all wrong with the driver, only that MS hasn't gotten paid to get rid of the message. Actually, except for their own drivers (imagine that!), they won't sign a game port/joystick driver anyway. They don't think you should have that nasty old legacy port on your system at all.

XP does have a 2-POV/6-Button yoke that will "work", but you effectively lose 4 buttons. Why, after 9 years, MS has decided that the VPPro is a 2-POV/6-Button and not the 10-Button that it's always been before, thus rendering it essentially useless in almost every sim out there, is a question I can't answer, but that's your "official" choice. You can use that and give up the buttons on the second hat, or you can tell it to use the unsigned driver anyway and go fly like you always have. Your call....

- Bob

The StickWorks
http://www.stickworks.com

[jspocala]

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Thanks for the encouraging news. But, after installing all of the setup files and the update from CH Products, I can not calibrate my CH VPPro. Actually, when MS Flight Sim 2000 and 2004 loads, neither one lets me use the CH VPPro and will not let me calibrate it either. I will try to use the suggestion for the time being and use the MS 2 POV and 6 button for now. But hopefully will be able to use the CH VPPro with the notorius MS XP Pro.
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Thanks,
jspocala.
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:wacko:
PS Maybe the problem is that I bought my CH VPPro via ebay. The yoke is in excellent condition and under Win 98SE works and calibrates well. But I think I am running with basic drivers etc. I never had the original software for it. If I had the original setup software and the chanlg08.zip maybe I would have less problems? :oops: But I do not think it matters. Let me know if I can get original setup files from somewhere. :rolleyes:

[Bob Church]

Okay. Try it as a two-axis/4-button. That will test the basic operation of most any stick as well as your gameport. If that goes okay, up the ante to the 2-POV thing and see if it's still runs under the Windows drivers. What may have happened is that during the various trial installs, it got through a Windows calibration and that's getting in the way. With the CHANLG08 drivers, it should only be calibrated with the CH applet that will get installed with the drivers. If the Windows calibration is present, it can interfere with the CH drivers. It's easy enough to clear it, there's a utility over on the WingmanTeam page, http://www.wingmanteam.com, that will do it for you.

Anyway, give it a try with the standard drivers and see how far you get with it, we can go from there. BTW, what sort of port are you using? Some don't work under XP, most notably any of the sound cards that used an Aureal chipset. There are no good XP stick drivers available for those cards since Aureal folded before XP came along.

- Bob

The StickWorks
http://www.stickworks.com