Requirements for New FS2004 Flight Simulator

[Joe]

:D Hi...I'm brand new to this forum and need help in setting up my CH gameport pedals and yoke. I understand I need to download new drivers, but which ones and where do I go. I have a P3, with standard videocard. Any suggestions to get me going would be MOST appreciated. Joe

[MichaelCHProd]

You need the CH Analog Drivers (ftp://ftp.chproducts.com/pub/chanlg08.exe). And you can get them from either the CH Web Site (http://www.chproducts.com/retail/tech_chanlg.htm) or the cool link I just gave you B)

[Joe]

:D Thank you so much for your prompt response. While this is a hardware question, I'd like to know if there is a certain brand of gameport card works best with FS2004 AND the CH rudder and yoke products? I have a P4 2.3 mhz cpu with 512 meg of ram that I want to use, but it doesn't have a gameport card. So, I'll need to add one. Is there any other software or hardware I need.
Thanks for helping.
Joe

[MichaelCHProd]

Forget the drivers. Sell your stuff. If you have a new P4 PC then you don't have an ISA slot on the motherboard. Which means there are no purpose built game cards that will even plug into your PC. You could look around for an OLD PCI sound card but I am not making any promises. Windows XP tolerates game port, but just barely. If you have a slow port you are toast. Most of the sound cards you find today will not even have a 15 pin port on them. The very few that do are using a midi port and not a game port. The midi being significantly "slower" than the game port. So when Windows XP can't see the controllers consistently it decides that they must not really be there and turns them off or decides they are something else. Like a 2 axis 2 button joystick.


Long story short... USB, sell what you have for whatever you can get and go USB.