force feedback joystics

[desktopsilver]

so what has happened to these ,,,,i baught a force feedback 2 from micro,,,and was disapointed i thaught (when i demoed it before i baught it in it display)that it was the best thing ever to come out for vid games ,,,but after buying it i noticed that hardly anygames supported it ,,,has the support grown sence then,,,have they come out with a ff3

 

[desktopsilver]

bump for ff3

 

[kgraeme]

Dunno. I just plugged in my original MS Sidewinder Force Feedback stick yesterday and found that XP wouldn't recognize it. I was looking at buying the FF2, but after your post I'm not so sure.

 

[Possum]

What kind of improvements does FF2 have over the original MS Force Feedback joystick? Currently my Force Feedback 1 works fine in Windows XP. The force feedback itself seems ok in games, maybe a bit too powerful sometimes with a game's default settings: try racing an F1 car in Williams F1 Team racing (or something like that) and Flight Simulator 2002.

 

[desktopsilver]

ya i rmad the force feedback 2 i had after i found that no games hardly supported its features,,,,i was wondering if that has improved any,,,,it also wasent working with my me drivers so that was a situation also,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,it seems like such a solid product that i would have thought every dang game would have wanted to use it ,,,i mean it would have been real cool,,,was it a microsoft licence deal that keeps all games from enabiling the force feedback,,,,or is it the added expense of developing game drivers ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,cause that is a cool piece of hardware