dr_barnowl
16th March 2007, 13:44
I have an X45, and unfortunately, I'm having a lot of trouble with Vista.
Never mind the SST software. I'm having serious trouble with the drivers.
I'm running Vista Business on a Core2 Duo system assembled on an ASUS P5N32-E SLI PLUS motherboard.
Firstly, I downloaded the latest (200107) driver package. On running this, it prompts you to insert the device you want to update. This prompts Vista to install a (broken) generic HID device, which the driver update program will not recognise as a Saitek product.
Getting enterprising, I unpacked the contents of the driver archive into a folder, and used the standard Windows driver update procedure to force an update. Alas, there are two folders to choose from. I've tried with both the folder 053C and 2541. I assumed that one of these was the SST driver (as they are different on non-Vista systems, in my memory), although the SST software is obviously not available.
After this, I also tried installing the XP drivers, which was probably a big mistake too, although the Vista installer seems to upgrade these.
At one point, I got drivers installed, and opened the test panel. The controls function, but there is a serious time lag on both analogue and digital controls. It's like the polling interval is enormous. I was getting responses to button presses up to 11 seconds after holding the button down. I did try playing a game, but the same situation was present there.
My stick appears to be one of the older models mentioned which has a calibration panel (as opposed to an auto-calibrating one).
Alas, if you reboot the machine, the drivers are back to being broken (as in, "the device cannot start up").
I've seen other people posting that they have got the Vista drivers working properly on their X45, so this is frustrating me quite a lot.
I'm having one last try after manually deleting all the DLLs from system32.
Ok..
053C
* The control panel has changed back from the XP one with three POV hat displays to a different one where only one hat is available and the other hats are mapped to buttons.
* Trying the Saitek Driver Update Wizard (SDUW) on this driver is not successful - it juggles the devices around a bit (ending up with a broken one), then it sits there with an hourglass for eternity (or longer than I'm prepared to wait). Watching it like a hawk with Sysinternals Procmon confirms it's doing nothing.
2541 (this folder offers 2 drivers, the USB and the HID
* (HID)
* Does not install, produces a "device cannot start" error.
* (USB)
* Also throws a "cannot start" error.
After manual deletion of driver DLLs from system32, the USB in 2541 also installs (both HID and USB devices) (but spookily, doesn't write any DLLs to system32). This also has the new Vista test panel and the same sluggish behaviour.
Bah. And I really fancied a game of X3 on my shiny new graphics hardware. I can't even fall back to my old MS Force Feedback - no gameport on the motherboard, no gameport support in Vista.
Never mind the SST software. I'm having serious trouble with the drivers.
I'm running Vista Business on a Core2 Duo system assembled on an ASUS P5N32-E SLI PLUS motherboard.
Firstly, I downloaded the latest (200107) driver package. On running this, it prompts you to insert the device you want to update. This prompts Vista to install a (broken) generic HID device, which the driver update program will not recognise as a Saitek product.
Getting enterprising, I unpacked the contents of the driver archive into a folder, and used the standard Windows driver update procedure to force an update. Alas, there are two folders to choose from. I've tried with both the folder 053C and 2541. I assumed that one of these was the SST driver (as they are different on non-Vista systems, in my memory), although the SST software is obviously not available.
After this, I also tried installing the XP drivers, which was probably a big mistake too, although the Vista installer seems to upgrade these.
At one point, I got drivers installed, and opened the test panel. The controls function, but there is a serious time lag on both analogue and digital controls. It's like the polling interval is enormous. I was getting responses to button presses up to 11 seconds after holding the button down. I did try playing a game, but the same situation was present there.
My stick appears to be one of the older models mentioned which has a calibration panel (as opposed to an auto-calibrating one).
Alas, if you reboot the machine, the drivers are back to being broken (as in, "the device cannot start up").
I've seen other people posting that they have got the Vista drivers working properly on their X45, so this is frustrating me quite a lot.
I'm having one last try after manually deleting all the DLLs from system32.
Ok..
053C
* The control panel has changed back from the XP one with three POV hat displays to a different one where only one hat is available and the other hats are mapped to buttons.
* Trying the Saitek Driver Update Wizard (SDUW) on this driver is not successful - it juggles the devices around a bit (ending up with a broken one), then it sits there with an hourglass for eternity (or longer than I'm prepared to wait). Watching it like a hawk with Sysinternals Procmon confirms it's doing nothing.
2541 (this folder offers 2 drivers, the USB and the HID
* (HID)
* Does not install, produces a "device cannot start" error.
* (USB)
* Also throws a "cannot start" error.
After manual deletion of driver DLLs from system32, the USB in 2541 also installs (both HID and USB devices) (but spookily, doesn't write any DLLs to system32). This also has the new Vista test panel and the same sluggish behaviour.
Bah. And I really fancied a game of X3 on my shiny new graphics hardware. I can't even fall back to my old MS Force Feedback - no gameport on the motherboard, no gameport support in Vista.