First post, by alexanrs
Hi everyone!
Well, I was having trouble with my SideWinder gamepad and my OPTi ISA sound card (having the SideWinder gamepad installed made the sound stutter, and playing stuff in Winamp makes the gamepad to not be detected until I stop the playback), so I decided to solve it in an unorthodox manner: installing a cheap PCI sound card I had laying around (a Crystal SoundFusion thing). It is not gonna be used for sound, just the gameport, and see if it works. This would allow me to have the PCI Crystal gameport (IO address - 208h) for my SideWinder and the OPTi gameport (default IO address) for my standard joysticks (those are trouble-free). Thing is it doesn't look like I can select the gameport. Even selecting the Crystal SoundFusion Gameport in the "Port Driver Assignment" makes no difference at all! If the gamepad is connected to the OPTi, it is detected, if it is connected to the Crystal card, it isn't. Do you guys have any experience in using multiple gameports in Windows?