Vista - Joy stick to play games

Any recommendations on average price game joy stick?

"Alan T" <alanNOSPAMpltse@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:uMsrVVpIIHA.3940@xxxxxxWell for a joystick, depending on your usage, you may want to make sure it
has a rudder control, ideally on the stick, and an accelerator too. A lot
of cheap joysticks don't have either of those and it makes using a Flight
Simulator a pain.

For a joypad, an Xbox 360 controller is the best solution I've found.

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"Alan T" <alanNOSPAMpltse@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:uMsrVVpIIHA.3940@xxxxxxLogitech Extreme 3D

Lots of buttons, throttle + yaw control, robust and programmable. And none
of that annoying force feeback sh*t.

I personally use the Saitek x45 flight control system for my flight games
.....works great !!
"Alan T" <alanNOSPAMpltse@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:uMsrVVpIIHA.3940@xxxxxx

I use the Saitek cyborg evo wireless. It works like a dream.

If it aint shooting at you, it hasn`t seen you YET.

Thanks for posting.

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"roy69" <roy69.2zxsjq@xxxxxx-mx.forums.net> wrote in message
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So are there any tips for getting it to run under WinXP Pro?

I recently purchased Gears of War (Games for Windows PC version) and
installed it succcessfully. When I try to run the game, I get an error
message "wargame-gw4live.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close"
and then the start window closes.

My PC runs the following:

Tyan Tiger S2466N motherboard with dual AMD Athlon MP 2800 processors
2G of Crucial Memory
Windows XP Pro SP2 with all updates current as of 11/11/2007
ATI Radeon X1600 with current Catalyst drivers & WinXP updates


"Paul Smith" wrote:

Hi there,


I think you need to install the Xlive app which is contained on the disk in
the support folder.

I'm nowhere near my disk right now , so I can't give you details on the path
or executable , but I am pretty sure anything to do with live or Xlive can be
sorted out by installing that Xlive app.


P.s I have only seen this kind of error on a system not running Windows XP
service pack 2 , and I suspect also not running DirectX 9.0C , but I haven't
really investigated further ,the game is just too addictive , not getting any
real homework done :-P

Hope this helps
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"c d poe" wrote:

No joy at all with GFWL. I have Gears of War and get constant
wargame-gfwlive.exe crashes. See
http://gearsforums.epicgames.com/forumdisplay.php?f=15 where it's been
established by users with a number of GFWL games that GFWL is the only common
denominator. Other games mentioned are Kane & Lynch, Unreal Tournament 3 and
Viva Pinata; to name but 3.

As there is no way to run GoW without gfwl i am now stuck with a £25 useless
game. Epic have not seen fit to even acknowledge the problem, and I don't
hear MS either. I'm surprised these newsgroups aren't full of posts about
this, maybe because there's not even a GFWL group...

"roy69" wrote:

Hi Pxmm,

The file you mentioned seems specific to gears of war , "wargame - games for
windows live executable" , I have found a place where you can download an
update for games for windows live , get it here :

http://www.gamesforwindows.com/en-US...s/default.aspx

Specifically I would recommend some MSCONFIG troubleshooting , I know my
gaming experience improved when I disabled all non essential services.
( http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310560/en-us )

Since disabling my LAN connection I have not had a day's grief with GOW ,
since Live is not supported in South Africa , all I needed to do was create a
live account once , disabling any internet connection for gameplay
drastically reduced the startup time for the game .

Hope some of this information was useful.
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"pxmm" wrote: