![]() Voi-fucking-La! It worked when I plugged it in. I had about given up my joystick for dead when, upon closer inspect, I noticed that the inner connectors on the USB plug looked a bit tarnished to the point where you could barely see themĪs a last ditch effort, thinking there's no way this would work, I gently cleaned the USB connect with an alcohol wipe and a toothpick. Many suggestions pretty much ended in a dead end. Recommendations suggesting clearing out devices in registry abound but nothing worked for me. I tried plugging it into different USB ports nothing.Ī Google search brings up multiple hits about Sidewinder joysticks suddenly "dying" on Win7 and above. Then when I decided to fire up games like LHX or Falcon I noticed it wasn't working which then made me bring up device / gamepad control panel and noticed it wasn't even being detected. In fact it's been connected to a USB port in the back thinking nothing of it. I recently wanted to dabble again with some old school sims in DosBox and I've had my trusty Microsoft Sidewinder Precision 2 joystick on my desk for months (it doubles as a handy headset holder for my Logitech headset) but never used it. I'm not sure where to post this since I only ever use my Precision 2 for old school gaming like DOS simulators (Falcon 3.0 and LHX ftw), so I figure I'd post it here.
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