09.03.2011, 10:05
I said "How thoughtful of you" which is not an offensive thing to say. Now, had I come to the forum hoping to find help for the problem and found none, only that my post had been relocated and had I found that just a bit irksome and made my reply with the merest tinge of sarcasm, then there would be no way that you, or anyone else could tell that from what I wrote. And if, accused of sarcasm, I denied it, there would be nothing in the evidence at hand to incriminate me, and you would be, in fairness, bound to take my word for it.
So there.
Thanks for the suggestions. I will look at the links, although my hope has dimmed. What has worked for others has not worked for me in this issue. The damn Saitek site has disabled new registrations to their technical support forums. What kind of bastards not only provide no help themselves, but then prevent people from seeking to help each other? Like many, I like the Saitek products, but the customer relations dimension of their enterprise is beginning to get me hot around the collar. I've never encountered it before, because every other Saitek product I've owned has just plain worked, no questions asked.
Yeah, as I thought, I have examined both those sites with a microscope and spent all last night downloading various versions of saitek drivers and profiling software from the latter one. Nothing worked. The new joy drivers + sst software blue screens and crashes me. The old xp drivers installed cannot be calibrated and result in crazily out of whack x and y axes on the stick, and beyond that, with xp drivers and old sst versions the profiler will not run on my computer, so I cannot even test to see if a profile will load. Other combinations I ahve tried result in an error message when I try to load a profile--that the device has not been configured...meaning that my drivers are incompatible with the programming software. I am certain that there is a combination of drivers and sst that will work for me, but I have shotgunned the problem until I am exhausted and beyond frustrated without making any headway, just hitting the same brick walls over and over. I have resorted to using Joy2Mouse to use my hat switch in mouse emulation mode, which works pretty well. Just can't use the two mode switches on my joystick which robs me of like 20 possible button programs--I would never have to touch the keyboard. It's an infuriating shame. Shame on Saitek.
So there.
Thanks for the suggestions. I will look at the links, although my hope has dimmed. What has worked for others has not worked for me in this issue. The damn Saitek site has disabled new registrations to their technical support forums. What kind of bastards not only provide no help themselves, but then prevent people from seeking to help each other? Like many, I like the Saitek products, but the customer relations dimension of their enterprise is beginning to get me hot around the collar. I've never encountered it before, because every other Saitek product I've owned has just plain worked, no questions asked.
Yeah, as I thought, I have examined both those sites with a microscope and spent all last night downloading various versions of saitek drivers and profiling software from the latter one. Nothing worked. The new joy drivers + sst software blue screens and crashes me. The old xp drivers installed cannot be calibrated and result in crazily out of whack x and y axes on the stick, and beyond that, with xp drivers and old sst versions the profiler will not run on my computer, so I cannot even test to see if a profile will load. Other combinations I ahve tried result in an error message when I try to load a profile--that the device has not been configured...meaning that my drivers are incompatible with the programming software. I am certain that there is a combination of drivers and sst that will work for me, but I have shotgunned the problem until I am exhausted and beyond frustrated without making any headway, just hitting the same brick walls over and over. I have resorted to using Joy2Mouse to use my hat switch in mouse emulation mode, which works pretty well. Just can't use the two mode switches on my joystick which robs me of like 20 possible button programs--I would never have to touch the keyboard. It's an infuriating shame. Shame on Saitek.