Virtual Machine/Joystick issues

"ncasolo" (ncasolo) 12/03/2013 at 18:16 • Filed to: None

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I installed Windows XP on a virtual machine. That went smoothly. Now I'm trying to get it to detect my Gravis Blackhawk Digital joystick. That is not going well. I thought i installed drivers off the web, but that doesn't appear to have worked either. Anyone with any ideas? Maybe someone could get me some help from some Kotaku PC gaming gurus or white noise gurus?

bangishotyou > ncasolo 12/03/2013 at 19:16

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What are you using for the virtual machine running software?

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > ncasolo 12/03/2013 at 19:19

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I can't help you with your issue but I do have authorship over on Whitenoise so I've shared your post over there. They should be able to help you troubleshoot.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > ncasolo 12/03/2013 at 19:21

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Have you considered dual booting (running another OS from a separate hard drive partition) rather than a virtual machine?

ncasolo > bangishotyou 12/03/2013 at 19:23

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VM Ware or something like that.

bangishotyou > ncasolo 12/03/2013 at 19:34

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Going for the obvious here. You enabled USB inputs, right?

Had an issue once where it wasn't reasoning a USB controller and I'd stupidly forgot to enable that.

ncasolo > bangishotyou 12/03/2013 at 19:41

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No idea how to do that to be perfectly honest.

Balmut > ncasolo 12/03/2013 at 20:18

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What's your OS, and what you trying to play?

bangishotyou > ncasolo 12/03/2013 at 20:21

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Bottom right corner in the actual VM software it you don't have it full screen. You'll see icons, hover over them and one will basically say enable USB etc. Enable it and that should do it for you.

I'm in an area with horrible signal right now. Thus the delayed reply. I'll check back in a bit. If I can find a guide online to best help you I'll link to it.

ncasolo > bangishotyou 12/03/2013 at 20:51

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X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter on Win XP. I got the game running (minus the joystick) and the screen was constantly blinking. That's a secondary problem to the joystick.

I think the USB is enabled because I connected the Logitech G27. It isn't seeing the Joystick. I am converting a game port joystick to USB using a gameport to USB adapter (guessing that isn't helping me). But yeah another problem is the flashing screen in game.

orcim > ncasolo 12/03/2013 at 23:16

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Do yourself a favor and find a machine that the joystick should just work on... and verify that it does. Nothing is worse than trying to get something to work that isn't working itself.

dan7gtar > ncasolo 12/04/2013 at 08:22

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Make sure the USB port is active. Check this page for more info: http://www.vmware.com/support/ws45/d…

Also for the flickering problem... I'm assuming flickering only happens during gameplay? Try giving your VM more video memory: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/mi…

ncasolowork2 > dan7gtar 12/04/2013 at 08:31

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Thanks. I'll work on the video memory part.

The USB ports are active. I believe the problem is driver related and related to the fact that I'm using a game port -> USB adapter to connect it to my PC due to lack of a game port. I can't get the joystick read properly on my primary OS. Which is really too bad because it is a fantastic controller.

ncasolowork2 > Balmut 12/04/2013 at 08:33

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Why my reply never showed up to you I don't know. Windows XP and X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter. As I've indicated in a couple other posts I think the problem with the joystick may not be limited to the VM. I'm using a game port -> USB adapter and I'm not able to get Windows7 to read it properly. At least with Win XP when I go to device manager and show connections I can see it is connect, but it tells me I have no driver and that there's a problem with the device.

My other problem now is when I launch the game the screen is constantly flickering. That and it is in a 640x480 resolution so the amount of my monitor it is taking up is extremely small. So those are two other problems I need to resolve.

Balmut > ncasolowork2 12/04/2013 at 12:58

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This might be of help:

http://www.gog.com/forum/general/…

There's no real reason why you should need to do a XP virtual machine if your already on XP....

ncasolowork2 > Balmut 12/04/2013 at 13:11

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Sorry if I wasn't clear. I'm on Win7 64 Bit.

In addition to X-Wing Vs. TIE Fighter I'm hopeful to get some of the remastered versions of X-Wing and TIE Fighter to work as well.

Balmut > ncasolowork2 12/04/2013 at 13:16

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Have you tried compatibility mode? (Right clicking each exe file, compatibility, xp, maybe admin mode too just to be sure.)

ncasolowork2 > Balmut 12/04/2013 at 13:19

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It won't even install. The install is due to an incompatiblity with a 64 bit OS. I would imagine if I had Win7 32 I'd at least be able to install and attempt compatibility mode.

Balmut > ncasolowork2 12/04/2013 at 13:26

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You should be able to do the compatibility to the exe's on the disc, but I'm not sure if that'll help.

ncasolowork2 > Balmut 12/04/2013 at 13:33

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I'll give it a shot. That still doesn't solve the joystick problem though. Getting the game to run without a VM would be ideal.

ncasolo > dan7gtar 12/07/2013 at 10:30

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that second article made no sense. I can't find any of the menus it is alluding to.