WC3 DOS joystick trouble...

[Saturnyne]

I recently put new drivers for my sound card onto my computer. My joystick works fine in everything except Wing Commander 3, at least when the game is running. It doesn't calibrate correctly, nor does it behave correctly when I don't calibrate it. I behaves fine during the install program, though. Different sound and joystick settings have no effect, nor does using the Windows calibration.

I have tried WC3 both with Poll Interrupts enabled and disabled. No effect.

BTW, I do play it in Windows, and it worked fine up until tonight. For some elucidation, here are my CONFIG.SYS, AUTOEXEC.BAT AND DOSSTART.BAT files:

CONFIG.SYS
----------
[MENU]
MenuItem=WIN95,Load Microsoft Windows 95
MenuItem=MSDOS,Start system in MS-DOS
MenuItem=MSROM,MS-DOS (With CD-ROM)
MenuDefault=MSDOS,0

[MSROM]
DEVICEHIGH=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS
DEVICEHIGH=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE RAM
DEVICEHIGH=C:\PROGRA~1\ACER\ACERCD.SYS /D:ACERCD00

[MSDOS]
DEVICEHIGH=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS
DEVICEHIGH=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE RAM

[WIN95]
DEVICEHIGH=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS
DEVICEHIGH=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE RAM

[COMMON]
DOS=High,UMB
FILES=40
BUFFERS=40
[device=c:\windows\cwbinit.exe /A]

AUTOEXEC.BAT
------------
@ECHO OFF
SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 H7 P330 T6
SET SBPCI=C:\SBPCI

REM C:\WINDOWS\CWBMIX /M=15,15 /W=15,15 /L=15,15 /X=5 /F=15,15 /C=15,15 /I=X
SET PATH=C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND
SET PROMPT=$P$G
SET WINPMT=$P$G

rem :WIN95
rem CLS
rem ECHO Windows is now starting...
rem C:\WINDOWS\WIN.COM
rem GOTO COMMON

:MSDOS
REM C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\MSCDEX.EXE /D:ACERCD00
GOTO COMMON

:COMMON
SET CLASSPATH=C:\Program Files
SET CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;C:\Program Files

DOSSTART.BAT
------------
@echo off
REM DOS MOUSE DRIVER ADDED BY MICROSOFT INTELLIPOINT MOUSE SETUP
LH C:\MSINPUT\MOUSE\mouse.exe
rem GOTO MSDOS

rem [MSDOS]
:MSDOS
rem C:\WINDOWS\CWBINIT.EXE /A
C:\SBPCI\SBINIT

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My system specs are:
Win 95
48 MB SDRAM
Pentium 233 mmx
Creative Soundblaster PCI128
nVidia Riva TNT2 M64
Wingman Attack joystick
DirectX 8.0a

I want to enjoy WC3 again with my new sound card. Perhaps I should reinstall the earlier Joystick drivers? Any and all help is appreciated. Thank you.

 

[Saturnyne]

Okay, I found a solution. It's an odd one to say the least, but the joystick works now, and it doesn't mess anything else up.

 

[Stinger]

Out of curiosity, how did you fix it?

 

[Saturnyne]

Well, in the instance of that post below, I didn't really... I thought I had, but it reverted to its old self.

Incidentally, I forgot all about the files section here. I downloaded and installed the wc3joy.dll file, and the joystick works fine now.

 

[Stinger]

Ah, good.