Get USB Joysticks Running With WC4 DVD

A lot of people have been getting back into the WC4 DVD since gulikoza developed a patch to get it to run smoothly without special Creative hardware. Although the game works great for most people, joystick problems are on the list of more common problems. Crius poster Vesper found a quick fix for some of those problems.

I ran into a problem getting my USB joystick to work (MS Force Feedback 2). I finally stumbled onto the solution and thought I should share it in case people didn't know about this:

1) Go to Control Panel / Game Controllers
2) Click "Advanced"
3) Set "Preferred Device" to your USB joystick. (This defaults to None).

That's it. After I did that, the joystick worked immediately in the game.. Woo!

Don't Forget Trivia

Trivia Week 5 will be out tomorrow, so get your Week 4 answers in tonight! You can find the old questions and submit your answers in our Trivia area here. Tomorrow's new questions will be the last set in our summer trivia contest.

WC Invasion Back To Work

The Star Trek Armada based Wing Commander mod 'Invasion' has been on and off again over the last few years, but their team has decided to give it another push.

Greetings, my name is trenthowell, and I am the newest team leader for the Wing Commander Invasion mod for Armada 1. This mod has gone through a number of revivals and subsequent deaths. In that time however, 3 of the 4 sides were finished. Only the Kilrathi still remain. About a month ago I got an urge to pick up WCI and finish it. I went to the forums of SGN and collected a pretty good size modding team. We're now up and running again, and looking to be well on our way to getting the Kilrathi side up. More info is available at our forums.