Advice please re gaming device

almillar

Plenty of Logitech wheels, including the official Gran Turismo one, around £100 last time I checked, are compatible with PC, PS3 and PS2 - so for one wheel that does the most, that would be it. XBox 360 has it's own wheel that's only compatible with it.
XBox One, PS4 don't really have anything yet as far as I've seen, unless they've turned out to be backward compatible.

melbury

duggan1 wrote: »

I just gave one away to a chap at work as I have a new wheel. Don't listen to Microsoft, it works a treat. Has native support on Windows 7/8 and any recent Codemasters games will fully support it (including the recent F1 series of games).

Microsoft hardware was the best in the business back in the day and the sidewinder wheel is still outstanding these days.

So do you mean he could set it up on my computer (Windows 7) and if he bought a new game it should work? That would be brilliant.

duggan1

melbury wrote: »

So do you mean he could set it up on my computer (Windows 7) and if he bought a new game it should work? That would be brilliant.

Should do, plug it in and see if it recognises it. You should be able to run the little test tool which shows you all the axis and those working etc.

One question though... do you know if the wheel is the USB model or the slightly older gameport model? The gameport model should have come with a gameport -> usb adapter, but on modern OSs the force feedback probably wont work via this adapter. Wheel should still be fine though.

melbury

duggan1 wrote: »

Should do, plug it in and see if it recognises it. You should be able to run the little test tool which shows you all the axis and those working etc.

One question though... do you know if the wheel is the USB model or the slightly older gameport model? The gameport model should have come with a gameport -> usb adapter, but on modern OSs the force feedback probably wont work via this adapter. Wheel should still be fine though.

Have asked and he says it is the gameport version, not USB.