Sidewinder Strategic Commaner Issues with Win XP

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I recently purchased a used Strategic Commander with no cd. Thinking that i
could just download the software from net. I soon found myself in total
frustration when i found out that i could not use my new toy on windows xp
even when i ran the setup in win 98 mode. The software tells me its going to
install DirectX 5.0 then malfunctions and closes. Does anyone else have this
problem? I was also upset when i read the system requirements off the box
(Windows 98 or later Operating System) and checked them with the system
requirements off the sidewinder website (Windows 95-98). Now i've seen
sidewinder products still being sold and am wondering why this product would
still be on the market when it DOES NOT run on win XP.

Is there a website that contains a working version for Win XP?
Is there another program that will let me configure this product?

Thank you for reading my post

 

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Halo Cana,

"Cana-Balistic" <CanaBalistic@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news😀0F5A857-8787-4B09-9C4F-2A8BDD497861@microsoft.com...
| I recently purchased a used Strategic Commander with no cd. Thinking that i
| could just download the software from net. I soon found myself in total
| frustration when i found out that i could not use my new toy on windows xp
| even when i ran the setup in win 98 mode. The software tells me its going to
| install DirectX 5.0 then malfunctions and closes. Does anyone else have this
| problem? I was also upset when i read the system requirements off the box
| (Windows 98 or later Operating System) and checked them with the system
| requirements off the sidewinder website (Windows 95-98). Now i've seen
| sidewinder products still being sold and am wondering why this product would
| still be on the market when it DOES NOT run on win XP.
|
| Is there a website that contains a working version for Win XP?
| Is there another program that will let me configure this product?
|
| Thank you for reading my post

You should find archived drivers for that unit at: driverguide.com 🙂

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I just want to make things clear about this issue im having.

I have downloaded the archived (old) drivers, but the problem is that they
will not install onto a win XP machine. The error reads somthing along the
lines of "DirectX Initialization error" then it quits the setup