Longbow 2 POV switch not working

[Shane Nation]

PLease can someone help me.

I have Longbow two installed on a Windows 98 machine, have upgraded with th
2.09 patch, all video and sound card drivers are direct X5.

The joystick is a Thrustmaster FCS Top Gun, it works fine in the game but
for the POV switch, that doesn't work at all. It works fine in all other
games, but not in LB2. It works fine when I set it up in the control panel.
I have tried to add a custom joystick, but that doesn't work either.

Please has anyone got any ides.

Thanks

Shane

[Jim K.]

I had the same problems.

Janes has some notes about problems with WIN98 and Longbow2 joysticks. My
fix (for the MS sidewinder) was to use the sidewinder software and set my
hat switches to the keyboard commands for view. I do not know if the MS
software works with other sticks.

Please write if you want to know more.

Jim

Shane Nation wrote in message <7da6kn$ffc$1...@news7.svr.pol.co.uk>...

[Shane Nation]

Do you mean you didn't use the HAT switch and re-assigned the view keys on
the key board?

Thanks

Shane
Jim K. wrote in message ...

[Spartacus]

You can assign the POV switch on the Sidewinder to key presses. Sidewinder
software allows this. If I want to look left, I find the key press that does
this and program my POV switch so that pressing the hat left activates the
view key I assigned to it. Don't know about your stick, but the Sidewinder
works fine when set up this way.

Shane Nation wrote in message <7dbfft$lc0$1...@news6.svr.pol.co.uk>...

[Jim K.]

I set up the sidewinder software so when I , for example, push the HAT
right, it triggers F3, and I look right. In essence, the hat triggering
works, it is just that Longbow2 does not let it trigger anything. So the
sidewinder software, when right hat is pushed, triggers F3.

It is great software to have. Just wish MS had not screwed this up in
Win98. Janes is blaming MS, but the Longbow hat system is to blame also.

[Starbuck]

Shane Nation wrote in message <7da6kn$ffc$1...@news7.svr.pol.co.uk>...
>PLease can someone help me.
>
>I have Longbow two installed on a Windows 98 machine, have upgraded with th
>2.09 patch, all video and sound card drivers are direct X5.
>
>The joystick is a Thrustmaster FCS Top Gun, it works fine in the game but
>for the POV switch, that doesn't work at all. It works fine in all other
>games, but not in LB2. It works fine when I set it up in the control panel.
>I have tried to add a custom joystick, but that doesn't work either.
>
>Please has anyone got any ides.
>
>Thanks
>
>Shane

Shane,
I have a Thrustmaster Mark II and I experience the same problems. I've even
reassigned the hat switch commands to the key board commands (as suggested
by others on this thread) with no success. Maybe it's just not possible.

Starbuck