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Running the TIE Fighter game designed for Windows 95 on my Windows XP system, I discover that the stupid thing adamantly refuses to acknowledge the presence of my joystick, and therefore refuses to play the stupid game.
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How irritating. Anyone know how to fix this problem? Lucasarts hasn't responded to my tech support request.
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quote:...the stupid thing adamantly refuses to acknowledge the presence of my joystick...
The game or the OS? Which joystick do you have?
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Chris StarShade
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TIE Fighter refuses to acknowledge the presence of the Joystick. Windows XP detected it immediately upon connection. I am using a Microsoft Sidewinder.
The silly TIE Fighter game simply refuses to acknowledge its existence... Whereas other games, such as Freespace, clearly see it exists.
All I can say about this matter is "ARGH!"
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Yeah, but despite the "for Windows 95", it's still essentially a DOS game. Do you have any other DOS or updated DOS games that work (with joystick) on your computer?
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EdipisReks
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the only way i got tie fighter to work with winXP was to not use XP . i found a small hard drive, loaded dos 5.22, and i run all my old games with that. there is a sidewinder/TIE fighter compatibility patch, by the way. a quick search with google should reveal it, and it might fix your problems. the game is too old for lucasarts to support it, by the way.
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No, it is not a DOS game.
If I try to run it with the DOS prompt it will give me the old "requires windows" dialog.
The original might have been a DOS game (and indeed it was) but this is a later version.
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my "windows 95" version worked fine in dos. all it has is a windows compatible front end. you really need to have REAL dos to get it to work, though.
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No, you obviously do not have a Windows version then.
Doing it with mine in the MS-DOS prompt simply causes a window to appear telling me that I don't have a joystick (despite the fact that I do...)
Furthermore, if it were DOS-based in that regard, wouldn't it tell me that in the DOS prompt instead of bringing up a window to do it?
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. i found a small hard drive, loaded dos 5.22, and i run all my old games with that. there is a sidewinder/TIE fighter compatibility patch, by the way. a quick search with google should reveal it, and it might fix your problems. the game is too old for lucasarts to support it, by the way.
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