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My pre-teen son’s computer still has an older Creative Labs Audigy 2 sound card with the game port controller. The Audigy 2 is still a great sound card for the games and music that he is currently interested in. Anyway, we recently upgraded him (along with several of the other computers in our home) to Windows 7 from Windows XP. It was a relatively painless experience since I always do a fresh install after formatting the drives. All my systems have a clean separate hard drive for the OS. I decided to stick with Win7 32-bit for his computer because he does not have more than 4 GB of memory and there is greater driver compatibility with the 32-bit drivers than with the 64-bit drivers. Windows 7 had no trouble finding drivers for all the hardware, except.
You guessed it, the game port controller on the Audigy. With a little research, I discovered that Microsoft discontinued support of the game ports starting in Windows Vista. WinXP was the last OS to provide support for this sound card. Well, that should have been the end of it. I could have easily ordered an inexpensive (or a higher quality) USB game controller for the PC and be done with it.
However, whether it was intellectual curiosity or a morbid nostalgic fondness for the Microsoft Sidewinder gamepad that I passed on to my son (the gamepad, not my my nostalgic fondness), I wanted to see if it was possible to still use our favorite gamepad under Win7. A little digging led me to a very helpful forum post on how to install. As the forum post states, although meant to work for Creative game ports, it will work with almost any game port from any vendor. It uses hacked files and requires a manual install to force Windows to accept the (naturally) unsigned and unverified drivers. By the way, I’ve run the files through the antivirus program and looked specifically into the “inf” files to ensure no viruses, trojans, or other malware. They’re clean.
And from all the forum comments, they seem to work great under Vista. However, after several attempts, it was clear that the instructions do not work under Win7. As I came to realize, there is a slight difference in the way Win7 installs unverified drivers that won’t allow the method provided by the forum site to work. So, after a little effort, I came up with a method to make it work in Win7. Basically, it involves an additional step of manually installing the gamepad controller driver after installing the game port driver. I’ve included these updated instructions along with the necessary files. This is based on the files and instructions in the package from Daniel Kawakami , the original poster on the Creative Labs forum.
I take no credit for the work of Daniel Kawakami other than to modify his instructions to allow it to work for Win7. Since I had decided to make this available to others that may be in the same situation, I took the opportunity to update some of the files in the original package. The original package had very old files (i.e., 2003), so I extracted the “ctgame.sys” files from the latest (2010) Audigy driver package from the Creative website. These are now included (in lieu of the older 'ctgame.sys' file) in the hacked package. I also took the opportunity to modify the “inf” files to reflect the newer date of the files. So when you go into “Device Manager” to look at the driver details, Windows doesn’t show that your drivers are dated “2000,” which makes it look like your drivers are from the Win9x era!
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These are purely cosmetic changes (except for the updated “ctgame.sys” files), but I thought I would make it available since I was already going to post the modified instructions to get it to work under Win7. The instructions are included the package. Remember, you will need to have “admin” privileges to install these drivers, and it’s recommend that you disable UAC before starting.
I always have it off, but you can certainly re-enable UAC after installation is completed, if you feel naked without your UAC. This hack is confirmed to work with Windows 7 32-bit if the installation instructions are followed correctly.
This may also work in Windows 7 64-bit, but I haven’t tried it since none of my Win7 64-bit systems have game ports. If you decide to try it with 64-bit Windows, please let me know if it works, and I will update the information on this blog. Update 1 Some users have reported that, while the controller and gamepads will install correctly, the gamepad may not actually work. If that happens, the simple fix is to open the Control Panel.
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Find and click on the Gameport Controller icon. If it’s installed properly, your gamepad controller should be listed. Select your controller and click “Properties.” Click the “Test” tab. Click on any button on your gamepad. If the proper button on the “Test” lights up, your gamepad is now working correctly.
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You may need to repeat this whenever the system needs to re-initiate the controller (usually after a reboot). Update 2 It's been confirmed that this hack will NOT work with Win7 64-bit. Essentially, the WoW64 emulator will not work with 32-bit drivers.
The hacked drivers are all 32-bit drivers, and Win7 64 requires the 64-bit drivers. For more information see my explanation in the comments section below. Update 3 As most people know, the majority of file sharing sites such as 'MegaUpload' and 'Hotfiles' no longer allow access to all the files that have been previously uploaded. Therefore, the link in the post to download the files no longer work. If you would like a copy of the files, please provide a valid e-mail address that will allow you to accept attached files.
Gmail apparently does not allow zip files to include any type of 'exe' file, so please provide something other than a Gmail address if you would like the a copy of the files. If anyone can recommend a place to host these files so I don't have to constantly e-mail these files out, I would very much welcome any suggestion. Update 4 (as of January 21, 2013) A reader has generously offered to upload the files to a server for easy download. Please click on the links in the post to.
Let me know if the link is broken. Sorry to hear that it didn't work for you. There was a similar thread on the Creative Labs forum. They came to a similar conclusion. The problem is that 32-bit programs can run on x64 systems because of the WoW64 (Windows 32-bit on Windows 64-bit).
The WOW64 subsystem of the Windows OS is what makes a 64-bit system capable of running 32-bit applications. Essentially, WOW64 is a type of emulator that switches the processor hardware from its 64-bit mode to compatibility mode when it becomes necessary to execute a 32-bit thread, and then handles the switch back to 64-bit mode. WOW64, however, does not work with hardware drivers. The hardware drivers must have native 64-bit drivers in order for the hardware to properly interface with the 64-bit OS. Unfortunately, as far as I know, Creative (nor anyone else) has ever written a 64-bit driver for the old gameport controllers.
Had anyone created a driver for WinXP x64, then I may be able to help. Hi, Lankshire, I am MSDOS401, I just messaged you through the creative forums, please disregard that message as I have found your blog and I figure that this would be a better way to communicate with you. First off thanks for you work and everything seems to work just up until I try to install the the driver for my Force Feedback PRO joystick through the device manager, I select were the driver is and windows 7 attempts to install but then returns a message saying that the driver did not install successfully due 'the specified file is missing'. I fallowed your directions exactly the only deviation is that I did not disable the UAC. Any and all help would be appreciated. Kurapica Help! I've tried to install these drivers but I only a yellow!
Mark on game port icon. I downloaded this thing straight from this page. Then follow the read me instructions, went to control panel-device manager, choose add legacy hardware then use 'have disk', then let window copy the contents, but end results which came up with game port but won't function. If i choose to install 'gameport' folder, it installs a creative gameport icon but with error code 10, stating this device cannot start.
Instead if i choose from 'gameportMs' folder, it installs a Standard gameport icon but with error 34, it has no resources. The resources tab I checked had conflict with other devices. If leave by auto select, it just plain conflicts. By manual selection it has 2 more extra resources to choose, but the 1st also conflicts while the 2nd is free but has no clear input range. I tried to type in some digits by guess work but also conflicts. Now I'm stuck.
My desktop specs is:- Acer AMD Athlon II X4 Window 7 32 bit home premium An old Sound blaster 128 which had work with Window XP before. A Microsoft Sidewinder 3D pro which also work before, but now I can't test it unless the gameport issue is solved. Anonymous I have been looking for this info for 4 years now, in fact I had a new computer assembled with high end contents 3.5 yrs ago and insisted on the XP operating system again because at the time we could still get the old legacy gameport operating on XP (not Win 7), but as time passed and newer more demanding racing games were being offered I knew it would only be a matter of time and I would eventually need to install Win7(or8). I started looking around again and found remnants of this string and emailed a few links to my more technical friends.they were anxious to give it a try.
So, Win 7 32 bit now installed and gameport functionality seemed to work quite well.for the Microsoft sidewinder.but my main concern was the 6 or 7 Thrustmaster analog racing wheels I had accumulated. There were Thr. Sprint, Sprint 2, Charger and a couple more I don't recall right now.all gameport connected and all worked on each others software disc. THAT IS WHY I AM TYPING THIS RARE TEXT, I NEED TO KNOW HOW TO ADD THE DRIVERS FOR THE OLD THRUSTMASTER CHARGER(or Sprint) RACING WHEELS (Windows98 era). Please please please, I am retired now and almost broke and enjoy messing around with computers with my Grandson.
Why do i see many drivers? Below is a list of drivers that may be suitable for your device. With the different devices, they can have the same driver, it's because they all use the same chip manufacturer. How to select driver?
If you are looking for an update, pickup the latest one. If your driver isn't working, use the driver having the same OEM with the your laptop/desktop brand name.