Game Port (Creative Audigy card)

[corona56]

Do game ports work on Windows 2008?
How about on Vista 64-bit in general?
The Creative Driver for the Game Port is loaded and is working, but I don’t see any option for configuring the game controller attached to the game port in the control panel applet (installed using the Win2008 forum instructions).

[JonusC]

“Gameport” support has been discontinued as of Windows Vista and only works as a MIDI port (albeit probably not very well). Sorry. If this is a joystick/gamepad thing, you’re going to have to get a new one. Technically, they don’t work and never will but apparently some have gotten it to “appear” to work. After a quick google I found the following threads…

[How to fix the ‘unknown device’ (Creative Game Port) in Vista]
http://futuremark.yougamers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=40663

[The End Of The Gameport]
http://codebetter.com/blogs/peter.van.ooijen/archive/2006/12/21/The-end-of-the-game-port.aspx

Let us know how it goes. Cheers.

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