Hi,
First, thank you to all the contributors to this project.
I have been playing with Freespace 2 for a while, always under Windows.
At first, I used a SideWinder Force Feedback Pro (non USB) joystick with Windows 98. I really enjoyed the immersive experiment that was provided by force effects.
When I switched to XP, I had to buy another joystick (Force Feedback 2) because force-enabled XP drivers were not available.
Now I have Vista and the same story begins again. No force effect for VISTA.
I made a few searches and found out that maybe Linux drivers were available (hid-pidff.c). I did not understand whether this is a real driver (application independent) or whether the application has to compiled with this code.
Could someone tell me whether Freespace support force feedback effects for this particular joystick? If yes what is the procedure to make this work? If no, is there a workaround or any hope that it will be supported one day ?
Many thanks.