[dig314]

I use  an AVB Topshot Joystick  http://www.avbusa.com/gcfbj1.htm that does not have a windows 7 driver ( I am running Win 7 Pro 32bit ).
I have installed the XP drivers, but windows 7 does not completely recognize the device.

The FreeSpace Launcher lists that device as "Microsoft PC-Joystick Driver". The joystick does work in FS2 including Force Feedback!
I have not found any other game in Windows 7 to recognize input from that joystick at all.

HOW does the Launcher detect my joystick when other games do not see it ?

Dig

[pecenipicek]

no idea, but do check all the options under devices & printers, right click on the joystick, game controller settings.

[Zacam]

Actually, it's not that it's detecting it, it's that it sorta doesn't really care.

All joysticks are "Microsoft PC-Joystick Driver" including my XBox-360 Gamepad, my Garvis Rumble, my Saitek X52 Pro....

It's elementary input controls. The downside to the system is that when you have a changed Regional opiton like running Dvorak layout, because the keyboard is originally QWERTY, it still registers as such to the game.

[Trivial Psychic]

I'm getting the same situation with my Cyborg EVO, and it behaves properly despite the "Microsoft PC-Joystick Driver" thing.