icewyrm
Dec 30, 2006, 12:31 PM
Ok, so I'm down with the whole keyboard thing but it's starting to cain my wrists a bit for psu. So I think, how about grabbing my old sidewinder gamepad and using that?
So I plug it into my gameport, and tried to get it working, realising a little while later that the port is linked to my motherboards onboard sound card, which is disabled so I can use my offboard soundcard.
Anyways, I decided to hell with it, I'll my sidewinder precision2 usb joystick. Might even feel alright in PSU, at least I could use it for camera panning or such if it doesn't. So I plug it in and start using it and then this weird buzzing noise starts happening.
Huh? I plug in a usb joystick and suddenly my soundcard starts outputting trash over the optical digital out? This is driving me nuts. So I fiddle with PSU and some other games, trying to figure out whats going on. Eventually I unplug the joystick, and find that the noise keeps coming back after a few seconds anyway, as long as I keep using the optical/5.1 profile. So I decide not to worry about it for now, and to just download a torrent I'd been looking for. So I grab it and queue it up, and start browsing some forums.
Now PSU decides it's a good time to lock up, so I fire up task manager and kill it. Then, opera decides to die in the ass(loading a big picture thread). So I kill it too. Then task manager locked. Ugh. So I was gonna run some command line tools to clear up this mess without killing my torrent, when explorer locks. Then all my autohotkeys die (just before I could get a command prompt open), and finally all I could do was wave my mouse cursor around and (somewhat mysteriously) control winamp with it's inbuilt hotkeys.
BAH!
I left the pc for a couple of minutes. Tried using VNC/pstools to get control back via the old dell downstairs, no joy. So I come back and hit the reset button.
Yay! The torrent had finished quickly, there was no write caching errors or such, and the stupid sound problem had stopped. But damned if I'm gonna try using a gamepad again D:
So I plug it into my gameport, and tried to get it working, realising a little while later that the port is linked to my motherboards onboard sound card, which is disabled so I can use my offboard soundcard.
Anyways, I decided to hell with it, I'll my sidewinder precision2 usb joystick. Might even feel alright in PSU, at least I could use it for camera panning or such if it doesn't. So I plug it in and start using it and then this weird buzzing noise starts happening.
Huh? I plug in a usb joystick and suddenly my soundcard starts outputting trash over the optical digital out? This is driving me nuts. So I fiddle with PSU and some other games, trying to figure out whats going on. Eventually I unplug the joystick, and find that the noise keeps coming back after a few seconds anyway, as long as I keep using the optical/5.1 profile. So I decide not to worry about it for now, and to just download a torrent I'd been looking for. So I grab it and queue it up, and start browsing some forums.
Now PSU decides it's a good time to lock up, so I fire up task manager and kill it. Then, opera decides to die in the ass(loading a big picture thread). So I kill it too. Then task manager locked. Ugh. So I was gonna run some command line tools to clear up this mess without killing my torrent, when explorer locks. Then all my autohotkeys die (just before I could get a command prompt open), and finally all I could do was wave my mouse cursor around and (somewhat mysteriously) control winamp with it's inbuilt hotkeys.
BAH!
I left the pc for a couple of minutes. Tried using VNC/pstools to get control back via the old dell downstairs, no joy. So I come back and hit the reset button.
Yay! The torrent had finished quickly, there was no write caching errors or such, and the stupid sound problem had stopped. But damned if I'm gonna try using a gamepad again D: