![Sidewinder force feedback wheel test app](https://kumkoniak.com/11.jpg)
- Microsoft Sidewinder Force Feedback 2 works, but only if you apply the patch here and rebuild the kernel driver yourself.
- Supported ControllersĪt present the Linux version of XPForce is experimental, given that the underlying drivers are very limited.
Start X-Plane and the plugin will be picked up automatically. Simply download the zip file and extract it to your "X-Plane/Resources/plugins" folder. The plugin itself is very easy to install. The plugin adds force-feedback support to X-Plane 9 and higher and will soon be available for Linux - despite the current problems with Linux and force-feedback drivers! If you would like to be involved in pre-release testing then please contact us at. If the Force Test program also doesn't list your controller, or the forces don't work, then it's either a driver or a hardware problem.įinally of course, you can try using any other force-enabled game you have.
If your stick shows forces in the test program but not in X-Plane then please get in touch. This will let you simply select a controller and send individual commands to it. You can also try the "DirectX Force Test Program", available for free from. If it says "FF Driver: n/a" then there's definitely no force driver installed, so please visit the manufacturer's website and try to find the correct drivers. If you open that file, under the section for your joystick there should be several entries like this: FF Driver: C:\Windows\System32\pid.dll Click on the "Save All Information" button and it will create a text file. Check that your stick is fully supported by running "dxdiag" - you should already have it installed as part of DirectX. Even if it works just fine as a standard controller, the force aspect might not work if the drivers are incorrect. Some sticks do seem to need "official" drivers rather than the standard Windows ones. If your joystick doesn't have motors built in to provide force feedback, there's no way that XPForce can send them any commands! Please check before buying that it's compatible with your joystick, and that your joystick does in fact have force feedback capability. You don't necessarily need customised drivers to do this - for example, the old Microsoft Sidewinder Force Feedback 2 works happily on Windows 8.1 and newer despite only using Windows' built-in drivers. XPForce will send Force Feedback commands to any joystick that Windows recognises as supporting forces.