Force Feedback on Xbox 360 Racing Wheel using Wireless Gaming Reciever in Windows 7

Anonymous
2009-12-10T21:53:03+00:00

I am trying to use my Xbox 360 Wireless Racing Wheel in Windows 7 using the Wireless Gaming Receiver to connect it to my PC.

It connects fine and I can use the wheel in games, but I'm not getting any force feedback and I don't see it mentioned in the device configuration in the control panel.

This page: http://www.xbox.com/en-gb/hardware/x/xbox360wirelessgamingreceiver/ specifies that the wheel should have drivers available for Windows Vista in the future (I am guessing this page is well out of date) with force feedback but I can't find mention of these drivers anywhere.

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Anonymous
2009-12-31T17:38:51+00:00

Technically, this is a Windows 7 Driver Support question on when then Wireless Gaming Receiver drivers will be updated to provide force feedback support as was promised in the URL the previous poster provided.

I to would be interested in if this work is progressing.  If it has been cancelled you may wish to notify marketing and get them to update the page in question.

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  1. Anonymous
    2010-08-24T16:26:36+00:00

    Hi Mate,

    Yeah I'm on that forum too, It's supported but I think without force feedback. (They probably implemented the FFB for the OPC version the same as they did for XBOX) but it will be a driver limitation which means FFB wont work on the Wireless Gaming Receiver. I just ordered mine from amazing (they seem obsolete now, all out of stock in many many other stores - so either something better is coming along or they have just given up completely with the wireless gaming receiver (I hope not)). When i receive mine I'm going to take a look at the driver and see if I can hack something together to get the FFB working. Don't hold out too much hope though.

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  2. Anonymous
    2010-08-24T17:37:57+00:00

    hi,

    i have been looking through the registry and under the 360 wheel axes there is a key with force feedback attributes, to be honest with i have know idea but it looks like there is the start of something. i have no idea what i am doing so i'm not gonna mess with the registry, just wish somebody would help us ?????

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  3. Anonymous
    2010-08-24T23:34:18+00:00

    Humm, interesting. I'll take a look when my wireless adapter comes. Where exactly was the registry key in question? HKLM/..?

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  4. Anonymous
    2010-08-25T13:27:45+00:00

    Hi! I am another customer fooled by Microsoft.

    I was searching around in order to understand how hard would be to enable the FFB feature of the wheel on Windows.

    So, here are my impressions...

    Microsoft introduced a new input library called XInput specifically for Xbox 360 controllers (gamepad, wheel, guitar, fightstick, and etc.). Currently, this library is officially implemented for Windows (supporting DirectX 9 or later) and Xbox 360. Thus, on both platforms, any game supporting the Xbox 360 controllers use this library.

    Theoretically, since the same library is used in both platforms, the controllers should work on Windows as they work on Xbox 360. However, it seems like the XInput implementation for Windows is lacking the functions to access the FFB motor of the wheel (as suggested by "Core Driver" in Codemasters forums: http://community.codemasters.com/forum/grid-tech-support-1020/280028-no-love-xbox-360-wireless-racing-wheel.html). Give a look at the Windows XInput documentation (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee417007(v=VS.85).aspx), there are only a function to access the vibration motors (the XInputSetState function).

    Considering this lack, how the game developers would implement the FFB support!? Therefore, I believe that a driver update would not be enough to enable the wheel FFB feature. Microsoft should also update the XInput API for Windows with the FFB functions and the game developers should release patches for their games. Summarizing, even Microsoft updating the API and the driver, I think we will have to implore the game companies to update their racing titles in order to use the FFB functions.

    Anyway, if Microsoft announced FFB support it must must be delivered. Otherwise, it is false advertising.

    Sorry for my bad English.

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