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    Quote Originally Posted by Zak33
    PLUS latest Microsfot drivers (Winodws Update after you've plugged it in) comes with dead zone option etc and therefore you dont need to install Saitek drivers at all.
    & who do you think supplied those drivers ... Saitek.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zak33
    'orrible thing! Get the one with a cable....every time!

    The Evo Wireless turns itself off too often to save battery life...so while you are waiting for a game to begin you have to keep waggling it about, and cant go grab a coffee!

    Besides....try it at a LAN party where other people have Wireless too....

    Mine all over the place...I was inverted and ejected befor i knew that Clingy's son was playing counterstrike in the same room with wireless keyboard and mouse!!

    Nowt wrong with a cable....and cable Evo are awesome

    PLUS latest Microsfot drivers (Winodws Update after you've plugged it in) comes with dead zone option etc and therefore you dont need to install Saitek drivers at all.
    Saitek now use the auto-update service from MS to distribute their drivers. It's a better method than they had before, though. Which was to not even bother announcing the release.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jeNK^
    Saitek now use the auto-update service from MS to distribute their drivers. It's a better method than they had before, though. Which was to not even bother announcing the release.
    except that MS don't distribute the SST software too & when you update the drivers you need to update the SST too or your profiles won't load.
    Also Saitek usually have newer drivers available than via MS WHQL - best place to keep up to date is via www.saitekforum.com..

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    I do.. I'm registered as Jestar on those fora.

    Saitek's distribution of drivers is very poor, no announcements made on main website, and even the links themselves on the site take a few weeks/months to be updated after release.

    Even the driver packages themselves are very poorly made.. Having the install package force a reboot, without any warning or even choice, is shocking practice.

    The uninstalls.. don't even get me started..

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    Quote Originally Posted by jeNK^
    Even the driver packages themselves are very poorly made.. Having the install package force a reboot, without any warning or even choice, is shocking practice.
    I've never had it do that & I've got something like 6 Saitek controllers.

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    Lucky you.. I lost about an hours worth of web work when it suddenly rebooted.

    Saitek did apologise for it though, after I gave them an earbashing. Apparently it was part of the uninstall process for the old drivers.. upon further inspection into the package, the macro automatically selects "Yes" when the the uninstall macro asks if it's ok to reboot..

    Within a month, Saitek released 'new' drivers, with which the only difference was a new package which doesn't have the auto-reboot 'feature.'

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    I've read the thread.
    Don't know about the X-52 (not having 1 myself) but there are changes in the driver package for other devices (e.g. X-45 introducing a dead-zone setup).

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    Get the evo. X52 dosn't make things better. Prefer using the keyboard
    To err is human. To really foul things up ... you need a computer.

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    Quote Originally Posted by yamangman
    Get the evo. X52 dosn't make things better. Prefer using the keyboard
    poof, you've not even tried it, let alone had one!

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    Quote Originally Posted by jeNK^
    poof, you've not even tried it, let alone had one!
    Oh I havn't? You seem to know an awful lot about what I have and have not tried?
    To err is human. To really foul things up ... you need a computer.

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    Quote Originally Posted by yamangman
    Oh I havn't? You seem to know an awful lot about what I have and have not tried?
    You seem to have forgotten what my alternate handle is

    If you have tried it, it would have been Clingy's and was probably at the marlins mini-LAN round his.

    However a quick dabble is insufficient testing imo It does require "getting used to" but now that I have, I wouldn't turn back to using keyboard, stick AND throttle again.. much easier with just two areas of control. Throttle in left, Stick in right (and pedals if you have them like Clingy does) and the billions of buttons, switches and rotaries on the two, not having to keep moving left hand from throttle to keyboard all the time is bliss.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jeNK^
    You seem to have forgotten what my alternate handle is
    Another supposition! Know-it-all-git .
    To err is human. To really foul things up ... you need a computer.

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