Need a sound card....

[Draco]

Hello to everyone from my new PC! I finally took the time to "scavenge" parts of my old PC and get things together, and up and running. I love this new one so far, and not even Windows 7 Professional 64-bit has proven to be too much of a learning curve...... again, so far.

 

Now, on to the latest thing. I won't call it a problem; I see it as more of a challenge. I'm looking for a sound card that will work with the aforementioned Windows 7 Pro 64-bit OS, that has the old 15-pin game controller port on it. So far, all I've found will only support up to XP. That's probably because those 15-pin plugs disappeared with the advent of the USB port, or thereabouts. :D

 

Any other solution available to let me use my old Microsoft Force Feedback Pro joystick would of course be acceptable, like, is there an adapter out there that I've missed?

[Plastic Nev]

Hi Draco my old mate, I actually have a similar problem as I would like to plug in the MIDI controller keyboard I have. Like you, I can't find a card either, and USB input still has too much latency for playing music off the keyboard.

I was actually going to start looking at the possibilities of using the port or ports provided with a graphics card instead, but have yet to research that.

Hopefully one of our gaming members may know a little more on that, at least for sorting your Joystick input, sorting my music input may be a different story.;)

 

Nev.

[Draco]

After looking through Ebay, I've found adapters that go from DB-15 plug to USB. That's what I need, but the cheapest I've found is still more than I want to pay. The adapter is higher priced than what I paid for the controller I'm trying to adapt.

 

Sound cards with the DB-15 plug on them just aren't offered with drivers for Windows 7. A search of other forums has shown me this. So I'll get a good Win 7 compatible sound card and let it go at that.