MS sidewinder force feedback joystick and wheel

Just curious, do the MS force feedback wheel and joystick (USB versions) work / get recognised by windows 10? Hope they don't need drivers installed or tracked down. It's old abandoned peripherals (shame) so can understand if they don't. But I was curious if anyone else uses them. I am sure they are in the attic in a box and I am considering hunting them down especially after I got ms flight sim x and a couple of driving games on steam. If I can't track them down I may look on eBay for one or the other. But if it's a non starter I will abandon the hunt and make do with a game pad.

cheers Wayne

I find this to be an amusing question...as I just unburied my Sidewinder Forcefeed back joystick too. But I took the easy way out and installed it on an old Windows XP box with CFSII installed on it. Had a blast for a couple of days and then I gave it all to a couple of neighborhood kids who helped move and split a huge amount of firewood. Needless to say, they are having a blast with this old computer, game, and joystick.

At one time I did have it installed on Windows 7 but I never tried it on windows 10. I would think the Os will recognize it but after that, your guess is as good as mine as to whether or not it will actually work.

Good luck.

Cheers guys, I will see if I can track them down at some point. It's an expedition up in my attic and one can get lost for days amid all the clutter. If I get any success I'll report back.

Found them both. Plugged each one in and works perfectly! That's a good result

I hope so, to be honest I'm not planning to use them with really old games. Stock car extreme, flat out 2 and Race 07 for the wheel. whilst the joystick I hope to use with flight simulator x. If I get time I'll test them properly but at the moment I am pleased they detected and installed with no messing about. Each was listed in devices and I tested all the movements and all seemed fine. I would of liked to use the wheel for an old classic Grand Prix Legends but I remember it was such a drama trying to get it running in windows 7 with a billion patches (mostly community made) that I don't think I will attempt it in windows 10!