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The plan is to use the vintage joystick to control a quadcopter, so the. Games that were not designed for a controller may need an input mapper program to function. I have searched the web for clues but only found some remarks about microsoft not supporting their own sidewinder joystick. Trying to install my old ms sidewinder precision pro joystick on my windows 10 pc.
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