I think you are better off getting a 360 version:
http://forums.shoryuken.com/showthread.php?t=202527
Like you can see, I asked the same question, and from the answers I got and having looked around today I’m glad I went with the 360 version. Its also presumably easier to mod. Too bad really as I too am planning to get the ps3 at some point. I’ll just have to man up to do that mc cthulu dual mod sometime in future. Then it should work for ps3 as well. Hope that helped you decide.
This is super frustrating. I’ve just been having a little blast on the PC version, albeit with a 360 pad in absence of my TE. I think I’d rather leave it alone altogether though, as losing a match to an inferior player because I’m not comfortable executing on a pad is extremely frustrating. Such a shame too, as the PC release blows the consoles out of the water.
I really wish something could be done about this. Would it even be possible to address this issue with a driver though?
Thanks for the reply
Thanks for the advice, but I think I would find it hard to mod, not really my area. I’m still kind of leaning towards getting a PS3 TE and a cheap PCI usb expansion card (with VIA chipset), as I’m under the impression this will fix the problem? Until I read:
Is that on the same laptop, because than the problem is the OS?
Came across this, thought I would share:
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-913883.html
I’ve been eyeballing this Rosewill PCI to 2+1 USB2.0 Card that others have been mentioning earlier,
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815166001
but I’m not sure if it would fit into my motherboard. Anyone have any idea?
Motherboard:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16813188024
You have 2 x PCI slots so it should work.
Well fan-fucking-tastic, right? LoL. I was fearing that would be the case. So, as there are no PCI-Express USB expansion cards with a compatible chipset, I have no way of ever using my stick on my PC, in its current state. Woop! Outside of sacrificing my sound or network cards, which ain’t happening. The only other thing I can think of would be to buy a multifunction card reader to put in one of the drive bays that has an express slot, if they even exist, and get an express slot USB hub.
This is just fucking ridiculous. So fucking pissed off right now I can’t even put it down in words. WTF am I supposed to do? Can anyone think of anything else? Would it maybe be possible to open up the stick and mod the USB out at all? Because if that is possible, and someone who knows about that stuff were to put up a guide, I wouldn’t think twice about trying it. I seriously want my stick working on my PC so that I can ditch playing on the PS3, which is utterly inferior. I have the game sitting in my Steam games list basically going to waste atm. FU MadCatz.
So…If I understand all this, I CANNOT use my PS3 Madcatz TE FightStick on my laptop EVER because of the nvidia chipset?
Is there a way to change my laptop USB?
I am so writing an email to Madcatz if this is true. We all should and demand them to at least sell or tell us how to mod our sticks at the very least.
You could try a USB Hub. One of those hubs that uses 1 usb port but gives you 4 available ports on the hub itself.
A more costly approach would be to mod your stick with a new PCB. I have a dual modded Xbox stick with a Cthulu board and I play using the PS3 side of the stick. It reads at ‘MC Cthulu’ on XP and the inputs work fine. You could try that approach if you MUST mod your stick to work with PC.
Hmm. Wouldnt this be futile as it would have to go through the usb port on the laptop no matter how? Not knowing here, just thought thats the way things worked.
I have a Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3P motherboard with Intel chipset and I got my PS3 TE stick yesterday, I plugged it in, Windows Vista did the automatic installation of a few seconds and I was good to go, perfect! :tup:
Yeah…how would using a hub work? It would still be going through the usb port on the laptop?
I don’t wanna buy one unless it works as I have need for a hub.
Anyone?
Honestly I think the usb hub suggestion maybe is the only thing you’ve got, even if I doubt it will work. I can understand your frustration. What you should do is to find something which has a usb hub somehow. Try everyone you know, and you’ll very certainly will find one. Find a multi function printer. Probably has one or more usb sockets. Heck, even my lcd screen and keyboard has two sockets apiece. This is unfortunately the best thing you could do right now imo, except sending it back to swap it with a 360 version.
Something else that you could do, if you have an ExpressCard slot on your laptop, would be to try using a USB hub with that. Theoretically I think that’d be a better option, seeing as it’s not using the USB ports altogether then.
Something a bit like that.
Now that seems ^ like a good idea.
Would I still need a hub after using the Express card?!?
I’m not sure what you mean? The device featured on that link is just another USB hub. But one that slots into an ExpressCard slot rather than one of your existing USB ports, and so is more likely to bypass the problem. Do you have an ExpressCard slot on your laptop?
The only downside would be that they seem to be a fair bit more expensive. You’d be taking a risk if you bought one… it could turn out not to solve the problem at all. Your best bet is dropping into your local computer store, asking if they have any, and seeing if you can test it out before you buy. Take your laptop and TE with you, explain your problem, and if they’re at all helpful then they’ll get them out of the box for you so you can test the compatibility.
Agree. This seems like the best approach. I wouldnt do anything if I physically couldnt test it directly first.
Nice idea about the express card btw. I found a cheap express card hub that may work: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16839158005.
This has the acknowledged NEC D720114 chipset. If you try to send the manufacturer a question about this specific issue, maybe they could help you with a definite answer or at least give you some pointers.
You guys rock…I’m gonna try that.
Has anyone else tried it.
I misunderstood. I though you meant to buy the express card AND then a HUB to attach to it. That’s why it seemed redundant to me. :S
If that works, you guys will be infamous for solving the Nvidia Fightstick problem.
Thanks
Haha, well good luck with it. Let us know if it works out. At least I’ll have helped someone else to get theirs working, as it doesn’t seem like mine’s going to get any action on PC for a long time.
And for you, I think you can put a PCI-Ex x1 card into a x16 slot. I’ve read that people have done that. 