Gameport support pack fot Windows Vista & 7 32-bit - By Daniel Kawakami [modified to work with Windows 7 by Lankshire (http://lankshire.blogspot.com)]
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This pack uses files from Windows XP Service Pack 2 [and updated "ctgame.sys" files from 2010 creative labs drivers]

It adds support for gameport controllers on Windows Vista [& Windows 7].

Follow these steps to properly install the pack:


1a) INSTALLING THE GAMEPORT DRIVER:
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- Open the Device Manager and locate the gameport device.

- Double-click it to open its properties. Select the Driver tab and choose Update Driver.
  Don't search online if asked to.

- Choose Browse my computer for driver software.

- Click on "Let me pick from a list of device drivers" on my computer.

- Choose "Sound, video and game controllers" and proceed.

- Now click on "Have Disk...".

- Locate the location where you extracted the pack and select the "Gameport" folder.

- Select "Creative Game Port" and click on Next.

- When prompted with a warning, click on Yes to install to complete the installation.

- If this driver does not work, use the one in the "Gameport_MS" folder.


1b) INSTALLING THE CONTROLLER DRIVER (Windows 7) [Added by Lankshire]:
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- This part is required for Windows 7, because you will not be able to add the controller through the gameport control panel (in step 2 below) without it.  If you have Windows Vista, then you can go straight to step 2.

- Open the Device Manager and locate the "unknown device."  If you have more than one "unknown device," the correct device is the one listed with the location on the Creative gameport device (or whichever gameport device you installed in step 1 above).

- Go through the same process as above to manually install the device.  This time, you are installing the actually controller (gamepad, joystick, throttle, etc.) that is plugged into the game port.  When you click on "Have Disk...," point Windows 7 to the "Controller" folder where you unzipped the other files from this download and it will search for the appropriate "inf" file.

- If you have a generic game controller, let Windows choose.  Otherwise, if you know specifically which "inf" files is specific to your controller, then choose that one.  For example, the MS Sidewinder gamepad is specifically the "swnt.inf" file, so choose that if you have the Sidewinder gamepad.

- When prompted with a warning, click on Yes to install to complete the installation.

- Now you will be able to go to step 2 to complete the process!


2) INSTALLING THE GAMEPORT DEVICES CONTROL PANEL EXTENSION:
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- Locate the location where you extracted the pack and open the "ControlPanel" folder.

- Right-click the "Install.inf" file and select "Install", you MUST give permission to continue.

- Open the Control Panel and choose "Classic View". Locate the "Gameport Controllers" icon, double-click it and 
  give it permission to continue.

- Now click on the "Add..." button and and choose the correct model for your controller.  If you have Windows 7, you can skip to step 3 below because you are now completed the install process.  Vista users can continue with the following instrucitons below.  [changed by lankshire]

- When prompted to install a new hardware. Select "Locate and install driver software".
  Don't search online if asked to.

- Select "Browse my computer for driver software", locate the location where you extracted the pack and select the
  "Controllers" folder. Click on Next to proceed.

- A security warning will be displayed, click on "Install this driver software anyway".

- Your gameport controller is now installed and functional.



3) NOTES
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- You can use Vista's Game Controller control panel extension to calibrate your controller, as it does not require
  elevated privileges.
 
- However, to install or remove gameport controllers, you must use the "Gameport Controllers" control panel extension.

- If you reboot your computer and the controller is not recognized, open the "Gameport Controllers" applet once.

- The installation process sets ADMIN privileges for the current user only. If your computer has multiple accounts,
  you need to right click ControlPanel\AdminCPL.inf and select "Install" on every single logged user account.



HISTORY
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- udated on October 8, 2011 [by Lankshire] to include updated Creative "ctgame.sys" files and drafted instructions on how to install on Windows 7 32-bit systems and changed date of Creative driver to reflect more modern date of the "ctgame.sys" file.

- Updated on July 7, 2009 to include INF file to automatically set ADMIN privileges for Gameport.cpl.

- Updated on February 1, 2008 to include the Microsoft Gameport driver.

- Updated on January 31, 2008 to simplify the install routine.

- Updated on June 15, 2007 to simplify the install routine and to detect all devices supported on Windows XP.

- Updated on April 10, 2007 to remove unused controller registry entries

- Created on April 03, 2007
