Pete's D3D/Tony Hawk's Skateboarding problem

What are your specs? Try searching around the forum to see if you can find the answer.

I have an AMD Duron 900mhz, 128mb RAM and nVIDIA TNT2 graphics card. Every other game I have for the emulator works fine, so I'm a bit puzzzled considering Tony Hawk 2 works.

It's a 32mb TNT2 by the way. The objectives screen does show up in software mode, but in Pete's Software Renderer the actual game goes really slow and jerky, and in Knacks Software GPU It will only show half the screen for some reason. I would use VGS, but that hates my SideWinder pad, even with the Aldo Vargas' VGS JoyPad patch. So I'm still slightly stumped. Please tell me if you have any ideas.

Cosmic: Do you have a regular SideWinder? VGS works quite well with it...

I think so. It's the normal SideWinder gamepad. I'll attach a picture of it. It's like this one but it has a Mode button.

VGS does work with the pad but it keeps thinking I'm pressing buttons when I'm not, normally the Start button. Even if I create a SideWinder profile for it it still does it. It makes me think that it is detecting the pad and screwing up on purpose. I just use ePSXe now, that works fine with my gamepad, but not with Tony Hawk. I just wish it would work.

I use the same controller, and it doesn't mess up at all (hasn't in either OS I've used it in). Have you tried recalibrating it?

Can you calibrate SideWinder gamepads? It works fine with everything else though, only VGS isn't working properly with it. Do you think it could be because I downloaded the full version of VGS of the internet? It seems to have the ModChip patch pre-installed. Could it have had a bad patch installed on it?

That's it, I've had enough of you.