SRW-S1 and Windows 10

[marcosfisica 1]

Hi everyone;

Recently I updated my pc from windows 7 to windows 10 and now I´m having problems with my SRW-S1 wheel. The wheel just stop work randomly. It´s working fine and suddenly the buttons do not response, like if the usb cable was disconnected. Seems like a driver compatibility problem. This is a legacy product to steelseries and probably they will not update the drivers to windows 10. There is some way to make the windows 7 driver works on windows 10? When you install the software of the wheel it creates a folder inside program files with just an uninstall executable and a dll file. There is no other ".exe" file to set to work in compatibility mode with windows 7. There is something that I can do with the dll file? 

Cheers    

[G.Sidman 4]

Not sure if you ever figured this one out, but we've been using an SRW-S1 on Windows 10 off and on and it's worked fine except for the throttle occasionally getting out of calibration but I always thought that was a problem with our SRW-S1 (it's been through a lot!). We just used the default Windows 10 drivers and they seemed to work fine. I wonder if you might be having USB driver issues between your motherboard and Windows 10? Anyway, just wanted to let you know we have 10 and it seems to be working fine (software wise).

[brunob 0]

I own a SRW-S1 wheel myself and eventhough Im using Win7 I know that the SRW does NOT use any custom driver. Win7/10 just see it as a "normal" joystick with a lot of buttons. Thats the reason you dont have to install a driver to get it to function in Win7/10.
 The small "driver" from Simraceway is just opening some extra led-features in a few games. And is NOT mandatory to get the wheel to work in Windows.

 

[Cortmarshal 6]

"Upgrading" a PC from Windows 7 to 10 is quite dangerous. A fresh install is really what you need. It's a different operating system, so all the stuff that was running in the background and things you had installed that you no longer need are just cluttering up the PC, and old drivers that Windows didn't know what to do with are probably the cause of the problem you're having now. You'll have more problems down the line. I suggest Backing up your important files, and make a list of accounts and passwords for the programs that you still use/need, and then doing a "reset this pc" using the recovery option in settings.