3Dconnexion Forum

Kiwi, glad my instructions helped. I spent a few nights (and a few beers) figuring it out. I was going to test it with Win7 x64 this weekend, but you beat me to it! Thanks! A note to everyone; if you're running 64-bit Windows and use a serial 3dconnexion device, you'll want to download the 64-bit Ca...

One correction: the 64-bit CadMan reference was an internal note to myself. You would instead choose the driver for whatever product you had, and download the 32-bit WinXP driver, which should be 2.8.2 (the last official version for serial 3dconnexion products). This should be self-explanatory, but ...

Kiwi, hopefully this helps. It sounds like you need the 3.10.1 driver instead, as it seems to communicate with the 2.8.2 driver better (but not perfectly). I'm just a regular user that happens to like the old-school SpaceBall, and figured this out through trial and error. These instructions are hack...

This workaround does indeed work on my serial 4000FLX. You just have to keep the two driver files around on CD, with notes about same. It's actually pretty cool that the code is modular enough to allow this. To play devil's (vendor's?) advocate, driver updates can't be "free" ad infinitum....