My pre-teen son’s computer still has an older Creative Labs Audigy 2 sound card with the game port controller. The Audigy 2 is still a great sound card for the games and music that he is currently interested in. Anyway, we recently upgraded him (along with several of the other computers in our home) to Windows 7 from Windows XP.

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It was a relatively painless experience since I always do a fresh install after formatting the drives. All my systems have a clean separate hard drive for the OS. I decided to stick with Win7 32-bit for his computer because he does not have more than 4 GB of memory and there is greater driver compatibility with the 32-bit drivers than with the 64-bit drivers. Windows 7 had no trouble finding drivers for all the hardware, except... You guessed it, the game port controller on the Audigy.

With a little research, I discovered that Microsoft discontinued support of the game ports starting in Windows Vista. WinXP was the last OS to provide support for this sound card. Well, that should have been the end of it. I could have easily ordered an inexpensive (or a higher quality) USB game controller for the PC and be done with it. However, whether it was intellectual curiosity or a morbid nostalgic fondness for the Microsoft Sidewinder gamepad that I passed on to my son (the gamepad, not my my nostalgic fondness), I wanted to see if it was possible to still use our favorite gamepad under Win7. A little digging led me to a very helpful forum post on how to install. As the forum post states, although meant to work for Creative game ports, it will work with almost any game port from any vendor.

It uses hacked files and requires a manual install to force Windows to accept the (naturally) unsigned and unverified drivers. By the way, I’ve run the files through the antivirus program and looked specifically into the “inf” files to ensure no viruses, trojans, or other malware. They’re clean. And from all the forum comments, they seem to work great under Vista. However, after several attempts, it was clear that the instructions do not work under Win7.

As I came to realize, there is a slight difference in the way Win7 installs unverified drivers that won’t allow the method provided by the forum site to work. So, after a little effort, I came up with a method to make it work in Win7. Digital Fashion Pro 8 on this page.

Basically, it involves an additional step of manually installing the gamepad controller driver after installing the game port driver. I’ve included these updated instructions along with the necessary files.

This is based on the files and instructions in the package from Daniel Kawakami (), the original poster on the Creative Labs forum. I take no credit for the work of Daniel Kawakami other than to modify his instructions to allow it to work for Win7. Since I had decided to make this available to others that may be in the same situation, I took the opportunity to update some of the files in the original package.

The original package had very old files (i.e., 2003), so I extracted the “ctgame.sys” files from the latest (2010) Audigy driver package from the Creative website. These are now included (in lieu of the older 'ctgame.sys' file) in the hacked package. I also took the opportunity to modify the “inf” files to reflect the newer date of the files.

So when you go into “Device Manager” to look at the driver details, Windows doesn’t show that your drivers are dated “2000,” which makes it look like your drivers are from the Win9x era! These are purely cosmetic changes (except for the updated “ctgame.sys” files), but I thought I would make it available since I was already going to post the modified instructions to get it to work under Win7. The instructions are included the package. Remember, you will need to have “admin” privileges to install these drivers, and it’s recommend that you disable UAC before starting.