Hi, I want to use Force Feedback for my car game. I've tried to convert the code from the old plugin from 2001 to lite-C but the plugin crashes. Could you give me some advice of what is the best way to use Force Feedback?

I'm not 100% sure but I think force feedback is not supported by Windows anymore. It was for DirectX 6 or DirectX 7 only. I have not seen force feedback joysticks since years.

I don't mean FF joystick, but FF Steering Wheel

If the plugin was written 2001, it can not support DirectX9 and won't work with A8. The A5 engine of 2001 was a DirectX7 engine.

So you know any other way to make use of force feedback?

I thought so too, but my brother just accidentally discovered that Minesweeper on Windows 7 makes an XBox 360 controller rumble when you click on a mine.

Jibb

Actually many Games support it

(Most racing games - like SHIFT)

SO there isn't any other way to do it? I have searched through internet and I've found that you can access force feedback functions using DirectInput. Any example of how I can do it?

Sure, you can write a DirectInput DLL with Force Feedback. We have no example for such a DLL, though. But it should not be too difficult. It's also possible with a lite-C DirectInput header, without any DLL.

How could I write that header? I've never worked before with WinAPI, DirectX functions and such things