Checking to see if you already have the joystick driver installed

1. Right click on My Computer
2. A small menu will appear, go to the bottom and click on Properties, this will bring up a window with the title 'System Properties'.
3. Click on the Device Manager tab at the top of this window
4. A list of hardware on your machine will appear. Go down the list until you come to Sound, Video and Game controllers.
5. Expand this section by double clicking on the word 'Sound, Video and Game controllers', or by clicking on the '+' beside the words.
6. A list of devices should appear; one of which should be a Gameport Joystick. It is possible that you have a plug and play game port, in which case the name of the joystick driver may be different to that of 'Gameport joystick'. For example it may be Creative Plug 'n Play Gameport. As long as there is only one of these drivers and no others with reference to either the Gameport or the Joystick then skip the rest of this section and go to the section titled Calibration. If however, you have more than one 'Gameport joystick', you will find that the joystick calibration will not work properly. You will have to remove the redundant drivers. For details on how to do this go to the section in this guide titled Removing Redundant Drivers.
7. If you have not got the 'Gameport Joystick' device driver installed it will not appear on the list and you must install it. You may not even have a section called 'Sound, Video and Game controllers'; there is no need to worry. All you need to do is install the joystick driver. Installation instructions are in the section called How to Install the Windows 95 / 98 driver.