Is it the Logitech Dual Action gamepad?. I've seen many people bitching about this gamepad in particular on many forums, and most say the same thing: Even if the pad works perfectly in the Control Panel settings, it fails to get recognized in many emulators and programs alike. I don't know how big of a role vista plays in all of this, but I've also heard claims that uninstalling the Logitech Profiler might help. If it doesn't ditch the Dual Action and get a Rumblepad2 instead. P.S. You should really use Pete's OpenGL2 plugin over the D3D variants anyday, unless your graphics hardware can be considered so subpar that no plugin other than Pete's D3D6 plugin works with it. EDIT: Ok, I took a look at your other post and it seems that you are indeed stuck with the d3D6 plugin in Vista... What can I say, get yourself an XP system on then you are simply doing something wrong.