[Mike Zamarocy]

Seems that a lot of us on the Thrustmaster Tech Support Forum are quite pissed off! I have recently bought the Afterburner (stick/throttle), but many others are having problems with the steering wheels and gamepads. Their damn software just will not work in both ME and W2K!!! The button mapping software that came with my stick, 2.13 will install and (appear to) work, but no game will see the stick, even if seen in the control panel. Their newest for download, 2.19 is even worse!!! The program that loads at Windows start GPF's - and without it, again nothing will see the stick. It was said a new program, 2.29, was going to be released in a week - but that was near a MONTH ago. Many are complaining on the forum that the phone tech support is clueless and have no answers, and there has not been ONE answer to our posts on the forum, even though it is THEIR FORUM on their website.

What a shame too, as the stick is really nice looking and could be usefull - IF it worked.