HFX - Hammerhead FX Driver

Download HFX Driver | |
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File: | HFXDriver310.zip |
Version: | 3.1.0 |
Size: | 402 KB |
Released: | 2008/01/28 |
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A Hammerhead FX is a game controller released by Interact Accessories Inc. in the late 1990's. Interact produced a driver for Windows 95/98, but only managed to release one beta driver for Windows 2000/XP before closing its doors. This driver was an improvement over the basic driver included with Windows, but still had some issues and bugs.
The USB version of the Hammerhead FX sported a redesigned d-pad that made it the only gamepad on the market with enough precision to pass the "Street Fighter Test". Combined with rumble feedback, no need for calibration and the ability to connect more than one gamepad at a time, the Hammerhead FX represented the first truly solid PC gamepad to hit the market. The only thing needed was a good driver.
HFX is a driver written from the ground up that realizes the full potential of the Hammerhead FX gamepad. It provides full featured vibration feedback, advanced programmability and support for multiple simultaneously connected gamepads. HFX was designed with stability, flexibility and ease of use in mind. With the programming features of the HFX driver, setting up your games becomes a matter of set it and forget it.
Requirements
- One or more Hammerhead FX gamepads (connected via USB). Supported models include: SV-262A, SV-262E and SV-262F.
- Each gamepad must be connected to a USB port. This driver does not support gamepads connected via game port.
- Windows 2000, XP, Server 2003 or Vista operating system. (64 bit Windows is not supported.)
Getting Started
Getting the driver up and running on your PC is simple.
- Download the driver from this web site.
- Unzip the file you just downloaded to a temporary folder.
- Connect all of your Hammerhead FX gamepads to the PC.
- Run setup.exe to start the HFX Setup Wizard and it will guide you through the installation process.
- After the setup wizard is done, open Control Panel -> Game Controllers and click the Properties button to open the HFX Properties to adjust the standard settings to your liking.
- Run the command "
hfx_set help
" to learn about the hfx_set utility and how you can use it to optimize your Hammerhead FX gamepad(s) for all of your games.
Version History
- Version 3.1.0
- Feature: Added support for Windows Vista.
- Fix: hfx_help.exe was not properly added to autostart.
- Fix: Calibration data left over from a previous driver could cause a problem.
- Fix: Autofire settings may be improperly applied if a gamepad using global settings was previously using private settings.
- Fix: Using hfx_set to change the settings for all gamepads did not adjust the settings of disconnected gamepads.
- Fix: Session settings for disconnected gamepads were not reset when the user opted to "reload" gamepad settings for all gamepads.
- Fix: Session settings may not be reloaded when logging back in using fast user switching.
- Fix: The Rumble Strength option was not grayed out in the control panel applet when rumble was set to disabled.
- Fix: After displaying the help file, hfx_set would wait until the help file was closed before the console could be used.
- Fix: The descriptions in the version resource of each driver file are not very descriptive.
- Version 3.0.4
- Fixed an error in the help file that could cause an error of "The Page Cannot Be Displayed" on some systems.
- Applied a work around to the Setup Wizard to deal with the situation when the driver is successfully installed, but Windows thinks it wasn't.
- Added custom sorting routine to guarantee that multiple gamepads will always receive the same enumeration IDs on future versions of Windows.
- Fixed an error that would prevent deletion of the folder containing the HFX Setup Wizard until the reboot of the system.
- Version 3.0.2
- Initial Public Release
Bug Reports & Feature Requests
If you find a bug or would like to request a feature, please contact me.