Boom PSJoy USB Converter Problem

[adonis_minus_20]

This is a little long-winded, but please bear with me...

I bought two of these adapters to play SM on my PC:

http://www.lik-sang.com/info.php?category=55&products_id=255&

I also tried to use them to play NES/SNES games using a PS2 dualshock controller. The problem that I'm having, with both dancepads in SM and just using a regular PS2 controller in ZSNES or FCEUltra, is that there is a delay in the controller recognizing that I have pressed a button/direction. This seems to happen mostly upon the first couple of presses, which don't register, and then the dancepad/controller will start to work properly, and this cycle repeats. This continues to happen intermittently throughout any game I play. I have other USB PC gamepads that work perfectly with no delay. I am using WinXP and have an AMD 2400+ processor with 512MB of PC2100 memory, a soundblaster audigy2 sound card, and an ATI AIW 8500 video card with 64MB. Oddly enough, I have been able to play Pump It Up: The PREX3 for PC flawlessly with this same setup, and with the same dance pad and converter. The only difference being I'm using JoyToKey to get it to work with the PIU software, as it does not accept DirectX type input. I first tried this converter with the existing WinXP drivers, and had delay problems, then I updated the drivers to the Win98 drivers, and still had the same problems. I then tried to use JoyToKey with SM, and still had the same problems. These converters are terrible. Does anyone know how to fix this? The Lik-Sang faq for this converter has a question about this delay in WinXP, and the answer was to wait for updated drivers! Are there any converters that don't have this delay issue? I already see posted on the Lik-Sang Smartjoy Plus converter forum, that someone is posting that this converter also has issues.

Thanks if you read all of this, and thanks for any help.

Jim

[Jebus]

Are you plugging directly into the PC or are you plugging into a USB Hub? It shouldn't make a difference (I've had success with both), but the more info the better. If it is a HUB, is it powered?

Are your USB drivers up to date? What version of DirectX are you running?

Any software running in the background?

When was your last virus scan/spyware scan?

Which dancepad?
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[adonis_minus_20]

I've tried both plugging into a USB Hub, as well as directly into a USB port on the PC. It's not a powered HUB, other than from the USB port it plugs into, but I've had the same issues either with or without using the hub.

My USB drivers are up to date, and I'm running DirectX 8.1.

I can boot with basically nothing extra running, and I still have the issues (although again my pad and converter work perfectly with Pump It Up for PC with JoyToKey).

I keep my machine very clean, and have scanned it for both viruses and spyware within in the last couple of days, and have the latest updates from Mcafee.

I'm using a BNS Ultra DX dance pad.

At the next opportunity I have, I'm going to try this same setup but with Win98SE installed, and see what happens.

Jim

[Jebus]

What chipset does your motherboard use?
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[adonis_minus_20]

Via KT333 chipset. Also, I have tried both USB 1.1 ports and USB 2.0 ports on this machine, but both exhibit the same intermittent delay.

Jim