AsRock AIWI?

paradisiac · 21 Jan 2011 at 15:23

ok, so new motherboard turned up today, and on the box its got a nice picture saying with ASRock AIWI you can use your iphone as a joystick. on their site it says :

To experience intuitive motion controlled games is no longer only available at Wii. ASRock AIWI utility introduces a new way of PC gaming operation. ASRock AIWI is the world's first utility to turn your iPhone/iPod touch as a game joystick to control your PC games. All you have to do is just to install the ASRock AIWI utility either from ASRock official website or ASRock software support CD to your motherboard, and also download the free AIWI Lite from App store to your iPhone/iPod touch. Connecting your PC and apple devices via Bluetooth or WiFi networks, then you can start experiencing the exciting motion controlled games. Also, please do not forget to pay attention to ASRock official website regularly, we will continuously provide you the most up-do-date supported games!

has anyone experienced this, is it any good or just another pointless feature that wont take off?

paradisiac · 28 Jan 2011 at 15:34

no one used this before?
i cannot seem to get my ASRock cd to work, had to download all the drivers

but not had chance to get their software yet.

Buchanan0204 · 28 Jan 2011 at 15:49

paradisiac said:
no one used this before?
i cannot seem to get my ASRock cd to work, had to download all the drivers but not had chance to get their software yet.

You should never use the drivers on provided cd's anyway.

paradisiac · 28 Jan 2011 at 15:58

because?

anuraj · 28 Jan 2011 at 15:59

they are out dated.

paradisiac · 28 Jan 2011 at 16:03

anuraj said:
they are out dated.

on ASRocks webiste they only have 1 set of drivers, no different versions, so im assuming the ones on the site are the same as the CD. also, without the ethernet driver, how would you get the rest if it was your only pc?

Buchanan0204 · 28 Jan 2011 at 17:18

paradisiac said:
on ASRocks webiste they only have 1 set of drivers, no different versions, so im assuming the ones on the site are the same as the CD. also, without the ethernet driver, how would you get the rest if it was your only pc?

Well, for starters if you are installing Windows 7, Vista and perhaps even XP. 99% of the time if your using a branded motherboard there will be a generic driver that windows uses for your ethernet, so this is never a problem.

If on the off chance, this is not the case... then you could have course just use the lan driver off the disc and then download the rest via the website.

Not really rocket science. If it is a new model of motherboard then of course there won't be a lot of driver revisions... however if you buy that same motherboard in 6 months or a years time, then the drivers will have been updated a lot with bug fixes etc on their website... however the cd will stay the same as it was at production (12 months out of date)

paradisiac · 28 Jan 2011 at 17:22

Buchanan0204 said:
Well, for starters if you are installing Windows 7, Vista and perhaps even XP. 99% of the time if your using a branded motherboard there will be a generic driver that windows uses for your ethernet, so this is never a problem.

If on the off chance, this is not the case... then you could have course just use the lan driver off the disc and then download the rest via the website.

Not really rocket science. If it is a new model of motherboard then of course there won't be a lot of driver revisions... however if you buy that same motherboard in 6 months or a years time, then the drivers will have been updated a lot with bug fixes etc on their website... however the cd will stay the same as it was at production (12 months out of date)

but, and i quote you said

Buchanan0204 said:
You should never use the drivers on provided cd's anyway.

i knew at the time it was a relativly new motherboard and that the chances of new drivers being available was low. and no, windows 7 did not pick up my ethernet drivers.

Buchanan0204 · 28 Jan 2011 at 22:30

paradisiac said:
but, and i quote you said

i knew at the time it was a relativly new motherboard and that the chances of new drivers being available was low. and no, windows 7 did not pick up my ethernet drivers.

Well you are one of the unfortunate one's. Regardless you should still never install off the cd, for the reasons mentioned and it's slower

I of course was speaking for the majority of users...

P.S. should have got yourself a Gigabyte or an Asus (windows picks up the lan driver

)