new problem not noticed before

[atari1980]

hi, i usually get this message (see below) at least 100 times each time a new screen loads, it did it with version 1.7, but got rid of it by reconfiguring the pad... but now i can,t seem to make it go away

here's what's in the developper screen:
.\src\win\joystick.cpp.685: 'hres' returned DIERR_NOTEXCLUSIVEACQUIRED: The oper
ation cannot be performed unless the device is acquired in DISCL_EXCLUSIVE mode.

EDIT: the joystick works fine, except the rumble feature to wich i posted about on here some time ago.

[patrickp]

Does the game play Ok, atari1980? If so, I wouldn't worry about it.

[atari1980]

yes it runs fine. i was kinda hoping that this was causing the rumble to be buggy.. heh