Has anyone successfully gotten gameport based controllers (race wheels, gamepads, etc) to work in windows 7 64 bit?

I downloaded drivers that enables the game port, a pack that enables them in vista 32 bit (problem is that maybe, but the drivers installed successfully) then since the control panel item didnt appear I manually opened the .cpl file for it and then added a custom controller (one that fits the description of my racing wheel) but it doesn't detect the racing wheel, I'm going to go try the joystick i have (which works with the gameport to usb adaptor, my racing wheel does not though!)