Howdy.
After installing FS2 Open, my SideWinder joystick ceased working, both in Open and with the original FS2 executable. It still works perfectly on other games and the control panel. The launcher properly detects the joystick. In-game, the standard buttons and axis assignments are in the controls, but they joystick is completely ignored if I try to make a new bind. To add to the confussion, force feedback still works, so I get to feel how I'm mercilessly blown into bits.
I'm on Windows XP SP2, and I've tried with FS2.exe, fs2_open_367_p4.exe and fs2_open_3_6_9-7dot9x.exe.
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(one minute later)
After fiddling around some more, I found that besides the SideWinder, the Joystick dropdown list also has this Win32 Joystick 2, and selecting it will get the SideWinder working. So I guess it's just some controller id bug in the launcher? (I recently removed a wheel).
Anyway, time to go trigger happy in high res, yeeeey!
