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Title: Force Feedback?
Post by: zloaf on May 12, 2018, 01:25:00 pm

I just recently purchases a Sidewinder 2 with Force Feedback. Sometimes on 3.8, the game will run with decent feedback but a pretty weak centering force. How can I increase the centering force and overall force effects? Also, randomly some effects like explosions or the afterburner effect will not play

Title: Re: Force Feedback?
Post by: m!m on May 12, 2018, 02:30:43 pm

Have you tried a recent nightly build? I think there were some fixes in the force feedback code which was a bit broken in 3.8.

Title: Re: Force Feedback?
Post by: zloaf on May 12, 2018, 04:21:45 pm

I downloaded a nightly and extracted the files into my FSO directory. When I try to select it I get an application crash error and something to the effect of 0xc0000007b. Any idea?

Title: Re: Force Feedback?
Post by: ngld on May 13, 2018, 01:18:11 pm

Which FSO version did you have before? Was it a 32 or 64bit build? If you have a 32bit and a 64bit nightly (or the other way around), try downloading a nightly that matches your existing FSO build.

Title: Re: Force Feedback?
Post by: zloaf on May 16, 2018, 09:03:00 pm

I was using an x64 build and tried the x64 nightlies which seems to work for one missions before losing the centering force.

Title: Re: Force Feedback?
Post by: deathspeed on May 17, 2018, 07:29:57 am

This thread fixed it for me: https://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=93734.0

Title: Re: Force Feedback?
Post by: AdmiralRalwood on May 18, 2018, 05:52:52 pm

Quote from: deathspeed on May 17, 2018, 07:29:57 am

This thread fixed it for me: https://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=93734.0

That PR was merged, so that code should already be present in recent nightly builds. So unless zloaf downloaded a really old nightly for some reason...