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Title: Joystick playing silly buggers
Post by: diamondgeezer on May 14, 2002, 12:33:32 am

Hey all, here's a joystick related question for you. Although my ole Saitek ST110 is setup fine, and ran perfectly up until today, it seems to have dissapeard from FS2. The launcher only displays 'none' in the list of sticks, despite the stick and gameport being set up OK.

FYI I'm running WinXP and I have all the updates. It did use to work OK on XP, it just suddenly stopped working after I created a new pilot...

Any suggestions?

Title: Joystick playing silly buggers
Post by: Ulundel on May 14, 2002, 10:53:07 am

Dunno. Try to recalibrate the stick. Maybe it will help. Or just reinstall freespace... :rolleyes:

Title: Joystick playing silly buggers
Post by: Blue Lion on May 14, 2002, 10:25:32 pm

Or learn to use the keyboard like all good pilots do :D

Title: Joystick playing silly buggers
Post by: CP5670 on May 14, 2002, 11:16:23 pm

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Or learn to use the keyboard like all good pilots do :D

:D :yes: :yes:

Title: Joystick playing silly buggers
Post by: NotDefault on May 15, 2002, 12:54:08 am

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Originally posted by Blue Lion
Or learn to use the keyboard like all good pilots do :D

:jaw:

Title: Joystick playing silly buggers
Post by: IceFire on May 15, 2002, 08:02:25 am

FreeSpace 2 draws the joystick info straight from Windows.  Goto settings, control panel, game controllers.  Make sure its there and working properly.  Then get FS2 to redetect your joysticks.

Title: Joystick playing silly buggers
Post by: diamondgeezer on May 16, 2002, 10:18:10 am

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Originally posted by IceFire
FreeSpace 2 draws the joystick info straight from Windows.  Goto settings, control panel, game controllers.  Make sure its there and working properly.  Then get FS2 to redetect your joysticks.

Tried it. Don't work. I'll try again, tho...

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Originally posted by Blue
Or learn to use the keyboard like all good pilots do

Screw that:headz:

Title: Joystick playing silly buggers
Post by: Brummel on May 18, 2002, 05:31:59 am

just buy a new compy :jaw:

Title: Re: Joystick playing silly buggers
Post by: WMCoolmon on May 18, 2002, 06:38:35 pm

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Originally posted by diamondgeezer
Saitek ST110

Setekh...Saitek.....Saitek...Setekh...:eek:
Do any other joysticks work with FS?
Also, you might try reinstalling FS (Remember to backup pilots/mods/missions though :nod:)

Title: Re: Re: Joystick playing silly buggers
Post by: Crazy_Ivan80 on May 19, 2002, 04:45:27 am

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Originally posted by WMCoolmon

Setekh...Saitek.....Saitek...Setekh...:eek:
Do any other joysticks work with FS?
Also, you might try reinstalling FS (Remember to backup pilots/mods/missions though :nod:)

plenty of them.

I have an old simple thrustmaster (2 buttons, throttle) and a kick-ass 4 kg Guillemot Force Feedback Joystick wich can be used by lefthanded people. Both work.

Title: Joystick playing silly buggers
Post by: Zeronet on May 19, 2002, 07:09:35 am

I have a Saitek ST110 :).

Title: Joystick playing silly buggers
Post by: EdrickV on May 24, 2002, 08:30:33 pm

And I have a Gravis Phoenix and Saitek X45. The former was used till buttons started wearing out (and is still hooked up but not installed in the control panel currently) and the latter is my replacement that I don't like as much. :)

The Gravis Phoenix IMHO is the best joystick for games like this and in particular the Descent games. :D

Title: Joystick playing silly buggers
Post by: IceFire on May 24, 2002, 09:09:56 pm

Heard this problem before.  Pretty sure redecting the joysticks will actually work and refreshing the list in WinXP's GameControllers window doesn't hurt either.