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General FreeSpace => FreeSpace & FreeSpace Open Support => Topic started by: Deadeye on October 17, 2011, 05:34:46 am

Title: Throttle not working...
Post by: Deadeye on October 17, 2011, 05:34:46 am

I have installed FSOpen 3.6.12 for the first time last night - everything went fine - and the Microsoft Sidewinder Prescision Pro I am using is detected and calibrates fine in the Launcher. However in game I have found that the throttle is not working at all, and the z-axis (Yaw) also appears not to work..? This joystick is the original, non-force feedback version, (a few years old now,admittedly), but all it's features do still work in other similar games.
I'm hoping this may be a known issue with this joystick, and ideally some kind soul can point me to a soloution, since using one of it's buttons for "Thrust" is currently the only way to move in any direction..!
Thanks in advance

PS: Don't know if it's relevant but I'm running it on WinXP sp3.

Title: Re: Throttle not working...
Post by: niffiwan on October 17, 2011, 06:48:37 am

Have you checked the key-bindings in the options menu?  By default, throttle and twist are not bound to anything on the joystick, although having said that, Yaw & Pitch should be bound by default. 

And of course...

:welcome:

Edit: found the beams :)

Title: Re: Throttle not working...
Post by: Parias on October 19, 2011, 12:01:36 pm

Exactly - have those axises (axii?) actually been bound to anything?