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Title: Joystick doesn´t work??
Post by: Knarfe1000 on March 29, 2012, 09:47:33 am

My Sidewinder 2 is recognized in the launcher but is completely ignored ingame / menu.

I tried your workaround with regedit, but in

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Volition\WingCommanderSaga

there is no "current youstick" option or anything else.


What to do?

Title: Re: Joystick doesn´t work??
Post by: Aginor on March 29, 2012, 09:56:26 am

This may be a silly question but have you selected your joystick in the launcher
AND assigned the axis ingame?

EDIT: Ok, maybe I misunderstood, so please clarify:
The stick is visible in the launcher and you selected it.
The stick does not appear in the game menus though and is not usable. Correct?

Also: Which OS do you use?

Title: Re: Joystick doesn´t work??
Post by: Tolwyn on March 29, 2012, 09:58:10 am

Sometimes a registry hack is needed. I am on the road right now, but the solution has been posted several times on our official board and on WingCenter.net. It is really simple.

Title: Re: Joystick doesn´t work??
Post by: Knarfe1000 on March 29, 2012, 10:16:19 am

Well but the registry hack didn´t work because there is no "CurrentJoystick" line...?

Quote from: Aginor on March 29, 2012, 09:56:26 am

This may be a silly question but have you selected your joystick in the launcher
AND assigned the axis ingame?

EDIT: Ok, maybe I misunderstood, so please clarify:
The stick is visible in the launcher and you selected it.
The stick does not appear in the game menus though and is not usable. Correct?

Also: Which OS do you use?

Correct. I use Windows 7 32.

Title: Re: Joystick doesn´t work??
Post by: Tolwyn on March 29, 2012, 10:38:28 am

Well, you might try creating the registry key yourself.

Title: Re: Joystick doesn´t work??
Post by: Wobble73 on March 29, 2012, 10:45:31 am

Quote from: Tolwyn on March 29, 2012, 10:38:28 am

Well, you might try creating the registry key yourself.

I think he said he already tried that, didn't work.

Quote from: Knarfe1000 on March 29, 2012, 09:47:33 am

I tried your workaround with regedit, but in

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Volition\WingCommanderSaga

there is no "current youstick" option or anything else.

Title: Re: Joystick doesn´t work??
Post by: Tolwyn on March 29, 2012, 10:53:25 am

What he said is that there was no registry key present. Depending on your vendor this might help as well: http://www.wcnews.com/chatzone/threads/joystick-doesnt-work.26007/

Title: Re: Joystick doesn´t work??
Post by: Knarfe1000 on March 29, 2012, 10:58:57 am

I tried to make a new key called "CurrentJoystick", value 1. No effect.

BTW: Game runs only with the debug exe. With the other exe game CTD when loading a mission or activating the techroom.

Title: Re: Joystick doesn´t work??
Post by: Knarfe1000 on March 30, 2012, 12:22:07 am

Some help would be nice...

Title: Re: Joystick doesn´t work??
Post by: jr2 on March 30, 2012, 12:39:35 am

You have to be sure you created the right type of registry key.

It needs to be of the type 'DWORD' (right-click on the right hand pane, click New > DWORD (32-bit) Value)

I think I managed to copy all the joystick-related entries:

Code: [Select]

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Volition\WingCommanderSaga]
"CurrentJoystick"=dword:00000000
"EnableJoystickFF"=dword:00000000
"EnableHitEffect"=dword:00000000
Copy all of that and paste it into a Notepad window, then hit file > save as and type in "WCS joystick.reg" and set the "Save as type" (under the filename box) to "All Files (*.*)", then click save.

Now, find the file and double-click it to add it to your registry.

Title: Re: Joystick doesn´t work??
Post by: Knarfe1000 on March 30, 2012, 02:51:30 am

My keys have another path: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\WingCommanderSaga.

Not under "Volition".

The only key is the install-path (which is d:\program files\Wing Commander Saga). There are no other entries, what is a bit weird.

Title: Re: Joystick doesn´t work??
Post by: Tolwyn on March 30, 2012, 03:56:39 am

You are looking in the wrong place. The GamePath key you are referring to is created in HKLM.