[SilentMantis]

Bought a new laptop and just had to load the best game in the world on it (FS2, of course)!  but my joystick doesn't seem to be working.  Actually it seems to work all to well in that when the mission comes up the starfield looks like I'm climbing hard up and left and then it freezes the game and I've got to Ctrl-Alt-Del to get out.  I've tried dropping the sensitivity down to nothing with the largest deadzone and it didn't work.  I've tried a brand spanking version of my old joystick (Logitech Extreme 3D Pro) but it does the exact same thing as the old one.  I've tried the joystick 0 option and it crashed and I tried the joystick 1 option and the game went on and did NOT crash but the joystick didn't work.
I've had the old joystick for a number of years now (3?) and used to use it on one of the earlier version of FS2 Open and it worked just fine.  I've tried everything I can think of but can only get the game to work if I unplug the joystick.
Help!
Thanks!

P.S. Turey, the updater is awesome!

[Game_Master64]

try re-calibrating your joystick. if your on windows xp thats
start>settings>control panel>printers and other hardware>game controlers(if you have it set to grouped, if not go directly to game controllers)>select your joystick, then click properties>look for a "Calibrate" option

[karajorma]

http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,45480.msg926726.html#msg926726

Take a look at that. I suspect you have the same problem. There is another solution other than a new keyboard though.

[Wobble73]

Sorry karajorma, but I don't think that will be the problem as he states he is using a laptop.

And SilentMantis........................




 

[karajorma]

Depends if his laptop has any fancy multimedia functions. As that's the actual cause of the problem.

[SilentMantis]

My laptop is a brand new Dell Insperion E1505 running Vista.  2GB RAM and a Radeon x1400 video card.  I've tried recalibrating my joystick and I've uninstalled and re-installed it with new drivers too.  I don't know if the keyboard has multi-media functions.  I know Vista is supposed to be superior at multimedia so maybe that could be it.
Karajorma I pulled up that link you pasted but I can't figure out what to do.

This was one line of advice but I don't know how to enable or what to edit to enable this string.
"try:
$ export SDL_JOYSTICK_DEVICE=/dev/input/js0 && ./fs2_open_r
Don't forget to change /dev/input/js0 to whatever you use."

"`export SDL_JOYSTICK_DEVICE=/dev/null` to my script that runs the game" was another option and I don't know how to enable this either.  Sorry, I'm a compensation guy not a software guy.

Thanks for the help, guys, I appreciate it.

[Turey]

This was one line of advice but I don't know how to enable or what to edit to enable this string.
"try:
$ export SDL_JOYSTICK_DEVICE=/dev/input/js0 && ./fs2_open_r
Don't forget to change /dev/input/js0 to whatever you use."

"`export SDL_JOYSTICK_DEVICE=/dev/null` to my script that runs the game" was another option and I don't know how to enable this either.  Sorry, I'm a compensation guy not a software guy.

Thanks for the help, guys, I appreciate it.

As both of those are Linux solutions, it's not surprising you can't get them to work.

[Game_Master64]

perhaps it's just a bug when trying to play on vista?

[SilentMantis]

Could be.  I'll update my old computer (XP) to 3.6.9 and see what that does.  I'll let you know.

By the way here's the log file from my latest crash on Vista.

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[SilentMantis]

Update:  Brought the old computer (an XP machine) up to 3.6.9 and the joystick works just fine so it looks like its a Vista thing.  Do you think its simply a new driver needed from Logitech (I currently have the most up to date drivers) or could there be some FSO fix.  Thoughts?

[Hades]

Update:  Brought the old computer (an XP machine) up to 3.6.9 and the joystick works just fine so it looks like its a Vista thing.  Do you think its simply a new driver needed from Logitech (I currently have the most up to date drivers) or could there be some FSO fix.  Thoughts?

It Could be that VISTA does not like FSO, and with FSO on your computer it might be messing up the joystick.It also could be that Vista is really new and you joystick might be out of date.How Old is your joystick?

[colecampbell666]

Frig all these updates! Get a Saitek. The only good thing about Logitech joysticks is that they introduced me to FS.

[SilentMantis]

Joystick is about 3 years old but I have the newest drivers in place and it works just fine on the old computer.  I can run FSO on the new computer without a joystick and it runs just fine.  Plug in my joystick (with up to date drivers) and it goes to crap.

[colecampbell666]

The drivers have probably not been tested with Vista, only XP.