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Post by BH Vfw. Lotharludwig on Sept 10, 2013 10:50:09 GMT -6
Well my newly discovered old toy has a hitch. While speaking about joysticks yesterday I got the hot idea to pull out my old Saitek X-52 after VG reminded me about what a long throw it had on the stick. OK... it works fine and I alike it. The problem is that the throttle has a cursor control on it which you would have used to slew around on your MFDs in the jet and to make selections on the radar display. Well the problem is that it functions as mouse... great. But it drifts. The mouse cursor continues to move because it doesn't center properly. I am remembering now that was a problem when I got it. Outside of opening up the controller and snipping the wire, does anyone know a way to disable or only allow ONE mouse input at a time?
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Post by Hawkeye on Sept 10, 2013 15:20:50 GMT -6
I think the main problem there would be, since when you are selecting an axis or button in the controls map area for any particular function, a window comes up and the method of selection is to move your chosen device or depress your chosen button. In your case, the blamed thing is always moving, so that it's going to screw up almost any selection you attempt to change.....so be careful!
Not sure you can hide input devices from the game....might be good to post your problem on the ROF forum somewhere. Perhaps it's possible to delete them from a file somewhere.
Not even sure snipping the wires would work, in terms of preventing the game from sensing that mouse. But at least it should prevent any movement that would screw up any new selection you might choose to make in the controls mapping section.
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Post by Hawkeye on Sept 10, 2013 15:25:00 GMT -6
Also is there any software for the Saitek? Within which might be, a calibration routine for the Saitek devices? Perhaps the only real problem is, that little mouse needs to be told what it's center is.
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Post by BH von Güber on Sept 10, 2013 15:31:51 GMT -6
Well my newly discovered old toy has a hitch. While speaking about joysticks yesterday I got the hot idea to pull out my old Saitek X-52 after VG reminded me about what a long throw it had on the stick. OK... it works fine and I alike it. The problem is that the throttle has a cursor control on it which you would have used to slew around on your MFDs in the jet and to make selections on the radar display. Well the problem is that it functions as mouse... great. But it drifts. The mouse cursor continues to move because it doesn't center properly. I am remembering now that was a problem when I got it. Outside of opening up the controller and snipping the wire, does anyone know a way to disable or only allow ONE mouse input at a time? I think you could probably map that in the game controls rather than with the stick? A perfunctory search on the ROF forum reveals a legion of posts about the x52, including some fixes for the drifting issues. |
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Post by BH Vfw. Lotharludwig on Sept 10, 2013 15:40:32 GMT -6
Thanks for the good answers. The real problem appears to be that the cursor drifts when trying to click on things... more on my desktop than in game. I can unplug it... that solves it ok... so far it has not messed up my rear-seat gunnery... and I do NOT know why. I use the mouse to aim the rear seat gun... I thought for sure this would mess it up but so far nope. I do not have this particular function mapped to anything in the game, nor is it a programmed stick... so unplugging doesn't cost me anything. I can't remember this thing ever working properly because it was a real #@$% trying to lasso a primary on the MFD with it. Great idea, but came up way short in post production.
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Post by BH von Güber on Sept 10, 2013 15:45:46 GMT -6
I saw a post over there about the yaw thing, you might want to look it up...the solution was something about removing all software and drivers and reinstalling clean. Might work.
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