Saitek X-45 rudder

[Ohio43]

Just bought the X-45 and I like it a lot, but it seems to have one issue.
The rudder is very sensitive.  It seems by watching the window in the
slider-scale set-up that the rudder goes from no input to full input at the slightest touch of the rudder.  Have tried messing with the rudder scaling and the only way to see a marked improvement (in the scale window)is to put dampening way up.  BUT, when jumping into the game, this obviously just delays the response time.
    Anyone have this prob with the X-45 and can direct me on how to fix this prob?
   I attempted to calibrate it in Win XP before playing, but it appears there is no option to calibrate in Windows.  And I did calibrate it in game before I messed with the slider scaling.  Roll and Pitch work just great.
Oh, and a nice tip (at the risk of sounding pornographic)..the joystick shaft had the tendency to like to sick a little to the base.. put a little vaseline on the shaft and that really smoothed things out.

[OOZ662]

The only reasons I can think of for this are:

The X45 seems to be a very buggy stick. Luckily Best Buy gave me a replacement deal because the throttle died on my last one and this one had the missle fire button short out. Your rudder might be screwy.

You're not used to the rudder. It took me about a month to get used to this rudder. I only use about 50% of it's motion to land.  A possible solve to this (that might have the opposite effect, but what the hey) is to slide the rudder only about halfway when calibrating it in AH. It'll think the rudder is shorter and apply the lighter force faster.

I'll research into this and post again if I figure it out.  I did something to my joystick setup in AH1 that made all of my sliders on any joystick respond slower even though none of the settings look different...As a last resort I could send you my joystick config file for you to try.

[Ohio43]

ya, i have tried the sliders at 50% before..doesnt help.  If i so much as touch the rudder switch..you can see the input (in the window) go from nothing to BAMMO..full power.  No easy scaling occuring.  its all or nothing
actually, at default setting for rudder, i can get the first 50% of the motion normal, then after that..it slams to full power