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Title: joystick woes
Post by: 68DevilM on September 28, 2004, 06:11:50 PM
just got my new saitek cyborg rumble force feedback stick in the mail tonight and i cant get the rudder twist to even register movement. tryed new drivers, theres no option to calibrate.

wonder if anyone had any suggestions other than send it back...took almost two weeks to get already:(
Title: joystick woes
Post by: 68DevilM on September 28, 2004, 07:49:16 PM
well just tryed saitek tech support, seems i have a bum stick.

that sucks:mad:

ohh well another three weeks and i can play again:(
Title: joystick woes
Post by: FiLtH on September 29, 2004, 07:29:59 AM
Im waiting for the x52...couple weeks i hear
Title: joystick woes
Post by: gofaster on September 29, 2004, 09:19:24 AM
You should've bought CH.
Title: Re: joystick woes
Post by: Jackal1 on September 29, 2004, 09:48:28 AM
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Originally posted by 68DevilM
just got my new saitek cyborg rumble force feedback stick in the mail tonight and i cant get the rudder twist to even register movement. tryed new drivers, theres no option to calibrate.

wonder if anyone had any suggestions other than send it back...took almost two weeks to get already:(


  Did you map the twist?
Title: joystick woes
Post by: RTSigma on September 29, 2004, 01:34:50 PM
Saitek maitenence takes SO LONG. I sent my X45 out almost three weeks ago.

This summer I'm going to get CH.
Title: joystick woes
Post by: DrDea on September 29, 2004, 01:50:29 PM
CH gents.The stuff is insanely durable.
Title: joystick woes
Post by: slimm50 on September 29, 2004, 02:50:48 PM
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Originally posted by DrDea
CH gents.The stuff is insanely durable.

That's good, considering people in here seem to be insanely hard on their sticks (and each other at times).:p
Title: joystick woes
Post by: DrDea on September 29, 2004, 03:08:13 PM
Aint THAT the truth :)
Title: joystick woes
Post by: BigB717 on September 29, 2004, 10:39:15 PM
I have a Saitek Cyborg Evo, not the force feed back one. Force feed back stick always seems to = lots of probs, no matter what brand usually. IMO i think u need to first map the rudder, and calibrate it in windows FIRST before u calibrate it in AH2. At first i had this problem with my EVO but then i worked fine.

Saitek is a great company. I love my EVO and its WELLL worth the 30 bucks.

If i ever get the time and money put into this game i will get a CH though. They last forever and are very durable. PLUS if somthing happens to it, like if the sensors go out, u can just order new ones, repair it yourself and then poof your back in business! :)

anyone that need a cheap stick.....imo go with the EVO

sorry to hear your having probs with yours, gl with it


Title: joystick woes
Post by: Ack-Ack on September 29, 2004, 10:59:55 PM
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Originally posted by DrDea
CH gents.The stuff is insanely durable.



When I was working at CH many years ago, the calls we had about broken sticks were very few.  The ones we did get always seemed to be people from Canada, specifically British Colombia.  This little fact always made us scratch our heads.  Guess the Canuks are a little ham fisted.



ack-ack
Title: joystick woes
Post by: J_A_B on September 29, 2004, 11:21:40 PM
It's hard not to be ham-fisted with a CH stick; they move if you so much as beathe on them.


J_A_B
Title: joystick woes
Post by: Ack-Ack on September 30, 2004, 12:07:09 AM
You should have seen some of the stuff we tried to do to recreate some of these broken sticks we got from the Canucks.

Virtually all of the broken sticks we would get from them were snapped clean off at the gimble, which is pretty strong.  We would throw them around (I almost broke a window during 'throw' tests), yank them as hard as we could and basically weren't able to break these things at all.  The only time we were able to snap them off easily is when we put them on this tension bar machine that finally snapped the gimble clean.  Whatever the Canucks were doing to them, it had to be hard enough to snap the metal support rod in the gimble.  Maybe its from milking all those moose up there.


ack-ack
Title: joystick woes
Post by: RTSigma on September 30, 2004, 01:31:17 AM
I guess the Canadians are more eager to make those "shake the boggy" manuevers a little rough, Ack-Ack

To be honest....what the heck...how can ANYONE break a stick?