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Title: Joystick spiking problem
Post by: StSanta on May 14, 2000, 05:20:00 AM

I've begun to experience spiking problems in pitch with my 6 week old CH Products F-16 Fighterstick. Tried calibrating both in AH and in windows, and am using latest drivers. It worked for the first six weeks but no longer.

I do not have a dedicated game card bvut use one on a soundcard. But this problems appears to be local to AH only. Any suggestions?



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Title: Joystick spiking problem
Post by: StSanta on May 14, 2000, 08:31:00 AM

Tried the Sitckworks software and it seems to work (need more tests though).

It can be found (as someone psoted earlier, cannot remember who, but a big thank you to that person (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)) at
 http://home.att.net/~stickworks/swdownld.html#CTFJV320 (http://home.att.net/~stickworks/swdownld.html#CTFJV320)



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Title: Joystick spiking problem
Post by: StSanta on May 14, 2000, 09:04:00 AM

Seems like I spoke too soon  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/frown.gif)

First time I ran the program, I was able to get the range up to 250, which made for smooth movements.

Now, it only accepts range 100, and then it is quite jerky.

Anyone know of a fix?

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Title: Joystick spiking problem
Post by: Pyro on May 14, 2000, 09:16:00 PM

Have you tried chaning your "poll with interrupts" setting in your joystick control panel?



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Title: Joystick spiking problem
Post by: StSanta on May 15, 2000, 12:27:00 AM

Yup.

It seems what matters is "dzone" - if I change the other values to say 50, the joystick is deflected half way down and right. If I change dzone to two, I get not a curve, but rather an incremental increase, coming like a staircase. Not totally smooth, but might help with the spiking probs. I'll know tonight.

Thanks for the suggestion  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif).



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Title: Joystick spiking problem
Post by: bloom25 on May 15, 2000, 09:57:00 AM

Try Dx7a if you don't have it already.  That has fixed it for many people.  (If you have Dx7.0 a 250k patch to 7a is available now.  This is much better than 7 Megs.  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif) )

URL is www.microsoft.com/directx (http://www.microsoft.com/directx)



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