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Help and Support Forums => Technical Support => Topic started by: Tac on December 11, 2010, 12:09:36 PM
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The stick does work in the sense that AH2 it detects all the inputs (x,y,z,swivel stick rudder, throttle) but the force feedback just does not work. I can take off an fly but with a limp stick that is absolutely unplayable.
Interesting thing is, when in windows the FF on the stick is definitely enabled. You touch the stick's sensor (it has an infrared sensor on the handle to detect when you put your hands on it) and the FF motor rights the stick to center position.
Start AH2 while having 1 finger on the stick pushing it back causing the sensor to keep the stick centered via the motor (you feel the motor trying to center stick rather strongly)... the FF works during AH2's main menu, works during the login process...
but the moment you enter any arena the motor shuts off.
There is no option in the game setup menus that will turn it back on. This Jstick works fine in all other games so Im not sure why the force feedback doesn't work here.
How do I get it running?
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In the game there are setting for force feedback. Check under "options""controls""force feedback" for settings. There might even be a spot for turning it on/off tho I've never looked for it.
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already looked that.. its all enabled. Ive even checked and unchecked item by item just to see if anything will kick it in.. no luck.
its nothing in the setup menus. Has got to be something with AH2's code thats switching it off.
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already looked that.. its all enabled. Ive even checked and unchecked item by item just to see if anything will kick it in.. no luck.
its nothing in the setup menus. Has got to be something with AH2's code thats switching it off.
There is still a bug knocking around for this stick with varying results, I'm good myself although I did have it lose the elevator FF last week. Go to FF settings in AH menu in game, hit disable hit apply, then enable and apply. Your FF should be working now.
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no that doesnt do it. ive tried it before :(
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Hmm i don't understand the loss of ffb mine works fine, the only time i lost an axis was when i changed some video settings. What os are you using? I'm on 7 i never install the driver cd that came with the game and have scaling disabled in game. There was a bug 4-5 months back that caused the ffb to go on full force settings regardless of your in game settings but it was fixed in an update.
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Are we talking about the same stick?
Microsoft sidewinder force feedback 2 is the one I have.
(http://www.deafgamers.com/sidewinderff2pic1.jpg)
I'm using winxp64bit pro.
I wish i had the FF on full force bug... thats what I generally have it on anyway :P
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Yup same stick, search this forum there was a similar prob recently posted. I'm pretty sure the guy was on xp as well, could it be the version of direct x is different on older os?
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Ok thats just weird then. Im on Winxp64 .. if you using 7 then you using dx10+ im in dx9. Dont think this os can run 10.. ill check.
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I have one here too and although its dusty and I havent used it for years it just plugged in and works normally (Windows 7 x64).
Sorry... nuked XP x64 so I cant even try that but probably the drivers never existed for that OS.
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The drivers for it work in any other game so its not a problem.
Really weird thing last night though... I logged into AH to try something. Main arena.. stick went dead. Went to WW1 arena and all the sudden the stick's FF activates.
Wondering if its a glitch I exit WW1 arena, go back to main arena, stick FF deactivates. Go back to WW1 arena and it remains inactive.
I know its not the stick at all since it works 100% perfectly, every time without fail in any other game. Its not the stick settings in AH because they are the same in both arenas.
I'm guessing its something the game does when it loads the arena.. some kind of reset or something and perhaps winxp64 doesnt do something win7/vista does to reactivate it since some people here have the stick working fine.
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I had this with the old ffb bug once when i went to ww1 it worked perfect i actually pmed kazaa to test his stick in there but it was a one off? And when i tried again i couldn't get the same results for some reason? Thought i was going nuts lol.
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That's a great find. I couldn't think of anything other than OS but realised that couldn't be right because you mentioned the other games.
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