That fixed it. Thanks a bunch!

Thanks! Worked perfectly for me. I had to make sure to enable the setting for all users in order to be able to deselect compatibility mode, you're a game saver!

Still not working for me, tried all the things listed above. Compatibility mode option is grayed out and cannot be changed. Default button does not work either.

The tip to change the compatibility mode on Windows 98 was perfect, now I could configure the Joystick. The menü works instead very slowly, but when you change the mode on Windows 8 back, the buttons are also configured and the menu works normal. Thank's a lot.

It worked for me if you change compatibility for all users.

With me after a couple of goes, I just press default. It works fine with the logitech gamepad F310. I did not use compatibility mode. I have W7 Pro 64bit. Just make sure that switch at the back is on 'd' and the mode is off

If you switch compatibility to windows 98 the menus act really slowly.

Remove all the compatibility functions. the menus will work fine and it will save the joystick mapping.

After turning it back to to Windows XP SP2 Compatibility mode, which is what it was on by default, the joystick mapping stays, but, it won't let me use it. I'm trying to use an XBox 360 controller. So the compatibility works, and it stayed, but, in normal / non-compatibility mode the controller doesn't pick up even though its mapped.

Does an installation of DirectX9.0 help affected users on Win7 and Win8 (and Vista for that matter)? Could it be due to missing DirectInput libraries as the 360 controller is XInput and unable to find an appropriate DirectInput driver for old non-Xinput games?

For me, it picked it up immediately, though I'm also passing my 360 controller through vJoy, a virtual joystick. But I installed DirectX9.0 as one of the very first steps after installing the OS as it is known to resolve a number of issues with older games.

Where do you change compatability mode?

Right click on the game's exe file, or its shortcut, open its properties, go to the compatibility tab, change what you wish.

You go to the folder where the game is installed

Look for the "Rogue" sub folder
right click on rogué squadron .exe

Finally fo to the compatibility tab

Right-o, I just had to set compatibility to '98, set joystick mappings to default, start a game, quit, remove all compatibility settings, and then re-start and everything works excellent now.


EDIT: Oh, and the compatibility settings were grayed out, which was confusing, until I figured out you have to click "Change compatibility settings for all users" <- if this has been set, you can only change it by clicking this and then setting it.

This helped a lot. Thanks!