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Posted June 14, 2012
hey there,
the joystick works in the reg scenes, but when i try to fly the mission it wont work at all
any ideas?
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Posted June 17, 2012
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mtrenewal: hey there,
the joystick works in the reg scenes, but when i try to fly the mission it wont work at all
any ideas?
I can't get the joystick to work in ANY of the WC series. On the ship, the mouse will work... sort of... it drifts south all the time, and I have to fight it to get it where I need it, then click fast before it moves. Mostly I have to move it north of where I need it, then click several times to get it to click on the area I need.

It doesn't work at all in space, and neither does the joystick. I bought all of the Wing Commander games from Privateer, through IV and none of them are what I would call playable by any stretch of the imagination.

At this point, if it can't get it to work, preferably with my joystick, as far as I am concerned, I have wasted my money.

I do have the original WC 1 cd, but it won't play at all on my Windows 7 64 bit machine :(

Too bad, too, because as I recall, it was really a fun game.
Post edited June 17, 2012 by BriteLeaf
Posted June 17, 2012
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mtrenewal: hey there,
the joystick works in the reg scenes, but when i try to fly the mission it wont work at all
any ideas?
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BriteLeaf: I can't get the joystick to work in ANY of the WC series. On the ship, the mouse will work... sort of... it drifts south all the time, and I have to fight it to get it where I need it, then click fast before it moves. Mostly I have to move it north of where I need it, then click several times to get it to click on the area I need.

It doesn't work at all in space, and neither does the joystick. I bought all of the Wing Commander games from Privateer, through IV and none of them are what I would call playable by any stretch of the imagination.

At this point, if it can't get it to work, preferably with my joystick, as far as I am concerned, I have wasted my money.

I do have the original WC 1 cd, but it won't play at all on my Windows 7 64 bit machine :(

Too bad, too, because as I recall, it was really a fun game.
Cursior drift is likely because you either have a gamepad or joystick plugged in that isn't calibrated correctly. Make sure you callibrate the stick in windows itself, not just dosbox. To do this in win 7 you need to go to "devices and printers" in the control panel or start menu.

Now within the games, particularly WC3 and 4 you should try opening the inflight option menu when you get to the space combat (alt+o) and choosing joystick as your controller (or mouse if you prefer) since the game is likely defaulting to keyboard controls. Make sure you hit 'save settings" as well.
Posted June 19, 2012
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BriteLeaf: I can't get the joystick to work in ANY of the WC series. On the ship, the mouse will work... sort of... it drifts south all the time, and I have to fight it to get it where I need it, then click fast before it moves. Mostly I have to move it north of where I need it, then click several times to get it to click on the area I need.

It doesn't work at all in space, and neither does the joystick. I bought all of the Wing Commander games from Privateer, through IV and none of them are what I would call playable by any stretch of the imagination.

At this point, if it can't get it to work, preferably with my joystick, as far as I am concerned, I have wasted my money.

I do have the original WC 1 cd, but it won't play at all on my Windows 7 64 bit machine :(

Too bad, too, because as I recall, it was really a fun game.
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awesomead: Cursior drift is likely because you either have a gamepad or joystick plugged in that isn't calibrated correctly. Make sure you callibrate the stick in windows itself, not just dosbox. To do this in win 7 you need to go to "devices and printers" in the control panel or start menu.

Now within the games, particularly WC3 and 4 you should try opening the inflight option menu when you get to the space combat (alt+o) and choosing joystick as your controller (or mouse if you prefer) since the game is likely defaulting to keyboard controls. Make sure you hit 'save settings" as well.
I went to the CP and found my "Joystick". It thinks it is a Gamepad. I don't see anything in there to calibrate it though. I have tried properties, advanced, and pretty much everything else looking for a way to calibrate it in Windows. No joy :(

I do want to thank you, however, for attempting to help me :)
Post edited June 19, 2012 by BriteLeaf
Posted July 01, 2012
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mtrenewal: hey there,
the joystick works in the reg scenes, but when i try to fly the mission it wont work at all
any ideas?
I was having this problem earlier today, and I may have found the solution for everyone. In WC3 (my joystick works fine in 1, 2, 4 and Privateer) if you have the problem of the joystick working during navigation but not during flight, when you launch, press Alt + O on your keyboard. An options menu like the one under "Controls" in the terminal comes up. For me, under Input, it had "Keyboard" selected. I clicked "Joystick" and it's now working fine. I hope this fixes the problem for someone else.
Posted July 19, 2012
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mtrenewal: hey there,
the joystick works in the reg scenes, but when i try to fly the mission it wont work at all
any ideas?
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joethulhu: I was having this problem earlier today, and I may have found the solution for everyone. In WC3 (my joystick works fine in 1, 2, 4 and Privateer) if you have the problem of the joystick working during navigation but not during flight, when you launch, press Alt + O on your keyboard. An options menu like the one under "Controls" in the terminal comes up. For me, under Input, it had "Keyboard" selected. I clicked "Joystick" and it's now working fine. I hope this fixes the problem for someone else.
try doing ctrl + j worked for me:)
Posted July 20, 2012
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mtrenewal: hey there,
the joystick works in the reg scenes, but when i try to fly the mission it wont work at all
any ideas?
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BriteLeaf: I can't get the joystick to work in ANY of the WC series. On the ship, the mouse will work... sort of... it drifts south all the time, and I have to fight it to get it where I need it, then click fast before it moves. Mostly I have to move it north of where I need it, then click several times to get it to click on the area I need.

It doesn't work at all in space, and neither does the joystick. I bought all of the Wing Commander games from Privateer, through IV and none of them are what I would call playable by any stretch of the imagination.

At this point, if it can't get it to work, preferably with my joystick, as far as I am concerned, I have wasted my money.

I do have the original WC 1 cd, but it won't play at all on my Windows 7 64 bit machine :(

Too bad, too, because as I recall, it was really a fun game.
To get rid of the drifting joystick problem in Wing Commander and Privateer I changed the joystick configuration within the DOSBox config file like this:

joysticktype=2axis
timed=false
autofire=false
swap34=false
buttonwrap=false

That did the trick for me.
Posted January 22, 2018
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mtrenewal: hey there,
the joystick works in the reg scenes, but when i try to fly the mission it wont work at all
any ideas?
I had exactly the same problem with a Thrustmaster joystick. The solution given earlier in this thread fixed it. The program had defaulted to keyboard controls in flight sequences. Once I pressed <Alt + O> and recalibrated the joystick, it worked perfectly.
Post edited January 22, 2018 by bbroers
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