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Hi Tex fans,

I have a strange problem I find replicated by a lot of low budget games and in particular console ports (I can understand the console ports having this problem but read on)

I play a lot of flight simulators and have a pretty complex pedal/throttle/joystick setup and configured on the system, my problem with games like Telsa Tex is the game for some reason detects and uses these joysticks for control axis (Like a mouse) so when I load the game the view instant goes crazy warping all over the screen even though im not touching the flight controllers,

In the console ports on PC i find this is because the game assumes my multitude of joysticks and whatnot are in fact USB Game Pad controllers but I don't see why this would be the case in Tex!

Easy you say! unplug the controllers before you start Tex!

Well for my rig and the way I've built it this is a nightmare to do, I did this once and accidently plugged the joystick back into the wrong USB port and it broke controller config for every flight simulator I had LOL.

Is there a way to disable Tex and games like it from looking past the keyboard and the mouse?

Any advice appreciated
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gonzman: Hi Tex fans,

I have a strange problem I find replicated by a lot of low budget games and in particular console ports (I can understand the console ports having this problem but read on)

I play a lot of flight simulators and have a pretty complex pedal/throttle/joystick setup and configured on the system, my problem with games like Telsa Tex is the game for some reason detects and uses these joysticks for control axis (Like a mouse) so when I load the game the view instant goes crazy warping all over the screen even though im not touching the flight controllers,

In the console ports on PC i find this is because the game assumes my multitude of joysticks and whatnot are in fact USB Game Pad controllers but I don't see why this would be the case in Tex!

Easy you say! unplug the controllers before you start Tex!

Well for my rig and the way I've built it this is a nightmare to do, I did this once and accidently plugged the joystick back into the wrong USB port and it broke controller config for every flight simulator I had LOL.

Is there a way to disable Tex and games like it from looking past the keyboard and the mouse?

Any advice appreciated
Assuming you are on Windows, did you try to just disable it from the device manager (and then re-enable on need?) I'm pretty sure you can also disable individual USB ports that way (some trial and error may be needed to ensure you are disabling the right one though, have a 2nd mouse ready to plug in ;) )
Some of the devices require a reboot to enable/disable them from the control panel, What i am trying to do here is avoid that annoying process!
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gonzman: Some of the devices require a reboot to enable/disable them from the control panel, What i am trying to do here is avoid that annoying process!
It's still worth a shot, usually USB devices do not require a reboot on disable
I've already done that, I can disable the devices in control panel but my rudder pedals make me reboot the system to enable/disable, the whole point of the help thread is to ask if there is a way around having to reboot my system twice (once before playing, then again after) each time I play Tex Murphy, the curious thing to me is why this point and click adventure game would need/want to look for USB pad and joystick controllers.
the joystick controls are hard coded into the mainData file in the game folder... I think it's in the managed folder or something like that. if you search for "joystick" in file you'll see the configuration a that's causing your problem. it might be possible to blank out the axis in that file using a hex editor so it won't attempt to use joysticks anymore. I'll try messing around with it when I get off work but apart from hex editing there isn't really any method I know of to have it ignore joystick input... and even still I'm not sure if it'll work.
Yeah after messing around with the file a bit I was able to disable the joystick mappings as I'm assuming this is what you want. Just as a forewarning this involves using a hex editor on your game files so make sure you make a backup before continuing.

Open up the file TeslaEffect_Data\mainData in a hex editor (I use HxD) and search for the following strings:
"Joystick Left Horizontal"
"Joystick Left Vertical"
"Joystick Right Horizontal"
"Joystick Right Vertical"

If you blank out all these strings by replacing them with 0's it will cause these joystick axis to no longer respond within the game. When I say replace with zeros I mean the hex side of the window not an ascii 0. For example:

"Joystick Right Vertical"

shows up as the following in the hex window.

4A 6F 79 73 74 69 63 6B 20 52 69 67 68 74 20 56 65 72 74 69 63 61 6C

so you'd want to replace it with this.

00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

I used a 360 controller to test it out on and it seemed to cause the game to no longer use the gamepad when I modified the above file. Hopefully that solves your problem.
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