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Posted June 10, 2011
Does anyone else using a joystick have an unusually large sensitivity dead zone? I have a hard time finely aiming at ships because the joystick doesn't respond until I move it by ~1/3 of it's range. The problem isn't my joystick, in windows the calibration works fine. I thnk it's either the game or dosbox itself.
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Posted June 10, 2011
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quantumpion: Does anyone else using a joystick have an unusually large sensitivity dead zone? I have a hard time finely aiming at ships because the joystick doesn't respond until I move it by ~1/3 of it's range. The problem isn't my joystick, in windows the calibration works fine. I thnk it's either the game or dosbox itself.
http://www.gog.com/en/forum/wing_commander_privateer/joystick_deadzone

It's not even off the first page. In short no, DOSBox doesn't handle joysticks well, even though someone posted code to better support them in the forums at dosbox they haven't included as a standard which would be nice.
Posted June 10, 2011
Crud, the link to the compiled version of dosbox with the joystick patch in your link is dead and I can't find it anywhere. :(
Posted June 26, 2011
I also hope that GOG or somebody else provides a joystick patch. I'm using a Wingman Extreme joystick and the overly large deadzone makes dogfighting very difficult in the later missions.
Posted June 26, 2011
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booker444: I also hope that GOG or somebody else provides a joystick patch. I'm using a Wingman Extreme joystick and the overly large deadzone makes dogfighting very difficult in the later missions.
Here is a custom DOSBox build that adds support for setting a joystick deadzone. I haven't tried it but hopefully it will do the job.

To get this working replace the game's DOSBox installation with this one and then edit dosboxPRIV.conf to include the new deadzone parameter. If you need help doing any of this reply back and I'll explain in more detail. :)
Post edited June 26, 2011 by Arkose
Posted February 03, 2015
Hey man, I would love to get the ability to tweak the dead-zone of my joystick for Wing Commander; unfortunately the link you provided seems to have expired. Any insight would be greatly appreciated. I'm using a Logitech Extreme 3D Pro, for reference.
Post edited February 03, 2015 by The_Atomik_Punk
Posted February 04, 2015
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The_Atomik_Punk: Hey man, I would love to get the ability to tweak the dead-zone of my joystick for Wing Commander; unfortunately the link you provided seems to have expired. Any insight would be greatly appreciated. I'm using a Logitech Extreme 3D Pro, for reference.
With Logitech just use the profiler to make a deadzone.
Posted February 04, 2015
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The_Atomik_Punk: Hey man, I would love to get the ability to tweak the dead-zone of my joystick for Wing Commander; unfortunately the link you provided seems to have expired. Any insight would be greatly appreciated. I'm using a Logitech Extreme 3D Pro, for reference.
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Strijkbout: With Logitech just use the profiler to make a deadzone.
I can't figure out how to lessen the dead-zone in the Logitech software; the slider only allows me to increase the dead-zone, which would only exacerbate my problem. Do you know how to decrease the dead-zone in the Logitech software?
Posted February 04, 2015
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Strijkbout: With Logitech just use the profiler to make a deadzone.
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The_Atomik_Punk: I can't figure out how to lessen the dead-zone in the Logitech software; the slider only allows me to increase the dead-zone, which would only exacerbate my problem. Do you know how to decrease the dead-zone in the Logitech software?
Oh it's too big, no I don't know how to make it smaller that is either a problem of the game itself or Dosbox.

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You might want to try editing the .conf file and set:

timed=false
Post edited February 04, 2015 by Strijkbout
Posted February 04, 2015
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The_Atomik_Punk: I can't figure out how to lessen the dead-zone in the Logitech software; the slider only allows me to increase the dead-zone, which would only exacerbate my problem. Do you know how to decrease the dead-zone in the Logitech software?
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Strijkbout: Oh it's too big, no I don't know how to make it smaller that is either a problem of the game itself or Dosbox.

edit:
You might want to try editing the .conf file and set:

timed=false
Unfortunately, it's already set to timed=false.
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