This question applies to Privateer 2: The Darkening:

I'm trying to use a Logitech Force 3D Pro for flight and throttle control.

The flight control works fine, but the throttle control insists on being mapped to the rudder controls which make it pretty useless.

Does anyone have any idea on how to fix this? It's obviously just mapped to the wrong axis.

Open dosbox_privateer2.conf (in your installation folder) in notepad or another text editor and under [joystick] try changing swap34=false into swap34=true.

edit: you may also need to change the joysticktype setting. If the above doesn't work try a few different types.

"swap34=false into swap34=true"

That did the trick, thank's for the tip. :)

This worked for me. Now I have complete control of speed, much better than I was selecting targets (either my cargo ships or my enemies) and matching their speed with "x" keyboard button. That was a work around for early combat but I thought I'd probably would destroyany cargo I tried to tractor in. IIRC from earlier D2 games that I had on my older computers, I sometimes had to pick stuff up while being shot at. That would never work with the inflexible speed control I was using.

Mucho multi- thanks for this!

On a side note, I have Win7 and when I tried to open the config file, Windows said it didn't know how to open it. I had to search to find notepad in order to use it. Does Microsquish even check out their OS to see if such basic tools are working? I find W7 very puzzling sometimes.

Sorry for the off topic rant. Thanks again.

That is a perfectly normal response under any version of Windows; the '.conf' extension is not a widely know and standardized extension (like '.ini' for example) and, as such, it does not come pre-associated with any default application; you have to choose your desired one the first time... it's how Windows has always worked in that regard, ever sinc version 3