Looking for joystick

[Matti]

I use this one when I’m using a stick. I'm on a laptop so I only use a stick at home, and even then, only on some of my characters. Hard to carry a stick with you in a laptop case. . . This has a twist axis for yaw, throttle, hat and lots of buttons. centers just fine in Debian Linux

How relieably does axis stay in center? How long have you used that 'stick? Has anyone else around here used that joystick?

[maaarcooose]

Just bought myself one of these:
http://www.thrustmaster.com/product.asp ... atformID=5
Only £30 from Argos. No drivers in the box and didn't need them.
Centring on the axis is brilliant, I now no longer need the source code hack I had for the Xbox controller to fix the deadzone. Loads of buttons too, but no USB port.

Now I'm still trying to decide if I should have the twist do yaw or roll...

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[DaddyHoggy]

Can the throttle be separated from the stick - or is that meshing of the two bases just for aesthetics?

We've got some X52 Pros but the students murder them - and at £100+ a pop - we're looking for a cheaper alternative, so we can save the X52s for special occasions.

[Killer Wolf]

"Detachable, real-size, ergonomically-designed throttle control"

[maaarcooose]

Indeed it does detatch. Bargain for £30 I recon.



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[DaddyHoggy]

Perfect!

[Killer Wolf]

sorely tempted by one of these for the price. last stick i bought was about that price and didn't have the throttle. i never seem to have the time to sit and play any more but i'm tempted by the price, lol.

[Matti]

I just bought new Extreme 3D Pro and I already regret it. Twist is too loose, more so to the left (anti-clockwise). Therefore when I move stick, often Cobra unintentionally rotates left. And this is new straight from the box

Maybe I should increase deadzones... Where in game is that done?

[Staer9]

I just bought new Extreme 3D Pro and I already regret it. Twist is too loose, more so to the left (anti-clockwise). Therefore when I move stick, often Cobra unintentionally rotates left. And this is new straight from the box

Maybe I should increase deadzones... Where in game is that done?

I use that stick and don't use YAW, however that is just my style of play. If you don't use yaw it is very easy to unconfigure it, as far as I am aware deadzones are not possible in-game, the logitech profile should give you the options though.

[Cmdr Wyvern]

Indeed it does detatch. Bargain for £30 I recon.



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This looks like an updated version of an earlier Thrustmaster HOTAS model, the "Top Gun Afterburner".
I used to own one. The Afterburner had dodgy axis pots that would make for a slow drift in Oolite. Had they fixed that issue?

[Matti]

So major problem with my new Extreme 3D Pro was twist axis which is bit too loose and more sensitive to other side than to other. So this is what I did: unplugged the 'stick, took hold of the handle and twisted little towards left, then plugged it back in. Still no good: this time my Cobra rolls to other way when 'stick is at rest! So I downloaded and installed software (checked its name from disc first) and started fiddling around. I increased deadzone and that helped. Now 'stick works just fine, and with sniper scope OXP I have scored plenty of kills by now, one of them Thargoid Warship

[maaarcooose]

I get no drift problem with this joystick. I'm running the dev version of oolite with the deadzone code implemented, but I;ve knocked it down from 0.13 for my xbox controller to 0.0015.
Will give it a go with deadzone set to 0 and see what happens.

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[Gnudoll]

Matti, My Saitek centers just fine. I can have it in a hard turn and drop the stick and the cobby will fly straight and true. I have had this stick for "I am embarased to say" number of years, and started using it when I was playing FlightGear which is an open source flight sim (and a good one) the twist also centers just fine and seems to be just about even from one side to the other. The return spring for the yaw is also fairly solid so I do not yaw accidentally.