[freespace2] joystick sensitivity problem

[Jonas Laurio]

Josh Watzman wrote:

>Geller Sandor wrote:
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>>Hello!
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>>I've encountered a strange behaviour when I use joystick with FreeSpace2.
>>It seems, that controlling the ships with the numpad is faster than with
>>the joystick, and not only the responsivness is better, but the turning
>>speed is faster. Can anyone confirm this problem? In heavy dogfights
>>(against Dragons) I have to control the ship with the numpad instead of
>>the joystick, this is a little bit annoying.
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>I've got a similar problem with OS X and my Logitech wireless USB mouse.
>Even with mouse sensitivity up all the way, the turning speed is about
>1/2 of the numpad speed.
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I own a joystick, but don't use it w/ flight sim's. It's a digital 
joystick (gamepad actually), and years upon years ago when I first 
purchased Freespace 1 - attempted to use the gamepad w/ it. The issue I 
had was you cannot increase the sensitivity high enough to make it fast 
enough to be playable, because when you do then there is no 'feel' for 
range of motion (you cannot make short + precise movements). This is 
probably because it's a digital joystick, and all 3D flight games I've 
ever played that have joystick support never worked well with one unless 
it was analogue!

Note that this was with the 'official' MS Windows version on Win9x.

I haven't looked at the source for the input code, but when using SDL on 
BeOS I've noticed the mouse speed/accel set by the OS itself gets reset 
upon SDL init and close (so it's different in the SDL app than it's 
supposed to be). Haven't checked for this in any other OS though.