Controlpad, will the problems ever end...

Carmofin · December 20th, 2003

I wonder if i will ever be able to play games with a PC-pad the way its supposed to be...
Right now i got a logitech Wingman Action-pad. It got one analog stick, but the problem is, its not properly calibrated. For some odd reason, the center is automatically assumed to be a little to the left and as a result, if i put the stick to the right compeltely, it will never reach its max (se pic)
I have tried replugging the pad with the stick put a little to the left, which worked wonderfully for a few minutes, until something automatically decides to move the center to the left again...
I have absolutely NO clue what to do next and also cant find anything that seems to be of help on the net, can anyone help me?

Noxious Ninja · December 20th, 2003

Eh, have you tried running the calibrator tool?

Carmofin · December 20th, 2003

no, what tool?

Noxious Ninja · December 21st, 2003

In WinXP, and probably older version of Windows as well:

Start --> Control Panel --> Game Controllers

Select device, click Properties

Go to Settings tab, click Calibrate

Carmofin · December 21st, 2003

theres no settings tab. presumably because they proudly introduced the feature to lets everything being set completely automatically when the USB pad is plugged in. so my problem is that it doesnt set it correctly and that i dont know how i can manually change it.

Noxious Ninja · December 21st, 2003

Weird, I thought it was a standard game controller thing.

Carmofin · December 21st, 2003

no, i only get "test" and "info" basically, info providing links to their website that is of no help either.

**hushypushy** · December 21st, 2003

thats odd....my recommendation would be to reset it to the defaults like it says on Khan Artist's pic but...very odd. are your drivers properly installed?

Carmofin · December 22nd, 2003

well, what does it look like for you?

okay fine, now, 9 posts later, can we stop assuming i jut messed up and start trying to help me with solutions? -_-

Niektory · December 22nd, 2003

Try to uninstall the drivers and use the default Windows ones. (just a wild guess)

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December 20th, 2003	#3 (permalink)
Carmofin Registered User Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Austria Posts: 994	no, what tool?

December 21st, 2003	#5 (permalink)
Carmofin Registered User Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Austria Posts: 994	theres no settings tab. presumably because they proudly introduced the feature to lets everything being set completely automatically when the USB pad is plugged in. so my problem is that it doesnt set it correctly and that i dont know how i can manually change it.

December 21st, 2003	#7 (permalink)
Carmofin Registered User Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Austria Posts: 994	no, i only get "test" and "info" basically, info providing links to their website that is of no help either.

December 22nd, 2003	#10 (permalink)
Niektory Registered User Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Poland Posts: 92	Try to uninstall the drivers and use the default Windows ones. (just a wild guess)