rec.autos.simulators

Yeah, the SWFF and Precision Pro don't work on off-brand sound cards.
I replaced an Ensoniq with a SB16 to get rid of my problems.
Strangely enough, I on;y had the problem with Jedi Knight, so maybe
it's a Lucas thang...
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You played Jedi w/ a joystick?

As to a lucas thing, I too have an Ensoniq.  Using my regular Sidwidern, in
XvT my base buttons are randomly activated, since some of the settings in the
joystick and the sound card conflict.  So I'll be flying along, and on a
certain musical chord, a flair fires off!!  fwiw, only Lucas games have given
me this trouble.

Kay-Yut

1)  I'm a man, not a tank.  I always hated the smoothness of motion
caused by a joystick.  If you turn, you turn like a turret.  No
flexibilty in the speed of doing so.  Felt really off for me.

2)  On that thread, a mouse allows very fine adjustments, as well as
being able to completely spin around at amazing speed w/ just the flick
of a wrist.  I've never been able to do this w/ a joystick.

Has the FF SW been able to solve these problems?

Sounds like you had a switch-type joystick, what in the olden days we
called digital (you're moving or you're not, you're turning or you're
not, etc).  Try it with an analog (or nowadays, modern digital)
joystick, which gives you proportional control over your movement.
Twist the joystick harder and you turn faster, push a little sideways
to sidle along a wall, turn and push sideways to do the "circle of
death" thang that I could never do with keyboard/mouse.  Note that
it's important to find one with good ergonomics, stop by CompUSA and
try out a couple dozen on their display rack before you decide.  Much
as I hate MS, the Sidewinder precision Pro (and it's twin brother, the
serious steroid abuse case the FF version) have a control setup I
really like.  The PP actually has better feel then the FF, IMHO.

I still use the mouse for fine aiming for sniper work and such, as
it's got a finer resolution.

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Well you just had to get the little adapter from Microsoft, if your MIDI
port is non-SB-compliant.
I have a tropez Plus and it works for me, all is I had to sacrifice the COM1
port to get it to work. Now the Mouse was moved to PS/2 port so its ok for
me.

At least now I can still use my external keyboard at the same time. Which
the SB cant!!!!!

BTW it happens for me in almost 80% of games not just Lucasarts.

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William,
    if you go to the Lucas Arts homepage there is a patch in the tech
support area that fixes the fighter from veering off to the right.
http://www.lucasarts.com I think it is.