Ok I give up, how do you get the joystick to work?

[Rodney]

Originally Posted by wildone_106

Re-installed the drivers for my Logitech Extreme 3D pro. Works in the joystick config screen in Windows. Works in DCS-A10, Arma2. In Cod nothing, I went into the controls config to try and maybe re-assign to the joystick, nothing, no response. In game, nothing.

Any ideas?

I had exactly the same problem and spent several hours yesterday before getting my joystick to work properly. Initially like you I had absolutely no joystick control. I finally got everything working though.

The first thing I tried which did work was to save the config file then alter the key/joystick settings in the config file. Then load the new config file. This gave me aileron and elevator control but no rudder or throttle.

I load and save the config files from

C:\Users\Rodney\Documents\1C SoftClub\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover\

For me modifying the config file consisted of renaming Joystick2 in the config file to just Joystick.

In the config file I replaced

[HotKey pilotMove]
Joystick2+AXE_Y=1elevator
Joystick2+AXE_X=1aileron

with this

[HotKey pilotMove]
Joystick+AXE_Y=1elevator
Joystick+AXE_X=1aileron

and got elevator and aileron working.

I also got the joystick fire trigger working by replacing

[HotKey vehicle]
Space=fire

with

[HotKey vehicle]
Joystick+Key0=fire

The funny thing is I then got everything else working (i.e. throttle plus rudder) just by doing this

Originally Posted by Basha

Same for me with the Saitek Evo...

Resolved by

Going to...

Controls

Aircraft

Axes

and then reinput your joystick axes in the

Aileron/ Elevator and Rudder boxes

Hope this helps anybody out

But I would swear in a court of law that when I first attempted the above it did not do a thing, it did not recognise any joystick commands. I don't know why after a while (a very very long while) it eventually did start recognising them so that now I can just change joystick and key assignments from the menu.

By the way my joystick is a Logitech Wingman Force 3D.
I think part of the problem is that the default setup assumes you have 3 controllers (I guess for those with separate throttle, rudder pedals, and joystick). Its great that it can take 3 controllers but for those of us with just 1 controller it really throws things out especially when you can't initially reconfigure via the menu.