Joystick Help - Let's put this to bed!

[CTSchmidlak]

Hi, long time fan of RBII/3D. I have several physical copies from when I was a kid and originally fell in love with this game, and was pleasantly surprised that - unlike my remaining disc copies - this steam version works on my PC without a hitch!

However - there is one snag: I cannot for the life of me get RB3D to detect my joystick. Conversely, it works perfectly fine in the original RB that comes with the pack - so I know my joystick is functional and is detected by my PC.

I've looked through the forums here, on good old games, and event the old aerodrome website - and while there are a handful of threads on the issue, none of them have a definitive answer on how to fix this.

I've used this very joystick with RBII before - it's a Saitek 290 that I got specifically to play RBII many many years ago - so I know it's not a compatability issue with the game. My only guess is there must be some setting, .ini, or SOMETHING that I need to tweak that I'm missing.

If you have any ideas on how to resolve this it would be immensely appreciated - not just by me - but anyone else who may come after and have this same problem. Let's finally put this one to bed!

Thanks :)

-von Schmidlak (formerly of Black Haze squadron)

[CTSchmidlak]

**Update**

Persistance is a hell of a thing! I was about to turn in to bed and see if anyone responded in the morning, but decided to look over things one more time and VOILA, I've discovered a solution.

So here's what worked for me (note: I'm running Windows 7):

Go to "Control Panel" -> "Hardware and Sound" -> "Devices and Printers"

Then right-click on your joystick which should be listed among the devices, and then click "Game controller settings" in the pop-up menu.

In the next pop-up window titled "Game Controllers", press the button that says "Advanced..."

[picture of the menu in question]
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ytZHHMCxDEghyGVPRoDk4kARXXZBYy7q/view?usp=sharing

The next pop-up should say, "Select the device you want to use with older programs."

Make sure your joystick is selected! That's it, your joystick should (hopefully) work in RB3D now!

[Kl0wN KiLLeR]

So it works with Windows 7... 64 bit or 32?

[CTSchmidlak]

Oops, sorry to reply so late - I believe both. I am running Win 7 64 bit.

[Sundowner]

Thanks for this good post. I used your tip to get the joystick working in Win10 64-bit. Now if I could find a decent resolution and full-screen patch.

[Liquid]

Originally posted by CTSchmidlak:

**Update**

Persistance is a hell of a thing! I was about to turn in to bed and see if anyone responded in the morning, but decided to look over things one more time and VOILA, I've discovered a solution.

Thank you, it works now!

[CTSchmidlak]

Originally posted by Liquid:

Originally posted by CTSchmidlak:

**Update**

Persistance is a hell of a thing! I was about to turn in to bed and see if anyone responded in the morning, but decided to look over things one more time and VOILA, I've discovered a solution.

Thank you, it works now!

Nice! Glad this is still able to help people. Happy flying o7