Drunk Pilot

[Laerrus]

I recalibrated my Xbox control pad in options, and craft now spins wildly out of control; how do I fix this? Anyone know?

[mdubmachine]

Nope :( same issue though

If you set controls to mouse/keyboard, you can steer fine with the 360 Gamepad. However, you can't use the face buttons for some reason.

It's when you change to "Gamepad" in the menu that the crazy spinning happens. (But hey, at least you can use the face buttons!)

[mdubmachine]

Apparently it's best (so far, to my knowledge) to have the controls set to "Keyboard" and be aware of the following.

The game reads the Gamepad as keyboard input. The D-Pad (and left analog stick) = Up, Down, Left, Right as expected.

RT=Spacebar
Y=Y
A=Left Alt (no idea why)
Start=I don't remember, but I used it for Afterburner.
Select=Escape

It doesn't seem to recognize any other bouttons.

It seems to run fine enough until I get another beloved joystick. I will then suddenly rever to my 3-5 year old self playing this game on Windows 95 and 98.

[Miniature Marc Summers]

The sensitivity of the gamepad seems to have lessened badly if you switch it to keyboard mode. Just me, or anyone else experiencing it? Sucks that it just spins around when you set it to gamepad mode. All I wanna do is revisit my childhood with tight(ish) controls.

[TGC_Dave]

hmm I am having the same issue. I have a joytick with throttle, but when I set it to joystick or joystick/throttle, it spins out of control. I can't use the throttle either because a Keyboard doesn't have a natural throttle.

[gentle.dissident]

I got the bundle because of this game. My Sidewinder spins the ship to the right. I can sort of steer if I keep left. How can they release this game with no joystick control and save face?

[RomBurns]

Run in DOSBox •
To run correctly in DOSBox make the following changes:
Change cycles=auto to cycles=max
Change memsize=16 to memsize=24
Change timed=true to timed=false
Change rate and oplrate to match the frequencies set in Sound Options in-game.
Leave all other settings at their defaults.

Source: http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Terminal_Velocity

The act of setting timed to false should correct gamepad/joystick issues.

[vorebane]

I found my dosbox config and made these changes, but it didn't work.

[rgft]

Same problem with my Logitech 3D Pro joystick, In calibration it shows "left" and "down" inputs active even with the stick in the neutral position. Craft corkscrews as soon as it starts. I can sort of counter the effect, but not well enough to make it playable. Keyboard works fine, but accuracy is nearly impossible.

[MK147]

Originally posted by SF=RomBurns:

Run in DOSBox •
To run correctly in DOSBox make the following changes:
Change cycles=auto to cycles=max
Change memsize=16 to memsize=24
Change timed=true to timed=false
Change rate and oplrate to match the frequencies set in Sound Options in-game.
Leave all other settings at their defaults.

Source: http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Terminal_Velocity

The act of setting timed to false should correct gamepad/joystick issues.

Where do I go to make these changes?

[fraslaw]

Yep, same problem for me with Logitech Attack 3 in Joystick mode, or the XBox gamepad. Calibrating both within Windows 10 directly also has no effect.