Throttle and Alt key stop working

[HowardWi]

Sometimes my throttle starts acting weird in 4.0.2.

I have a Logitech Freedom 2.4 joystick. It has a throttle lever on it. When the problem starts I cannot set the speed to 0. If I move the throttle lever to the 0 position the throttle display goes to about 70%. Full throttle is still full throttle. The minimum I can get my speed down to is about 75 m/s when the throttle is set to about one quarter on the joystick. So 0 on the joystick is about 70% throttle and as I move the throttle lever to the one quarter position my speed slows, then as I keep moving the lever, the throttle increases to maximum.

When this happens my alt key also stops working. It seems to act like alt-A when I just press the alt. So asking for landing instructions with alt-I is impossible and getting my speed down for landing also is hard.

Also, A and Z, the keyboard throttle commands also are ignored.

I can restart the program and it is fine until it starts again. I think this happens sometimes after I take any hit, but I'm not sure. But it is not just for that mission or I would say my controls have been damaged by the hit. If I do land safely and start another mission, my controls are still messed up in the new ship.

[HowardWi]

I got it working. Since I only use the joystick for this game, somehow Starshatter must have caused the stick to get out of calibration.

The way I was able to fix it since I don't see a way to calibrate the thorrle was to disable the throttle, then using the "z" key set the game throttle to zero. Set the stick throttle to zero and re-enable the throttle.

Now everything seems to be fine. I will see if this happens again.

[John DiCamillo]

Howard,

Please see if disabling mouse steering in the Control page of the Options screen has any effect on this issue.

Thanks,

[HowardWi]

It does still happen and I can keep correcting it.

I will try your suggestion.

Thanks.

[HowardWi]

I tried disabling the mouse and it still happened in the very next mission, though I'm not sure when.

Next time I go into combat I will keep trying setting the throttle to max then 0 to see when it goes out. My feeling is that it happens after I get shot. But when ever it does stop working I can fix it by going through the sequence I mentioned using <esc> to set controls.

[HowardWi]

Weird because I don't know how it happened. Interesting because it explains why other keystrokes stopped working.

I have a logitech 2.4 Freedom Joystick and like many joysticks, you can program the keys. With this one you can record keystrokes and then use the button to play them back.

I had one of my buttons programed to Alt-A "attack my target" and I noticed the problem started again when I pressed that key.

So I exited Starshatter and checked. The recorded keystokes were: "Alt Press", "A Press", "Release", "Alt Release". Wierd that it said "Release" and not "A Release". So I rerecorded it and this time it did say "A Release" and I have not had any more problems.

I guess Starshatter thought I never "released" the "A" key and that is why the throttle and other keystrokes were messed up, it thought I was still holding the "A". Boy I glad that is passed.