Hi Erik no worries, probably a good thing the joystick bug was there cause it made me learn how to use dosbox without a frontend :happy: it did send me crazy for 2 days though lol I'll try out the 154 version as i'd still prefer to use a frontend and that was the only problem I had with it, the rest …

OMG!!!!!!! i just wrote out the biggest reply stating my findings and the solution to all the problems, went for a cigarette, when i came back the internet had dropped and everything was lost LOLOLOLOLOL i am the luckiest guy :dead: i'm not writing all that out again so here it is in summary - …

thanks for that, the frontend definately leaves dosbox open after closing a game (cause it was annoying me last night) so I'll see what that returns. thanks for your patience and help ppl, i'll get there in the end 😁

I'll give it another go later to double check. Quick question HAL, do you use a frontend? I've got a feeling in might be my frontend causing the problems as i can't see why people using the same version and control pad as me can solve this by changing the joystick setting yet for me it has no effect …

Set timed=false in dosbox.conf. Or don't change the cycles ingame. think i've tried the timed thing but I'll double check when i get home and report my findings, as for the not changing the cycles, do you mean don't change them and start the game off on a higher cycle or just not to go over 3500 …

cvs!=csv lol sorry i keep getting that the wrong way round :dead: yeah i investigated them further to find out what they were yesterday, imagine how foolish i felt when realised they had nothing to do with excel :happyhappy: regarding hals IO, yes i think it is the same one, it was from his thread …

hi again yes i've tried the JOYA.dat and JOYB.dat from origin and also the different suggested joystick settings for each game. If I start privateer without the joystick it's fine so it's definately a joystick issue. Ignore my last post about the csv's (exel file indeed lol) I thought it might be …

sorry windows xp dosbox 0.71 I read that people had managed to fix it but none of the posts actually had the solution, well a solution i understood anyway, it had a couple of .diff files but i've never come across a diff file before, did look it up on google but it still made no sense to me. what …

Hi I'm getting the same problem of the joystick drifting up/left on privateer, on wing commander 2 its the same but goes up/right, seems to be when the cycle goes over a certain point (which i think has been pointed out before) I downloaded a couple of .diff files from a thread on here but I'm not …