You changing the dosbox speed afterward calibrating your joystick?

I am using dosbox 0.62 on Linux and I am also having this problem. Specifically, I know my joystick is detected and working because I used the jscalibration utility to calibrate it. When I start Privateer with the joystick plugged in, The game asks me to calibrate the joystick by moving it to the upper-left, click, lower-right, click, and center and click. I did this exactly, but the game keeps telling me that "Joystick Calibration is not correct, please recalibrate" and I'm stuck in an endless loop. Obviously, the button is working, otherwise I wouldn't be cycling through the calibration process. What's going on?

try another button ?

Yeah, i did. Either button cycles through the calibration process, but for some reason it's not recognizing the movement of the axises (I'm guessing).

I had the same problem. ALl I did was to recalibrate several times and it finally worked...

I have a similar problem in WC2 under DOSBox. However, the joystick seems to work fine even without running the calibration routine. In that case, it was *not* a DOSBox problem as the same thing happens under real DOS. Thread on the topic.

Can you fly okay without calibrating the stick?

I'm getting a very similar issue in WC III (non-KS version). The joystick input is *extremely* noisy, and I can kind of get it to calibrate, but when I'm done, the dynamic range is about half what it should be. This happens with 0.61, 0.63, and two different gulikoza versions (one based on 0.61 and using the mapper, the other based on 0.62). But I can turn right around and run WC2 without any problems (again the DOS version).

The joystick calibrates correctly when I run WC III in VDMS, but the input is still a bit noisy.