First post, by Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman
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So I dug up my old "treasure crate" a week ago and became interested in two games: A-10 Tank Killer and Battledrome, both from Sierra Dynamix. I didn't have the chance to play Battledrome a lot the first time I bought the game, but I still remember playing A-10. Now I decided to play them with CH Fighterstick, CH Pro Throttle, and Pro Pedals - the USB version, using DOSBOX and my laptop.
My first impression on both games is that they're very sluggish, but is kinda different kind of sluggish. What I mean by "sluggish" here is the joystick dead zone somehow becomes very large in both games. I have to pull the stick quite a long way in order to get any response.
(I don't have such problems with the throttle though, because, due to both games' control scheme, I had to map throttle axis into key presses to use the games' throttle function. A-10 Tank Killer, for example, can only use the button 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 for its throttle function. Its rudder control, on the other hand, can utilize 2nd joystick X axis.)
The CH Control Manager software cannot help much, since by default, its sensitivity setting is already set to maximum (100), and its dead zone setting is already set to minimum (0). Playing around with the axis response curve helps a little, but still not enough.
I don't quite remember whether both games are also that sluggish in real DOS - I still remember A-10 was pretty sluggish, but not this kind of sluggishness I described above. Just FYI, Pacific Strike's control is also sluggish in DOSBOX, but again, not this kind of sluggishness (it's equally sluggish through the axis line instead of suffering from enlarged dead zone). I have Googled for A-10 patch, and found one here in Vogons, but it doesn't help either.
Is it possible to reduce joystick's dead zone in DOSBOX?
Never thought this thread would be that long, but now, for something different.....
Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman.