Hi there!

The game "Wing Commander Privateer "has apparently a hardcoded deadzone for joysticks, which isn't possible to minimize.

This doesn't only appear during DosBox-emulation: I can remember, that this deadzone-problem accompanied me through my childhood and I always whished to decrease this deadzone.

So is there a way to change an axis-ramp?

For example (all values are just theory):

The min-max values of a single axis-direction are going from 0 to 255.

Privateer's deadzone is going from 0 to 50. 51 to 255 is the usable range for steering.

Is it possible to remap the input-range from "25 to 255" to the output-range "51 to 255"? This would halfen the deadzone.

Thanks and greets from Austria!

Günther

Edit:

I've found a (little bit complicated) solution:

1. installing a virtual joystick via "vjoy"

2. remapping the axis via "Universal Control Remapper - UCR". There you can set a negative deadzone-value, which effectively reduces the deadzone to the edited minimum.

3. in dosbox-conf using joysticktype=4axis_2, so the virtual-joystick is used

maybe there is an in-app-solution via dosbox possible?

thanks!