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Re: Descent 2 usb joystick xp - ship wobbles up and down

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From: buzzy
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 22:32
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It seems everyone who used to be here migrated to
http://www.planetdescent.com/asp/forum_index.asp?
or
http://www.descentbb.net/phpbb/

I can't answer the question myself because I don't
have a gamepad






Mike wrote:
> Yesterday I found my old copy of descent 2 and tried to run it in xp
> for a bit of nostalgic gameplay.  I thought I might try and get it
> running on my home network.  To my amazement does load and run in XP,
> but not without problems.
> 
> The ship wobbles up and down all the time, you can hear it repeatedly
> bashing on the tunnel floor. It goes forward and back with keyboard
> keys and fires ok but I can't stop it shaking up and down.  I thought
> this might be the lack of a calibrated joystick and plugged in my usb
> gamepad.  But, this does not seem to work very well at all.
> 
> Has anyone had this ship wobbling problem and know what it is and has
> anyone been able to solve it or run the game properly in xp  or with a
> usb gamepad.
> 
> Any advice would be much appreciated.
> 
> Mike
> 
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