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Anyone have some tips to make D3 stop freezing up so much and needing to be killed in task manager?

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I have the same issue and thought it was just a bug in D3, but now heard from several people that they don't have the problem, so I'm a bit surprised. I refrained from bypassing it in multiplayer, because I thought everybody had to deal with it. The T.16000m with bypassed deadzone feels incredibly ...

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Well I managed to use Thrustmaster's TARGET scripting to bypass D3's persistent deadzone such that it's only 2% of the stick instead of 10%. Using CH Products CMS Scripting I was able to bypass the deadzone completely on my pro throttle. The T16000M now jumps to 45% when it reaches 49% and 55% when ...

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If they're massive levels like in D3 they better have a good flow to them and not require us to cross them a million times. I'm looking at YOU CED dreadnought. Strangely, I think the biggest level (Mercs level 3) had decent flow to it. It could have used some trimming. I mean damn that place was ★■◆...

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So I tried running Descent 3 as admin. No effect.

I also tried running without the deadzone parameters. Without it the joystick has to cross 62.15% to register movement. So the deadzone command shrinks the deadzone, but it does not eliminate it.

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Krom wrote:Could also be directinput getting in the way with its own deadzone, don't know if there is a good method out there for bypassing that one though.

The joystick monitoring thing reads from directinput, so it's not that.

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You are probably experiencing a deadzone at the driver level for the controller, because the command line options definitely work in D3 but they only go as low as what you get from the driver itself. Although it is a long shot, check and see if the driver has a raw input mode that bypasses the buil...

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Got some joystick questions. Is there any way to get D3 to totally eliminate it's annoying software deadzone? I'm using -deadzone0 0.0 and -deadzone1 0.0 but despite that, I still have a 10% deadzone on all axes meaning I have to go above 55% or below 45% on the axis to get movement. Is there any wa...

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So what kind of scope can we expect for the campaign?

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That wasn't a complaint, it was a dumb attempt at a flame.

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It said it moved fast enough to simulate 1.5 g's of force, so that would be its limit. Now, if they take this and use it only to simulate spatial position, they could then mount the chair and interface on some kind of gyroscopic device to simulate spatial orientation for a full 6-DOF with proper gra...

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Request policy is great and I'm gonna keep it, but it is not a countermeasure for those "no js? ★■◆● you!" pages.

How do they do that anyway?

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I'll give Request Policy a shot.

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What I like to do is just play the confused technonewbie who is suddenly so scared that his computer could be screwed up. I just love leading them on. Sometimes you can quite literally hear their excitement building as they try to get me to visit some malware site, or get me to give them remote acce...

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I run no-script on firefox because I don't want any random page I visit to be able to run whatever unknown crap they want on my system without my permission. But doing this invokes a big annoyance: pages that work fine with no javascript, but redirect your browser to a "you need to turn on java...

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If we want hydrogen in mass quantities, we need to go to Saturn. Why not Jupiter? ★■◆●ing deep gravity wells suck and the planet is literally a radiation death trap. The only problem with Saturn is sheer distance. Almost twice as far as Jupiter (~9.5AU vs ~5.2AU). The thing about Saturn tho is it's ...

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In mercenary you never get the option to choose your ship. If you've beaten level 2 of the campaign you will always fly a black pyro when playing mercenaries on that pilot, even if you go back to levels 1 and 2.

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Something tells me asteroids will be a poor source of tritium.

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So some thoughts so far since I got these sticks: Throttle is awesome. So is the stick. CH Scripting is unintuitive yet straight forward. Autohotkey is somewhat intuitive and straight forward, but somewhat harder to pull off complex stuff in. Learning TARGET requires learning some actual programming...

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How about some D2 hoard matches sometime?

Or Shakers?

Or both?

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I'm on a retro kick lately. Playing through Freespace/Silent Threat/Freespace 2, and then I'm gonna romp through Mechwarrior 2/Ghost Bear's Legacy/Mercenaries/Mechwarrior 3.

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And with the addition of the throttle, the Ghetto Stick evolves into the Ghetto HOTAS:

Fun times will be had!

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Picked up some black zip ties tonight. Replaced the bottom set of twisty ties with two zip ties in different orientations. Holds it in place solidly. The top twisty tie remains because I simply could not get any of the zip ties to not rest on top of the center button, unlike the twisty tie which pla...

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Well if I'm gonna use the mini joystick on the throttle for analog slides, I have to control forward and backwards somehow.

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So what kind of visual effects does using glide enable that aren't in opengl?

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It's always something that's been in the back of my mind. I'm on a joystick game kick lately, so I might get around to trying to make a few good runs. Last I remember I was stuck on Level 9 after having finally gotten a time on level 8 I was somewhat happy with. Took for ★■◆●ing ever to get that one...

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Actually it feels pretty good the way its oriented. the 4 colored buttons are easy to get without even stretching my thumb or contorting my hand, and the start and select buttons are also pretty easy. They work great as shift toggles. I wish I had the little screw in stick that came with the gamepad...

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And I'm tinkering with Glide wrappers as well. Annoying that you can only use official hardcoded 4:3 resolutions with them. Yeah, that's why I can play the game in only 4:3 display. It's not bad at all. It would be really nice if the game had widescreen resolution support. What are all the resoluti...

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Those twist ties wouldn’t last 2 minutes the way I used to play…better get yourself some nylon zip ties. I'm planning on doing just that. I'll need some really long ones. The one at the top circles the stick and gamepad in a figure 8, and the one at the bottom circles the stick in full before circl...

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Lothar, one thing I would do in the future is if you are involved in an exchange, it's generally a good idea to let another mod make the call and implement any punishment. At the very least it will give you a second perspective that will either validate your own or point out any personal bias of you...

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I always thought it was for adult humor that was R rated and thus shouldn't be viewable by the teenage population of the board.

At least that's how it was pitched when it was created.

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Is NHB really an appropriate place to send E&C's unwanted garbage? Why don't those threads just get closed instead?

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Banning people who won't follow the rules is a form of discipline, with the idea of teaching the user to stop breaking the rules, or if they refuse to do that, stop having to deal with them altogether. The thing is, Issac, there are people on the internet who don't really want to talk. They want to ...

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Well it's good that there's a long way to go before release for them to get this stuff figured out.

Maybe I should register on their bulletin boards. With all the games I've been playing lately I've got a few ideas for control configuration I sort of feel like sharing.

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If it looks stupid, but works, it ain't stupid.

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How come they can't get access to that original IP? The current rights holder just wont play ball?

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Lothar if you'd like an impartial opinion on this, you could show me some of the posts in question. I've gotten pretty good at evaluating posts for trolling in the couple years I've helped moderate a very active hockey forum.

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So, I ultimately went with a Thrustmaster T16000M because of just how accurate the thing is plus the fact that it can use thrustmaster TARGET software. Also I found a very ghetto solution to fix the lack of buttons. Utilizing vJoy, some twisty ties, and a GRavis Gamepad Pro, I have created this mons...

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Dont you have to have a creative card to use that tho?

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In case anyone is wondering, here's how you can get 3D positional audio working again: IndirectSound ! It's also great for plain ol' 2D audio, because it eliminates the cracks and pops you get while afterburning. With nGlide, you have to set the Configurator to use the "By desktop" screen...

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