I need a new joystick for PC...

[Windrunner]

PerfectShot, thank you very much for doing this for me. I've had such a rash of bad luck with components lately ( Dead drive, TLER problems on the replacement drives, then a dead drive when I tried to get those replaced, three monitors with massive bleed problems, all in the past month and a half ) that this has just completely bowled me over. I make a frustrated forum post about my missing joystick on top of it all and you come in with this and it completely overrides the past few months of rotten luck.

I'm going to do my best to pass this on at least three times, these acts of kindness go a very long way and I hope to continue this.


Thank you so much, I'll play test them tonight or tomorrow ( Depending on when the math homework is done, though maybe before that. If everyone else puts off their homework so can I. ) All I've done is plug it in so far and it all lights up and detects and installs.

[Windrunner]

So, I finally had a chance to really sit down with this and play it. Got it in Tuesday, powered it on, was DLing drivers, had to go to school. Wednesday I didn't even touch my computer before or after class beyond checking e-mail. Today, however, I fired it up into X3.

At first it was awkward, the rudder being in my left hand and so far down makes it hard to reach and rely on. My biggest trick tended to be I flew in corkscrews. This was quickly mitigated, however, by how effortless and instinctive using this whole system is.

After three rounds getting my butt kicked because I was awkward I figured out how to set sensitivity. I set it all the way up, and was rocking. I wasn't even hit. I wasn't sure I was even flying as much as thinking in a direction. The software was kept up to date ( thank goodness ) and I quickly had it programmed. If I tried, I could tame even X3s massive amount of controls with this X45.

Perfectshot, this has made my next two months. Especially because it is a completely different way of interfacing with my PC - something that avoids my RSI and back injury.

This stick doesn't let me slap it around like the Precision 2 did, and it has a larger deadzone, but it is every bit as graceful. It doesn't need force feedback, the grip on it makes it feel like I've just taken the controls of my starfighter, I can almost feel the engines humming through it.


I could tell you had a few hot summers, though, some of the styrofoam melted onto the cabling!

I hope that this kindness is returned onto you many times.