Quake III Arena Gamepad Analogue Stick Issues

[Mace Volpe]

Hey guys,

I just tried out Spearmint and I'm finding issues with using analogue sticks. I tried launching a splitscreen deathmatch with two players.

Pressing any analogue stick in any direction resulted in something like a "fraction is zero but still the joy input tries" message.

Much more confusing still is that when I pressed the same direction on both gamepades (eg, left stick left) both players would move in the corresponding direction. Initially I thought that both players were mapped to the one controller but this was not the case.

Any help would be appreciated!

[Zack Middleton]

[Resent email so that it goes to the mailing list this time, oops]

I'm able to reproduce the issue if the joystick control binds are bound to the wrong players;

The below causes the issue

    bind JOY_LEFTSTICK_LEFT +2moveleft
    bind 2JOY_LEFTSTICK_LEFT +moveleft

Corrected below

    bind JOY_LEFTSTICK_LEFT +moveleft
    bind 2JOY_LEFTSTICK_LEFT +2moveleft

To check and correct the binds either 1) open 'settings/baseq3/config.cfg' in a text editor, 2) open the in-game console (using shift+escape or ~) and run "bindlist". See if any are wrong i.e., JOY_* command contains "2" or 2JOY_* command does not contain "2". If any are wrong, run "bind JOY_LEFTSTICK_LEFT +moveleft" etc to fix them.


Alternatively, as a workaround disable "use analog" in "setup -> controls -> player # -> joy" menu for both players. This will diabling the code that causes the warning. Controls will not be as smooth however.

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[Mace Volpe]

Oh, there we go. Okay, Google Groups is a little weird.

Anyway, after a little bit of fiddling I got it working. Seems like it was that exact problem. My F710 turns itself off when not in use and I think that conflicted with the two wired controllers.

Thanks for following it up!