How to calibrate joystick?

[Mugwump]

I've had this game since the earliest builds but I've never been able to play it because I can't get it to respond properly to my MS Sidewinder 2 FFB joystick or my X-55 joystick. I had hoped that the problems with joysticks had been solved with the final release but I still can't get mine to work at all. I've tried altering sensitivity and deadzone settings to ridiculous extremes yet any craft I attempt to pilot immediately goes into insanely high rates of spin along all axes, even when SAS is enabled.

Is there any way to play this game with a joystick? Any guides on how to set one up to work with this game (apart from installing dodgy VB compilers or PPJoy?)

[NeoMorph]

I'm using a HOTAS Warthog and have no probs. Have you calibrated your joystick in Windows itself? I've got a SW 2 FF floating around somewhere in my flat and if I can find it I'll have a go at using it in KSP as well but I think the thing is to get windows calibration working first... In XP the SW2FF didn't need calibrating IIRC but my Hotas needs recalibrating after every time I pull it apart to do mods.

[volcanicshrimp]

I have this problem with my thrustmaster usb joystick. The dead zones are totally off and don't have a centre option (being able to centre the dead zone looks like it would fix the pitch and roll). Advanced fly by wire fixed pitch and roll but even that couldn't fix the throttle which seems to be increasing the further from the middle it is and reaching full throttle at about 25/75% throttle. The joystick is perfectly well calibrated in windows and works fine with flightgear.

Edited August 4, 2015 by volcanicshrimp