Cygon’s Blog

I’ve got a Thrustmaster Dual Analog 3, that’s a plain and simple USB gamepad without any fancy vibration, orientation sensor or anything. I’m mainly using it to control my WinAmp when I’m listening to music.

Whenever I start an Unreal Engine 3 game, for example Gears of War, Blacksite: Area 51, Medal of Honor: Airborne, Turning Point: Fall of Liberty or, just right now, Turok, I can enjoy the intro, and, as soon as the action starts, my character is spinning to the left. Permanently.

This goes on until I disconnect my gamepad, which is quite inconvenient since I have it attached to the back of my PC so that the cable is long enough to use it when listening to music while lying on my bed.

So, as always, I have to end the game, download the latest Thrustmaster driver, fiddle with the settings, start the game again, watch the introduction a second time, and am still spinning to the left.

I fiddle some more with the settings, restart the game yet again, watch the introduction sequence yet another time and finally, I can play.

This sure is an evil gamepad I have.