I have been fighting this issue for a long time now.

My new VKG Gladiator joystick replaced my old Logitech Extreme 3D Pro.

When first installed, I had trouble programming the Gladiator into SE because SE kept seeing the twist action as an Axis 5 instead of something like Axis 2, and then it would only see the positive side of Axis 5 (+ Axis 5) and never the negative side (- Axis 5) for the opposing twist direction. 

After endless farting around with it I finally got it to see the negative side of the twist so I have all axis of control working now, but the stick will only drive the camera views. I cannot get my spaceships to respond to the new joystick. I have cycled endlessly thru the Controls menu trying to see if there is some checkbox I haven't checked to make this work, but I just can't see one and I'm all out of ideas.

Any help would be great, as this is an awesome joystick to use in all my other games.
Thanks,

Did you set the axes for the ship controls as well as the camera controls? If SE detects the input for one thing then it will work for everything, it can't work for camera but not for ships, that's a sign that the control assignments aren't done properly.

Yes, I've definitely programmed for both those categories, camera and ships.

I have repeatedly reprogrammed the joystick assignments for the Ship controls, and the values are accepted into the fields (at least it looks like they are, because they display as having gone in). I have tried both editing just some fields, to starting from scratch and re-assigning all the way from the top down to the bottom.

Thats why I am wondering if there is a step elsewhere that I am missing, either in Controls or maybe another menu page.


I have included a screengrab below;

GladiatorSetupSE 



TWCS is the throttle set, and goes in thru one USB port. This works perfectly in all situations.

VKBSim is the joystick, and goes in thru a second USB port, formerly occupied by the old Logitech, which worked perfectly with this setup.

This works perfectly with the camera, but is ignored by the ships.

Am I missing a step here?
Thanks,

You're not missing anything. If I had to guess, I'd say it's probably a bug with 0.980. I've never had issues with any number of flight controllers on the current version.