Joystick+Settings-Knegel



= Joystick settings from Ralf Knegel =

Hello!

Many newbies complain about unstable planes in EAW, while others talk about very stable gunplattforms. So here are some tips to get a good stable but still most agile plane.

If your plane wobbles badly, never flys straight or with somewhat strange sideways movements, you probably need to edit one entry in the EAW.ini.

//This isnt difficult!!// You can find the EAW.ini in the EAW-directory (the folder where your EAW is installed, by default, C:\Microprose\European Air War\ ). You can open the eaw.ini with 'notepad', by doubleclicking to the 'eaw.ini'.

You need to edit this line: to After this the joystick should work better!

But thats not all!!!

EAW only have one sensitivity-slider for all joystick-axis, and this slider have only one 'best' position!!! You can find the slider if you start EAW, then 'configure game', then go to 'controlls' (dont mix it up with the camera-sensitvity-slider )

You need to test if your joystick act in the usefull range of the EAW-joystick-sensitvity-slider. If your joystick is to aggressive by default, you can set the EAW-joystick-sensitvity-slider to minimum, but the planes still will stall to easy and are unstable gun plattforms. On the other hand, if your stick is to less aggressive by default, you can set the slider to max, but your planes rarely will stall and dont will turn very tight.


 * 1) Start EAW and set the slider to the left side(min), take a 109E4 and pull the stick backward, if the plane is very stiff and stable, all is ok. If it still stall easy and turn tight, you need to reduce the aggressivity with the Joysticksoftware, if your stick dont have such a software you have a problem here.
 * 2) Now set the slider to the right side (max), take a 109E4 and pull the stick backward, if the planes stall very easy all is fine. If the plane still is stiff and have problems to stall, you need to use the sticksoftware to enhance the aggressivity, if you dont have a sticksoftware, you have a problem.

//First if 1. and 2. is ok, you can go on!//

Setting up the EAW-joystick-sensitvity-slider to the 'best' point. Here you need to know that the EAW-Flightmodels provide a max turn and rollratio and sideruddervariation for all planes. If a joystick is more aggressive as needed, the planes dont turn and roll better than the maximun, but they get more unstable, on the other hand, if you make the planes to stable by reducing the sensitivity (EAW-joystick-sensitvity-slider more left), you lose turn and rollperformence, thats why there is only one best point for the slider.
 * 1) Start EAW, set the EAW-joystick-sensitvity-slider to max (right side),
 * 2) Take a 109E4, fly close to the ground and make turntests with help of a stopclock. Fly with full power and turn most tight without to stall. The best is if the hud-display always stay yellow. The E4 should need roundabout 16sec with 225km/h in 100m Alt, and it should stall very late while a constant turn!
 * 3) Reduce the sensitivety (slider left) step by step and test by test, until the plane start to lose turnperformence (normaly thats if the plane stop to spin, even the elevator got moved maximum backward).

I myself like to fly with a more stable plane and give up a bit of turn performance, because it's more useful to avoid a spin or blackout than to turn a bit tighter. A less sensitive setup is more advantageous as the higher the plane flys, because there the planes stall earlier and lose turn performance!! If you use one of my realismpatches (EAWrp2.2), probably you need to push the slider a bit more to the left side than for default EAW1.2!

May this help!! Greetings, Knegel