Gears of War PC, constant spinning

WIth Gears of War on the PC (Vista Ultimate 64-bit) whenever my Logitech Extreme 3D USB joystick is connected and I start a game, my character spins very rapidly counter-clockwise and the game is unplayable.

Also, in any of the options menus where there are slides (brightness, volume, etc.) as soon as I put my mouse cursor over it, it will move all the way to the left.

Of course, disconnecting my joystick fixes the issue, but I thought I would see if anyone else with the game had the issue.

Side note, I called MS support to report the issue, spoke to someone in India, who was "glad to report to me that Gears of War for the PC does not support a joystick" and that since I've already solved the case "would I be able to give her permission to close the case". Like talking to a brick wall...

I wonder what she would have said if my USB scanner caused the issue, probably "Gears of War for the PC does not support USB scanners", lol, too funny.

I would search the ini files for an option to disable joystick input, im sure unreal engine games have that as a boolean value somewhere in the config, you'd have to use notepad find to check them.

Nothing in the settings to disable joystick? Search for command line launch options that will do it for you. Lady is reading a script which she has to. Eh.

why would anyone WANT to use a joystick with the pc version?? it boggles my mind.

its much more playable with a mouse & keyboard, by far.

he just has his joystick plugged in for convenience. He doesn't want to use it.

Dunan said:

why would anyone WANT to use a joystick with the pc version?? it boggles my mind.

its much more playable with a mouse & keyboard, by far.

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I don't want to play with the joystick, it just happens to be connected to the PC, just like my scanner, USB flash drive, camera, etc.

It is just a PITA to have to disconnect peripherals to play a game, then reconnect it afterwards to play another game.