Really hoping for your help, because otherwise 250 of my hard-earned bucks might go to waste. Well, at least for this one game they might.
Here's the story: the game is a space-sim MMO based on a proprietary "hammer engine", and is originally meant to be played with a keyboard + mouse; but I've no idea how's it possible to play a space sim like that, so always played with a joystick (X52). Mine is old and half-broken now though, so bought a new and better one (X52pro, almost $250 in my country). It's working AOK, but when I tried to use it in the game - no reaction.
Turns out the developers have "removed the joystick support" months ago; although in fact all they did was removed the "joystick settings" menu, and if yours was already set before that, it'll keep working just like it did. So I can play with the old and half-broken device, but not with the new and shiny one.
Yes, I've tried the official customer support as well as the official forum, both parties told me to go F myself, basically. Tried to fix the problem on my own, quickly understood it's way beyond my skills and started googling for places to find help, so here I am. If people here can't help me, I don't know who can.
I'm not much of an expert in all this stuff, so all I could find out on my own was my current device is set up via a group of parameters in the "Documents\My Games\StarConflict\user_config.xml" file. Most important of those parameters seems to be <ship_joyDinputDevice val="-365104448" />. My best guess is this is an 8-bytes text string, somehow modified. Because without modifications it can't be found anywhere in the game executable or system registry - neither in decimal, nor in hex format.
And I have no further ideas, because my endeavors in the world of programming ended in the 90's
In the attached archive I've included all the files, that, in my opinion, could be helpful, namely:
1. user_config.xml - the config file;
2. game.exe - the game's main executable file;
3. folders "x52 (current)" & "x52pro (new)" - all the Windows registry sections related to both joysticks (maybe you'll find that useful).
Thanks in advance.
