Joystick button for save crashes game

[deathMinder]

I have remapped my quick save button to a joystick button, for the ultimate in laziness!

However, it seems that when I use it my game freezes. I must use task manager to close the game after that happens.

Alt-f9 works as advertised.

Anyone else having this problem?

Thanks

[Vice]

Hmm, that's a new one, they actually use the same function. So I would also wonder if you're using any external profiling software that may be applying some other function to F9 simultaneously while you are trying to use that key to also save.

[deathMinder]

I'm using it on a Thrustmaster T.16000M Joystick, which does not come with any profiling software, regrettably. Also, I am not using any third party programs that should interfere with the signaling.

Is there a limit to the number of buttons a device will support? This one has 16, and I'm using two of them.

I will test next time I'm online to see if there are any differences between keyboard / joystick as well as SP/MP or different servers ect...

I'll let you know what I find.

Thanks for the suggestions!

[Vice]

The game supports up to 32 unique buttons per device (or up to 32 X 10 for a total of 320).

[deathMinder]

Well all of this is good news. Info I found for future use if needed:

alt-f9 = normal
save mapped to device 1 button 10 = crash
save mapped to device 1 other buttons = crash
save mapped to keypad enter key = normal
MP and SP have same results

Crash is basically the game freezes, stops responding to inputs and when I pull up task manager windows complains that the app is not responding. Works fine on restart.

In my case I am happy to use the keypad Enter button, so a valid workaround is active, and I basically think it's a non-issue.

I will definitely be checking out that TARGET software... I was looking for something from Thrustmaster a couple weeks ago but didn't find it. Thanks!