uncontrolled spinning

[DORN]

I was in a cave in a chamber nestled inside some kind of spaceship?outline girder structure, and I left the computer for about 5 minutes. When I came back my ship was spinning out of control, firing its weapons, IDS multiplier cycling up and down. Eventually I destructed.

I exited and then reloaded to the last save outside of the cave in space, and I was still spinning, etc. Nothing I could do with the ship controls would stop it. I shut down the computer several times and re-entered EM. Still spinning. After a shut down of several hours, when I re-entered EM outside of the cave everything was just fine.

What was going on?

[Zach]

Do you have a game controller plugged in at all, even if you're not using it?

I've had that happen in some games, where it wasn't quite calibrated right, and the game registered it as a valid control, or it was bugged itself for some reason (manipulating the control itself usually causes that to stop).

But that does sound reallly weird... maybe a windows or game bug resulting in "Stuck" input patterns ??

[Vice]

Some controllers can react that way and reset/disable when hit with static electricity (ie when you're walking to/from your computer). If it happens again, unplug the game controller, shut down the game. Then plug it in again and restart the game.

[DORN]

Thanks all,


I will remember to try that if...