How do you get rid of the windows calibration?

[Penguin]

My joystick was acting a bit weird in a game like it wasn’t calibrated right so I foolishly calibrated it in windows. As it turns out that seems to have been a big mistake. Now things act really, really weird in games.

So how do I undo that? I have tried resetting the joystick and flashing it but this still comes up all the time.

From what I have been able to gather so far windows keeps the windows calibration values stored in the registry. Which I don’t want to blindly experiment with. Is there and easier way to clear a windows calibration besides going though the registry? If that is what you have to do does anyone one know what you edit or delete?

[fallout9]

Just go ahead, click Yes and let it write into registry - nothing bad will happen. It would just erase the controller settings from registry. Afterwards follow this guide to calibrate (no need to flash, just calibrate).

[Penguin]

Thanks

[Drano]

kinda related! I've been messing around with an old flight sim lately (Air Warrior). Got it to run on my Win10 machine in compatibility mode but not without some hiccups. Controllers all work but it's apparently really picky about the order of the controllers. Stick needs to be first. Win10 likes to scramble them now and then. This isn't a problem with modern games mostly. I kept trying to get the stick first but it wouldn't let me. Just today I went into the windows game controller app to see if there was something in there where I could change it. Something I know never to do with one of these sticks is mess around in windows with it. All I did was try to make it the primary controller. Never tried to calibrate it. But yeah..as soon as I ran the configurator it told me I'd been bad! I just let it do it's thing and reset the registry. I'm fine now. Meanwhile I found a little app called devreorder that works great if you ever run into that controller order problem trying to run some legacy game like that. Fixed it right up. /hijack