Firstly I've not read all of this thread, so sorry if this has been said before.:)

In all the years I've used and built my own PC's, I've never had a keyboard which can be used as a controller. On the other hand I've never had a game which can't be played with a keyboard, but then I am using WinXP Pro, and I have no intention of giving Bill the chance to mess up my PC's.

The Keyboard you have might be set in a foreign language key arrangement, which will mess up playing the game, or if your keyboard is one of those fancy ones, like on most modern laptops, which have a second button setup under the default QWERTY, which normally is little numbers and letters on the lower right of each button, might be active. My son's Laptop would not play his Lego Football, but once I reset the keyboard, it worked normally.

Of course, make sure your stick is at the top of your controller list.
Make sure the stick, throttle, rudder are listed as =1 like your device port=1.

I just had to re-do my computer with a new mothermoard, and had to re-install my X-52
and no matter what I did I could not get my EAW profile to work...the stick worked for
turning, but nothing else worked. I deleted the eaw.ini, ran the game again, and all
works well, so try deleting your eaw.ini.

You will also want to make sure which version of the eaw.exe you are using.
I am using 1.28e_fix12. There are others prior and later. (also some 1.3 versions)
I'm not sure what the latest is from Jel's downloads, but some of the latest ones include
the possibility of 3 devices, some hit/damge bubble fixes and a prop-speed setting in your
eaw.ini. Just some thoughts.......

AO

Thanks AO- you reminded me of something that may well be relevant

I no longer have rudder pedals- they were left behind in Australia, but when I got them a couple of years ago I had a problem with EAW.
With both the SAITEK pedals and the joystick plugged in the pedals were acting like a joystick, and the joystick was not working as it should.
At the time I recall posting pictures of the solution that I found to help others fix the problem if they encountered it.
It was similar to this:



What I saw at the time in the box which appears after clicking the "Advanced..." button was the pedals being shown as the "preferred controller for older programs". The joystick was available in the drop down list, and when it was selected as the preferred controller it worked properly. All that was needed was to set the rudder to device port 2 in the "eaw.ini" so that I was using the pedals for the rudder, and not the twist handle.

Jel

Ok guys, some news!

I had my HOTAS Cougar as the first in the list as shown by Mr Jelly. Also made sure the stick, throttle, rudder are listed as =1 like your device port=1.

What was causing the problem was the Thrustmaster MFDs. I unplugged the two I have and EAW LAUNCHES! Now how do I tell which EAW version I have?

Now to fix this issue with programmable controllers...

Your version should show up on the bottom left
of the EAW mainscreen when you launch.

AO

Col
The keyboard that gave me the error was a Saitek Gamers keyboard which had a keypad ..When I used saiteks software it raised hell with a few games EAW in particular.Even after switching keyboards to a generic one the keypad kept showing up in game controller...Right now the keyboard and key pad are collecting dust in my garage...Haven't tried it in 1.28 but the whole problem was the keypad showing up as a controller in EAW 1.2

[CONTROLS]
Force Feedback=0
Force Feedback Gain=7500
Flight Sensitivity=1.000000
Camera Sensitivity=5.000000
Snapview Speed=5
Swap Mouse X=0
Swap Mouse Y=0
Windows Joystick=1
Device1 Port=1
Throttle Device=2
Device2 Port=2
Rudder Device=3
Device3 Port=3
Stick Device=0
Key Device=0
POV Device=0
JoystickDeadZone=4
Guns Convergence Z=0
Guns Convergence Y=0

My setting for a Logitech G940 Stick Thottle and rudder