Logitech Extreme 3D Pro Joystick (Silver/Black) by Logitech
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Digital camera reviews of Logitech Extreme 3D Pro Joystick (Silver/Black)
Digital camera Review: DO NOT BUY!!!!!
Summary: 1 Stars
I have exchanged this joystick 4 times at Walmart due to the calibration loss issue. 4 JOYSTICKS in 4 MONTHS. You will be sorry you bought it I assure you. people recomend Saitek, Microsoft, or CH joysticks. Find someone who recomends this Logitech and I'll show you someone with a dusty stick.Digital camera Review: DO NOT BUY, unless:
Summary: 2 Stars
You don't mind replacing them every 1-6 months. Apparently I don't, since I've owned a half-dozen logitech joysticks.
The pros:
Great feel, nice arrangement and quantity of buttons.
The cons:
Logitech joysticks all suffer from faulty hardware. The joystick senses movement with potentiometers mounted on a gimbal, and it's these potentiometers that wear out. They get very noisy (which translates into my airplane starts spinning uncontrollably at random intervals) and drift, and there's only so much contact cleaner can do. However, Logitech will replace your faulty joystick (to my knowledge). Alternatively, I've just been exchanging them at a 3rd party retailer.
Digital camera Review: Decent, but has calibration issues as listed
Summary: 3 Stars
I only paid like $14 for this thing on eBay, so I'm not out as much $$ as if I had bought it retail. I experienced the same problems everyone else here has experienced. For me, the twist was centering at about 35% to the left, so flying a chopper in BF Vietnam was quite interesting! If I tried to circle around to the right, it would take a LONG time, but if I circled left, it would work normally.
I went to Logitech's web-site and downloaded the calibration clearing utility. When I ran it, I got a weird error message and it didn't work. The tech support there was a bit lacking.
After reading some reviews, I realized that the entries for the Logitech controllers needed to be deleted out of the registry. If you know how to uninstall an application from Add/Remove programs, and know how to run regedit from the Run command, you can take care of this issue and you'll have a working joystick that'll probably last another month or two. Make sure to delete the entries for this joystick in HKLM and HKCU. It's pretty simple, but an unnecessary PITA.
I like the joystick, just wish it wouldn't lose calibration. My next joystick will be fully digital.
Digital camera Review: Disappointed
Summary: 1 Stars
Have had difficulty flying (MS FltSim 2004) with this joystick:
1. Throttle doesn't work reliably
2. With stick at dead center, plane goes into steep dive with strong right turn tendency. No way to calibrate so that dead center is straight level flight.
3. With stick at dead center, no twist, plane on runway wants to steer hard right. As with 2. above, no way to calibrate so that no twist is straight ahead.
3. Requires too much pressure to move stick off dead center; disconcerting.
As a result, I feel forced to replace this joystick with one without the above problems.
Digital camera Review: Do not buy if you plan to map the buttons.
Summary: 1 Stars
This joystick feels nice in the hand, but it has serious flaws. Every time I spent about 10 minutes mapping the buttons to a game, the joystick would lose this information about 30 seconds into the game. I then went to the Logitech website, installed the latest drivers, and downloaded their pre-configured game maps. I still got the same errors. It had this mistake on over 5 games, both old and new. I even tried it on 2 different computers with no luck.
It's a shame it has this fatal flaw because otherwise it was very decent for a cheap joystick. When I asked for help from Logitech, they kept telling me to "download the latest drivers" over and over, which I had already done.
I must give it 1 star because I used it primarily for flight/space sims. It just can't give any functionality in that role.