Tactical Screen slews to border

[dhague2cfo]

For the first three days after getting my copy of XCOM-EU, I was being driven nuts by the Tactical Screen POV slewing to the area 'left' border whenever I was trying to move units. I could get back to the units by using the WASD keys but the resulting jitter made it almost impossible to properly control the soldiers. Searching the '2Kgames' forum finally gave me a hint. The fix was to disconnect the Joystick from my PC (Win7x64). Evidently, XCOM-EU adds up all available 'input devices' rather than just using the mouse and keyboard inputs. This problem may even have contributed to some of the 'lockups' that I experienced in the 'base screen'. I thought about posting this at '2K' but decided that it would be lost in the noise there. I hope this post saves someone else from my frustration level.

 

 

 

PS Edit: After about another eight hours of play, I have had no further lockups in the 'Base view' either. So I consider this problem to be verified as solved (not that XCOM does not have other bugs!).