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Logitech Extreme 3D Pro Joystick

Logitech Extreme 3D Pro Joystick

List Price: $34.99
Your Price: $22.89
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Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Looks and Feels nice, other than that, not a quality device
Review: My 5th one just started the dreaded left drift, so I'm through with Logitech. I love them while they work, but I can't keep buying a disposable $50 joystick!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: A very good joystick: well made and comfortable to use
Review: The Logitech Extreme 3D Pro Joystick is superior in its class. The only difficulty I had was trying to find a store that had it in-stock (Amazon had it).
Specifically, here's what I rated it by:
* Quality of components and assembly: The action of the stick is smooth. No flimsy play in the controls. The hat switch, trigger pull...all of it has a positive feel, with close tolerances.
* Comfortable handgrip: like the overall product, the design and machining of the grip is off high-quality, without any annoying seems or sharp ridges.
* Smooth throttle control: this is a small detail, but compared with some of the other models out there, it's notable.
* Stable base that allows you to either rest it firmly on a table or in your lap.
* Subtle movements are reflected in the game.
* Overall appearance - it looks as good as it performs.

Things to NOTE:
* This is definitely a right-handed joystick.
* It plugs into a USB port
* I used it with Microsoft Flight Sim 2002 running on an XP Pro system: Installing the software that came with the joystick was effortless and when I opened Flight Sim, all of the buttons were already mapped to the appropriate functions.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Look Elsewhere.
Review: The whole joystick worked well for a short while (2-3 months) until it started going off center. You can watch it go off center (Windows XP) in the control panel and see what your range of use is without being able to correct it in any way. The only way to recalibrate is to unplug/plug back in. Sometimes works...most times doesn't. Gets VERY jittery and forces you to use a high x/y dead zone. Throttle and twist never gave me problems.

It would be a great joystick if it didn't break so fast.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: works great for 1 month.
Review: then, the joystick inevitably loses its center, and can not be recalibrated. That's right. It can not be recalibrated.

So, I have a logitech extreme 3d paperweight. It fits the hand nicely, has all the buttons I need and so on, but I can't play any games with it. my character spins leftward and slowly looks down.

This stick is junk.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Dont buy it
Review: There is no way to calibrate it and it suffers fron axis problems. Logitech support is non existant.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great Flight Stick
Review: This is a sweet flight stick. easy to set up and calibrate. really a no brainer to use. feels really smooth, and the throttle and programmable buttons are all really easy to reach and use. No complaints. I use this to play MS flight sim 2004, and it works great. You just load up the game and go.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: !!!COOL!!!
Review: This joystick is the best buy you can find if you dont need force feedback - it works perfectly, and it has throttle for flight simulators. it is VERY EASY to install and works with almost all games! To sum it up - AWSOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Good joystick, lots of buttons
Review: This stick is a major upgrade from by old Logitech Sidewinder Digital 3D ( the PLASTIC!! post that holds the spring for the handle gave out, we welded and glued the METAL-reinforced post back in, it worked but it still had a bit extra play in it.)

I can easily map all the main functions in Flight Simulators to it. I like the new cycle command feature. The repeat rates are WAY too fast...you can't adjust them to a real "slow". I had difficulty installing the drivers so that it actually works with windows 98 and it doesn't cut out all the sound.(My previous stick had the same problem) I can't remember exactly how I solved it ...
Other than that, installation was "normal" as far as how Logitech products install (our cordless trackball drivers have to be re-installed to install ANY other logitech product)...nice company image for Logitech...
I have yet to try it in FS2002 Pro. Improvements I'd like to see are
-A elevator trim wheel, NOT a cheap trim rocker

-more than one throttle
-2 more buttons above the throttle(s)
-A dual-stage trigger
-Minor advancements of profiler features (a repeat rate that can be set 1-100, have the ability to assign multiple shift buttons, have ability to toggle shift buttons on/off instead of holding them down,...)
Other than install, it's a fabuluous stick. I've had it for about 1 week.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: who took the Logic outta logitech
Review: This stick loses its calibration every 5 mins, the rudder dosent work right and the pots are spikey, and thats after 1 month many others have had similar problems and Logitech dosent respond or says we need more info LOL. Do yourselves favors and DO NOT get this stick.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: not good for flight combat games.
Review: Well at first I want to get this joystick because it felt a lot smoothly. I purchased this stick so I could use for 3D space flight combat type games. But now then I hooked it on my computer, I noticed the X axis did not stay steady, along with the Z axis. There was no way re recalibrate it. I had a lot of trouble aiming steady with this stick in any 3d space flight combat type games.

I tried everything to recalibrate that thing out but it never seem to work. I returned it back to the vendor and thank god I got the full cost of it back.


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