Dead Space - Control issue (walking backwards and looking up)
I got Dead Space from the On-The-House deal long ago, but I have never been able to play it. For some reason, the controls go out of whack, forcing the camera to look up and to make me walk backwards when I do nothing. I can move forward when pressing the correct key, but letting it go forces me to walk backwards. Same with using the mouse for Y-axis manipulation. Move mouse to look down (invert-Y), but not doing so forces camera upward.
Anyone know what it could be? I thought perhaps it was a controller I used for other stuff, but's turned off (and Game controller properties show nothing unusual like stuck axis or buttons). Nothing wrong happening on the desktop or OS operations (Win 8.1).
Ok, I found out what the problem was. I have a Wii U Pro Controller that I use with my PC, but in order for it to act like a compatible joystick controller, I have vJoy installed. This allows me to assign everything from the analog sticks to buttons as if they are those on an actual compatible joystick. This, however, does not work well with Dead Space. When I initially began diagnosing this problem, I removed everything involving this except I forgot about vJoy, so the problem remained. Now that I know that is the problem, I can deal with it. I can disable it before I play Dead Space (and then re-enable it after I'm done). An interesting side-effect from this (other than making it unplayable) is that the game menu when first loading up was not positioned correctly, being either too far down, up, or to the right.
After all this, I wondered if I could use the controller, so I booted up the game and tried it. I did get some control, but not everything worked (and I had no way to assign what did what).
