I remember using an X-52.
The profiling app was terrible. It was buggy. The inputs ghosted on the stick. The single centering spring was so stiff against the plastic-on-plastic hard edges of the base cone that any lubricant was scraped off and it was still dry-on-dry movement that required more force to overcome the friction, than you actually wanted to use to move the stick to the input you desired.
The X-52, has to be, without doubt, one of the bottom 5 sticks ever manufactured and sold. It's highway robbery they got away with their pricing.
For $120 bucks you can get a VKB Gunfighter NXT or Virpil sticks for the 3-400 hundred range, and you can go from fighting your stick, to fighting your opponents.
Not advice on profiles, but it will solve your problem.
