Enterprise Dead Zone

[Ovrclck350]

Is there any way to adjust a deadzone on the Enterprise? I find myself moving it lightly when trying to hit certain keys. A deadzone adjustment would alleviate the problem. I tried adding a deadzone adjustment in the global.xml as per another suggestion in this forum, but it didn't seem to have any effect even at 350 (which was advised as the max).

[jwick]

That's interesting. <Global><Settings><Deadband> seems to only effect the rotations. I've no idea how long that has been happening.

You'll have to use the per Axis Deadband.
You can do this in %appdata%/3Dconnexion\3DxWare\Cfg\Global.xml.

E.g., (this is quite severe, you'll want smaller Deadband values):

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    <Devices>
    ...
    <Device>
      <ID>ID_ProductID_C633</ID>
	  <CurrentAxisBank>Default</CurrentAxisBank>
      <AxisBank Default="true">
        <ID>Default</ID>
        <Name>STR_DEFAULT_BANK</Name>
        <Axis>
          <Enabled>true</Enabled>
          <Input>
            <ActionID>HIDMultiAxis_X</ActionID>
            <Min>-512</Min>
            <Max>511</Max>
            <Deadband>100</Deadband>
          </Input>
          <Output>
            <ActionID>HIDMultiAxis_X</ActionID>
            <NameID>STR_PAN_RIGHT_LEFT</NameID>
            <Min>-512.00</Min>
            <Max>511.00</Max>
            <Scale>1.00</Scale>
            <Reversed>false</Reversed>
          </Output>
        </Axis>
        <Axis>
          <Enabled>true</Enabled>
          <Input>
            <ActionID>HIDMultiAxis_Y</ActionID>
            <Min>-512</Min>
            <Max>511</Max>
            <Deadband>100</Deadband>
          </Input>
          <Output>
            <ActionID>HIDMultiAxis_Y</ActionID>
            <NameID>STR_ZOOM_IN_OUT</NameID>
            <Min>-512.00</Min>
            <Max>511.00</Max>
            <Scale>1.00</Scale>
            <Reversed>false</Reversed>
          </Output>
        </Axis>
        <Axis>
          <Enabled>true</Enabled>
          <Input>
            <ActionID>HIDMultiAxis_Z</ActionID>
            <Min>-512</Min>
            <Max>511</Max>
            <Deadband>100</Deadband>
          </Input>
          <Output>
            <ActionID>HIDMultiAxis_Z</ActionID>
            <NameID>STR_PAN_UP_DOWN</NameID>
            <Min>-512.00</Min>
            <Max>511.00</Max>
            <Scale>1.00</Scale>
            <Reversed>false</Reversed>
          </Output>
        </Axis>
        <Axis>
          <Enabled>true</Enabled>
          <Input>
            <ActionID>HIDMultiAxis_Rx</ActionID>
            <Min>-512</Min>
            <Max>511</Max>
            <Deadband>50</Deadband>
          </Input>
          <Output>
            <ActionID>HIDMultiAxis_Rx</ActionID>
            <NameID>STR_TILT</NameID>
            <Min>-512.00</Min>
            <Max>511.00</Max>
            <Scale>1.00</Scale>
            <Reversed>false</Reversed>
          </Output>
        </Axis>
        <Axis>
          <Enabled>true</Enabled>
          <Input>
            <ActionID>HIDMultiAxis_Ry</ActionID>
            <Min>-512</Min>
            <Max>511</Max>
            <Deadband>50</Deadband>
          </Input>
          <Output>
            <ActionID>HIDMultiAxis_Ry</ActionID>
            <NameID>STR_ROLL</NameID>
            <Min>-512.00</Min>
            <Max>511.00</Max>
            <Scale>1.00</Scale>
            <Reversed>false</Reversed>
          </Output>
        </Axis>
        <Axis>
          <Enabled>true</Enabled>
          <Input>
            <ActionID>HIDMultiAxis_Rz</ActionID>
            <Min>-512</Min>
            <Max>511</Max>
            <Deadband>50</Deadband>
          </Input>
          <Output>
            <ActionID>HIDMultiAxis_Rz</ActionID>
            <NameID>STR_SPIN</NameID>
            <Min>-512.00</Min>
            <Max>511.00</Max>
            <Scale>1.00</Scale>
            <Reversed>false</Reversed>
          </Output>
        </Axis>
      </AxisBank>
      ...
      </Device>
      ...
    </Devices>
      

[Ovrclck350]

Thanks JWick. Shortly after I posted, I had realized that the deadband setting DID have an effect, just not the one I needed--as you've figured out. I couldn't edit the post because it hadn't been approved yet and then when I went to follow up at home when I remembered--my ISP for some reason won't load 3dconnexion.com or the forums. Then I forgot about it until just now.

I'll apply your fix. I appreciate the thorough and quick help.