   Direct Input: phantom joypad
  Hi,I wondered if anybody could help me with my problem I am using direct input to read the input from a digital joypad. There are no problems when reading the buttons, but when I read one of the axes then an input is generated even without pressing the directional pad.The range of the axes is set to +-1000. By using the watch window I have determined the phantum values to be 32751 and 32767, which is 111,111,1110,1111 and 111,1111,1111,1111 in binary respectively.Any ideas on what might be causing this? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks! 
  - If you''re retrieving this data in a buffer, initialize it to zero, and then make sure your device is acquired.- All HRESULTs checked?- No debug output?- Can you show some code?   Muhammad Haggag;  I have ''fixed'' it now. The problem was something to do with setting the dead zone. The joypad I am using is digital and the dead zone code didn''t seem to like it so I deleted it  And it works fine now.Not sure what would happen if an analog stick was used. Would it still work without setting the dead zone? Guess it would, just have to check the input before using it.Thanks for the advice anyhow. 