Antaniserse: Perfect, I believe you 100%... however if everything is the same, including Win 10, and the result are different, what does that suggest you?! it's all the OS fault?
I'm not telling that you are stupid, I'm telling that a) I'm not the only one that got this working and b) *your* Win 10 setup (not THE Win10 setup), has some problem somewhere; sure, it has to be related to the new OS, since it worked on Win7 on the same machine, not denying that, but it is not THE OS alone, and its not the GOG package alone... I am at 3 success on 3 different machines, I can't just be lucky, and I'm not doing anything special, just the above

Antaniserse: As far as I know, those titles follows the same 30 day refund policy as the rest of the GOG catalogue.... if you mean that you can't do it anymore because you bought that earlier and you are experiencing the problems only now, well I can undrstand the frustration but, again, that does not mean that if it is not available to you then is non-refundable as an absolute.

Antaniserse: No, there is not... his suggestion is indeed only related to the DOS version, which is the one that has no Win10 compatibility issues at all and he's implying it might be a better try on you PC

Antaniserse: the .conf files used by DOSBOX are not apps (you are talking about the extra UI tool supplied by GOG, which is not part of DOSBOX proper), they are just plain text files, and you can open them with the text editor of your choice... if you are not OK with that, you can get yourself a more complete UI (eg. D-Fend Reloaded) and import the profile there, you'll find the full range of options available (and it's nice to have for for any other DOS games sold by GOG)

Whatever method you choose, the joystick section should be something like this (works on both X-Wing and TIE DOS titles for me):

[joystick]
joysticktype=4axis
timed=false
autofire=false
swap34=false
buttonwrap=false

This should be fine for most joysticks, and the bulk of the buttons will register natively in the game; you can then use your profiling software for all the other extra buttons/hat switch/throttle remapping

While you are there, if you wanna play TIE 95 in SVGA resolution, the processor section should be similar to

[cpu]
core=dynamic
cputype=auto
cycles=fixed 55000
cycleup=1000
cycledown=1000

and the renderer in the [sdl] section one of these
output=ddraw (this works fine for me)
output=opengl
output=openglnb

psalm8818: Ok I found what you're talking about, but even after making these changes, I STILL get cursor drift when calibrating, absolutely no way to map the throttle on my controller/joystick (best I can do is set the triggers/throttle to full power and 1/3 power, which is vastly inferior to the 98 version, and no better performance than the vanilla settings), or is there any way to remap the fire button (which I use the RB on a gamepad, I use the native fire button for targeting).

psalm8818: I have a new PC on the way, and if I continue to have these issues, then I'll simply uninstall TIE Fighter, go buy the new Battlefront II, and take my custom to Steam rather than GoG in future.

Antaniserse: In DOSBOX all the non-standard remapping needs to be done in your joystick profiler software; there is an integrated remapper but is very clunky, so your T.A.R.G.E.T profiler is a much better UI... even the throttle work with "bands" settings.

You lost me a bit with the "RB gamepad" however.... how many devices are you trying to use, throttle/stick and gamepad together? I'm pretty sure those cannot be read by DOSBOX concurrently, unless you merge them in a virtual joystick
Are you sure those worked like this in TIE 98? Because I just tested mine, and the built in mapping screen does not allow to map controls from two distinct input devices unless i tamper with some external software; it either reads the HOTAS or the Gamepad, whatever I set as the preferred device in JOY.CPL, so there's no (native) way to fire with the pad and control with the stick

Antaniserse: Well, good luck with the new PC and also good luck with Steam that if you are interested in retro compatibility for legacy games; much of their retro catalogue is based on the same packages and tweaks as GOG, in some cases you'll even find remains of the GOG installation files, so that would hardly make a difference

psalm8818: No, I'm only using one or the other. Why would I be trying to use both at the same time? Is that your opinion of me, based of what you've read, that I'm THAT stupid? Quit TRYING to find stuff to call me out on.