hum, beeing an owner of this wondeful stick, I think it's not broken or whatever it may be. I think the huge resistance you encounter may be due to the forcefeedback setting being too high, you should check the "centering" option.
and about the resistance peaking, it may be due to the gearing. I experienced the same feeling with the MS Forcefeedback2, and it was more present on this stick than on the logitech. so maybe you could drop down the ffb setting a bit, it should partially resolve your problem but not completely in my opinion
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