A user recently installed a joystick that is used to play video games on their computer. The user notices that the joystick is slowly drifting. Which of the following should the user do?

Drift caused by calibration errors does not indicate hardware failure; replacing the device is premature before attempting recalibration.

Rebooting the computer does not reset joystick calibration data stored for the device and will not resolve positional drift.

Reinstalling drivers addresses software communication issues between the OS and device, but calibration data errors are not a driver-level problem.

Calibration defines the neutral center and axis range of motion for a joystick. Slow drift is a classic symptom of miscalibration where the hardware reports a non-zero input at rest; recalibrating the device through the operating system's game controller settings corrects the axis offset and eliminates the drift.