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I have the thrustmaster as well as Winwing Orion2. The quality has been fantastic on the TM, really feels like you could fight a bear with the thing and no functional issues. However, it was very difficult to fly precisely because of the force required and spring rate. Made everything in the sim more stressful. The WW has more buttons to map to which was huge and was much easier to fly as far as the stick. I think the TM throttle was great and the only 2 things better on the WW is the push through afterburner detent and the additional buttons. I think you can mod TM for push through. So what would I do if my WW took a dump? I suppose Virpil or VKB. I agree that this is frustrating and not what you want to deal with at these costs and when you have a full time life. Pay the money and it works. Price and quality don't always follow.

https://forum.dcs.world/topic/245531-aligning-ab-detent-and-throttle-calibration-how-to/?do=getNewComment

What warranty though? Seems they won't do anything so why not try it since it is non-operable anyway?

I am aware that you wrote the post. I've made an effort to read your posts and simply made a mistake. I'm not sure why every post now ends in an exclamation point as though somehow - magically - everyone knows precisely what to do with this complicated sim and this undocumented hardware. Maybe I am misinterpreting your tone. If Winwing only wants brilliant, previously experienced people to buy the stuff - they can just put that on the site and watch the sales slow down. There is no reason that a company that has been operating as long as they have (I've been watching since they charged on the scene) can't hire SOMEONE on this continent to help support and document. Literally, pay them to do it. Even the email I got to say the order was on the way would take me 3 minutes to re-write and then they could use it forever with every customer, I almost did it. I would say that my question still holds of how to undo the mistake I've made. I did go in and hit reset controller in windows but not sure that worked. Besides, simapp pro does not even see the installation of DCS on my machine. I browse it to the folder and It says the exe is not there. I wanted to ask but the answer around here seems to be don't use simapp... even though some features are dependent on it. Like I can't calibrate the AB because it does not see the plane because it does not see the install. Why do they put out the software if it does not work for its purpose? I'm coming from the TM Warthog and this Orion 2 is better in almost every way for playing DCS. WW could go so much further. Sorry for the rant, I just see people asking questions and getting exasperation. I get it, you made some of the original and very helpful posts (which have helped me), and you also seem to have access to their discord. This is great but it seems like you are tired of questions, which is fine I assume you are not paid to be here or anything. I just want my silly flight sim to work without being a hardware or software engineer. If we want community, we have to bring people in and along. To grow the sim. Dumb questions and all. Carry on, Captain.

What might one do if they….used windows calibration. I saw the AB detent post and swear it said to calibrate in both. Now it looks like I need to undo that. I could uninstall it obviously and suppose that I could save the .Lua bindings.

Damn - just bought one of these after a lot of looking and waiting to be sure the things were reliable. I was fine paying Virpil prices and this was not a money play. I genuinely like the "made for DCS" look and feel of these. VKB would have been great too if in stock. Paying to send back to China over and over is a non-starter. Very disheartening to hear. They arrive in 2 days...

This is running fine for me so far. i7-13700K & 4090. 1440p F/A 18 intentionally did not attach reshade to it but my echo 19 sounds mods appear to be running As far as hardware behavior. Prior to MT version I was getting low 17-20% CPU use and 95-99% GPU use with about max settings on all but traffic and trees and such. Now with MT - the CPU seems to be about low to mid 30% use and the GPU is in the 70%. I was never clear why the 4090 was maxed at 1440P (144fps) before but it ran well. Can't say I see much in the way of more frames but rather more balanced hardware use. PS - man do I miss reshade! Just trying to be good and limit any other variables as we test. Don't forget that Win 11 may block this version of and you need to give permission again as it sees it as "new". It was giving me a long load time and then could not authenticate because of this.