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Installing the HOTAS Cougar on Windows 7, 64 bit & Troubleshooting Guide: http://cubpilotshangar.net/page105.html This page of has the 'Data In, Data Out' driver error fix (as the original poster was looking for): http://cubpilotshangar.net/page111.html

Buy now and build! Memory has never been cheaper. Newegg.com just ran a special today 16GB (4 x 4GB) Corsair Vengeance for $99. There are plenty of "cheap" graphics cards that will own all games on today's market. (Look for the mid-range cards ~$200). I'd get a P8Z68 mobo with a Sandy Bridge i7 2600K processor. That will hold you over a long time (or until you want something else too badly). The only remaining components are relatively cheap. PSU, case, optical drive, hard drives (which BTW are also super duper cheap nowadays - WD Caviar Blacks 1TB+ sell for as low as $60). You could have a killer system for around $1,000 (OS included - Win7 Pro 64bit) if you're building yourself. My 2c.

I used the soft setting in 1.1.0.8, and so far in 1.1.0.9 I've been using cold mostly. Is that the even same or equivalent setting since they changed what it's called? Soft looked the most realistic to me before, as anything else seemed over-saturated.

Congrats... I suppose. :doh::thumbup: :smilewink:

What HDR setting is everyone using (and why)?

That's the only real difference I was aware of. If you go HDMI > DVI you'd lose the sound option (if your monitor has speakers). Picture quality would still be the same. I use Mini-HDMI > HDMI just because it's one cable, no connectors and it's cleaner (less mess behind the furniture).

IIRC, I've only given full deflection rudder in an Aerobat and at slow speed (e.g. entering spins). I'd never consider doing it in a jet, especially abruptly. Bad things tend to happen, like the American Airlines flight 587 that crashed in NY late 2001. Oh, I did try it in the CL-65 level D sim once from ~FL370, and lost over 10K in altitude on the recovery. Ugly! Rudder is definitely used best in moderate amounts and steady inputs. As the saying goes: Slow is smooth, smooth is fast! ;)

33% here... an "even" number! :)

You can use TARGET for both at the same time and they'll become "TM Combined" once your profile is loaded. I use my Cougar as a base to connect my rudders so I can use TARGET for axis tuning my rudders, but I could easily check the HOTAS Cougar to be "in use" as well alongside the Warthog. I imagine you could run CCP and Foxy at the same time, and use TARGET just for the Warthog - but why would you when TARGET natively supports the Cougar as well?

:thumbup: :lol:

The Cougar has been discontinued for a while now (fact). It's only a matter of time before the remaining *new* units are gone from retail for good.

Typically partial panel would be the loss of one or several gyroscopic instruments (e.g. attitude indicator and heading indicator), requiring you to fly the approach using just the needles, turn coordinator, mag compass etc. The other scenario would be the loss of the pitot-static system. Frozen altimeter and/or airspeed indicator or airspeed indicator reading zero, or decreasing as you decend (trapped pressure being less than the outside pressure). This isn't typically practiced during partial panel precision (ILS) and non-precision (VOR, GPS) approaches, since the loss of gyroscopic instruments affect your ability to steer and control your path much more on an approach. Try failing the ATT IND, HSI and backup gyroscopic instruments. Then load up a mission with IMC weather conditions and/or night and try it! Making timed turns and compass turns takes practice and discipline!

The "lines" between LCD/LED TVs and LCD/LED monitors are getting "blurrier" each day. Not literally speaking of course (they're actually getting crisper), but figuratively speaking. ;)

It's always the same places and same controllers, too. :music_whistling:

On that note... I didn't need a SLI setup, but I went ahead anyway and I love it! Wouldn't want it any other way now, hehe. :P

To piggyback on what slackerD said... Most real life intercepts are ~30 degrees +/- 10 depending on how far from the course the final vector is. Plan to join the localizer outside the outer marker (or final approach fix), usually ~5 nm from the touchdown zone. Most intercepts occur between 5-10 miles from the field (in some cases as far out as 25 miles). The 300 feet per NM rule of thumb also works to fly a visual approach. If you're 5nm from the field, you should be at ~1,500 feet AGL (5 x 300). If you're 2 miles from the threshold you should be at ~600 feel AGL, etc. You'd then apply the field elev to your barometric readout. So, if the field is at 180 feet MSL, you should be indicating 1,680 feet MSL at 5 nm ((5 x 300) + 180), and 780 feet MSL at 2 nm ((2 x 300) + 180). It also helps to keep this mental math in mind even in IMC conditions, knowing where you are (good situational awareness) and roughly how high you should be at a given distance from the airport. In the real world ATC might leave you high and dry from time to time (yes they make mistakes, too), and you may need to remind them about "lower" or you will be the one unable to intercept and configure your aircraft for final approach.

Just buy a copy of Fraps!

That sounds like a CPU cooling issue to me (OCCT >100C). Is your heatsink/CPU fan attached properly and with thermal compound? Are you OC'ing your system btw? I know this is off topic slightly, but are you sure the culprit for the heat are your graphics cards and not something else? True. It's definitely better, just like running your system on High Performance all the time instead of in adaptive mode. SLI - If money (incl. ones power bill) is no obstacle I suppose! ;)

They already did! ;) If TM would make a new TQS and package it with the same handle as the HW and its Halls, a rebirth of the Cougar wouldn't be far fetched. I'd love to have a new (higher-end) TQS with Hall technology out of the box.

Sofie, what are your GPU temps under load/idle? This is true when it comes to sims, but it makes a big difference running SLI in other games (BC2, Black Ops etc.).

Two 460/560s run roughly as fast as a single 580. In fact, you may have more streaming cores with the SLI setup. I'd keep the cards and try to improve cooling. Are you sure your fans (both GPU and case fans) are working properly? Download GPU-Z and CPU-Z... and RealTemp. It'll let you know how your system is performing in real time. (Can't remember if it has fan speeds. I know my EVGA Precision software has fan speed RPMs as well). www.techpowerup.com/gpuz www.cpuid.com http://www.techpowerup.com/realtemp/ You could always try a 560 Ti setup in SLI. I know Gigabyte have two massive fans on theirs, although it may be hard to fit two cards side-by-side. There's also the EE versions from EVGA with external exhaust for the GPU fans. Running a single 580 might be cooler, but certainly not your best bang for the buck as the 580 (and 590s) are heavily overpriced.

Hence my argument for why a new F-16 sim would sell, too! :thumbup:

Highly speculative of course.

If they were to go modular (which AFAIK was discussed and turned down before the HW was even released), it would make most sense to either produce a F-16C TQS or F-15E FLCS given that the Hog shares the same grip as the Viper and the same throttle as the Strike Eagle.

If the HW sales numbers are strong, it would make sense for Thrustmaster to release other HOTASs down the road. Even if parts can be interchangeable I would suspect that's not something we'll see on the shelves though.