Ok, I am first going to explain the problem I am having then I will describe what I've done thus far to try to correct it. Right now I am completely baffled and cannot even fly A-10C with the rudder pedals.
I have a CH Fighterstick USB which and I recently got some hand-me-down Saitek Pro Rudder Pedals. When I go into options to map my controls, the CH Fighterstick and the Saitek Pro Pedals have all the exact same settings. I can change the rudder settings, save the lua profile, and close out of options, then go back in and the settings I have set or undone (such as setting up wheel brakes on the rudder pedals, and de=mapping Button 1 for guns on the pedals) are back again.
I have read a lot of forum posts on this or similar problems that suggest everything from deleting registry keys to updating drivers to simply removing the settings from A-10 Game settings in addition to A-10 Sim settings, all to no avail.
The following summarizes most of what I have tried thus far:
* completely uninstall both Fighterstick and Saitek Pedals, including software and drivers
* completely remove the joystick keys for the Fighterstick and Saitek pedals from the registry and re-install both
* cleared out every single setting in CH Control Manager (and verified that it is not seeing ANY input from the pedals) and reset them to direct mapping (DX mode)
* completely deleted all control lua files and all settings in A-10 Game, A-10 Sim, and General controls settings for both the Fightersitck and the pedals
* re-mapped the rudder brake pedals to wheel brakes and tuned/inverted as suggested by several threads
In brief, here is what is happening in-game when I attempt to use the rudder pedals and the Fighterstick:
The Fighterstick seems to work perfectly for basic flight controls (roll, pitch, throttle, etc.)
The rudder pedals work great on the rudders and NWS.
The Fighterstick seems to lose mapping of some settings, specifically the Master Mode switch (button 3).
The biggest issue that makes it impossible to use to rudder pedals is that any input on the brake pedals is interpreted as roll/pitch inputs. When sitting on the taxi-way and testing the wheel brakes, this is what I see:
initially before ANY input, flight controls in neutral
as soon as I put any input on the left pedal, the flight control surfaces go full roll right (or left if inverted)
when I release the pedal, the flight control surfaces go full roll the opposite direction
the same thing happens with pitch on the right pedal
I can move the roll/pitch with the brake pedals and can only get neutral/flat by holding the pedals mid-travel
DCS World is, for some reason, mapping my rudder brake pedal inputs to roll/pitch.
Anyone have any ideas? I would hate to re-install DCS World, but that is my next step if nobody has any ideas. Any help at all would be greatly appreciated.