HavokFlight

Just a quick mention, I intend to add a TRACK IR but .... I have to add a set of rudder pedals first. So i am going to have to suffer through the POV first. When I get home I will check my setting as suggested and take a screen shot. Talk shortly. Thanks Konkussion and RedTiger.

First - Konkussion - THANKS !!! Your page really answered a lot of my questions. I also went to the Saitek page and discovered that with the new software there is NO way to print the settings for our joystick. It also sounds like the beta version (newer) fixes a few of the odd problems, but it requires you to redo all the settings. So I think I will wait to get the new release. I have a minor ... okay major ... problem. At the moment I have no working point of view hat. I can program my 3 POV hats as 4 and or 8 button buttons, but i can't figure out how to assign POV1 as a view POV. Any help out there, I really want to be able to look out the canopy without taking my hands off the stick and grabbing my mouse. (I am still using my mouse look sinse I have no POV hat). THANKS guys.

Thanks Red and Kunkussion, You two are the best. Between the F-15 and the SU-25T profiles I think I can cobble together something that will work for me. At the moment I have been 24 straight hours without a lockon fix ... I reloaded an old mod and it 'broke" something ... so I had to do a re-install last night. I went to work and then had to play Everquest with my wife ... she's a healer and needs me (meat tank) occasionally ... at least she can admit it. Now it's late and I finished re-loading all my mods ... but I still have yet to get to setting up my stick properly. Thanks for the help, tomorrow comes early and I am hoping to get in a couple missions before i have to head out ... new training class for umpires. Season starts early this year ! Thanks again. Havok

Good stuff there. THANKS for clearing that up for me. Needless to say, I was fairly confused. Is the blank stick/throttle pic in the SSt software printable ? For planning purposes ? I saw you had a pic on your site, but having the empty numbered lines would help as well.

So do I set all the input choices to "default" settings and edit the settings in the SST software ? I think I am seeing some conflicting info on several threads. If that is so I think that may be the problem that Emenance is having ... see his thread on page 4 of General Discussion - "Another x52 bites the dust"

That's funny, as I can't tell you how many times, I have been just finishing a hard night of gaming, returning from a good sortie and about to land, or just checking my stats but having not saved a game in hours ... only to hit that damned key ... and find that I crashed, died, or got booted to desk top due to that damned key. :doh: Thanks

Great - thanks. Playing with the setup last night, I decided it wasn't really that loose, it just has a lot of travel from side to side and top to bottom. It is just "that much different" from my old setup. Anyone have any idea if and where LOMAC writes it's user provided input changes to ? The info you give it that maps key inputs to commands ?

X-52 trouble can you help Thanks for the quick response guys. Rattler, I was talking about the new stick, not the throttle having a weird "bump" in the travel out towards the max travel, but thanks for the help. The bushing is a good idea, one that I will keep in mind as I break it in. If after some time I am still thinking it bothers me, that is a great idea. Thanks Red, the springs bending over must be that odd feeling, glad to know that they will break in ... in some time. Odd I used to have a CH setup, and I don't remember them being this loose, but it was some time ago and I am sure it is just being used to the logitek I upgraded from. Could you send me a profile for your F-15 (or post it). I can use it as a base for my work and see what you did with yours. Specifically I am looking to create a good profile for an A-10. I was, am and probably always be a mud-mover. Thanks ! Havok

New Siatek X-52 Pro questions Okay, I broke down and bought a new X52 Pro. I do have to say that having a throttle again is a great feeling. :thumbup: Now for the questions. Does LOMAC have a cfg file or some text file that it saves all the control input settings to ? Is there an X-52 basic 101 setup thread ? (trust me, if there isn't I am going to make one). Can someone post theirs if it does so I can get an idea of what I might assign to which button. At the moment I really have no idea what commands that I might assign to the wheels and extra sliders. Maybe I lack a certain amount of imagination. I was going to ask if I needed to edit both the input panel and do the software profile editing, but it seems after reading a few posts that I do have to do that. Is that so ? Do I need to open the input screen and clear all the items as someone posted then edit the X52 profile only ? Is there a way to adjust the stick ? It seems VERY loose and sloppy. Also as the stick approached the max limits of its travel it seems to "bump over" a detent (similar to a throttle detent at burners). Is this supposed to happen ? Is there an adjustment to remove that ? Can this be limited so as not to travel past that ? :dunno: After I tested the combination, I thought that I did't immediately love the feel but I am sure that I will get used to it. The throttle feels great though. I had a Logitec Extreem Pro stick before and liked the feel of that so it will take some getting used to. However, on my first test flight with an A-10, I took off, pulled up and banked right. As I rolled out on departure I turned, then I began to yaw (sort of side sliping like a skier stopping), then the game (stick input ?) sorta locked up, and the side slip became permanent. I probably "slid" 8 miles before I finally ALT CONTROL DEL'd my way out. Is this an odd bug / problem with this stick combination or is this a regular happening ? Do I need updated drivers for this ? I downloaded the drivers off their site prior to flying using the setup pages instructions (or at least i think that is what the install program did). :joystick: Thanks for the help guys. :helpsmilie: Hoping to get on line in hyper lobby in the near future. Havok

Joystick upgrade (Saitek Pro) ? I too have been thinking of upgrading my old joystick (Logitek Extreme) to a Saitek PRO. Does anyone have any direct knowledge of the duribility of this set ? I have seen comment both good and bad.

Is there a limit on the items allowed in a mission or a problem with a lot of items ? I created a mission with a lot of stuff in it. It ran fine and I was testing it for what i thought would be the last time. Then I thought I would add a couple trucks on the tarmac, I saved it and closed out. Then when I went to start the mission the game crashed, and continued to crash every time it tried to load that mission. So I am wondering if there is a limit on "stuff" or if that mission just got corrupted some how. Thanks guys.

I'm a civil engineer by trade ... and in game I mostly move mud ... go figure.

I winder if you are any harder to hit in that condition ? :music_whistling:

I am sure this is an old and answered question, so I apologise, but I can't quite find the right answer in a search. I want to program a button on my Logitech Extreme Pro stick to return my view to the center of the HUD and to also rezoom to the default size. I can find that the '5' key returns to the HUD view but it remains zoomed out or zoomed in, and that does not quite suit my needs. Thanks for all your help.

That worked thanks I fixed it. My other problem was that the encyclopedia showed those ships as DRY CARGO SHIP 1 and not by the name. So now its just trial and error to get the right ship by name. Thanks again

Mouse look In the OPTIONS page, in the upper left hand part of the screen is a choice of keyboard commands, mouse and or joy stick. Picking mouse takes you to those choices. I am not at my computer or I would have the exact steps to doing that.

Old ME questions - thanks Thanks. I had not tried ADD NEW NAVAL GROUP. I thought I just wanted to add a few cargo ships "bringing in support units and cargo" for my mission. A naval group to me seemed to be a combat group and I over looked that. Thanks I will give that a go tonight. :doh:

First let me say how great the game is and how great you guys are. I flew Flanker 2.0 and LOMAC when it was new but RL got in the way ... now I am back. I am sure this has been answered, but my seacrh did not find a specific answer to my question, so sorry if it has been asked and answered. I see various ships in the equipment lists and encyclopedia, but when I try to add freighters to the Russian side, they are not on the list. Di I have to enable something for them to appear ? I saw something about turning civilian traffic on ... is this required for the extra ships to be in the list ? Are they civilian ships ? If so, why is the passenger ship (small one) listed ? How do you turn civilian traffic on ? I am sure I will have a bunch of questions, but this is the first one that came to mind. Thanks

3d placement ? The old Janes Fighter Antholoty and ATF Gold had a great tool in their mission editor. You could examine an object that you placed in 3d mode and rotate it or move it and then jump back into the mission editor. I am not reminissing about ATF ... though I do miss my friends that played that ... just that one feature we could really use here. :joystick:

Are you talking about the problem where flying a tutorial mission, all the controls are set differently ? I thought I was going mad. I had just finished setting the controls the way I liked them and suddenly they were back to the defaults. Thanks ... I hope.