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Do we have to use google chrome for dcs bios? And can we hope dcs bios to support more modules? Thanks Oh and do you have a help file somewhere? I have an issue with this software, I cannot access the top menu : file, options, help. When I click on them, the menu opens then closes immediatly...

Hi, On the left of the X55 throttle, there is a rotary without a start and an end, a loose one. In the saitek control panel, it is designed as scroll forward and scroll backward. Do you think there is a way to use that as an axis? Thanks

Waow. A lot of movies, thanks. Will check. Though I seek movies in HD, bluray, so I guess too old movies do not have that :)

Yes I saw it. Though I found it very frustrating the end when they do not... Will not say it :)

Thanks. I bought yesterday in bluray : Top gun, les chevaliers du ciel, and blue thunder. So I have two military planes movies and an helicopter one :)

This is funny that you're talking about helicopters, because the best sticks for helicopters are not force feedback sticks, but full length sticks. Like the komodosim cyclics, or the pro trainer... http://www.komodosimulations.co.uk/cyclic.html http://www.pro-flight-trainer.com/fr/ And those are not force feedback sticks. You need a full length one because you need precision around the center that you can barely have with a small stick. And the think you're talking about is the force trim, and they are not available in many helicopters. In a lot of helicopters (the ones without full electronic systems) when you release the stick it will move everywhere, it will not stay in place. A real helicopter pilot told me that. And there is no return to center in an helicopter, and the stick is not connected to wings like in a plane, therefore in a helicopter you feel nothing on the stick, no resistance, no move on the stick while you fly... BUT... yes, the force trim could be useful to mimic most modern helicopters. AND... rich, from komodo simulation, is designing a force trim base for his cyclics. I own a full size replica of a EC135 cyclic, it is a very fine piece of hardware from komodo, maybe I'll buy the force trim base when it will be out. This is not force feedback, no response from game, but this is the most realistic stick for helicopters around... (in this price range ^^)

Hi, I know that you can create viewports. There are also examples with MFD. But, is it possible for planes without MFD (like the sabre) to display instruments on another screen? Like speed, altitude, and so on? Do we have a list of available viewports somewhere? Thanks

Thanks for all those infos. Still wondering if I'll buy this, or just put a screen below and display the instruments on this other screen. (and so replace my triple screen setup by one screen for view, one screen for panels, and unsure for the third one...) As end of the year I'll probably moving to the rift, so all those fancy panels will be of no use to me ^^

So this means if I use just one, it should be fine? And btw do you handle just one panel and the user switching the display on the panel? Or do you handle just one panel per function, with no switch possible? I do not own those panels yet, but I'm considering buying one...

I don't understand, why do you need this plugin for saitek TPM? I have it working without that, either by using saitek software, or more recently by modifying the default.lua of a plane to add new commands I could then apply to TPM buttons. Also, are you going to support saitek pro flight instrument panels as well? Thanks

The description of those panels on saitek website says: FSX - Flight Simulator X (PC only) X-Plane 10(PC and Mac) Prepar3D® 2.2(PC only) Most Other Flight Simulation Software So I thought maybe DCS was in the "most other..." ;) As I saw people doing real cockpits for DCS, I even saw someone making a KA50 cockpit, so I thought maybe DCS allows for external instrument panels...

Hi, Do those panels work in DCS? And do you recommand them? http://saitek.com/uk/prod/fip.html Would make the process of landing easier if I can easily see my speed / vertical speed / altitude for instance... How do you configure them? Or do you think this is a better investment to buy another screen I'll put below the view screens to display the instruments? (Maybe even a touchscreen to be able to USE the instruments?) Thanks

Hi, Would like to know if you have good aviation movies you can recommend, that we can find in bluray format, so in HD. Thanks

But the way I programmed it works. When I put my switch down it lowers the flaps, when I put the switch up it raises the flaps. I don't understand your modification. Edit: Oh and btw I have noticed something about switches... when we start the sim, the switch position has no importance, meaning the sim does not update in game controls according to those switches... BUT... if you move just ONE switch, the game then updates ALL switch position... this happened to me in a "takeoff" mission, I was on the runway, and I just checked my flap lever. I moved it, and suddenly the engine shut down, and I had to do the whole cold start operation, because I have switches for some critical cold start systems, and those systems, when off, cannot allow the plane to start ^^ So better check the switch position before the start of the mission ^^ Now, I have to figure out what I'll put as commands behind my switches... I have a square 3x3 switches, on left column I have put gear/flaps/flight control (I try to mimic the real plane switch position with my switches), on right column I have put engine master switch/battery starter switch only, so I don't know yet what to put on middle column, and for the missing switch on right column, if anybody has a suggestion for the sabre...

So, on my computer, the file to edit for the F86-F Sabre is this one: C:\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World\Mods\aircraft\F-86\Input\F-86F\joystick\default.lua And here is an example of what I did, if this can help some... -- Commands for switches {pressed = iCommandPlaneFlapsOn, up = iCommandPlaneFlapsOff, value_pressed = 1, value_up = 1, name = _('Flaps Up/Down Switch TPM'), category = _('Systems')}, {down = iCommandPlaneGearDown, up = iCommandPlaneGearUp, name = _('Landing Gear Up/Down Switch TPM'), category = _('Systems')}, {down = hydro_commands.F86_CockpitDeviceCommand_FlightControl, up = hydro_commands.F86_CockpitDeviceCommand_FlightControl, cockpit_device_id = devices.HYDRO_INTERFACE, value_down = 0, value_up = 1, name = _('Flight Control Switch - ALTERNATE/NORMAL TPM'), category = _('Left Side Panel')}, {down = electric_commands.F86_CockpitDeviceCommand_EngineMasterSw, up = electric_commands.F86_CockpitDeviceCommand_EngineMasterSw, cockpit_device_id = devices.ELEC_INTERFACE, value_down = -1, value_up = 1, name = _('Engine Master Switch - ON/OFF TPM'), category = _('Right Forward Console')}, {down = electric_commands.F86_CockpitDeviceCommand_BatteryStarterSw_EXT, up = electric_commands.F86_CockpitDeviceCommand_BatteryStarterSw_ITER, cockpit_device_id = devices.ELEC_INTERFACE, value_down = -1, value_up = 1, name = _('Battery-Starter Switch - UP/STARTER TPM'), category = _('Right Forward Console')}, Dunno why the flaps is "pressed" and others are "down".

I have a spdif splitter before the base, and it works fine. The output of the headset is a line out, jack, not optical. And I don't switch to USB on the base, this is in windows control panel that I switch between USB sound and spdif sound, it takes one second to do this and I have nothing to do on the headset or the base.

But I wonder, with my install, I mean, spdif to rca, both rca connected to a single male rca, that connects to the buttkicker, will I have the issue you talk about? Also, the Siberia 800 has two audio sources, one is the USB, other is the spdif. So the buttkicker is connected to the spdif, as is of course the simshaker, and I use the USB one to listen to game sound. So in DCS I use the USB sound with my headset, and the spdif for simshaker, and with games that do not support simshaker, I switch to spdif as sound source for my headset, so the buttkicker works natively.

I wonder, how works the warthog exactly? I mean, the switches of my TPM works like that: when the switch is down, it is as if a joystick button is pressed. If the switch is up, it is as if the joystick button is released. Do the warthog works like that? Thanks

Target is that hard to use? The Saitek one is quite easy, to tell that a switch in down state (button on) makes that and the switch in up state (button released) makes that. And to have the same profile in all games and planes you just have to setup software so that switches do generic keystrokes, and program those keystrokes in the plane config or other game config... Just another solution to not have to handle lua files and to avoid updates that will mess up files...

By browsing the web I also found this thread: http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=80106&page=5 Unsure it still works or not... Maybe another solution would be to use the included software manager (TARGET or saitek TPM one), assign all switches to keyboard shortcuts (like for instance ctrl-shift-1 for switch 1 down, ctrl-alt-1 for switch 1 up, and so on, then assign those new shortcuts to the things we want in game, this way we can have a single target/tpm profile to work with all planes in DCS, just by selecting the shortcuts we want from inside DCS in each plane configuration...

I don't understand. I mean, ok a new command, but the goal is to assign the "release button" to the gear up command, and the "press button" state to the gear down, for instance. So, to assign those things to existing commands...

But if when we enter the config then click ok, all those release button disappear, this is an issue, as it requires to do all this again if we have to change a setup, or to change setup only in the lua file, right?

For the sabre you also have a gear down and gear up functions you can assign buttons too. So I do not use the gear on/off toggle. This is not that for all planes?

Yup I bought it today, and indeed, it is great ;) Note that you need a dedicated sound output to have it work, but most computer has something like that. I use the spdif output for buttkicker, and my headphone USB output for the game sounds...

Correct me if I'm wrong, but so this module is supposed to send information to a dedicated game card, right? So, if I want to use this module to the best of its possibilities, I have to use for instance my onboard card for buttkicker, and my spdif for game sound, this way the module is going to send sound to the dedicated buttkicker sound card, even if I use the spdif for game sound? And so, this modules allows for better vibration in DCS than if I use the buttkicker connected directly to the sound card? As I'll have only intended vibration, and not parasite ones I should get if I have the buttkicker reacting to all game sounds? Thanks