wickedfastball

You trained your hands to control the aircraft in the air, now train your feet to control it on the ground. Maybe soften the axis curve so it's less sensitive in the earlier part of the travel (negative curvature). I don't know anything about Saitek, but there might be something in the settings there that is hurting you or, hopefully, could help you. Above all, practice. Use taxi time to your advantage.

I had the same mic switch mapping issue as Irregular programming. The only way I could fix it was to blow away the config directory in my "Saved Games" folder and reconfigure my controls.

I don't ever touch the mechanical wheels. You can use them with the calibration tool in CH Control Manager to center the range of your stick if you want but leave them alone afterward. When flying the Huey, achieve stable flight then press the trim button and return the stick to center. Works just fine. Bring up the control position indicator to verify operation.

The comments regarding TGP/SPI/etc are the right way to go. However, if you still want to adjust the control sensitivity look to the axis settings in CH Control Manager. For the throttle slew control I have mine at the flattest curve, sensitivity 100, dead zone 10. Don't forget each axis has its own set of parameters. I find it easier to adjust as much as possible in CH Control Manager and leave the game as close to defaults as possible. As you are running CH gear, get comfortable with the Control Manager. It's a little clunky at first, but once you get the hang of it you can do some powerful things.

It did not work for me in Chrome, either. Firefox, however, did work. Support all browsers, please!

Turn your head and they are right there. Or, listen and you can tell from the rumble as they open. No need for an indicator. You get the feel once you fly enough...

You are using a command map file in CH Manager, right? If you aren't, you should. Makes life SO much easier in the long run. I have found, that for multiple-keypress commands (i.e. alt+0) you need to put HOLD in front of the first key (i.e. HOLD RALT 0). Otherwise, it interprets that as press alt, release alt, press 0, release 0. If you want some good comand maps, go to the CH Hangar and look for Ken King's map.

Thanks for the suggestion. That did it (for now). Must have been the equivalent of "jiggle the cable". Strange, as I had disassembled everything and cleaned all the components thoroughly. Surprising how dusty it can get in there. I didn't think to reseat the card again as I had taken it apart several times. Guess it never got seated properly. Thanks again!

Well, I guess I spoke too soon. The strange texture corruption is back. Essentially the same general appearance as the previous screenshots. To summarize, I've had this same issue since at least April 2011. I've replaced the hard drive with a new installation of Windows and DCS, I've replaced the video card and the power supply. The only things left to replace are the motherboard, processor, and memory. Unless anyone has any other suggestions to try, I'm out of options.

Update... I generally blame hardware for problems as a last resort. As a professional software developer, I know that it is almost always a software problem. Not so in this case. I replaced my power supply and the texture corruption seems to be gone. I'll need to get a few more hours in the cockpit before I call it done, but it's looking good after a couple of test flights around the pattern. Simple and relatively cheap (compared to building an entirely new system). Now back to re-learning how to use the DSMS and CDU - and oh that sweet GAU-8 sound...

To the CH users, be sure you are using CH Control Manager with a good map file (the CH Hangar is an outstanding resource). Then dial down the "Character Rate" on the "Program Settings" tab to a value you are comfortable with. Mine is set to 70 and I don't have trim issues at all.

Updated the post to indicate current overclocking. These issues were present at standard rates as well, but I haven't tried it recently. Will do that. UPDATE: reset all BIOS settings to defaults and still see the image corruption. New images attached. The first one was at sim startup. I then alt-tabbed out and went back in and took the second one.

Attached images show the problem. Strange texture corruption. I've tried graphics settings all low, all high, mixed, HDR on, off, AA on, off, etc. I've tried numerous combinations of nVidia control panel settings as well. Sometimes it shows up immediately upon entering the cockpit. Sometimes it takes a bit (few seconds to a few minutes). I can grab other screens if needed. I've seen this issue for quite a while. I recently reloaded Windows on a new hard drive in the hopes it would fix it. It did not show up the first few times I ran DCS after the reload but now happens every time. It happened with my old video card (8800GTX) as well. Not sure what else to do besides build a new computer (which I'd rather not do). Other than the texture corruption the sim runs great. nVidia GTX560Ti w/285.62 Core 2 Duo E6750 @ 3.2 GHz (OC from 2.66) 4GB RAM Win 7 64-bit

Slightly OT, but while the Mav wasn't designed as a target-acquisition device, it has been used in that capacity in combat. Read Smallwood's "Warthog: Flying the A-10 in the Gulf War" and you will have a new appreciation for the C model upgrades. They were scud-hunting (among other things) for months with only the Maverick to search the desert expanses.

Will there be an installer direct to 1.1.0.7 or is this patch-only?

And, to help our fellow DCS pilot and friend Headspace out, you can donate to keep the development of TARS going. TARS was built and is hosted on his own nickel. If we want to see additional features in TARS a few donations will go a long way! http://www.excessiveheadspace.com/tars/

I bought the Plantronics Gamecom. It's not the greatest in terms of sound quality but it's acceptable. And it was cheap. Less than $30. I've heard the SteelSeries Siberia V2 is good but more expensive (~$90 list price).

Or make it self-documenting and create a post of links to other posts! Then it would be searchable! Oh, wait...

I hope I don't need to say this but do be careful and BACK UP before you make any changes...

Yeah, there is absolutely no reason to not use CH Control Manager. It is not a stay-resident application. You set up your gear, download to the device(s), close it, fly. Easy to use and SUPER powerful...

That sets the camera FOV limits. If you want to adjust the "reset" zoom value, edit Config/View/SnapViewsDefault.lua. Look for Snap[11][13]["viewAngle"]. The stock value is 75.0. Higher FOV values equate to zooming out. Change the value to what you like. You have to restart the sim to see the changed values. You can read the comments at the top of the file to get insight into what the 11 and 13 mean if you are so inclined. This assumes you have UseDefaultSnapViews = true in Config/View/View.lua. If you have it set otherwise you probably wouldn't be asking this question in the first place... And to reiterate: back up before you change anything (or go all software dev geek and use a version control system ;)).

I'll cast my vote for "bloody annoying." Was flying a quick MP mission the other day, got all started up, sitting there waiting for my flight to taxi, master caution starts going off.... CADC failure. Dang. Decided to press on with the flight anyway. Kinda tedious without that device but I still got a gun kill with no PAC. Hooah!

FWIW, IrfanView is a great, small, free image viewer/converter. It also has light editing capability. I've been using it for several years.

Last lines of Back to the Future.

DCS: A-10 is using a "new and improved" user data system from Microsoft. More secure, better experience, blah, blah, blah. I have not found a way to redirect only the screenshot directory. However, you can move the entire "Saved Games" folder elsewhere by navigating to the folder (C:\Users\<username>), right-clicking "Saved Games", and select "Properties". From there go to the "Location" tab and click the "Move..." button. You'll want to have it move the files for you. I wouldn't move this to the DCS folder, though. This folder will be the storage location for all games that use this "feature" of Windows. I moved mine to my "data" drive that has version control and backup in case something gets borked.