Briareos Posted January 29, 2015 Posted January 29, 2015 Hello Everyone, I have just started to play DCS and I have TM HOTAS set up along with Saitek combat pedals. I have the game updated to the latest patch. I did not play the game before so I am not sure if this problem was there before the patch or not. The problem I am having is that all of my A/C seem to roll to the right in instant action. This happens in all of my games, A-10, FC3. Am I missing something about calibrating the joystick or something. I have noticed that when the game starts the A/C flies straight and level but as soon as I move either the throttle or joystick to provide input it seems to initialize the drives for these inputs and cause the A/C to start rolling right. Any thoughts on what I need to do to fix this problem? Thanks
PiedDroit Posted January 30, 2015 Posted January 30, 2015 If it's a small roll you might want to recalibrate your stick - or maybe it's a bit sloppy in the center then you can set a dead zone instead. If it's a hard roll you probably have another controller mapped to the roll axis that takes precedence.
Neo47 Posted January 30, 2015 Posted January 30, 2015 May you have to check the axis settings in the options for the planes. Afaik DCS standard setup is all axis are mapped to all conected controls. That happend to me at the first time. Regards / Grüße Neo -- AMD RYZEN 7800X3D | ASUS ROG STRIX B650E-E | 64 GB RAM | GeForce RTX 4080 | WIN 11 Pro | VPC WarBRD base | VPC MongoosT-50CM2 Grip | WINWING F/A-18 H.O.T.A.S | MFG Crosswind | TIR5 | HELIOS --
Briareos Posted January 31, 2015 Author Posted January 31, 2015 A/C Rolling to the right I have went into the options and cleared all the mapped axis setting and reassigned the pitch and roll just to my joystick inputs. It stills rolls to the right. (PiedDroit) You mention about re calibrating the stick. Other than going into the axis tune on the options page is there another way to calibrate a TM warthog joystick?
PiedDroit Posted January 31, 2015 Posted January 31, 2015 (edited) You need to download the calibration tool from Thrustmaster - either check the official site or look for the topic in this forum that has all details and files attached, here: http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=65901&highlight=calibration (note that the stick calibration tool is looping forever, so once the tool has done it's calibration and asked you to unplug USB you can close it). But before attempting recalibration you should check that this is the actual issue, by opening the "axis tune" setup in DCS options and checking what's happening exactly (set a -100 curve for testing around the center). Move your stick around and see if it returns always to the same position. Then you have 3 options: - If it does not always return to the same position, you can try recalibration but if the problem is still here after recalibration then you might have wear and/or lubrication issue, then the easiest cure is to add a little dead zone in the center. - If it returns always to the same position, but a bit off center, then a re-calibration should cure your problem. - Last case, it returns always to the same position, perfectly centered, then it's not a stick issue and you should look somewhere else. Edited January 31, 2015 by PiedDroit Add link to calibration thread
Eihort Posted February 13, 2015 Posted February 13, 2015 I've found that when rest my hand on my Warthog, and with no deadzone mapped to the stick, I can induce right roll.
Briareos Posted February 14, 2015 Author Posted February 14, 2015 A/C Rolling to the right So I cleared all the assignments to the axis control and re assign them to the joystick then I used the calibration software v1.13 to re-calibrate my joystick but now it is worse. When I touch the joystick the A/C rolls all over the place. I have attached a track of it. Any one have any suggestions on how to fix this. I have tried to re-calibrate twice once with just moving the stick from the up position than directly to the right position and then to the back position and than to the left position. The second time I would recenter the joystick in the center before moving to the right or down or left.joystick problem.trk
PiedDroit Posted February 14, 2015 Posted February 14, 2015 (edited) Did you test your joystick axis after calibration? It would help a lot to know if your jostick is centered or not when not in game... You can check it using the windows control panel or the axis tune applet in DCS. We can't do much without knowing this first. When doing the calibration you must hold the stick in the requested position (up/down/left/right) when you press space. After that, when in game, use RCtrl+Enter to show the control indicator. You'll see if there is bad input. However, this indicator will NOT tell you which controller is sending the inputs. Edited February 14, 2015 by PiedDroit
Briareos Posted February 14, 2015 Author Posted February 14, 2015 So I did the calibration again and made sure to held the stick in the requested position when pressing the space bar. Then I checked the joystick axis after calibration in the axis tune applet. It starts out in the the center but with just slight push to the right the red dots swing all the way to the right. and if I push the stick all the way to the right then the red dots flicker back and forth from the side to the center. and I used RCtrl+Enter when in game. just like in my other track the joystick starts out in center but as soon as I touch the joystick it starts to rolling to the right and the indicators shows that my joystick is way off for the amount of input.
Briareos Posted February 14, 2015 Author Posted February 14, 2015 EDIT Here is the track for that flight. The window is in the bottom right which shows my joystick inputjoystick2 problem.trk
PiedDroit Posted February 14, 2015 Posted February 14, 2015 So I did the calibration again and made sure to held the stick in the requested position when pressing the space bar. Then I checked the joystick axis after calibration in the axis tune applet. It starts out in the the center but with just slight push to the right the red dots swing all the way to the right. and if I push the stick all the way to the right then the red dots flicker back and forth from the side to the center. and I used RCtrl+Enter when in game. just like in my other track the joystick starts out in center but as soon as I touch the joystick it starts to rolling to the right and the indicators shows that my joystick is way off for the amount of input. That's definitely describing a calibration problem, nothing wrong with your game setup... I have used the calibration tool several times already, never had any issue, just followed the instructions until asked to unplug, then quit (or start over). I'm afraid I don't know a cure for that :cry:, what you can try now is updating to newer firmware (install the latest drivers from Thrustmaster, the firmware update tool is included) and redo the calibration. After that, the only thing you have left is contact TM support. I wish you good luck...
PiedDroit Posted February 15, 2015 Posted February 15, 2015 Any news on that? from your other post you just need to re-run the calibration with all files extracted, it's much better than I thought ;)
Briareos Posted February 15, 2015 Author Posted February 15, 2015 @PiedDroit Thanks for all the help. It appears that I was running the calibration software the wrong way. Once I created a new folder and put both files in there. I was able to run the calibration software correctly which did fix my problem. Now my air-craft all fly straight and level without rolling. Once again thanks for all your help. I was begging to give up on the game and my joysticks but now I am in heaven.
PiedDroit Posted February 15, 2015 Posted February 15, 2015 Glad it worked, I know the frustation. Happy flights :smartass:
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