SimShaker for DCS World Sound Mode Expansion - Discussion

[=Andre=]

Checked the registries... they look all correct

 

EDIT: I found what was wrong, "Simshaker.xml" was still pointing to old tester install folder, which I changed recently. Its updating it automatically now so all's good :)

 

Good news :)

[DerekSpeare]

Hello Andre!

 

I have two transducers and an amp ready to go. All I need is some appropriate wires to connect them, and I'll have it tonight. From there I will connect it all and report more. I'm enthusiastic about your SimShaker utility. It's really cool you have it for iRacing as well.

 

You should really join up with iracing and make your program known there. There are a ton of people using another program like yours, but yours is simple and appears to be much easier to use. Anyhow, you should go see what's there. (if you are a member, I've not seen your utility referenced there)

 

I'd also like to ask if you plan to support FSX:SE/P3d? This would really be great if you did!

[=Andre=]

Hello DerekSpeare,

iRacing module works via USB with JetSeat only yet.

Hopefully one day we will make a module for FSX:SE/P3d, can't promise now.

[DerekSpeare]

Thanks, Andrey - Donation sent!

[=Andre=]

Gents, SimShaker beta version 1.1.1.21 is published and needs to be tested thoroughly.

Anyone,who wants to join beta testers group please contact me at Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1750405591911776/

Edited May 4, 2016 by =Andre=

[elliott82]

Hey Andrej,

 

I have a question. If I have two transducers where would you put them on the chair? More in a left/right or front/back configuration?

 

And if I order the Jetseat and I don't feel enough punch, would I be able to return it?

 

Thanks a lot!

[=Andre=]

Hey Andrej,

 

I have a question. If I have two transducers where would you put them on the chair? More in a left/right or front/back configuration?

 

And if I order the Jetseat and I don't feel enough punch, would I be able to return it?

 

Thanks a lot!

 

Please put them left/right.

 

You may return goods within 14 days since delivery date. Your payment will be refunded, except shipment fee.

https://andres-eshop.pswebshop.com/content/1-delivery

[geert]

Support for Gazelle?

 

Hi Andre,

 

As you probably know, the Gazelle was released today. I guess I´m not the only one hoping that it will be implement in simshaker, any comments/plans on that?

 

Another thing I should mention: I had trouble with simshaker for quite some time, especially with heli´s and tried some things to fix that, like adjusting sample time etc. Some other things were wrong and inconsistend too. Eventually I found out that my wireless headset was causing all the problems. If any users of the "corsair vengeance 2100" headset are reading this, make sure that you open the "recording devices" tab in windows and leave it open (do not minimize it!). Sounds really silly, but it fixed the problems with simshaker on my PC.

 

cheers,

Geert

[f4l0]

I just bought the gazelle and will start the implementation in SimShaker today...

[=Andre=]

As you probably know, the Gazelle was released today. I guess I´m not the only one hoping that it will be implement in simshaker, any comments/plans on that?

Hi Geert,

thanks for the question.

We've started to implement the effects for the Gazelle. Hopefully that won't take long.

 

Another thing I should mention: I had trouble with simshaker for quite some time, especially with heli´s and tried some things to fix that, like adjusting sample time etc. Some other things were wrong and inconsistend too. Eventually I found out that my wireless headset was causing all the problems. If any users of the "corsair vengeance 2100" headset are reading this, make sure that you open the "recording devices" tab in windows and leave it open (do not minimize it!). Sounds really silly, but it fixed the problems with simshaker on my PC.

Thanks for sharing that.

[=Andre=]

:)

That's right, Olaf is in charge of the Gazelle.

[Cowboy10uk]

Hi Geert,

thanks for the question.

We've started to implement the effects for the Gazelle. Hopefully that won't take long.

 

 

Thanks for sharing that.

 

Fantastic news, just didn't feel right flying without any seat feedback yesterday. :(

 

Cowboy10uk

[=Andre=]

I wonder does the community feel good that Olaf to do a great job have to buy new DCS modules by its own?

[shagrat]

Hmm, did you or Olaf ask Polychop or ED for a Tester access? This would in general, be a good idea to start implementation early before release.

You could help identifying bugs in the programming interface, give feedback and get access to the modules during internal testing...

Not sure how ED thinks about this, but one could ask them.

Maybe Olaf want to contact Groove as german community manager via PM?

[geert]

I just bought the gazelle and will start the implementation in SimShaker today...

 

Great, thanks and good luck :thumbup: will be happy to do some (simple) testing. Especially with heli´s I find that the shaking really adds something, probably because it continuously shakes.

[=Andre=]

Hmm, did you or Olaf ask Polychop or ED for a Tester access? This would in general, be a good idea to start implementation early before release.

You could help identifying bugs in the programming interface, give feedback and get access to the modules during internal testing...

Not sure how ED thinks about this, but one could ask them.

Maybe Olaf want to contact Groove as german community manager via PM?

 

I think that's a good idea.

Could you please give a kind of reference to Groove?

[hannibal]

how does one keep jetseat on the chair that it is placed on?

 

is there any loops for straps or velcro?

[=Andre=]

how does one keep jetseat on the chair that it is placed on?

 

is there any loops for straps or velcro?

 

There are straps and velcro.

[EntropySG]

Flying planes with the jetseat is great.

For Helos it's a must!! In the mi-8 I feel VRS before I get into one, it's simply amazing

[Vivoune]

I'm currently testing SimShaker with the A-10C (Many thanks Andre ;) ), I only tried for a short session but I'm having issues with it, the canopy effect & the APU effect aren't working at all.

 

In term of the effects, everything is "drawn" and rough. I'm pretty sure I just didn't set it up correctly.

 

For exemple lowering and raising the landing gear is a big mess of on & off big vibrations (about 2 big vibrations every seconds). The vibrations effect don't match at all the gun in use either, it just starts and stops even if I keep the trigger pressed and it feels like a laundry machine finishing its cycles rather than a minigun firing at high RPM.

 

The Flap effect is quite nice and it feels like a motor pushing the flaps out.

 

Both Low and High cut filters on the Amp are Off and the Freq is dialed at max (160). When Testing it on the SimShaker opening window it seem to work fine (big vibrations for a few seconds). The test button seem to ouput a much more powerful vibration than the in-game ones.

 

Most effects are simply a quick succession of big On & Off and much worse to simply using the buttkicker without the soft.

 

I thought than since I haven't used my Buttkicker in a long while maybe it got damaged somehow so I tried to simply plug it on a Y splitter on my main audio output and it worked perfectly, the ground feels like a rough ground the gun feels like a crisp detailed rapid succession of sharp micro vibrations and the landing gear gives a satisfying "shlunk" feeling.

 

If that's any help, when I returned to using the buttkicker normally through the simple Y split audio, I had to significantly raise the volume on the Buttkicker Amp. I don't want to try the testing button in SimShaker at that kind of volume since at much lower Amp volumes it was already shaking the house.

 

What am I doing wrong?

[=Andre=]

Try to play around with your output sound device configuration. Is it stereo or 5.1/7.1?

The effects usually work good with the BK GR2.

[Vivoune]

It is 5.1. I'm using a USB 5.1 audio card for the BK2, I'll try to switch audio cards to see if that changes. Thanks!

[=Andre=]

Check to be sure that it configured all the way as 5.1.

[Vivoune]

I tried on the other card, the onboard audio of my motherboard, made sure it was full 5.1, plugged it on the green plug and I'm having the same issues. I made it stereo and the effects got better but it still feels off. I kinda feel like there are huge volume gaps between the various effects and that some are too low to be played properly while others rumble the whole house (but still give poor feedback). I tried fiddling with the soft's volumes along with the Amp volume but so far to no avail.

[=Andre=]

Have you tried gain sliders at SimShaker GUI?