unipus Posted July 25, 2018 Posted July 25, 2018 Picked up an X-55 throttle for super cheap while I wait to see the outcome of the Virpil/VKB offerings, and for the price I'm definitely not disappointed. However, the thing is literally covered in knobs and dials -- none of which I can seem to get DCS to recognize as valid axis. Is this something I have to do through external software only? So far I've managed to avoid that but having 5+ controls at my fingertips doing nothing is prodding at me.
crab Posted July 25, 2018 Posted July 25, 2018 If you want to leverage all the goodies you'll need to wander over to Logitech and download their not so great software to set up the throttle. You may want to consider watching a few of the Youtube videos about programming it, there are a number of things you can do with the software that cant be done in DCS and it isn't that hard to learn. Mostly it's irritating in that you have what appears to be about a 600x800 box to work in that cant be resized and may be stupidly small on your monitor depending on your resolution.
unipus Posted July 25, 2018 Author Posted July 25, 2018 Yeah, I've used it in the past on another machine; didn't love the experience and don't love not knowing what things are bound to from within DCS but oh well.
crab Posted July 25, 2018 Posted July 25, 2018 Roger. It's no fun but easy enough to do once you bite the bullet and get started. For me the results were worth it but I'm not sad to be done with it for the moment. Like many I'd jump on another HOTAS in a hearbeat if someone ever gets something on the shelf worth jumping at.
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