TM F-18 grip & RS R3L base

[markturner1960]

Hi, my TM F-18 grip just arrived. I have a warthog installed and use a real simulator force feedback R3L base for the joystick.

 

Do I need to install anything to get the the new grip to work with the FFB base? Or should it simply plug in and be detected within DCS where I can directly assign buttons etc?

 

Thanks

[BaD CrC]

Realsimulator are not manufacturing force feedback joystick. They are using force sensors, but there is no feedback. I think that's what you meant.

 

Just plug it in and see if it is working. Should be recognized as a simple HID device. If not, you probably need to switch the board of your TM base into the R3L one.

 

 

[Supmua]

It's completely plug and play, and I even use the firmware for the F-16SGRH version--hot swapping also. If you use multiple grips with the FSSB R3L, create a different profile for each of your grip to avoid issues. Whenever you swap the grip just load that particular profile that you made for it. I create separate profiles for TM Warthog, TM F/A-18, F-16SGRH, Virpil T50CM2, this way I can keep track of things.

 

Remember TM device only supports 19 DX inputs (zero to eighteen), so do not populate switches 19+ in the software since for some reason they are active instead of inactive by default, so they will get activated perpetually if you happen to put a keyboard binding in there--this is probably a bug and I will file a report, or may be because I'm using the wrong firmware.

 

Another way to prevent potential issue is to turn DX Button OFF in the RS_HID_Dev Tool when you plug in your TM grip. This would prevent non-Realsim grips from accessing extra DX buttons.

Edited September 20, 2019 by Supmua