Chris P Posted April 27, 2020 Posted April 27, 2020 Greetings, After the current free to play for 30 days and half-price release of the F-16, I've decided it's time to get back into the Viper cockpit. I flew Falcon4 and Allied Force with my TM Cougar up until about 10 years ago and then fell into MSFS for a few years. Needless to say, MSFS wasn't scratching my itch to blow crap up, and I ended up shelving it. My current rig will run DCS pretty well at the low end until I can save up a bit to upgrade. My first question is: what is the best way to get my Cougar into the sim? It looks like I can assign all the switches and axes in the sim. Is there an advantage to loading Foxy? I haven't ever installed the Cougar drivers or Foxy on this rig (Win7 64bit), is it even possible without jumping through loads of hoops? Thanks! Chris P 'Nascar' Raleigh NC [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
Rudel_chw Posted April 27, 2020 Posted April 27, 2020 (edited) My first question is: what is the best way to get my Cougar into the sim? It looks like I can assign all the switches and axes in the sim. Yes, you can assign most items within the Sim ... it is the easiest way. Is there an advantage to loading Foxy? From my experience, it has two main advantages: 1) DCS has the bad feature that its control bindings are associated to the USB ID of your Hotas. If you reinstall Windows, the USB ID will be different and then DCS will not be able to find your bindings. Foxy control assignments are saved on text files handled by Foxy and they never have this type of issue. 2) Foxy allows for more flexible and powerful bindings .. for example: - In Foxy you can bind one command to the press of a button and a different one to the release of it. - In Foxy you can bind one command to a short press of a button, and another command to a long press. - In Foxy you can bind several commands to a single button, to be executed sequentially. For example one button pauses the headtracking and also activates a Snapview. Foxy does have a disadvantage tough: when you change from one aircraft to another, you need to download onto the Cougar the profile of the new aircraft. The Cougar always mantains the last profile on its memory, so if you fly mostly a single aircraft for a while it wont be a bother (you can download a profile even while DCS is running) ... but if you change planes every few minutes it would be a nuisance :) I haven't ever installed the Cougar drivers or Foxy on this rig (Win7 64bit), is it even possible without jumping through loads of hoops? Yes it is possible, I wrote a small Guide a while ago .. but it is still valid and it works also on Windows 8 and 10: https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=181049 Best regards, Eduardo Edited April 27, 2020 by Rudel_chw For work: iMac mid-2010 of 27" - Core i7 870 - 6 GB DDR3 1333 MHz - ATI HD5670 - SSD 256 GB - HDD 2 TB - macOS High Sierra For Gaming: 34" Monitor - Ryzen 3600 - 32 GB DDR4 2400 - nVidia RTX2080 - SSD 1.25 TB - HDD 10 TB - Win10 Pro - TM HOTAS Cougar Mobile: iPad Pro 12.9" of 256 GB
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Chris P Posted April 27, 2020 Author Posted April 27, 2020 Thanks, I'll work on getting Foxy going again. Nice to know about the USB IDs changing; that would be a pain. Cheers! Chris P 'Nascar' Raleigh NC [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
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Mud Posted April 28, 2020 Posted April 28, 2020 From my experience, it has two main advantages: 1) DCS has the bad feature that its control bindings are associated to the USB ID of your Hotas. If you reinstall Windows, the USB ID will be different and then DCS will not be able to find your bindings. Foxy control assignments are saved on text files handled by Foxy and they never have this type of issue. This has never been an issue for me. You just copy your Saved Games folder from DCS somewhere before a Windows reinstall, and then import your control bindings from there. The USB ID plays no role there. Spoiler W10-x64 | B650E Gigabyte Aorus Master | AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D | Noctua NH-D15 G.Skill Trident ZS Neo DDR5-6000 64Gb | MSI RTX 3080ti Gaming X Asus Xonar AE | VPforce Rhino + TM Hotas Warthog MFG Crosswind pedals | Valve Index
Rudel_chw Posted April 28, 2020 Posted April 28, 2020 ... You just copy your Saved Games folder from DCS somewhere before a Windows reinstall, and then import your control bindings from there. The USB ID plays no role there. If the USB ID really played no role, you wouldn't need to do anything, DCS would just take the bindings from your Saved Games folder. Instead, you must do this import operation, aircraft by aircraft. With Foxy I do nothing at all, my HOTAS files still work as before the Windows reinstall (but of course, I do need to reinstall Foxy, as it is a Windows application). For work: iMac mid-2010 of 27" - Core i7 870 - 6 GB DDR3 1333 MHz - ATI HD5670 - SSD 256 GB - HDD 2 TB - macOS High Sierra For Gaming: 34" Monitor - Ryzen 3600 - 32 GB DDR4 2400 - nVidia RTX2080 - SSD 1.25 TB - HDD 10 TB - Win10 Pro - TM HOTAS Cougar Mobile: iPad Pro 12.9" of 256 GB
Chris P Posted April 29, 2020 Author Posted April 29, 2020 Welcome Fellow Tarheel! My handle elsewhere is NCStateFan, so while technically correct, I take minor offense at being called a Tarheel.... ;) But otherwise, hello fellow Carolinian! Chris P 'Nascar' Raleigh NC [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
Maverick1202 Posted April 30, 2020 Posted April 30, 2020 Greetings, After the current free to play for 30 days and half-price release of the F-16, I've decided it's time to get back into the Viper cockpit. I flew Falcon4 and Allied Force with my TM Cougar up until about 10 years ago and then fell into MSFS for a few years. Needless to say, MSFS wasn't scratching my itch to blow crap up, and I ended up shelving it. My current rig will run DCS pretty well at the low end until I can save up a bit to upgrade. My first question is: what is the best way to get my Cougar into the sim? It looks like I can assign all the switches and axes in the sim. Is there an advantage to loading Foxy? I haven't ever installed the Cougar drivers or Foxy on this rig (Win7 64bit), is it even possible without jumping through loads of hoops? Thanks! I'm in the same boat. I almost need a mentor or coach to contact about getting back into flying in this world. BTW, I signed up as a new user 4/13 and I still cannot post any messages. How do we contact the admin to allow me to post messages?
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