Galinette Posted July 9, 2020 Posted July 9, 2020 Hi, I'm looking for a new stick. After discussions and reviews, it seems the Virpil WarBRD is just what I need. However, I don't like their grip designs much, and I would prefer a F-16 model from TM or Realsimulator. They are mechanically compatible, but what about electrical/software compatibility? 1) If I attach a TM F-16 grip on the WarBRD, will all the buttons be recognized from scratch in DCS? Or are they assignable in the Virpil software? I would like to avoid needing both TM and Virpil software at the same time, it's a mess to handle multiple profiles. 2) Same question with the Realsimulator stick. I know this one has BLE support and doesn't even need to communicate via the base, but then you need multiple software and it's a mess. Thanks!
hornblower793 Posted July 9, 2020 Posted July 9, 2020 Hi, I'm looking for a new stick. After discussions and reviews, it seems the Virpil WarBRD is just what I need. However, I don't like their grip designs much, and I would prefer a F-16 model from TM or Realsimulator. They are mechanically compatible, but what about electrical/software compatibility? 1) If I attach a TM F-16 grip on the WarBRD, will all the buttons be recognized from scratch in DCS? Or are they assignable in the Virpil software? I would like to avoid needing both TM and Virpil software at the same time, it's a mess to handle multiple profiles. 2) Same question with the Realsimulator stick. I know this one has BLE support and doesn't even need to communicate via the base, but then you need multiple software and it's a mess. Thanks!I have both TM WH and F18 grips on my warBRD base quite happily. Just need to select the grip in the Virpil configuration software and save it Sent from my SM-T835 using Tapatalk Windows 11 Home ¦ Z790 AORUS Elite AX motherboard ¦ i7-13700K ¦ 64GB Corsair Vengeance DDR5 memory @ 5600MHz ¦ Samsung 990 Pro 1TB SSD for OS, Samsung 980 Pro 2TB SSD for DCS ¦ MSI GeForce RTX 4090 Gaming X Trio 24GB ¦ Virpil WarBRD base with VFX grip, Thrustmaster A10c and F/A-18 grips ¦ VKB Gunfighter Mk4 and MCG Pro ¦ Thrustmaster Warthog Throttle ¦ VKB STECS Throttle ¦ Virpil TCS rotor base with Shark and AH-64D grips ¦ MFG Crosswinds ¦ Total Controls Multi-Function Button Box ¦ Pimax Crystal
Sokol1_br Posted July 10, 2020 Posted July 10, 2020 1) If I attach a TM F-16 grip on the WarBRD, will all the buttons be recognized from scratch in DCS? Or are they assignable in the Virpil software? I would like to avoid needing both TM and Virpil software at the same time, it's a mess to handle multiple profiles. VirPil software is not a keyboard emulator like TARGET (or CH manager, Saitek SST...), is a firmware configurator, so you select in this software an profile for F-16 grip and save in controller memory, don't need keep the software running when playing games. But if want use keyboard emulation can't use TARGET, because the F-16 grip is "brainless", don't make VirPil base an Thrustmaster product, required for use TARGET - but are a workaround, for emulate a Tm product" with VID/PID, look at VirPil forum. But instead you can use Joystick Gremlin for keyboard emulation, with features similar to TARGET.
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