TrackIR not... tracking!

[aaron886]

Hello all, I just picked up TrackIR in the mail today, installed, and I'm one happy camper. (Minus needing a USB hub now, any recommendations there?) My only problem now is LockOn Flaming Cliffs. TrackIR is working great in IL-2 FB, the Falcon series, and FS2004. However, it's not tracking in FC. Is there an option I need to activate in order to use TIR or a config file to fiddle with?

[GTengineer]

Sometimes I need to delete TrackIR files from the LOFC folder to get it working again. Check in Config folder there is a trackir.ini and another in Input folder called just TrackIR. Delete both files and restart LOFC. Hopefully that will do it.

[golfsierra2]

After deleting those files, be sure that you always start TrackIR before you launch Lock-On.

 

It won't work vice versa.

[159_Archer]

I also get the problem as described above, but find that after deleting those files it will happen again in the not too distant future.

I did find a way of preventing it returning for a long while though; open the mentioned files with notebook, delete all present and then save. The folder then still exists, but it seems to slow the re-occurrence for quite some time. :)

[ECV56_Finger]

The best option that I found to that problem is to add a couple of lines in the lockon.bat.

 

You will find that file on the LockOn folder. Open it with Notepad and add the lines in bold: (Before doing enything and just in case, make a BackUp for that file!)

 

@echo off

rem regsvr32 /s msxml.dll

regsvr32 /s MOM.dll

start DeleteObsoleteFiles.bat

del /f/q Input\TrackIR.ini

del /f/q Config\TrackIR

cd "E:\Program Files\NaturalPoint\TrackIR4\"

start TrackIR.exe

start LockOn.exe

Save it

 

Remember to change this E:\Program Files\NaturalPoint\TrackIR4\, for yout path to the TrackIr Software. Mine is installed in the E Hard Dirve, but if you did an estandar instalation you will need only to replace the E for a C.

 

Basicaly, with the first line we are deleing the file in the Input Folder, with the second the one in the Config folder, with the third we are indicating the path to our Track Ir Software and with the last one in bold, we are running the TrackIr Software before Lomac.

 

So everytime that you execute lockon.bat (is the one that I always use to run the sim) it will do everything (delete both files and execute TrackIr software before Lomac) with only one click!

 

Hope it helps!

[S77th-konkussion]

The cause is making a change in LOMAC's options. If your track is up & running before making changes in that menu- it supposedly will not re-cur. Otherwise every time you make a change- you will have to delete those files to bring it back.

[A.S]

very smart solution Finger...nICEE :thumbup:

[DTWD]

If you get yourself LoCFG from lock on files you can set it to check if TrackIR is running on game launch and to delete these files.

 

It also gives you the ability to tweak settings easily (especially usefull for view settings and TrackIR) in it.

 

Regards

Paul

[aaron886]

Awesome! Thank you all so much. I'm once again impressed by this community's depth of knowledge and willingness to lend a hand!

[AustinN360]

If you want to enter Lockon Via Hyperlobby then make a copy of Lockon.bat and put it on your desktop and edit using notepad and enter the following:

 

@echo off

rem regsvr32 /s msxml.dll

regsvr32 /s MOM.dll

rem start DeleteObsoleteFiles.bat

del /f/q Input\TrackIR.ini

del /f/q Config\TrackIR

 

This is the same info Finger put up earlier but I've taken out the start lockon bit so that you can run this when you've finished your flight so that you can start a multiplayer mission in hyperlobby without having to worry about searching for the Trackir files that you need to delete. Just start this and away you go.