Rudder?

[BluePhantom]

What's up with the rudder? Most of the devices have the red exclamation mark for the rudder. The game recognizes my Thrustmaster rudder pedals, but does not map them (it sees the axis, but there is no response when moving the pedals). Windows sees the rudder pedals as do other mods in DCS, so it's something with the F-15E.

In game, I have no rudder authority at all.

[Phantom_Mark]

Just for reference my rudder works fine here, I did have a small problem initially, I removed the default axis binds and started fresh, if that helps at all ?

[Yurgon]

2 hours ago, BluePhantom said:

Most of the devices have the red exclamation mark for the rudder.

Other players reported problems with keybinds and axis mappings when they had some F-15 mod installed. If you have those, remove them and try again.

Otherwise, I'd try in this order:

• Rename Saved Games\DCS.openbeta, launch DCS again and check if the problem persists
  (you can later delete the fresh DCS.openbeta folder and rename your original one back)
• Repair DCS, with "slow" and "search for additional files" options checked

[BluePhantom]

Thanks, guys. It was, in fact, a conflict with the F-15E mod. I was aware of that I needed to get rid of any such mods, but I had failed to delete one folder and that created a conflict. Interesting that it only affected the rudder.  Oh, well, all is well now.

@Phantom_Mark: I always clear the ED default values in new controllers. They are worse than useless.  I spend so much time deleting those default bindings.  Wish they would just leave them all blank.

[Phantom_Mark]

Yes, I too wish default entries for all hardware would be blank, but instead supply pre configured profiles for known popular hardware units, spend far too long deleting and searching default assignments to delete on those controllers, especially when you have a lot of devices mirroring default settings.

[Yurgon]

10 hours ago, Phantom_Mark said:

Yes, I too wish default entries for all hardware would be blank

Not at my PC right now, but "Clear category" or so works pretty well for me. Hitting that for every controller once for every new module usually does the job within about a minute, and then I can go forward with a clean config.

I believe new players with somewhat standard hardware are mostly going to appreciate a default binding for their hardware.

[Phantom_Mark]

10 hours ago, Yurgon said:

Not at my PC right now, but "Clear category" or so works pretty well for me. Hitting that for every controller once for every new module usually does the job within about a minute, and then I can go forward with a clean config.

I believe new players with somewhat standard hardware are mostly going to appreciate a default binding for their hardware.

Yup that works fine for some stuff, great example of pointless defaults is in the view settings however, I have 7 USB devices meaning I have to go through and selectively clear each for pointless assignments like this, so while clear cat works ok at some things it is not the optimal solution IMO - it is better than we started with tho

[MAXsenna]

On 6/25/2023 at 11:25 AM, Phantom_Mark said:

Yup that works fine for some stuff, great example of pointless defaults is in the view settings however, I have 7 USB devices meaning I have to go through and selectively clear each for pointless assignments like this, so while clear cat works ok at some things it is not the optimal solution IMO - it is better than we started with tho

I agree, but unless I misunderstand, there's a little trick to make the "clear category" more efficient.

Like you I want get rid of all the silly views. So I select "views" or "views extended" in the drop down. And then I can just click clear category on each device, (I have more than seven and the list grows, so I feel you), and only the bound "views" will be removed from each device. The same can be done for other features like triggers, weapon release etc. that are automatically bound to each device, by selecting "search..." in the drop down and typing in the relevant feature.

Cheers!