Couple of issues...

[Belphe]

Hi,

 

I have three issues which I'd love you to help me with:

 

1) I am trying my luck with the Voice Activated Commands (VAC) software to communicate with the Ground and my fellow AI squad members. Everything works in the tests inside the VAC Builder but dies inside the game, when I enable the VAC System in the background. Before you ask: I have saved my profile, I have loaded it in the VAC System, I have enabled VAC On and I have NOT issued any buttons for voice commands (the mic hears everything)... Other than that the VAC is NOT disturbed by other sounds as I'm playing with my headset on!

 

2) Even using the keyboard to communicate with the ground crew I have noticed that they respond ONLY to my F10 tree of commands (maintenance). I am not getting ANY answers to any of the actions requested from the Tower (F6)... You must know I perform a full engine startup sequence according to Kamov Ka-50 "Black Shark" Normal Checklist v1.8 available somewhere on this forums and considered to be the "proper" startup chcklist!

 

3) I have my Saitek X52 working fine with the game and my pinkie switch assigned to be my trimmer BUT I cannot assign (and make it to work) the CLUTCH button! I only guess it is the small button with the "i" symbol on it placed on the throttle (inside the smaller rotary). If I'm right, could anybody tell me how to assign a key to it???

 

I know those are rather complex issues but I would really appreciate any kind of help as I've wasted hours on finding the answers both in game and on the forums already...

 

Thanks!

Edited May 17, 2009 by Belphe

[EtherealN]

On #2, make sure to have the radio selector (left panel) to the correct setting. The ground crew will only listen to stuff that is relevant to them - fuel and ammo requests. The takeoff stuff is Tower stuff, and they listen to the VHF2 radio. (The ground crew radio is a physical cable that they connect to the helicopter when you are on the ground.)

 

So remember to set the radio to correspond to who you want to talk to.

[Belphe]

On #2, make sure to have the radio selector (left panel) to the correct setting. The ground crew will only listen to stuff that is relevant to them - fuel and ammo requests. The takeoff stuff is Tower stuff, and they listen to the VHF2 radio. (The ground crew radio is a physical cable that they connect to the helicopter when you are on the ground.)

 

So remember to set the radio to correspond to who you want to talk to.

 

You were right EtherealN - all I had to do was switch back from Ground Crew to VHF 2! I suppose this could put in the checklist... :smilewink:

 

It's 1 out of 3! Anybody to help with the remaining problems?

 

Thanks!

[nomdeplume]

3) I have my Saitek X52 working fine with the game and my pinkie switch assigned to be my trimmer BUT I cannot assign (and make it to work) the CLUTCH button! I only guess it is the small button with the "i" symbol on it placed on the throttle (inside the smaller rotary). If I'm right, could anybody tell me how to assign a key to it???

 

Run the Saitek control panel thing. On the MFD tab you can set the brightness of the MFD, and at the bottom right corner are two tickboxes for the clutch button. Turn it off (i.e. make sure there's no tick in the "Enable Clutch Mode" checkbox) and like magic it'll start working.

 

I've only used it with the profiler - I found that it'd let me assign a keypress to it even with that checkbox enabled, but it wouldn't actually do anything when I pressed it. Once I turned that option off, it worked fine. I haven't tried assigning it to something directly within the game as I prefer to leave game controls at their default setting and put all my configuration in the joystick profile, so I don't know if it'll be recognised by games as being a regular joystick button or not.

[Belphe]

Run the Saitek control panel thing. On the MFD tab you can set the brightness of the MFD, and at the bottom right corner are two tickboxes for the clutch button. Turn it off (i.e. make sure there's no tick in the "Enable Clutch Mode" checkbox) and like magic it'll start working.

 

I've only used it with the profiler - I found that it'd let me assign a keypress to it even with that checkbox enabled, but it wouldn't actually do anything when I pressed it. Once I turned that option off, it worked fine. I haven't tried assigning it to something directly within the game as I prefer to leave game controls at their default setting and put all my configuration in the joystick profile, so I don't know if it'll be recognised by games as being a regular joystick button or not.

 

Yes!!! Fantastic! Thanks a lot! Whooohooo! Just one to go! :smilewink:

[Belphe]

To narrow the VAC issue down a little bit:

- when I test VAC profile in VAC Builder ALL the spoken commands are cecognised but NOT ALL enable the key pressings (in a detail window)

- in the game even fewer spoken commands are recognised and executed (e.g. enable ground power works but requesting takeoff doesn't - and that's after switching to VHF2!)

- in the VAC Builder when using "say" feature in the "Activation Phrase" window my command is hardly ever recognised correctly (even thou my accent is ok and I speak loudly and clearly), I have also moved pronounciation slider in the Speech Settings in Control Panel in Windows...