BS2 key bindings for engine throttles don't work for SaitekX52

[madyogi]

Just downloaded the BS2 upgrade for BS1 to "test" it, before buying a new PC.

Anyway, I'm using BS1 since over a year with the very same keys set up and it's perfect to me. In BS2 I made exactly the same key bindings from scratch (not reading old profile from BS1). Everything works fine beside the JOY_BTN11, JOY_BTN12, JOY_BTN13 and JOY_BTN14 which I've used to move the throttle levers up and down.

 

When I open the OPTIONS->Controls and press any of above buttons the proper item from menu perfectly pops up like:

J..11 is equal with RALT+PGUP → Left throttle UP

J..12 is equal with RALT+PGDOWN → Left throttle DOWN

J..13 is equal with RSHIFT+.... → Right throttle UP

J..14 is equal with RSHIFT+.... → Right throttle DOW

When I enter any mission the mentioned keys are all dead. If I look over my pilots left arm, the levers won't even breathe... :(

 

All other keys work fine...

 

I've also pressed the "MAKE TXT" in the Controls panel and examined the text files, the content looks well:

"'JOY_BTN11'" Left Throttle up (Idle-Medium-Auto-Full) Ins Engines start-up control panel and levers

"'JOY_BTN12'" Left Throttle down (Idle-Medium-Auto-Full) Ins Engines start-up control panel and levers

"'JOY_BTN13'" Right Throttle up (Idle-Medium-Auto-Full) Ins Engines start-up control panel and levers

"'JOY_BTN14'" Right Throttle down (Idle-Medium-Auto-Full) Ins Engines start-up control panel and levers

 

Also tried these two attempts...

1. Deleted any Saitek X52 *.lua from any input dir and started the sim again, so it could recreate them. After reading the previously saved profile (it also has the keys mapped properly), the problem doesn't disappear... :(

 

2. Deleted again all Saitek X52*.lua , started the BS2 and opend the Options->controls, configured only above keys, leaving all other assignments for X52 empty. Started some instant action mission – the same effect – throttles are dead.

 

Any idea how to fix this?

 

This is a part of lua profile used to backup the whole configuration...

 
 [243] = 
 {
  ["combos"] = 
  {
   [1] = 
   {
    ["key"] = "JOY_BTN11",
    ["reformers"] = 
    {
    }, -- end of ["reformers"]
   }, -- end of [1]
  }, -- end of ["combos"]
  ["name"] = "Left Throttle up (Idle-Medium-Auto-Full)",
  ["category"] = "Ins Engines start-up control panel and levers",
  ["down"] = 161,
 }, -- end of [243]
   [244] = 
 {
  ["combos"] = 
  {
   [1] = 
   {
    ["key"] = "JOY_BTN12",
    ["reformers"] = 
    {
    }, -- end of ["reformers"]
   }, -- end of [1]
  }, -- end of ["combos"]
  ["name"] = "Left Throttle down (Idle-Medium-Auto-Full)",
  ["category"] = "Ins Engines start-up control panel and levers",
  ["down"] = 162,
 }, -- end of [244]
 [245] = 
 {
  ["combos"] = 
  {
   [1] = 
   {
    ["key"] = "JOY_BTN13",
    ["reformers"] = 
    {
    }, -- end of ["reformers"]
   }, -- end of [1]
  }, -- end of ["combos"]
  ["name"] = "Right Throttle up (Idle-Medium-Auto-Full)",
  ["category"] = "Ins Engines start-up control panel and levers",
  ["down"] = 163,
 }, -- end of [245]
 [246] = 
 {
  ["combos"] = 
  {
   [1] = 
   {
    ["key"] = "JOY_BTN14",
    ["reformers"] = 
    {
    }, -- end of ["reformers"]
   }, -- end of [1]
  }, -- end of ["combos"]
  ["name"] = "Right Throttle down (Idle-Medium-Auto-Full)",
  ["category"] = "Ins Engines start-up control panel and levers",
  ["down"] = 164,
 }, -- end of [246]

 

And one more - the three stage LALT + C in BS1 allowed to: move cursor only / move cursor and POV / move POV only / In BS2, now only 2 stages availavle, missing the middle one. WHY?

 

Completly off topic2: the engines – why do they sound like a squeezd paper bag? BS1 sounded bit better I think. Havent had much time to enjoy anything more beside the cocpit sounds... :) but yes, it came to life now...

 

P.S After a night crusade, I made this Sweet Sim running on a 32 bit box, with a P4 at 3GHz with 4 gigs of CL2 DDR RAM (PC3200). With everything set to LOW its even flyable but I guess some bullets in the sky will ruin my smile... Anyway, looks promising, great job ED and waiting for patches, hoping that soldier bugfix isn't the end...

Edited November 11, 2011 by madyogi