one week of x52

[jaxxo]

well my first hotas and Im having mixed feelings..immersion is great and control is way better than logicrap..the twisty rudder is completely useless...i also have to relearn simple things that were just second nature with the keyboard..all in all im happy with it despite my .5 kill to death lol.. now i just wanna by a ch stick even worse though. anyone have pedals they wanna sell? i smashed mine in the parking lot after they spiked too bad

[FiLtH]

WHy were you playing in the parking lot?

[Morpheus]

hey, will CH analog peds work with X52? Max gave me a set but I have USB's, so if they will work u can have em.

add peds into the mix and things will really get interesting.. It took me about a month to go from twist stick to ch hotas and really get use to it all.

[Max]

Originally posted by jaxxo
the twisty rudder is completely useless...

What seems to be the problem? Is this your 1st experience with a twist handle? I'm talking "flight gear" Jaxxo

[WxMan]

hey, will CH analog peds work with X52?

If you have an old  stick that will plug into the gameport you can use the analog CH pedals for rudder while using the USB X52 for everything else.

It's the setup I'm using now.

[Mr No Name]

you cannot mix gameport and USB... you can NOT do this.

[RTSigma]

I use CH Pro Pedals USB with my X52 and it works wonderfully.

[Krusty]

gameport is separate from USB. It's like saying "You cant mix PS2 and USB!" -- which isn't true. You can have something on each plug, and each will act as it should (that is, each will act separately, but correctly).

P.S. If you had rudder pedals and you TRASHED them, you don't deserve any more! Ever again!! (instead, as punishment, you must buy me some pedals and watch as I cherish them for all eternity).

[dedalos]

Originally posted by jaxxo
..all in all im happy with it despite my .5 kill to death lol..

WOW  WTG Jaxxo.  100% improvement in 1 week!!!!11


If only HUB could improve like that

[wetrat]

Originally posted by dedalos
WOW  WTG Jaxxo.  100% improvement in 1 week!!!!11


If only HUB could improve like that

but hub is ranked #8... he's almost as good as shawk now

[Jebus]

I have had my x52 for almost a week, and Jaxxo your right the twist stick is useless.  Will be buying pedals once my budget allows.  

The other thing i dont like is how loose the stick is.  You cant get a good feel for the airplane.  JB22 told me to put pennies between the spring and the stick.  It seemed to tighten up the stick nicely!:aok

[jaxxo]

cool thanx for the tip..btw my pedals were 6 years old and i had them in combo with logicrap  trashed them both...

[eilif]

if you use a game port to usb adaptor you can use the pedals by themselves and plug them into a different port, it will show up in control panel as a different joystick, thats how my adaptor works at least, its got 3 settings, if it doesnt work, plug a game port stick into the pedals and it should pop up. The Usb adaptor really smoothes things out too. Having an extra joystick handy can be usefull for misc commands. I have 4 sticks plugged in and responding in the control panel for the home made throttle system. Unfortunately they have some issues running together in ah, but in "another sim" it works great.

[wrag]

Originally posted by Mr No Name
you cannot mix gameport and USB... you can NOT do this.

How odd........ cause I am.  Using a F16 fighterstick and prothrottle USB with a old set of peds hooked to my old F16fighterstick analog.

Works fine.  Even got it working in IL2.

Someone said buy a gameport/USB converter from Radio Shack.  I've looked for the converter but they seem to be always out of stock

[wetrat]

Originally posted by wrag
Someone said buy a gameport/USB converter from Radio Shack.  I've looked for the converter but they seem to be always out of stock

You should grab that kind of stuff off ebay