Microsoft Prescion Pro 2

[CobraEye]

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Oh boy where do I start.  

This is one incredible game.  Like most people here I have been flying WWII flight sims since I got my first computer.  In nearly all of the other flight sims I have played, gunnery was tricky to learn at first, but once you had learned to shoot in one the next was much easier and faster to learn.  

I 'think' I understand the basics of air combat gunnery, but something is definately wrong.  Either I just flat out can't shoot or I have something set up wrong.  I have tried adjusting the slider bars in the joystick setup in AH and still when I finally manage to saddle up on another plane's six at just about any range as soon as I start firing....all *&^% breaks loose.  I seem to be over correcting horribly and my shots fly wildy out of control and off target.  Is anyone else using a microsoft prescion pro 2 stick that could give me some advice of the setting levels. I think I need this thing tamed WAY down until I get more used to AH and its flight modeling.  

Thanks a bunch.

Many more post to follow.

CobraEye

[Lephturn]

Yep, I use one, and have used a Sidewinder 3D Pro for years before that.

Now, if I give you MY settings, that may not fix your problems.  Lets get a handle on the problem first... what settings are you using now?  What does your pitch scaling look like?  Go offline and shoot at the drones... do you have the same problems?  Are you sawing up and down and over-correcting?  What is your convergence set at?

Give me a bit more info to work with and we'll get you sorted out.  No worries.  

[CobraEye]

Yep sawing up and down and over correcting are exactly the problems I am having.  I am being as gentle with the stick as I can, but I still seem to waste a heck of a lot of ammo.

As for scaling I was using the standard scaling until late last night when I tried tinkering with it and made it more and more logrithmic.

I can't seem to tame this thing down.  I know once I get more practice at gunnery and not quite so ham fisted with the stick things should become a lot easier.  As for the offline drones I shot them to pieces for a day solid, but online either my adrenaline is up and I am hammering the stick (dont think this is the case) or I have this stick way too sensitive.  I tried upping the dampening to 50% on all axes and that seemed to make over correction WAY bad.

Tried convergence at the standard 250 out to 500.  Currently I am at 400 I think.  I can get the nose pointed correctly but once i try to walk the tracers in on the aircraft at any range the nose is balooning all over the place, and as a result the tracers do the same.

CobraEye

[ 10-30-2001: Message edited by: CobraEye ]