GAME COMMANDER 2

[1776]

Anyone out there using the Free trial version of this add-on?  

How do you like it?  Need to hear some feed-back out this, Thanks

[prz]

it is cool, causes however fine warping on my PC and that ruins my gunnery so I gave it up. I was too lazy to train it well but after I ended up saying "guns" and it understood "gear" coiuple of times (which obviously didn't bode well to the gun solution I was pursuiting ;-) I shoved it as well.

I used it couple other things (Combat Mission) and if trained well, it's a good thing.

Oh last: it sometimes picks up your heavy breathing (here comes the gun-solution situation again ;-) and does interesting but mostly unpleasant stuff ;-)

[band]

I use it and like it. I set it up to only accept commands when I press a transmit key so I don't have it picking up sounds from RW and doing things I don't want. I never noticed any warping on my system.

[1776]

Do You have it set up for views?  How did ya do it?

[band]

It doesn't work well for views and I don't think it was meant to. It does better for things like gear, flaps and selecting weapons. My favorite use for it is  to move to different gunner positions when buffing. I set it up so when flying a B-17 if I say "17 top" I go to top gunner "17 bottom" to bottom and so on. I can watch a con and see where he's going and man that gun without having to think about which key gets me to which gun or looking down to hit the key. I think in the trial version it will only enter commands that use one keystroke. With the full version you can use it for commands that take multiple keys to execute like radio 2 "/shift"or autopilot climb "alt x". It is best to keep commands simple so instead of saying autopilot climb just say climb. Just get the trial version and see what you think.

[DrSoya]

Band is the one that made me adopt it.  

I couldn't do without GameCommander now. I use it as Band describes; it is best to use a push button instead of having it continually on. When I installed it first I had the flu, and sometimes during fits of coughing my gear would retract at the worst possible moment.  

Like Band, I haven't noticed warping either.

I use GameCommander for pretty much of everything that doesn't go on my stick and throttle buttons:

• quick buffer-based 6 calls on channel 4 for non RW-capable squaddies and other text responses like "busy", "rgr" and "wtg" (I say "way to go 1" for channel 1, "way to go 2" for channel 2 etc.). I even programmed voice commands to change channel 5 without touching the keyboard.    ("tune rogerwilco" will type .radio 5 in the buffer and I programmed a voice command for each digit)
  
  
• plane controls like hook, dive flaps (I only say "Dive"), engine, damage display, fuel cell selector, WEP, doors
• game controls like ground clutter ("clutter"), squad highlighting, exernal/internal views in buffs, autopilot ("climb", "level", "angle"), .ef, icon setting

It is best to keep the voice commands short. There are some cases where two words sound too similar, so I change one; for example I could not get "clipboard" to display the clipboard, so I programmed "menu" instead.

It still happens that GC doesn't recognize correctly my commands (when I'm excited for example  ), but not often enough for me to ditch the program.

As for the views, I use GC only to switch between gunner, bombsight and cockpit positions and for toggling external/internal view in a buff.

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DrSoya
308 (Polish) Squadron "City of Cracow" RAF
Part of the Northolt Wing (First Polish Fighter Wing)

[1776]

Is it possible you could post your GC2 profiles here or e-mail to me?

Thanks in advance.

[DrSoya]

Sure. Mine is here.

Note that I had to "train" (i.e. record my own version of the sounds) the "Clipboard" and B26 views commands because GameCommander sometimes has some problems with my French accent.  

It's just a matter of checking "Default" voice input instead of "Voice training" to the default.

Note that with the trial version, you're limited to 5 commands, I think, and they are limited to 1 keystroke action.

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DrSoya
308 (Polish) Squadron "City of Cracow" RAF
Part of the Northolt Wing (First Polish Fighter Wing)