Wastel,
I bought a separate CH game card and ALOT of my CH stick probs went away, I can't address the hat/coolie prob. since I never had that problem, My fighter stick is programmable so I can assign any view to them, but the slight spiking I had disappeared.
One note about CH stuff and AH, make SURE you run the CH application to center your JS, then run the Wincenter that comes with CH products, then run AH JS routine. If you do it in any other order, you may get undesired results.\
I can't express to you enough how a FIGHTER stick is so much better than a Combat stick when flying this particular sim, you need 16 views programmed into the multiple hats of a fighter stick for top notch combat awareness...it's worth the $89.00!!
Good luck!
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Brian "Ripsnort" Nelson
++JG2++ ~Richthofen~
(Formerly VF-101 Grim Reapers~Defected~)
"There is no reason anyone would
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Ken Olson, president, chairman and
founder of Digital Equipment Corp.,1977