HOTAS Cougar on Win 8.1 questions

[Karnak]

Does anybody know a way to get the HOTAS Cougar to work on Win 8.1?  I am not finding Win 8 drivers for it.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Does anybody know a way to get the HOTAS Cougar to work on Win 8.1?  I am not finding Win 8 drivers for it.

Have you tried Win7 drivers already?

[Karnak]

Not yet.  I've been told Win 7 drivers are not directly compatible with Win 8.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Not yet.  I've been told Win 7 drivers are not directly compatible with Win 8.

Sometimes they work though.

[Bizman]

What Ripley said. Find the newest drivers for Win7 and make sure they are for the same bit depth. Some drivers are made so generic they work with a great variety of operating systems. After all, joysticks are quite simple devices, they don't need very complicated drivers. Before trying, create a restore point just in case...

[Karnak]

Got it working last night using a combination of Win7 drivers, Win Vista software and a DLL that the CCP said it needed and I found using google, but no idea which OS that DLL was for.

[Bizman]

Software? Ummm, 'kay... Is it for programming more functions for the Cougar? I have always been in the belief that the drivers should give the basic functionality for any stick, namely the axis and buttons.

Anyway, nice to read you've got it working.

[Randy1]

Got it working last night using a combination of Win7 drivers, Win Vista software and a DLL that the CCP said it needed and I found using google, but no idea which OS that DLL was for.

Be sure and try the TARGET software.  Easy to use and very powerful.  Do auto functions like salvos, bomb calibration, bailing out, switching Vox channels, end sortie and so on.  You can program it too to have three different layers.

[Karnak]

Be sure and try the TARGET software.  Easy to use and very powerful.  Do auto functions like salvos, bomb calibration, bailing out, switching Vox channels, end sortie and so on.  You can program it too to have three different layers.

I did get the TARGET software as part of my attempts, but it really doesn't look like it does anything.  I couldn't load my files with it and Foxy couldn't use it to upload my joystick file.

I am pretty comfortable using Foxy to write configs so unless I get a Warthog I don't think TARGET will be very useful to me.  I certainly wouldn't want to try to recreate my complex AH config in it.