Is the force strong with Virpil?

[Drano]

Yo Drano!  You should get back here.  Your pretty girls are all grown up.

- oldman

How's it going old friend! Yeah those girls did grow up. Can't believe we're this old already! Have 4 grandsons now, 6,4,3 and 1. They really keep us running! I haven't logged into the game in a couple of years now other than to see if my controls were still working with it so I could fly in TC's memorial flight. Then my father in law passed, so I had to miss that. Had continued to sub all this time but my most recent CC has expired. I don't think I'll be renewing. My jam was events and when they're down to like 35 guys a side, that's not for me. I do miss what used to be this game and I'll always remember it.

Dabbled with IL2 for a bit but never caught on. It had a P-38 so I had to. I hardly fly in anything anymore but when I am these days it's in MSFS24 flying GA planes (Comanche. Bonanza and Baron--I do have most of the Flying Iron warbirds including their 38--really nice) sightseeing and playing with the nav aids. Flying in weather, clouds and at night using the instruments is fun when you don't have to actually worry about hitting the ground! I haven't even fired up the PC in over a week and have a lot of crap to update before I even fly that now that there's a new version out!

I'd "un-retired" a few years back after trying it for a year because I was not ready at that point in my life to not have to be somewhere and dealing with people I guess. I was bored. Wanted to be busy. Well I certainly have that now. Between work and the grandkids and whatever else my women have planned for me, I don't have much time for anything else. I am however, old enough to where that crap tires me out and I'll crash at night a lot earlier than I ever used to! That does impact watching Dodgers games from my side of the country tho.

Hope all is well with you and yours!

[AKIron]

Brother got his stick today. Now we gotta make him a base.

[SIK1]

Brother got his stick today. Now we gotta make him a base.

Sweet   

[Mayhem]

Looks like Virpil is taking pre-orders on their Atlas and Atlas Pro Force Feedback bases.

https://virpil-controls.us.com/shop/force-feedback

While it looks cool that is a lot of money to lay down on a "What If". Me personally I'm not going to order until I see real world end user reviews. The Virpil FF base is between a Moza and Brenner in price. Both Brenner and Moza are compatible with some virpil grips including my CM2 stick.

On that note if you are a winwing/winctrl user they also have a Force Feedback base on the way.

[steely07]

Just a word of warning, and may only apply to my situation, I recently purchased the Brunner FFB-G (https://shop.brunner-simulation.ch/ffb-g-joystick/) and while it works a treat with my other sims, and with AH offline, unfortunately I can't use it in the MA or SEA1 because of the old 10 min stutter/freeze, if I'm not manouvering when the stutter happens, I'm fine, but if I am, the stick loses connection to the game and locks the game up, I don't know if this will apply to the new Virpil and FFBeast sticks, I hope not, but I'm going back to my Warbrd base for AH so I can actually play.

Salute

Steely

[AKIron]

That sure sounds like a USB polling issue to me.

[steely07]

yep, exactly what I suspect also, it's fine for multi hour sessions in DCS and MSFS, it's fine offline, and for 2 hour bomber missions in the MA, if i'm not manouvering when the stutter happens, I'm fine, but it's ruined 2 FSO's in a row now, just waiting on monstertech mounts for the Warbrd so I can enjoy the last frame

[Animl-AW]

yep, exactly what I suspect also, it's fine for multi hour sessions in DCS and MSFS, it's fine offline, and for 2 hour bomber missions in the MA, if i'm not manouvering when the stutter happens, I'm fine, but it's ruined 2 FSO's in a row now, just waiting on monstertech mounts for the Warbrd so I can enjoy the last frame

Maybe I’ve been missing something, unless using VR, why not just use DX9? I get zero stutters. 11 is only meant for VR, I see no complaints from VR users.

I know, a beaten path subject

[steely07]

DX9 is a good point, and would be a solution, but it feels like I'm compromising and making allowances where I shouldn't have to, working around a fixable issue where I shouldn't have to.

To be honest, the AH FFB while fine, is pretty limited, there's only 5 sliders you can adjust, and as you have to set your stick to directx mode so AH can output forces, you miss out on all the extra tweaking you can do in software for say MSFS or DCS, so I'll just swap sticks when I play the other sims, the monstertech mounts make that pretty easy, just 2 bolts to remove the stick on it's baseplate and swap the other one in.