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Offline Nifty

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any chance of input axes for trim?
« on: April 15, 2003, 05:16:25 PM »
it'd be very spiffy if I could assign a rotary axis (or any axis) on my HOTAS to elevator and aileron trim controls in Aces High.  I know this has been asked for in the past, but I recently was able to experience trim axes in IL-2: FB, and it was very nice.  

maybe this is going to be a feature in AH II?  :)
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Offline Chairboy

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« Reply #1 on: April 15, 2003, 05:21:10 PM »
Seconded!  My Saitek X-45 has two knobs that are begging to be used for something good in AH.
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Offline JB73

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« Reply #2 on: April 15, 2003, 07:12:33 PM »
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Seconded!  My Saitek X-45 has two knobs that are begging to be used for something good in AH.
my X45 allready does do trim

you have to split up the rotary into 3 bands then space them evenly....
make the middle do nothing and the outter 2 do "k" and "i" or something.
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Offline fffreeze220

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« Reply #3 on: April 15, 2003, 11:19:11 PM »
what JB73 said.
Works fine
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Offline Xjazz

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any chance of input axes for trim?
« Reply #4 on: April 16, 2003, 01:49:47 AM »
Hi,

I think Nifty is speaking about true analog trim, like its work in IL2.
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Offline Urchin

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« Reply #5 on: April 16, 2003, 09:41:38 AM »
Ditto... have mine set up the same way as JB73, except mine arent split evenly.  I went like 40/20/40 with my bands.
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Offline rshubert

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« Reply #6 on: April 21, 2003, 09:52:56 AM »
What OS are you using and what version of the saitek drivers?  I can't even access my rotaries with XP, and would like to.

Thanks for any info.
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« Reply #7 on: April 21, 2003, 10:26:39 AM »
Windows XP Pro, and I'm just using the OS drivers from Microsoft for it: 5.1.2600.1106.
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Offline JB73

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Re: X45 question
« Reply #8 on: April 21, 2003, 11:42:34 AM »
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What OS are you using and what version of the saitek drivers?  I can't even access my rotaries with XP, and would like to.

Thanks for any info.
you need to have the updated drivers for XP.... ill let my CO JB42 know you looking .. he'll post here prolly (Im runnin 98se V1.02 x45 drivers)
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Offline JB73

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Re: X45 question
« Reply #9 on: April 21, 2003, 11:42:36 AM »
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What OS are you using and what version of the saitek drivers?  I can't even access my rotaries with XP, and would like to.

Thanks for any info.
you need to have the updated drivers for XP.... ill let my CO JB42 know you looking .. he'll post here prolly (Im runnin 98se V1.02 x45 drivers)
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Offline rshubert

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« Reply #10 on: April 21, 2003, 01:39:41 PM »
Thanks.  I would really appreciate it.
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Offline seabat

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« Reply #11 on: April 21, 2003, 02:12:08 PM »
By the way,  if your computer goes wacky one day, check to see if your x45 rotaries are in the middle band or not.

Wasted 3 hours one day trying to figure out what was sending signals to my computer.
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Re: any chance of input axes for trim?
« Reply #12 on: April 21, 2003, 02:50:18 PM »
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Originally posted by Nifty
it'd be very spiffy if I could assign a rotary axis (or any axis) on my HOTAS to elevator and aileron trim controls in Aces High.  I know this has been asked for in the past, but I recently was able to experience trim axes in IL-2: FB, and it was very nice.  

maybe this is going to be a feature in AH II?  :)



This was brought up to HT a while back and he was pretty receptive but had some issues regarding autopilot in that turning it off would effectively put your plane back to the analog settings which could be way out of trim.

I have no idea what he ultimately decided.
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« Reply #13 on: April 21, 2003, 03:16:04 PM »
All you guys running Saitek...how did y'all ever get the silly thing calibrated?? I gave up on AH after about 2 months after years of FR Air Warrior cuz I couldn't get my stick to calibrate well enough that I could be competitive with everyone else. Fun value was almost non-existent.

In short, I got tired of gettin' dead every time I took the plane from the horizontal. :)

Also, mine is the USB/analog model. Does anyone else have this problem?
Setup and cal stick under Win2k, everything fine. Reboot machine at some point, have to unplug stick and reattach for Win2k to see it again.
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« Reply #14 on: April 21, 2003, 05:50:48 PM »
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Originally posted by AWLysol
All you guys running Saitek...how did y'all ever get the silly thing calibrated?? I gave up on AH after about 2 months after years of FR Air Warrior cuz I couldn't get my stick to calibrate well enough that I could be competitive with everyone else. Fun value was almost non-existent.

In short, I got tired of gettin' dead every time I took the plane from the horizontal. :)

Also, mine is the USB/analog model. Does anyone else have this problem?
Setup and cal stick under Win2k, everything fine. Reboot machine at some point, have to unplug stick and reattach for Win2k to see it again.
you also need the win 2K / XP drivers .. (they are both based on the same kernel)

that should fix it
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