@Darkman:

Yes

Dunc_DX

Also without TrackIR?

Well from the left side u start from the correct point but from the right side not… U must match with the base of the instrument.
Also have in mind that the picture was taken from an angle also.
Should I recalibrate to find my exact position and measure the angle?
U want it from left or right side? Top or bottom?
:lol: just joking m8. It’s a low cost home pit… What u expect?

And in case u insist let me inform u I have a laser measurement system and if 6degrees are right I have another 6 degrees on the pc box which are laser and temperature and humidity measured 24/7 oh the sensors are on a ups that gives them 3 days of power in case of power failure :rofl:

I dont use a deadzone. The center seems to stay where it is, or at least, I cant tell that it moves except by checking the numbers.

Its not perfectly centered for me, but its close enough that I usually just fly out the error - or switch on autopilot.

Thanks Shadow, that fixed my problem. Your on target

If you load the game without loading target first, then the game will recognize every controller separately. Easy for beginners, but you loose the nice things target does for you. If you load a profile in Target first, then you will merely see Thrustmaster combined () axis for your joystick and throttle. Its better to do this. You can use the correct axis for joystick (x and Y), throttle (usually Z), and antenna elevation ®. Then select the microstick axis for your radar cursors.

The OG cougar feels like your flying an A-10 regarding stick feel. The axis response is best on a Warthog and 2nd best on an Uber2 modded Cougar stick, but for F-16 immersion the Cougar joystick/throttle cant be beat.

Mine was shipped 5 days ago. I hope there wasn’t a bad batch or run of them that slipped through. I highly doubt it, as their products are top notch.

@Blu3wolf:

Force sensing variants tend to not be so flappy 😛

Yessir, tis why I do so love my x65.

I have the Simped F-16 Rudder which connect with the Cougar stick. I recently install the Cougar hotas and the rudder isn’t anywhere… I made the manual calibration but there is nowhere… Any solutions please? Thank you in advance…

i calibrated my stick the other day.the faulty antenna pot gives me the slightest spike which enables me to calibrate it without an error message due to the faulty pot. However, when i turn on my computer I get the following message

“the data contained in the hardware does not match the calibration file. You cannot access the manual calibration.”

My stick works fine though and im able to calibrate it manually

By the looks of it, it isnt something grave however I would like some feedback from someone who knows those things

Thanks a priori

Yea they are.

Mantaray,

I gave that a shot and it worked! And after it was done, the center points are on the center detents. I also did another attempt at calibrating by moving the rotaries through the entire range and it still worked without giving me the error… very strange. But either way, my problem is solved.

Thanks!

Congrats ‘Waitiing XR145’!

Enjoy the cold steel feel 🙂 and get FSSB R3!
I got it but still cross thumbs for a successor… (for the TM I mean …)

Odd feeling to fly the best fighter sim with an oldtimer stick combo …

By manually editing the keyfile you can assign custom functions to the rocker switches,thus providing 16 extra functions. Like this:

SimStepComm2VolumeUp 54 8 -2 0 0x0 0 /where 54 is the Windows assigned rocker switch button number.

@Habu_:

Additional info about this problem. I believe the issue stems from the fact that Cougar predates 64 bit Windows, so the install software copies the STTubeDevice203.dll to the wrong folder. Solution is to copy it from the Cougar folder to C:\Windows\SysWOW64.

The 64 bit drivers for Vista should be used if you have a 64 bit system…not shuffling a 32 bit dll around.

This problem appears to be due to the sticks firmware becoming corrupted which can be corrected by forcing a reload of the firmware (look at Blu3Wolf’s PDF for how to do this). I’ve had to do this twice in 10+ years of using Cougars, no drama’s.

@Blu3wolf:

Dont these adapters all stop the throttle from working with the HOTAS Config program?

Yup,
Throttle then becomes standard DX device.

Well, that would be one way… you could reflash it, or you could put it in windows mode - which disables all the fancy emulation features that let it pretend to be a keyboard/mouse and whatnot.

Check your axis settings in the cougar control panel. Mine looks like this:

Uwe

@Ironman53rd:

Get a Saitek X65, force sensing, metal construction - solid.

Yep.

Hi!

Also here I want to post my decision 🙂
I decided for the Warthog.
Ordered yesterday, midday, recieved it today an hour ago. Connected the stick, connected it to the computer, started TrackIR, started F4-BMS…all fine! :woohoo:

One little note:
Yesterday (short to ordering the WH) I still had a look at ebay.de for a Cougar. And there was one offered for free with defective pods. Really for free! But I couldn’t bring myself to do it…(if ever I could get it). A good mod on the cougar is (AFAIK) ~ the same price as the Warthog and “everything” is oversea, and and and.

Yes, there is very very liitle tear in one eye, now. But I can live with it. Just from the first moment I started loving my new HOTAS, a Warthog.

And…, to the HOTAS-X, these are very different worlds!
With the HOTAS-X and flying curves I never was able to hold altitude and look around (with Track-IR!), never for more then a second. Now with this HOTAS…no problem.

Thanks to all for your replies!
Have a very good time on your HOTAS!
Greeting
Earlybite

Take a look here https://www.sendspace.com/file/p7bhn3

It is Sparta_DX.Key for Hotas Cougar. Sparta_DX.keys contain 3 files to be used depending on your hardware controllers
1α) sparta_DX_NR_NT.key 2α) sparta_DX_NR_Τ 3α) sparta_DX_R_T
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