-Ice's Falcon BMS Helios Profile Updated!
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After re-installing, everything looks like it’s going to work… Then I launch BMS and Helios shifts… I’m seriously about to pull my hair out. Like I stated above I’ve had Helios stay aligned twice when launching BMS even though the touch pad didn’t work. Could it be that I’m using a 4K TV and the resolution is too high for the touch screen monitor? MFDE works beautifully though so if all else fails I’ll put my Cougar MFD’s over a screen and use a G13 for the ICP.
The first pic is before launching BMS the second is after launch…. Help?
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what if you launch bms in windowed modus ?
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I haven’t tried yet. Pretty much everything is grayed out in Helios for me and not clickable. How would I go in to windows mode? Any help is appreciated.
BTW, I WILL DONATE TO WHOMEVER HELPS ME FIX THIS!
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do you have a link to your helios profile ?
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Your problem is that your monitors are sideways
Note that when playing in FULLSCREEN mode (“Cockpit Displays to External Windows” is NOT checked), the 2D screen will fill your entire monitor but the forced-change of resolution will kick the Helios display out of whack. Don’t worry about this, Helios will return aligned once you’re in 3D cockpit. When playing in WINDOWED mode (“Cockpit Displays to External Windows” is checked), the 2D screen will only display in the corner of your monitor and Helios will not be mis-aligned.
So test this way –- DO NOT mind where Helios is on the 2D screen (game menus). Check if Helios is aligned once you are in the 3D cockpit.
Hope that helps!
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Thanks for the tip Ice. However, Helios goes completely away when I enter the sim. MFDE is still running but Helios isn’t. I honestly think it’s the fact I’m running a 4K TV/Monitor with a 1900x1100? Touchscreen. I have a an older 42" Phillips TV I’ve used before that’s only 1080P. I’ll try it tomorrow. Like I said in an earlier post, Helios has worked in game twice. The buttons didn’t function but it was lined up and looked amazing. Whatever is wrong is on my end and I’ll fix it. Thanks for all the help gentlemen.
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Like I said, when BMS forces the main screen down to a lower resolution (1024?), it has the effect of kicking out the rest of the picture to the right but once you’re in the 3D cockpit, the main screen returns to it’s original resolution and it should bring Helios back into the picture.
Another thing to try is to swap monitors so that your main screen is on the right-most and everything else is on the left. Remember, you’ll have to re-adjust your monitor layout in Helios as well if you do this.
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Ok, getting closer but for a couple things. My key presses still do not line up and the sim is skewed to the right in windows mode.
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Everything is lined up but the key presses still show up on the main display. I’ve gone in to display options but I can’t get it to keep the key presses in the touch screen… Win10Pro. Almost there!@!@!
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Found it and calibrated! OK when pushing the buttons my keystrokes aren’t showing so I’m assuming I need to put my .key profile somewhere?
(EDIT) Ok I found where to point Helios to my .key file and have done so but still no joy on getting a response from BMS when pressing a key. This is where I put in the path to my .key profile…. Is it right? Also I have verified that my touch screen is working and calibrated. I can see a white dot when I press the buttons on the ICP.
Ignore the text file.
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After looking at all the posts again am I to understand that Ice’s profile will not work for BMS 4.33_2? If so I’ll have to figure out how to change monitor 1 to 2 in Weepop’s. When I look at the profile in notepad I only see Monitor. Not Monitor 1 or 2.
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After more experimenting when the profile is running I can use the mouse and click on a button and it works. However when I use the screen it doesn’t work. I can see that I’m touching the button but the buttons don’t behave visually the same. IE, when using the mouse I can see the sequence toggle on the ICP move up, down, left or right. Not so when using the touch screen. Any ideas?
Thanks,
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Wicked
With your mouse pointer on your top screen - the one that doesn’t have the ICE Helios profile running - when you touch on one of the switches or buttons on the Helios screen does you mouse pointer disappear from the top screen?
Do this while you have your desk top on the non Helios screen so you are not in BMS. If your mouse pointer stays on the desk top screen your touch screen is not working as a touch screen.
If you pointer disappears from your desk top when you click on a Helios button - close Helios and drag a desk top icon to the screen Helios was on using you mouse pointer then using you finger double tap on the dragged icon after you have moved your mouse pointer off the icon and see if it activates the icon as it would if you used you mouse to click or double click it.
Let me know how you get on - just trying to eliminate the obvious before we try anything else ;0)
Ironman
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Thanks for the help Ironman! I have it working now by making the touch screen my main display even though it is monitor 2. However, the sim will not go full res. I had to set my 4K monitor to 1920 x 1080 to be able to get a large enough picture to be able to fly. I’m not sure if it can be fixed because when I reset monitor 1 back to main display the touch screen stops functioning.
This is what it looks like when I run monitor 1 at its native resolution with monitor 2 (touch screen) set as main display.
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Wicked, can you skype?
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OMG, so many posts…. I’ll see if I can work through it all…
First things first…
My Helios profile should work with 4.33, U1, and U2. Otherwise, there’d be more people complaining about it not working.Second, Helios should work fine whether you are playing fullscreen or -windowed mode… although you’ll lose framerates if playing in -windowed mode. Get MFDE or better yet, YAME64 and play in fullscreen mode all the time!
Third, make sure your touchscreen is recognized as a touchscreen and that you’ve calibrated it. To do this, go to CONTROL PANEL - TABLET PC SETTINGS - DISPLAY - CONFIGURE and click the Setup button. After that, click the Calibrate button below it. Save your calibrations. You’ve just told Windows which of your screens is the touchscreen and you’ve calibrated it. To check, drag an icon onto your touchscreen… doesn’t matter which icon. Let’s say is a MS Word icon. Double-click on it on your touchscreen USING YOUR FINGER. If MS Word opens, then you’re all set. If it does not open and you see your cursor on your other screen, you’ve just failed miserably. Start again.
Fourth, make sure you’re using MY .key file. Your screenshot shows you using Wathog_DX-4_33_2.key and that won’t work at all. At best, you’ll get patchy results. Use my .key file.
I hope that explains everything. I think you using the wrong .key file is your biggest boo-boo so far. Set your big screen as your main screen, follow the instructions above, and tell us what happens next.
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This will be my last post since you’ve so generously offered to help me on skype!
My touch panel is set up and calibrated. It works fine when opening programs, scrolling through posts and everything,“when NOT set as the main display”. It isn’t until I try and use it with Helios that it doesn’t activate the buttons. I can see on the touch screen that I’m pressing in a certain location as it highlights and shows a white dot. However it does not activate the switches on the Helios profile. Only when the touch screen is set to main display does it work.
I have used your .key and it had no effect when the touch screen is not set to main display. Also as long as it is set to main display the WH.key you saw works like a champ and gives me all the Morphine profile settings for my WH and activates all the Helios switches. Blah! Lol I’ll chat with you tomorrow.
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FIXED!!! The size of text and apps had to be the same at 175% for both monitors. A week and a half to get this working lol. Thanks for the help Ice and everyone else!
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You upped the size of text and stuff and that messed up Helios? Very odd, but I think I can see the connection.
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I think both screens had to have the text and icon sizes the same in order for the screen to align with where the computer thinks the Helios graphic is??? Lol I don’t know, I’m just happy it work!