HOW TO INSTALL THE HOTAS COUGAR FIRMWARE / SOFTWARE ON WINDOWS 7, 64 BIT
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Hey man Bushmaster78FS… long time no see… were have u gone?
Unfortunately I don’t have any news on the issue.
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Hey man Bushmaster78FS… long time no see… were have u gone?
Unfortunately I don’t have any news on the issue.
I’m still around. I was busy with school and flight instructor training. Hope all is well.
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May I ask in case of windows 10 64bit and a cougar with old firmware, how do we update the firmware?
EDIT: Updater stays on the press trigger stage and waits there for ever.
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If you dont want a half baked eprom , dont push your luck Arty…
Do it from Win7(x86/x64) !!! … I’ve even tried from Win8.1 once , and gave up. I don’t want to even think about programming firmware from Win10.
Virtual machine (vmware) with Win7 could even work ok… Even Foxy’s DirectX axis test works, which dont work in win8.1… But flashing directly from Win10… I dont think so.
Cheers
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If you dont want a half baked eprom , dont push your luck Arty…
Do it from Win7(x86/x64) !!! … I’ve even tried from Win8.1 once , and gave up. I don’t want to even think about programming firmware from Win10.
Virtual machine (vmware) with Win7 could even work ok… Even Foxy’s DirectX axis test works, which dont work in win8.1… But flashing directly from Win10… I dont think so.
Cheers
Would it be possible to program it on an old laptop with Win7 or WinXP and then plug it in on Win10?
I bought my Cougar in 2006 and since Win7 I never tried to program it.
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Would it be possible to program it on an old laptop with Win7 or WinXP and then plug it in on Win10?
I bought my Cougar in 2006 and since Win7 I never tried to program it.
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I’m not sure but when I had issues when win764 came out and till the cubpilots solution came out I remember I used my xp install to flash and then go back to win7 and it was working fine.
So I guess it will be ok.
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I’m not sure but when I had issues when win764 came out and till the cubpilots solution came out I remember I used my xp install to flash and then go back to win7 and it was working fine.
So I guess it will be ok.
I have a couple of old laptops laying around. That’s gotta do it. Otherwise BMS works fine with Win10 at the moment.
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Would it be possible to program it on an old laptop with Win7 or WinXP and then plug it in on Win10?
I bought my Cougar in 2006 and since Win7 I never tried to program it.
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It was designed for XP and below… '98… Vista stuff and drivers package came after. So, Yes
Only thing that You’ll have to manual calibrate the stick on Win10 system. , so, minimum install vista driver package, ‘HOTAS Config’ etc…
One other thing I’ve noticed after Win10 Spring 1803 update ,… after any system restart or shutdown (NOT hibernate or standby) , my HOTAS IN and OUT in device manger have to be removed and driver reinstalled or
HOTAS Config looses write to stick .
After driver reinstall it works normally … ah feckin Win10… have some problems with ‘gaming’ controllers , just google for XBOX controllers. They even break system to bsod… geeee. that’s so cool os.I’ve made custom batch script when I notice that stick lost programming input , so it removes device , rescan system, and install selected devices.
\sysinternals\DEVCON remove "USB\VID_044F&PID_0400&MI_04*" \sysinternals\DEVCON remove "USB\VID_044F&PID_0400&MI_03*" \sysinternals\DEVCON rescan \sysinternals\DEVCON install "USB\VID_044F&PID_0400&MI_03*" \sysinternals\DEVCON install "USB\VID_044F&PID_0400&MI_04*"
Good luck.
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Thanks man, I will have to get back to you as I have no idea where to start at the moment. When I first got the HOTAS 12 years ago, I remember flashing it with new firmware I want to say but never used it to its full potential as there was no BMS around etc. What I would need is a beginner guide as if I just bought the HOTAS today and start from scratch.
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So my brothers what’s the verdict on getting the Cougar going with w10/64?
Oh and is it still advisable to unplug the TQS when firmware flahing?
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Moooowwwaaaaa what’s up man? This is probably the only thread I have been following. I recently upgraded to an 8700K and an RTX2070 so I was just going to install and do a little FPS check but dude, not knowing how Cougar is going to react to newer windows have always haunted me. I think at this point, it will be just a plug and play kind of thing with many functions missing. I can’t believe I got mine in 2006 and it probably has no more than 1 hour flight time on it. So let me know how you figure this out LOL
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Roger that Brother Bushy.
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I’m not 100% sure what’s going on in this thread, but I’m using my Cougar w/ Foxy in Win 10 Pro 64-bit. I don’t remember all the details of the installation, it’s always been a PITA, but at some point I had to go back to the XP machine to reflash. No trouble since I got it running.
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Buzz, remind me what flashing was… I remember flashing it with some kind of firmware back in 2006 when we all had XP, but you are talking about uploading macros, correct? I have a laptop I am going to dual boot with Win7 soon, maybe that would help.
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but you are talking about uploading macros, correct?
No, I meant reflashing the firmware. There might have been a better way, but that’s how I got mine going.
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I do remember doing a firmware update back in late 2006 but that is about it, I don’t know if there were more firmware updates after that. I thought you had to have access to an older OS computer to be able to program the buttons as well. I just gotta try the Win 7 64 bit guide and see how far I can go. Thanks man.
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No, macros/buttons programming and re-flashing firmware are not the same thing.
Maybe even you won’t have to flash the firmware, …if… it all goes well, … just do usual 2007HCOVista (64?bit) install with Foxy…
There is a newer soft from Thrustmaster “Target” but honestly I’ve never used it and don’t know how it plays with Cougar.About programming your stick , win10x64 should work , I don’t have any problem there aside some proggies for stick testing are not working anymore, dx8 axis and buttons test…
, but there are other utilities which are good enough … eg .“DIView” … you can test everything with it , dx buttons , keyboard macros … axis.Flashing, on the other hand, is probably best to do from winXp , win7 machine … you can even try from virtual machine vbox or other with winxp/7 client. … but. I’m not sure if I would try
Programming the Cougar works fine even in virtual machine with win7, I’ve tried , there is no any problem… but like I’ve said flashing is another business.There is no way that you’ll run winxp on new hardware so it is best to use some old computer with winxp/
Cheers
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Flashing the Cougar BIOS…there’s been no updates for at least 10 years. In my case I had last flashed it around that time so there’s no advantage comensurate with the risk.
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I have not been able to install Hotas Cougar, on Windows 7 64bit ultimate yet.
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Look at the hotlist. Its easy.
Now since u might have things fubared, (i did it also) clean up things, this means registry also.
Find and erase all reference to cougar software, yeap hard.
Then restart, follow the guide strictly and ull be fine.Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-T818A using Tapatalk
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White Fang, how do we check what firmware we have on the Cougar? I am sure everyone has to be on the same page on that!