Cougar stopped working. Got any ideas?
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I can’t believe that nobody has anything to offer on this. Has the Cougar fallen so out of favor that nobody cares or remembers it anymore?
The reason I want to get this back up and running is because I feel the itch…to fly my plane into a ditch! (You didn’t think I felt the need for speed, did you?)
And…it is (was) my fully configured HOTAS setup for flying across the galaxy in Elite:Dangerous. Without it working there’s literally no reason to even load up ED.
I had it set up for completely hands-on-throttle-and-stick operation of the entire game. Never had to touch the keyboard other than to launch and type text messages.
If my config files are lost, it’ll literally take days to rebuild them but first I need to get the Cougar to be recognized as a USB device in-game.
Device Manager sees it as working normally. But no game or Thrustmaster utility programs are seeing it. Except that I can reload the firmware. I can’t find it with the analyzer. I can’t load profiles to it. But it’s sort of there.
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Just upgrade to an x52 which is what I use
(jk)
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Send Maverick and Goose instead.
(same)
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did you clean the memory off the stick ? pulled the usb out , restarted windows and plugged the usb back in with trigger hold in for a while ?
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Wipe the cougar,
unplug it,
hold down the trigger while you plug it back in.
Reflash the cougar through the thrustmaster contol panel. -
I got it working. The Cougar draws kind of a lot of power for a USB device and found that USB power consumption was an issue. By disconnecting other devices and moving the Cougar to a diferent USB port right on the motherboard, that problem was solved.
And so now I have ANOTHER problem now that the HOTAS is working: The calibration routine in FOXY isn’t even launching so I can’t calibrate it!
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Sorry, I use the CCP and have never used Foxy, so can’y help with the calibrations.
Anyway, glad you made some progress and it’s not bricked.
Edit: I’m assuming you uninstalled and reinstalled all the drivers and software…or at least in device manager scanned for hardware changes?
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I have always used the Thrustmaster control panel to calibrate the Cougar.
Just recently I set up my Cougar on a Windows 10 machine from scratch using the procedure described in this document.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FVKJskU90AJJFT3EC74gYYPEctr1bnt3rHYzdQ9ITTc/edit?usp=sharingNo issues.
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I found the issue and fixed it. There was a missing .dll file. I copied it from its location and pasted it to where it should have gone.
I learned this from this thread, and using its instructions fixed the problem.
https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=181049
Full functionality restored.
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Glad you got it working. CCP would’ve given you an error message about the missing file. I remember this from when I set mine up a few years back. I even got the fix from the same post you did.
Now GBOTS!
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And now that everything is working I can get back to flying in BMS, too. But I have to say, ED is the only thing I’ve played yet where it makes me wish the Cougar had MORE buttons on it.
It’s going to be weeks before I’ve got my configuration back to where I’ve got my workflow back.
I sure wish someone would come up with a simmer’s version of a JHMCS. A helmet mounted display with integrated head tracking would be simply awesme.