X52 Pro DX Profile for BMS 4.32
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Great profile. Simple and functional - Thanks. One question however: I am trying to use the slider for FOV control as you are, but my slider has enough noise that the view “throbs” at anything other than the min or max position. Extremely headache inducing. Do you or anyone else have this problem? This is a brand new stick for me, so I’m not quite sure what to expect.
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Great profile. Simple and functional - Thanks. One question however: I am trying to use the slider for FOV control as you are, but my slider has enough noise that the view “throbs” at anything other than the min or max position. Extremely headache inducing. Do you or anyone else have this problem? This is a brand new stick for me, so I’m not quite sure what to expect.
Yes. You can see it in the Saitek control panel …. the slider ‘shakes’.
Couple of things to try:
1. Set a small deadzone in the Saitek control panel
2. Set the FOV increments in the Falcon BMS Config file to 3 or 5 (something a little smaller than default)Even so, I sometimes have problems. I find that if I move the FOV just a little forward or back, I can find a stable spot. It’s problem with the stick (as demonstrated by the seeing it in the Saitek control panel), not an issue with the profile. I had the same thing on the X52 and the X52 Pro with other profiles.
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Thanks for the suggestions. I tried changing the FOV increment value in the config file, but that had no effect. I’m guessing that only applies to keyboard control of FOV. Putting a dead zone in the middle 1/3 of the slider sort of works. It basically turns the slider into a three position switch (near, mid, far), but it keeps it from shaking in the center region where the problem was worst. I have only had this stick for a few days, but I can’t say I am impressed with slider or mouse cursor nub. Both are very noisy.
I am having one other problem with this profile. Well, I think it is a problem. When I depress the pinky switch the button stays asserted even after I release the switch. When I depress the switch again, the button stops asserting. All the shifted functions do work correctly when the pinky switch is in its asserted state. I am using your key and profile files without any modifications. Is this the intended behavior? I was expecting that using shifted functions would require the pinky switch to be held down, and when released it would go back to unshifted functions.
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I am having one other problem with this profile. Well, I think it is a problem. When I depress the pinky switch the button stays asserted even after I release the switch. When I depress the switch again, the button stops asserting. All the shifted functions do work correctly when the pinky switch is in its asserted state. I am using your key and profile files without any modifications. Is this the intended behavior? I was expecting that using shifted functions would require the pinky switch to be held down, and when released it would go back to unshifted functions.It’s neither intended nor unintended. It’s just the way it happened, not the result of planning.
I had assumed the pinky switch would be momentary (had to be held), but when I applied the DX command and used it, it was an on-off-on switch. I just assumed that was how it was ‘supposed’ to be.
Maybe someone with a DX ‘pinky shift layer’ on another application would be able to say if it’s the same there.
Edit:
See this post to ‘fix’ the Pinky key: https://www.benchmarksims.org/forum/showthread.php?18522-X52-Pro-DX-Profile&p=311975&viewfull=1#post311975
Open the Saitek profile in the Saitek SST software. Find the Pinky button line. Choose the > to get the command menu. Deselect ‘Latched’. Save the profile.
Pinky key should work as expected …. short press = FOV/Zoom on SOI; Long Press (and hold) = Shifted Layer DX Commands; Release reverts to unshifted DX command layer.
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Thanks for the clarification. Either way, it is still a great profile.
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Very nice work. Have you modified Kolbe’s original excel file to include the X52-Pro (or is there an updated version of it)? I started modifying it myself to include the Pro (bitmaps, DX keys etc…)
By the way, the ‘I’ button is DX:30 not DX:29.
Cheers.
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Very nice work. Have you modified Kolbe’s original excel file to include the X52-Pro (or is there an updated version of it)? I started modifying it myself to include the Pro (bitmaps, DX keys etc…)
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Yes, in the zip file linked above, Kolbe’s sheet is modified for the X52 Pro …. pictures, DX button numbers, etc. I have had PM with Kolbe and he has updated/added numerous other controllers, including the X52 Pro. Those will be included in some future release of his spreadsheet.
…. By the way, the ‘I’ button is DX:30 not DX:29.
Cheers.
Got it. It was in the picture only. Profile/script was correct. I’ve fixed the picture, but won’t be able to get the zip file updated right away.
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Ah Ok. I hadn’t downloaded that zip yet, was just looking at the key code section above. Will download it. Good work!
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Thanks for this profile. I am finding the Saitek software very frustrating in this sim as well as FSX. Profiles just disappear.
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Hello. I apologize for my English, I write through an interpreter. Joystick Saitek X52pro. Problem: does not work DX Shift key. How to install HotasPinkyShiftMagnitude? If possible detail. Thank U.
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Hello. I apologize for my English, I write through an interpreter. Joystick Saitek X52pro. Problem: does not work DX Shift key. How to install HotasPinkyShiftMagnitude? If possible detail. Thank U.
In this profile the shift key works fine, but in an unintended way …. it is ‘on-off-on’ instead of momentary. I don’t not know why or how to make it momentary.
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I am having one other problem with this profile. Well, I think it is a problem. When I depress the pinky switch the button stays asserted even after I release the switch. When I depress the switch again, the button stops asserting. All the shifted functions do work correctly when the pinky switch is in its asserted state. I am using your key and profile files without any modifications. Is this the intended behavior? I was expecting that using shifted functions would require the pinky switch to be held down, and when released it would go back to unshifted functions.It’s neither intended nor unintended. It’s just the way it happened, not the result of planning.
I had assumed the pinky switch would be momentary (had to be held), but when I applied the DX command and used it, it was an on-off-on switch. I just assumed that was how it was ‘supposed’ to be.
Maybe someone with a DX ‘pinky shift layer’ on another application would be able to say if it’s the same there.
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i think its because in the sst the pinky switch is latched
i have used your profile as a template and have the pinky switch working as it should(quick press for expand or hold for shift)
the only changes to your profile i have made is MPOHOLD on button B and STEERPOINT NEXT & PREVIOUS on shifted T1&T2
A very good profile though thank you for sharing your work
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i think its because in the sst the pinky switch is latched ….
I’ll have to look at that. Thanks.
And thanks for your kind words.
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Have you found the problem yet
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i think its because in the sst the pinky switch is latched
i have used your profile as a template and have the pinky switch working as it should(quick press for expand or hold for shift)
….I’ll have to look at that. Thanks.
And thanks for your kind words.
Have you found the problem yet
Sorry, I’ve been out of town.
The pinky switch was ‘latched’ in the SST software. I’ve un-latched it (deselected) and will give it a try tomorrow.
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i think its because in the sst the pinky switch is latched
i have used your profile as a template and have the pinky switch working as it should(quick press for expand or hold for shift)
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Yes, ‘unlatching’ the pinky key works. The BMS pinky shift now works as it should …… short press = change FOV/Zoom for that SOI and long press (held) = DX shifted button layer. Releasing the pinky button reverts to the unshifted DX state.
This free’s up several keys for me now and I’ll have to think about how to re-assign them.
Thanks.