Really REALLY late to the Cougar party!
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Quick question, as I don’t see it mentioned anywhere: have you calibrated your Cougar in the Cougar Control Panel (CCP)? Might solve the throttle and range knob issues.
Yes, I forgot to mention that I had attempted calibration of the controllers in CCP. When auto calibrate failed, I attempted manual calibrate. Manual calibrate failed with a pop up message indicating both the antenna and range pots not in proper range or out of center, already determined by other means. Interestingly, the manual calibrate in CCP appears to be “all or nothing” in that if it couldn’t calibrate range or antenna, it declared the entire calibration a failure even if the other pots may have been calibrated. One thing we need to remember is that calibration is a fine tuning step, not a procedure to be used to mask or compensate for pots that are faulty (and certainly won’t do anything for pots that are totally porked).
f1
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I remember when I went to Afghanistan for 9 months and returned my Cougars were a little twitchy. I bought some contact cleaner and sprayed all the POTs and it worked like a charm. You might want to try that?? Also try a program called “DIview” It allows you to fine tune all your calibrated axis and edit them… I use this to fine tune all my controls as I am not using the Cougar software anymore.
Thanks for the tip…certainly worth a try on the Z and range pots (might as well spray Y and X pots too while at it!). If the cursor microstick switch is still faulty, I can try spraying it too tho I have my doubts. However, the antenna pot definitely needs repair or replacement.
I’ll also contact TM support as well as some 3rd party sources for price/availability of some of the parts. I think the most challenging repair is going to be the range/cage knob pot/switch since no OEM (or aftermarket) replacement of this part to be found anywhere. The cursor microstick will be problematic too since there are no longer any available with the PCB already soldered to it.
thx, f1
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Hmmm this dlview tool is a real treat.I believe it must get it’s place in my hotlist.
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Hmmm this dlview tool is a real treat.I believe it must get it’s place in my hotlist.
Sounds interesting indeed
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You might try going to Foxy and performing HOTAS cleanse, empty buffers. re flash etc. That has helped me sort similar problems before.
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I kind of feel embarrassed to ask any questions as I got my Cougar about 8 years ago as well and never used it effectively, now I am on Windows 10, the sim works great on Win 10 but no clue where to start Back then I did have Windows XP and messed around with flashing and all but I don’t even remember what we did that for. Directly connected to Windows 10 USB, HOTAS is working except I couldn’t get RDR CURSOR and MAN RNG to work.
I will be reading this
http://cougar.flyfoxy.com/starthere.phpAny other recommendations?
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Calibrate your Cougar with the CCC panel and select them in the BMS control gui
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Hi, i would like to ask if is there any windows 10 setup guide available for hotas cougar installation. My problem is calibration on the first place. AV8R above suggests CCC panel but thrustmaster doesn’t provide that download except that is packed with outdated drivers.
This device is fully compliant with the “Human Interface Device” (HID) specifications. By simply connecting your device to the computer’s USB port, it will be installed automatically by Windows, ensuring you a perfect compatibility with any games and programs (such as T.A.R.G.E.T).
Please note that although you may still be able to install older drivers and applications on recent version of Windows, they are no longer supported.
That’s THs statement. So do we need an other way to calibrate? And then old Foxy can still download profiles?
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Try to contact Thrustmaster, I bought replacement parts for my Cougars a year ago - so maybe there are still parts available no matter what people say……
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Hi, i would like to ask if is there any windows 10 setup guide available for hotas cougar installation.
I didn’t dog too much but I have used the Win 7 Installation Guide that is common around here and it worked for my Win 10 Pro. Since then I reverted back to Win 7 Ultimate though.