X52 pro MFD questions
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Has anyone here looked into using the X-52 pro MFD (the one on the throttle control) to do anything useful besides a fancy clock that shows you have a profile loaded? I was thinking maybe displaying useful info like comm channel or better: airspeed? The joystick came with a flight sim demo and it shows the mfd displaying comm channels. So I know its possible, but what would it take to extract info from bms to display there?
SURELY I am not the first to ask this question?
I have been experiencing some flickerage on that mfd as well, anyone else?Also I have been using a modified Gunslinger .pro profile and having issues with mini stick as cursor controls, used to work now it won’t move the cursor left. I look in the profile and i can get the command to turn green in the profiler when I move the mini stick but in 3d no left cursor command anyone else have this issue?
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I have the x52 std.
After flying it for 3 three years I discover that the 3 buttons on the MFD can be program in BMS.
One button is programed for NVG and I use the stop watch for HARM launch. -
I believe I read somewhere on the Saitek website that this is possible with FSX…now you have me curious, too.
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I assigned function to the buttons by DX.
But I don’t know about displaying info other than what it came with… -
Hard Deck hows ur head? I looked around on this subject found nothing good luck. Curious your tail off when u figure it out let me know haha. Wish I had more time to work on it.
Closest I came was some dude named Lightning and some kind of extractor tool. Theres a dbase for falcon that contains all relavent info for extraction. I just do not know how to interface that with the programming software for my joystick. probably would require a mod to saitek software to accomplish. I will search the saitek forums when I get a chance.
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look up raptors 007 then follow instruction. then your mfd will display the info you need
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google raptor 007? i searched forum with no joy maybe provide a link with something more specific?
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found utility
http://www.raptor007.com/falcon-4-to-saitek/
i will have to look into this and once I have I will report back. looks like you have to use lighning mfd extractor? looks like a good tool though.
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I’d love to use my throttle MFD to display info, but the display always seems to be garbled. Think it was a USB problem, maybe OS specific, but whatever it was, I could never fix it satisfactorily. Stick and throttle work just fine otherwise, so it’s always something I’ve just ignored.
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for the record, only the pro will work.
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I’d love to use my throttle MFD to display info, but the display always seems to be garbled. Think it was a USB problem, maybe OS specific, but whatever it was, I could never fix it satisfactorily. Stick and throttle work just fine otherwise, so it’s always something I’ve just ignored.
So has Saitek/MadCatz. Would love for them to fix it but I doubt they ever will.
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I haven’t messed around with this too much but it looks like a lot more trouble than its worth. I have been having issues with the backlight on the MFD on my X52 pro. Looks to me like that’s fairly normal. also the display is not good for numbers that change often.
I have also noticed that my clock settings are wrong and changing it in the setup does nothing. Clicking the apply button doesn’t do anything. Really irritating that I cant even set the stupid clock.
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It should be pretty solid with the latest Saitek 7.0.34.109 drivers and version 2.2 of my utility (just released Jan 4). The backlight will start out dim (Saitek bug?) but if you just scroll the page up once and then back down, it should fix itself.
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It should be pretty solid with the latest Saitek 7.0.34.109 drivers and version 2.2 of my utility (just released Jan 4). The backlight will start out dim (Saitek bug?) but if you just scroll the page up once and then back down, it should fix itself.
Hi Raptor,
With your tool, is it possible to display throttle %? Or RPM? Is it compatible with Windows 8.1 and BMS?
Thanks,
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With your tool, is it possible to display throttle %? Or RPM?
Yep! RPM is on the first MFD page in the default configuration.
Is it compatible with Windows 8.1 and BMS?
It is definitely compatible with BMS4; I started out with Allied Force, but BMS4 is all I really play now. I’ve only tested with XP and 7, but there’s no reason it shouldn’t work in 8.1 as long as your Saitek drivers are working.
