Joystick/Pedals Setup Question

[:FI:Murph]

I wonder if anyone knows if I can get away with just replacing my current CH Fighterstick analog with USB, and using a gameport-USB adaptor for my analog pedals? The pedals are a single axis, without toebrakes, so it seems to me it ought to work? Has anyone here tried this?
I would like to not have to replace both the stick and pedals right now, since cash (as always) is a bit tight.

[:FI:Murph]

Not looking too good so far- tried using an adaptor I had lying around, and I could'nt figure out how to get windows to "see" it as a USB devise.
I ordered the stick, but it looks like I may have to bite the bullet and order the pedals too.

[:FI:TacticalS!]

Sorry I can't answer your question Murph. As you probably know I recently purchased CH gear, and I'm sure if you decide to get the pedals you won't regret it (unless the misses finds out ).

TS!

[:FI:Sneaky_Russian]

Why cant you just use the gameport for the pedals?

I've got my Evo on USB and a Phantom2 (with homemade pedal conversion patched in to the Y axis ) on the gameport.

The gameport device (due to XP) shows as ID1 and the USB as ID2, so is easiest to configure in conf.ini using notepad (just copy/paste your old [rts joy] settings to ID2). You can, and may want to use IL2Sticks for this.

[:FI:Murph]

Thanks for the suggestion Sneaky, I'll try it!

[:FI:Murph]

I'm not sure I understand the advise about how to reassign the stick to ID1 in windows. I have Il2sticks and don't see any utility there to reset controller IDs, just to set sensitivity.
Can you give me a somewhat more detailed explaination of how to do this?
Is this done somewhere in the game's .ini, or are you taliking about using notepad to rewrite the windows .ini?
P.S. I had to reinstall the gameport stick in order to get the pedals to work- they were'nt designed to be used by themselves, and needed the stick, which I just added as "two axis-two button joystick" with the rudder pedal box checked.

[:FI:Sneaky_Russian]

Assuming they show up first in the Windows/Control Panel/ Gameport Controller window - this means they will be "active" in IL2 Hardware Setup/Input screen where you adjust sensitivity, check here to see that the green square moves.

Now go to Hotas Control
select Rudder press RIGHT pedal (when I used LEFT it reversed the axes)
now go through your Joystick axes in the same way , they should all show as ID2
Save settings , and that should be it, apart from any tweaking in IL2 Sticks


your conf.ini should show something like this
(but not exactly, these are my settings)

[rts_joystick]
X=0 1 4 9 16 25 36 49 64 81 100 0
Y=0 1 4 9 16 25 36 49 64 81 100 0
Z=0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
RZ=0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 0
FF=1
U=0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 0
V=0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 0
1X=0 12 29 39 49 60 70 76 82 91 100 10
1Y=0 8 30 53 70 82 92 96 97 98 100 0
1RZ=0 7 24 48 61 72 81 89 94 97 100 0
1U=0 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 0
1V=0 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 0
1X1=0 3 7 11 27 40 52 68 81 95 100 0
1Y1=0 3 4 17 31 44 56 66 80 90 100 0
1RZ1=0 22 37 48 72 81 85 89 94 97 100 0
1U1=0 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 0
1V1=0 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 0

[:FI:Murph]

Thanks Sneaky! It works now, I also found the CH Control Panel for Idiot's guide, which helped me figure out how the map making wizard worked. It has a lot more features than the old speedkeys program, but it sure is a LOT more complicated to use!
BTW thanks for the heads up on using right rudder- I also found I needed to use back stick pressure for the elevator, and right stick for the airelons to avoid axis reversals.