HOTAS Question

[DesiccantOwl]

Hi,

So I've been googling for the better part of 2 hours on this subject and everything previously suggested seems to have failed me. Maybe you can help?

I have an X56 setup which I regularly use for games such as Star Citizen and Elite Dangerous. Naturally I thought that I could use at least the stick with Alliance so I dusted off my old library purchase and started playing. Spawning into the Sabra on the very first mission I barely left the hanger before the ship started yawing left and pitching down. No matter how I wiggled the stick no input was registered as meaningful.

I've gone though all the steps as best I can such as ensuring the stick is the default controller for older games, making sure the drivers are up to date and ensuring all the axis are calibrated but nothing so far has worked.

I'm pretty sure that the issue lies with the stick itself. Alliance knows a stick is there but doesn't know what bit does what. I'm looking at the programming interface but can't for the life of me find a guide to how to program the stick to work with Alliance.

I'm not after anything fancy like getting the throttle to work, I can do most of the stuff with the keyboard, but simply being able to orient my ship in the right direction would be a great start.

Thanks!

[TehJumpingJawa]

I had no problems using my cheapo thrustmaster hotas x; worked 'out of the box', rudder & throttle too. (no 5th axis support, but XWA has no need of it)

Though that was after applying the XWA upgrade pack ( http://xwaupgrade.com/ ), and widescreen fix ( https://sourceforge.net/projects/xwahacker/ ).

No idea if the joystick would have worked fine with vanilla too, or if the upgrade pack did something to aid compatibility.

All I had to do was rebind the buttons from their rather illogical defaults using the in-game rebinding screen (the interface isn't great.... but it does work)

That said, I've found the hotas x to be far too imprecise for the fine aim adjustments required for XWA. Moreover it simply doesn't have enough buttons (12+4 on hat) for the many *many* controls you regularly use in XWA.
I was far more capable using the crappy old joystick + keyboard set up I had back in the day!

Not sure if it's the hotas x, XWA, or Windows joystick support that's at fault though.

[Marc Cassin]

Same problem with a T-Flight HOTAS X too. The game launcher see it, but in game, I've only got 5 buttons... it's my mouse the game is using as controler... ... ... (LMB trigger lasers)

[76561197981385274]

I figured out how to solve BOTH problems! :-)
Out of the box the T-flight HOTAS X only works if the home button on the left is red and you lose the proportional axis in the throttle handle. AND it's WAY to sensitive!

I use the virtual joystick "vJoy" and Joystick Gremlin(installed in that order) both(apparently) freeware. I'm a TOTAL computer DUNCE and I still figured it out in minutes after trying all kinds of stuff with vjoy and Joystick Curves(too complicated) for hours.

You can configure any axes you like to react FAR more precisely close to the center. My aiming improved tenfold overnight.

I have no idea how to post screen shots though.