Saitek X55

[mongoose]

Anyone else using this and if so did the X55 throttles(s) work as a throttle? If so how?

 

[Ratrace]

I've recently started flying CFS3 again and got it set up with my trusty logitech G940, force feedback and all that, very nice for a couple of weeks until it "gave up" shall we say.

Any way I now have a Saitek [Logitech] X56 and I must admit its been a bit of a pain to get set up, especially the throttle, what I found was that in the CFS3 Axis settings the rotary on top of the throttle was being assigned to the throttle input, I deleted this input altogether then set about assigning the actual throttles to the Axis_Throttle input.

I found that just moving the throttles did nothing at all, I had to actually "bang" them back and forth off their stops to get an axis response [X Axis]. Now I dont know if this is how its supposed to work with these Saitek throttles but I've made multiple profiles for testing purposes and every time this is the only way I can get the throttle mapped properly.

This is what my .xca entry looks like;

<Device Type="Saitek Pro Flight X-56 Rhino Throttle">
<GameMode Name="Player">
<Axis ID="X" Action="AXIS_THROTTLE_SET" Scale="64" Nullzone="36"/>

Hopefully this can be of some help to you or anyone else using these throttles.

 

[Naismith]

Startling! That was my reaction to the word "trusty" used in relation to the other words "Logitech G940". To quote the comic store guy from the Simpsons, "worst Hotas ever!"

 

[mongoose]

My son also seems to have solved the X55 throttle issue by adjusting the .xca file. More later

 

[mongoose]

In fact it's the same as suggested by Ratrace.


We want to delete the X and Y entries and replace those with the one. More interesting is that I've never bothered to configure through CFS3 but only through the Saitek/Madkatz program. Seems doing it through the CFS3 might be worth investigating.

OLD
</Device> <Device Type="Saitek Pro Flight X-55 Rhino Throttle">
<GameMode Name="Player">
<Axis ID="X" Action="Set_Bank" Scale="64" Nullzone="36"/>
<Axis ID="Y" Action="Set_Pitch" Scale="64" Nullzone="36"/>
<Axis ID="Throttle" Action="AXIS_THROTTLE_SET" Scale="127" Nullzone="1"/>
<Axis ID="Rudder" Action="Set_Yaw" Scale="64" Nullzone="36"/>
<Button ID="1" Action="Fire_Guns"/>
<Button ID="2" Action="FireCannonsOnly"/>
<Button ID="3" Action="ReleaseFireWeapon"/>
<Button ID="4" Action="SelectNextWeapon"/>
<Button ID="5" Action="FLAPS_INCR"/>
<Button ID="6" Action="FLAPS_DECR"/>
<Button ID="7" Action="NextTarget"/>
<Pov ID="1" Action="HeadPov"/>
<Button ID="8" Action="TogglePadlock"/>


New XCA entry



</Device>
<Device Type="Saitek Pro Flight X-55 Rhino Throttle">
<GameMode Name="Player">
<Axis ID="X" Action="AXIS_THROTTLE_SET" Scale="127" Nullzone="1"/>
<Button ID="1" Action="Fire_Guns"/>
<Button ID="2" Action="FireCannonsOnly"/>
<Button ID="3" Action="ReleaseFireWeapon"/>
<Button ID="4" Action="SelectNextWeapon"/>
<Button ID="5" Action="FLAPS_INCR"/>
<Button ID="6" Action="FLAPS_DECR"/>
<Button ID="7" Action="NextTarget"/>
<Pov ID="1" Action="HeadPov"/>
<Button ID="8" Action="TogglePadlock"/>
</GameMode>