anyone using speedlink black widow and can hepl me?

[miohn]

Hi all,

pretty new to TOH and I have problems to set up my "black widow" controller.
I know its not the best controller, but should be o.k. for a non flightsim enthusiast like me.

Does anyone have a "profil" for that controller? And how can I apply it?
If theres is no profil available, which functions do you recommend to apply
to the 8 available buttons?
And how can I map correctly the cooliehat?

(Btw. I unistalled the speedlink-drivers again, because the stick works good/better without that "fake force-feedback" with the win7-built-in drivers)

And one more:
in career-mode "mission 1 and 2" I'm totally unable to land the heli!
The beast suddenly drifts sideways and I crash and I don't know:
- is that part/difficulty of the mission?
- is it the joystick which gets suddenly cracy?
- or ( and thats what I fear) is it me?

thanks
MIke

[DnA]

Let's tackle one issue at a time, starting with your controller

Can you try to map the Generic Joystick scheme to it? Options > Controllers > Customize > Schemes. This should map acceptable default axes and buttons, but you can also change those mappings however you like.

[miohn]

Hi DnA,

I maped different shemes and one of them seems to work right now.
But I could not map the cooliehat f.e. properly when customizing
the controller manually. Anyway! Its working now.
But what (which functions) are best or recommended for
mapping the other 8 buttons?

Now to my next issue, please?

Oh, and a third one:
I have seen nice videos from people flying the beautifull
"Chernarus" map. Which Arma-Version do I have to buy to get this scenery?

regards
Mike

[hon0]

I down know your joystick so you may be need the trim set and the trim release option. Then gps. It's cool. And.. in case of autorotation Engine 1 & 2 to idle.

Change weapon & fire.

I THINK you can get the needed file to play chernarus in the free version.

http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=14588
Have a sweet & dangerous flight !
Antoine

[miohn]

Thanks HonO!

will try that!


regards
Mike

[DnA]

Some other recommended actions to map to buttons are (but this is mostly personal preference): auto-hover, manual trim set / release, rope interaction and center view

Landing and hovering are generally expected to be challenging. There are several things to look at to get you going:

• The lift off and landing training lessons.
• What difficulty level are you using? The first two have auto-trim enabled by default, which is a fair bit easier and more stable.
• Auto-hover makes landing and hovering quite easy (while auto-hover is enabled, so is auto-trim).
• Tuning your joystick axes sensitivity curves can make a huge difference. Some people prefer very high sensitivity, whereas others prefer to make large movements.

Question #3: try to run a search on Chernarus in the TKOH forums