reinstalled everything, opentrack not recognized ...

[stupor-mundi]

Just went through an annoying total reinstall on my laptop.

Windows 10, Delanclip, PS3 eye cam, Opentrack, IL-2 BoX. Since some weeks ago, to minimize Opentrack crashes, the advice had been to go for new test builds rather than the release, I went for the newest one from just a few days ago.

I got Opentrack itself working, with the camera, no problems, was able to reuse my profile, just IL-2 pretends not to know about it.

When I initially got Opentrack to work with IL-2, IIRC, It was just a matter of getting Opentrack itself to work, and once it worked, IL-2 just read the input straight away?

Were there any settings inside IL-2 to allow it communicate with Opentrack? I didn't think so, but I looked at all the in-game settings and found nothing that looked like that.

In Opentrack, I'm sure I had left the 'Output' on the default, freetrack 2.0, and it worked fine. I'm also fairly sure I had, under 'select interface', chosen 'enable both'. Since now it wasn't working, I also tried the other two options, no difference.

The new build has a 'repair NPClient location' function to fix the registry entry for the dll location. I tried that. no avail.

The other 'Output' select options, is there any point trying them?

Under 'Options', the last time around, I'm sure I didn't do anything in 'Game detection'.

Now, since it wasn't working, I made an entry for IL-2, and associated it with my profile, made no difference...

In a tutorial about setup that I read (a thread in here, I think), there is a paragraph, that Opentrack and IL-2 will only work together, if they are either both run as administrator, or both not.

I am local admin on the machine, and I just run both by doubleclicking on them. I guess that means I run both, not as adminstrator?

I am only familiar with running things like CMD as administrator ... is it a good idea to do this with applications such as opentrack and IL-2?

halp!

Edited May 20, 2018 by stupor-mundi

[No_85_Gramps]

I run both Opentrack and IL2 at the administrative level. Locate the exe's for both, right click, select properties, then the compatibility tab. Check the box "Run this program as an Administrator". Now when you open the exe's you'll get a "User Account Control" pop-up window, just click yes for both. I'm on 1803 with no problems, although it was an update and not a clean install. As far as what version of opentrack I would suggest the latest "release version" which is 2.3.10. I've had some issues with all of the subsequent test versions that are available. 

[stupor-mundi]

45 minutes ago, Gramps said:

I run both Opentrack and IL2 at the administrative level. Locate the exe's for both, right click, select properties, then the compatibility tab. Check the box "Run this program as an Administrator". Now when you open the exe's you'll get a "User Account Control" pop-up window, just click yes for both. I'm on 1803 with no problems, although it was an update and not a clean install. As far as what version of opentrack I would suggest the latest "release version" which is 2.3.10. I've had some issues with all of the subsequent test versions that are available. 

 

I tried the admin level thing and it made no difference.

Since you pointed out problems with the newer opentrack vers's, I tried my previous one, a build from March, and it works!

 

Thanks Gramps!! Life can go on now   ... phew.

 

 

 

[No_85_Gramps]

Glad you got it fixed.