CH Throttle Quadrant Woes

[BornToBattle]

Did a re-install of the game. Wow. Never should have done that! Anyways, now upon re-installation my inputs for the engine controls are totally in disarray. I'm using a CH Products Throttle Quadrant and there seems (somewhere) to be some serious conflicts going on. I have it so the two left levers are used for throttle inputs, the next two for mixtures inputs and the last two are for the prop, with each being engine 1 then engine 2 respectively. Before doing a re-install, everything worked perfect.

 

I did copy two files before deleting everything in IL-2 - one is the "joys.ffp" file and the other is the "joysffmap" file. I overwrote these files upon reinstallation with the ones I saved from the previous game, thinking it would save me from having to remap all my commands again once the game was re-installed.

 

I've continuously tried mapping throttle for engine 1 to the CH Products Quadrant to the throttle input lever on the Quadrant, mixture lever to engine 1, then prop rpm engine 1 to the lever, then go ahead and designate the next set of levers to engine 2, same procedure. What happens is upon testing with the A-20 parked is that when I think everything is correctly mapped out, upon moving the lever for the throttle of engine 1, both the throttle for engine 1 moves along with the prop rpm for engine 1! The same goes for the throttling up for engine 2 lever - the prop moves along with the throttle, as if interconnected. Upon testing the mixture levers for engine 1 and 2, neither have any inputs. When checking the levers for engines 1 and 2 for the prop rpm's, again, no input whatsoever.

 

Pressing the keys to disengage the throttle and prop interconnect (I think it's something like LShift+I) has no effect as well. Also when trying to designate simple things like the inlet cowls and outlet cowls as I had mapped before with the CH Quadrant's switches, I also get no input whatsoever.

 

Seeing how I can indeed map these things via the Quadrant and it recognizes the inputs tells me (along with being able to move both throttles back and forth) that the game and Windows is recognizing it, but there has to be something else going on here. There's more than meets the eye and I'm going bonkers trying to find out what I'm doing wrong.

 

Should I delete files somewhere and let IL-2 do a self repair or something? A complete reinstall once again of the entire game? "Oh dear God please no, not again...".

 

Summary:

1.CH Quadrant, CH Stick and Yoke

2. Mapping keys via Quadrant is recognized by the sim as inputs

3. Only the throttle levers mapped have any input whatsoever. The mixture levers, the prop rpms levers and all the switches below the levers have no function within the sim itself, although they all show to be mapped out okay in the menu 

4. Wrote over the two files upon reinstalling the sim those files being joys.ffp and joysffmap from the files saved from previous game

5. Trying the throttle and prop key command for the interconnect on and off has no effect

6. Restoring all key commands to default has no effect on making things work

7. Unplugging and re-plugging in the Throttle Quadrant via the USB port has no effect

8. Throttle Quadrant and all inputs worked perfectly BEFORE the reinstall

9. Double checked to make sure there aren't any duplicate commands listed for one input

 

If anybody has any experience with the CH Products Throttle Quadrant I'd relay appreciate it!!! This has been dragging on now for weeks.

Thanks in advance...again!

[Soarfeat]

Hey BTB,

 

Seeing that you reinstalled game it may have defaulted to " Simplified Engine Controls ". 

I would check your " Realism " settings in your missions. Make sure anything to do with " simplified controls " is unchecked, and also " Engine Auto Control " and " Auto Pilot " is 

unchecked.

Good luck !

   -sf-   

[Sokol1]

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I did copy two files before deleting everything in IL-2 - one is the "joys.ffp" file and the other is the "joysffmap" file.

 

This files is related to ForceFeedback, the first say "real default hardcoded, this is only description".

 

Joystick and keyboard assignments is is saved in

 

current.actions

current.map

 

Joystick order in

Devices.txt

 

Next time save all Input folder.

Edited August 11, 2019 by Sokol1