SimShaker - Wings support thread for IL-2 users

[Andre]

Yes, please.

[RedRider]

Great app! Sometimes when there's layered effects (gear actuation with engine rpm, etc), one or both of the effects is removed for that overlapping period. Anybody else notice that? Compression did not help. That's with Buttkicker Gamer 2, btw.

[DD_Crash]

Can a UK customer tell me what adapter they used to power the seat? I hoped a razor plug would work

Sorted it was a faulty socket.

Edited March 19, 2020 by DD_Crash

[DD_Crash]

A bit O/T but I am trying to get the sound input to work with Elite Dangerous and all I get is a buzz. The Buttkicker worked well but it was a bit loud. The sound is 100% and it is connected to the green output on the onboard sound card. Any ideas?

[Sakivano]

Ufffffff, I haven't known anything about my jetpad since March 13th... I hope it will come soon. I can't wait ?

[1PL-Banzai-1Esk]

Hi guys,

 

I ordered on 29th of February and received it Today. That was quicker than I expected.

 

I will check it out tonight if I manage to get it working, I guess I will need a socket adapter, I live in Ireland and we have UK plugs/sockets here.

 

Thanks Andre.

[DD_Crash]

Use a razor adapter

[Sakivano]

2 hours ago, 307_Banzai said:

Hi guys,

 

I ordered on 29th of February and received it Today. That was quicker than I expected.

 

I will check it out tonight if I manage to get it working, I guess I will need a socket adapter, I live in Ireland and we have UK plugs/sockets here.

 

Thanks Andre.

I'm still waiting ???

 

[Dijital_Majik]

3 hours ago, 307_Banzai said:

Hi guys,

 

I ordered on 29th of February and received it Today. That was quicker than I expected.

 

I will check it out tonight if I manage to get it working, I guess I will need a socket adapter, I live in Ireland and we have UK plugs/sockets here.

 

Thanks Andre.

 

Interesting.  Ordered mine over two weeks before yours, and hasn't even shipped yet.  Saw someone elsewhere mention they got one within a few weeks as well.  Wonder if it's because of colour choice, which did you go for?

[Andre]

5 hours ago, Dijital_Majik said:

 

Interesting.  Ordered mine over two weeks before yours, and hasn't even shipped yet.  

Your package has been shipped. Please check your spam folder if you haven't seen the notification containing the tracking ID yet.

You can also find the tracking ID in your order details on my website.

[sethlovesdebs]

tested the demo yesterday with buttkicker advance under my seat. Fantastic effects - actually better than my iRacing effects!! great work Andre and thanks for quickly sending my licence:)

[vonrickenbecker]

Hey Andre, loving the software! Works great with my bass shaker. I just encountered a small bug I wanted to make you aware of: when I shift to a gunner position (in this case it was the rear gunner of a Bristol F2b), I lose input to the bass shaker. As soon as I go back to the pilot position I regain signal to the shaker.

 

Thanks!

[Andre]

Hi vonrickenbecker,

Thank you for the feedback. That's the way telemetry output currently works in IL-2.

That's out of my control.

[=STP=Darrylx444]

From today's IL-2 update:

"9. Added initial support for SimShaker to be used in conjunction with JetSeats and other audio powered feedback devices. "

 

Andre: What does this mean for existing SimShaker customers? Do we get more / better effects today, or does it mean you will be introducing new features in your future updates?

PS: I only currently own the DCS version of SimShaker Sound Module, not the IL-2 version, so I guess it makes no difference to my sound-based effects in IL-2?

[Andre]

9 minutes ago, =STP=Darrylx444 said:

From today's IL-2 update:

"9. Added initial support for SimShaker to be used in conjunction with JetSeats and other audio powered feedback devices. "

 

Andre: What does this mean for existing SimShaker customers? Do we get more / better effects today, or does it mean you will be introducing new features in your future updates?

PS: I only currently own the DCS version of SimShaker Sound Module, not the IL-2 version, so I guess it makes no difference to my sound-based effects in IL-2?

Are your sure that's from today's IL-2 update?

That was implemented and announced in the previous update.

[=STP=Darrylx444]

Ahh.. my mistake. That was from January. Somebody posted a comment on Reddit that confused me. nvm

 

[Jade_Monkey]

Hi @Andre,

I just found out about this software and Im very interested. I have a couple of questions:

1. The store page says IL2 is compatible with the Simshaker Wings, but IL2 is not listed as compatible for the bass shaker extension. Is that an omission on the page or it's really not compatible with IL2? I have a bass shaker and I would need to use that extension for this to really work for me.
2. Can you confirm if my setup would work? I think based on what I read it should be good: I use a USB headset for the game sound, and I also have a separate USB dac/amp for my speakers. Based on those two separate cards, I would be able to feed the bass shaker from my USB DAC/amp and then hear the in-game sounds through the USB headset. Is that possible?

 

Thanks!

-JM

 

 

[Andre]

Hi @Jade_Monkey,

1) SimShaker - Wings features its own bass shaker extension https://andres.shop/software/29-simshaker-wings-6-channels-audio.html

2) Please try your hardware compatibility in SimShaker - Wings demo mode.

[HappyHaddock]

@Andre  Not so much a criticism as it may not even be your software that is the issue, more just a heads-up of a weird issue I've just had to deal with.

 

Just tried to fly IL-2 and noticed the lack of tactile feed back in that sim-shaker had stopped working. Tracked the problem to corruption of the appropriate lines of code in Il-2's start-up.cfg so I re-pasted in the appropriate data figuring it may have been upset by  a recent IL-2 patch from the devs…. Still not working... Checked that simshaker was working outside of IL-2  and found I could get feed back through my buttkicker in simshaker's manual test but it was stating that it wasn't receiving a signal from  IL-2,

 

Checked the startup cfg once more and the additional lines of data had gone  again and so I re-pasted these... again no feedback in IL-2.. again the reason being the loss/corruption of appropriate code in the startup.cfg… Pasted these back in, saved and then reopened start-up.cfg to actually check they had saved which they had... however when launching IL-2 it still wasn't talking to simshaker

 

Anyway to cut a long story short something weird has (had?) been going on whereby launching IL-2 was corrupting  the lines of code for sending a signal to simshaker by deleting the first two lines shown below as asterisks

 

 

***********************

**********************
    decimation = 2
    enable = true
    port = 29373
[END]

[KEY = telemetrydevice]
    addr = "127.0.0.1"
    decimation = 2
    enable = true
    port = 29373
[END]

 

 

I have no ide what was causing it as it defies any logical explanation, but for the time being at least it seems to have settled down and is behaving as it should.

 

HH

[Jade_Monkey]

On 4/24/2020 at 11:19 AM, HappyHaddock said:

@Andre  Not so much a criticism as it may not even be your software that is the issue, more just a heads-up of a weird issue I've just had to deal with.

 

Just tried to fly IL-2 and noticed the lack of tactile feed back in that sim-shaker had stopped working. Tracked the problem to corruption of the appropriate lines of code in Il-2's start-up.cfg so I re-pasted in the appropriate data figuring it may have been upset by  a recent IL-2 patch from the devs…. Still not working... Checked that simshaker was working outside of IL-2  and found I could get feed back through my buttkicker in simshaker's manual test but it was stating that it wasn't receiving a signal from  IL-2,

 

Checked the startup cfg once more and the additional lines of data had gone  again and so I re-pasted these... again no feedback in IL-2.. again the reason being the loss/corruption of appropriate code in the startup.cfg… Pasted these back in, saved and then reopened start-up.cfg to actually check they had saved which they had... however when launching IL-2 it still wasn't talking to simshaker

 

Anyway to cut a long story short something weird has (had?) been going on whereby launching IL-2 was corrupting  the lines of code for sending a signal to simshaker by deleting the first two lines shown below as asterisks

 

 

***********************

**********************
    decimation = 2
    enable = true
    port = 29373
[END]

[KEY = telemetrydevice]
    addr = "127.0.0.1"
    decimation = 2
    enable = true
    port = 29373
[END]

 

 

I have no ide what was causing it as it defies any logical explanation, but for the time being at least it seems to have settled down and is behaving as it should.

 

HH

 

Save the startup.cfg as read-only. That will prevent any changes from happening but will also probably not save any changes you make in the game options (change of resolution, or any setting other than key bindings).

[Milopapa]

@Andre - does the demo version have the 6 channel enabled? I wanted to test this with my quad-shaker setup before buying it but the 6 channel option is grayed out.

[Andre]

@Milopapa Yes, it does.

May I see a screenshot of your SimShaker - Wings window?

[Milopapa]

Here you go. I also installed ASIO4ALL just in case, but didn't seem to make a difference.

[Andre]

Thank you. What if you select 1 channel option first?

[Milopapa]

15 hours ago, Andre said:

Thank you. What if you select 1 channel option first?

I tried flipping back and forth, didn't seem to enable the 6 channel option.

 

I purchased the SW in the meantime, I'll see if that makes a difference.

[Andre]

48 minutes ago, Milopapa said:

I tried flipping back and forth, didn't seem to enable the 6 channel option.

 

That's seems to be a bug. Thank you for reporting that. I will fix it in the next version.

[Milopapa]

56 minutes ago, Andre said:

That's seems to be a bug. Thank you for reporting that. I will fix it in the next version.

 

Yes, must be a bug in the unregistered version. I activated the software and now I can select the 6 channels. Thanks!

[Jade_Monkey]

Hi Andre,

Im really enjoying the bass shaker option, excellent product.

• When Auto launch is enabled, IL2 doesnt really load properly, but when manual launch is enabled it all works fine.
• May I suggest adding bass shaking effects for when the canopy is open? That would be another excellent addition to your software.

 

[Andre]

Hi Jade_Monkey,

I cannot tell is the canopy open or closed from IL-2 telemetry data.

Out of curiosity what that would be the effect?

11 minutes ago, Jade_Monkey said:

When Auto launch is enabled, IL2 doesnt really load properly, but when manual launch is enabled it all works fine.

Sounds strange. I think it could be related to Sound Sensor before, but in the current version it can't be enabled along with the bass shakers support.

[Jade_Monkey]

8 minutes ago, Andre said:

Hi Jade_Monkey,

I cannot tell is the canopy open or closed from IL-2 telemetry data.

Out of curiosity what that would be the effect?

 

Understood.

Ideally: If the canopy was closed nothing, if the canopy is opened, you would get some buffeting (vibration) from the air entering the cockpit, and if you pull out the head while on flight, then more vibration as the air hits your face.

[Andre]

I would better added a few fans for that purpose.

[Habu]

32 minutes ago, Andre said:

Hi Jade_Monkey,

I cannot tell is the canopy open or closed from IL-2 telemetry data.

Out of curiosity what that would be the effect?

Sounds strange. I think it could be related to Sound Sensor before, but in the current version it can't be enabled along with the bass shakers support.

It looks like to what i reported in that post and why i asked to have the autostart disable :

 

 

[Dutch2]

On 5/2/2020 at 7:29 PM, Andre said:

I would better added a few fans for that purpose.

 

Is this possible with your software, because in Assetto corsa this a real great functionality. 

[Andre]

1 hour ago, Dutch2 said:

 

Is this possible with your software, because in Assetto corsa this a real great functionality. 

Yes, I did make a prototype based on Gametrix controller and a few PC fans  for a friend of mine.

It works not half too bad in open cockpits ACs (FC planes and I-16)

 

   

 

 

 

Edited May 5, 2020 by Andre

[Dutch2]

That would be a real add-on, if being implementated, any chance for this?

[Andre]

Good question. We will see.

[Dutch2]

On 5/5/2020 at 8:07 PM, Andre said:

Good question. We will see.

 

Please let me know my Assetto Corsa Arduino Uno is standby. 

[Andre]

On 5/8/2020 at 7:03 PM, Dutch2 said:

 

Please let me know my Assetto Corsa Arduino Uno is standby. 

OK, please PM me what is your Assetto Corsa Arduino Uno like and how it's controlled from PC.

[1PL-Banzai-1Esk]

Hi Andre,

 

Is there a way to reduce frequency of vibrations in wings software.

 

I am currently flying a lot of Flying Circus. Machine guns fire at around 650 rpm in the game but vibrations I am getting are like if I was firing from A-20 Warthog. A bit too constant, with no breaks. 

 

I tried to figure it out myself but I can't find an option to do it.

 

Same for the engine, they run at 1600 to 2200 rpm but there is no difference in feeling. Same frequency of vibrations, no matter how many rpms. Also I can't feel any difference when my engine is damaged and works irregularely.

 

Is there any chance of Flying Circus profile in the software.

 

Cheers.

[Andre]

Hi 1PL-Banzai-1Esk,

Thank you for the feedback. What is your hardware?