Pedals Simped Vario & IL2

[Sandman38]

Hello
How are you doing.

I purchased the Simped Vario Flight Pedals some time ago to be used in Flight Simulators.  However, I have decided to try and get it operating again.

First of all, for any person out there using pedals..... have you really seen an performance increase when using pedals?

My main issue-
System & Hardware:

Windows XP
MS ForceFeedback II Joystick USB
SB Audigy 2 Sound Card
(Optional Replacment - SB Live Sound Card with Serial Game port)
Simped-Vario NR: 199904 016
Sim-FFB NR: 9903 051  (No longer needed as New Joystick is USB)
V-Stick NR: 0306018

Questions:
1.  My new SB Audigy Sound card does not have a Serial bame port but a 1394 Firewire Port.  I suspect that to get the Flight Pedals working I will have to switch to my SB-Live sound card.  Correct?

2.  At the moment the pedals seem a little slow and slugish while flying my favorite flight sim IL2 Sturmovik.  Have you gotten any feedback or suggestions from other customers on setting this up.

Thank you for your time.  I hope to here from you soon.

Sincerely
Sandman38


 

[TX-Rahman]

Actually the Audigy sound card comes with a gameport that's on a slot with a ribbon cable.  You attach it to a header on your Audigy and screw the plate with the connector into an unused slot behind your computer...that's how my Thrustmaster Elite pedals are hooked up  You will probably need an old gameport joystick to get your computer to see the rudders via the game port... It was the only way mine would work...tossed the old stick behind the computer.Regards,TX-Rahman"BLACK 4"

[TX-FlightRisk]

You guys all know I am a self prolific...errr...proletic......prolete...BLAH.. I am like Scotty on the enterprise..one hell of a self made engineer/Youcanfixitall type....... Look man you can make the pedals work first by being all that you have hooked up first........ Unhook your stick and make the pedals the first controller.. Make them a two position two button stick .....Contact me for help @ Fighter.pilot@insight.bb.com. We here at TX are always wanting and willing to help the flight community. Oh And some of us …me …. May be silly while we do so…….S~TX-FlightRisk "If my plane is smoking it can mean one thing...I have been hit in one of my ass cheeks and I am cauterizing my wound....."

[TX-EcoDragon]

Well, if by performance increase you mean: will you gain smoother control? Eliminate unwanted rudder applications due to twist stick yaw/roll coupling? Increase gunnery accuracy? Increase realism? Yes to each. . . so it just depends on how serious you are about flight sims. I for one wouldnt be without them. But for someone who doesn't own many sims, or who doesn't have any need for a more realistic control interface they may not be needed.As far as slow and sluggish response, well, the travel of the pedals is a lot more than any twist stick, so you will need mroe physical movement to get the same rudder travel, if the resposne is too slow for your tastes you can change the slider positions in the conf.ini but chances are they are already maxed out. I find that most rudder inputs in this sim can be made using jsut my toes, as there isn't really any torque or adverse yaw to worry about in the sim. When doing aerobatics such as snap rolls and spins then you will need full rudder, and it may require some legwork, but that's the point!  ;-)You can look in your conf.ini for a section that looks like this and try setting values like 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 0 in the strings instead of all 100's  to give a linear control response, you can make them all 100 for a very flat and responsive set up, or whatever suits your style and hardware(BACK UP ORIGINAL FIRST!!):[rts_joystick]X=0 1 4 9 16 25 36 49 64 81 100 0Y=0 1 4 9 16 25 36 49 64 81 100 0Z=0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100RZ=0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 0FF=0U=0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 0V=0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 01X=0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 01Y=0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 01Z=0 50 60 74 86 98 100 100 100 100 100 01X1=0 80 90 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 01Y1=0 80 90 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 01RX1=0 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 01RZ1=0 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 01U1=0 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 01V1=0 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 0I don't know what ID's would be right for your hardware setup, so I can't tell lyou which is which, but I will repost if I get soem more info on your setup.S!TX-EcoDragonBlack 1TX-Squadron XO