When i try to use knobs in the cockpit like for autopilot, radio etc. the value changes very slowly. That happening both when i use the mouse scroll wheel and when i grab the knob and drag it. It is very anoying. is there a way to make it turn faster ? Cause i’ve seen other people (streamers) using the knob much much quicker.
The best, obviously, is a hardware rotary button, which can be set up handle acceleration as needed (various solutions exist ranging from custom-built devices to consumer-ready devices).
When it comes to using the mouse:
- Some specific mice and/or drivers settings can help. For example some mice have a wheel that can move freely and thus go much faster (Razer Naga for instance). And/or some drivers let the user customize the behavior of the wheel.
- When using the normal (blueish, not legacy) cockpit interaction system, you can click on the button and then drag the cursor to the left/right. If you go far enough the button will move very quickly. And then you can adjust as usual. Not perfect but can help.
EDIT: I didn’t notice in the first place that is remains slow for you even in drag mode. To my knowledge this is not the normal behavior…
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Which plane is this happening in? I think this is a plane specific problem or decision by the developer not a general MSFS thing.
I’m not sure anymore where I experienced this but it made me quit flying one plane because it was almost impossible to use any knobs. All other planes were fine. Unfortunately I don’t have a solution for this either
this happens in every aircraft that has any kind of knob. Default or addon.
Yeah, its a little bit faster when draging but still too slow. Its pretty anoying
Do you have any addons installed that could cause an issue ?
Try to start in safe mode (it will disable your community and marketplace addons): once into the sim, go to your Windows Task manager and terminate msfs.exe. Restart the sim and you’ll get the safe mode option.
This works in legacy mode too. I use it.
It can be aircraft specific, some have acceleraton built in some don’t. Some have switches to change say 100’s of feet to 1000’s of feet, many don’t.
One fairly standard sim method I use is holding down the keyboard SHIFT key while rotating the dial with the mouse wheel. This usually gives a 2x rate per mouse wheel increment.
If you find out any others please let me know, as altimiters with only 100ft increments can be very annoying in airliners especially. for targeting altitudes like 38000ft in 100ft increments!
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launching the sim in safe mode didnt work
The 100ft increments arent the issue here cause this happens to every knob in the sim. Holding down shift helps alot (when using the mouse wheel but not the drag for whatever reason)but its still not as quick as i see other people turn it.
i also used a different mouse and issue is still there
Have you tried this in legacy mode-
Ok so i didn’t realise that i was actually in legacy the whole time which explaines why the draging wasnt useful however swiching to the lock mode still doesn’t speed up turning the knob using the mouse wheel. I much prefer using the legacy because im used to it but also the FBW a32nx manual says that your sim should be in this mode. So how do i make the knob turn fast when in legacy mode ?
I’ve not tried what Gordon is describing by just left mouse clicking on the left or the right of the dial, maybe that does a better job than using the mouse wheel. I generally just use the mouse scroll wheel though.
Some of the aircraft (I can’t remember if the FBW A320 does or not) have acceleration (as a developed feature) turned on, so the faster you scroll the mouse wheel the more the rate of change increases. There are even some aircraft that have that as a setting in the EFB/aircraft options.
Other aircraft have the inner dial that switches increments from 100ft to 1000ft. Other than that I haven’t found a good way of speeding it up. Personally I’d like to have a 4x option rather that the SHIFT+WHEEL SCROLL 2x option.
BTW streamer could eb using external hardware like an actual dial or other device so I wouldn’t go by what you see speed wise there.
Have you tried adjusting the mouse in Widows?
Open the control panel, go to hardware and and sound. Then on to devices and printers and then right click on the mouse and then mouse settings. You can change the wheel speed there.
You can bind keyboard buttons for that.
I set Shift + Q/A for increase/decrease altitude, Shift +W/S for speed, E/D for heading and R/F for V/S, mostly I use altitude and speed. It works fast, much faster than mouse wheel and it comes handy when I am hand flying so no need to get my hand of the stick. And especially when I am doing hand landing with auto throttle which control the speed.
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The fix for mouse zoom speed is under Settings>General>Camera and then choose cockpit camera zoom speed.