i have a gladiator joystick and its not mapped, nothing not even primary flying control
looks like it will take me ages to map every control
every other flight sim i use , the joystick just works out the box
what gives?
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yup, its pretty bad in that regard… Button mapping is a serious hassle, because in any normal game you click the thing you want the button to do, then click the button and you’re done.
In this circus, you have to know what button number it is, because the game doesn’t bother to help you out, can’t really believe how horrid the control config process is in this thing… FS95 was smarter than this a quarter century ago. Unreal.
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I have the Cyborg X, and it`s not supported. Mapping is a real struggle! Worked like a charm in xplane…
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Are you sure? What you do is highlight the box you have been using to search then press the appropriate key on your joystick, or move the appropriate axis and it will be assigned so you don’t need to think what number the button is. On that point I messed up my setting by assigning my joystick access to the button setting for pitch instead of the axis setting/
Ok, had to edit this…
You are correct MoreBeerPlix, I was doing it wrong, but I still don’t think it was very intuitive.
There are two different fields there, the one with the magnifying glass, which would not be expected to receive a button, and instead a person would expect to mean its a search field… And then the drop down with all of the options.
If I click on the ‘search’ field and click a button, it does find it that way… That is a seriously weird navigation that I don’t think most people would expect. Search is search, it is not supposed to mean ‘map this button’.
Anyhow, thanks to your response I took the time figure out that convoluted navigation, and it will save me some time… Seriously thank you.
But I still don’t understand how in the world they came up with this weird UI idea and thought it was somehow an improvement on previous games that did it in a way that makes sense.
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I completely agree with you, this is not something I worked out either. I only worked out the basic mapping after seeing someone do it in a video and I messed up the axis assignment only to be put right by another forum poster
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Hi, do you have a link to the video?
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Go to 5.19 for an immediate example of him mapping a key by pressing it.
Ok I’m prevented from I including a link in my post. However, go to you tube and search for
Peripheral control setup squirrel
Squirrel is the YouTuber so you could just look him up, his most recent videos are handy guides to getting started
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If you launch joy.cpl in Windows and click on all your different buttons, the corresponding numbered button icon will light up in Windows - but you’ll have to take notes. That might help you in the Controls options in FS 2020.
I’m a complete newbie - but did have an old analog CH FlightStick from the early 1990’s that I resurrected with a Rockfire USB game port. After reading StangDriver7226’s post, I was able to successfully map my aileron and elevator axes to the X- and Y-axis of the 1990’s joystick!
Exactly the same deal here. Complete pain in the ■■■. CyborgX too.
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yes, that lost me 12 hours of game play trying to work out why the axis controls were not working
Absolute pants don’t bother, taken for ever and too sensitive reverted back to an Xbox controller until Saitek x52