MSFS 2024 Peripherals - Not Intuitive At All

Have to say Asobo, the new peripheral UI is one of the most complex, confusing things I’ve ever gone through in a flight sim. How could this be worse than the previous iteration?

Questions:
Why can’t my TCA Thrustmeter Officer Pack just work and be configured like it was in MSFS 2020? I don’t ever remember having to map every single button, but even that’s not an issue, the UI is the issue.

Tobii Eye tracker - it’s recognized, but I need to tweak it as it barely follows my head / eye tracking, yet when I click on settings, CTD.

Even using this was some help (thank you Jayne for posting) but this really needs an overhaul in my opinion.

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Yeah, I hit a wall right here! It’s going to take me a while to get my head around what they are offering here, so not intuitive coming from 2020 where I have lots of controller profiles.

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Still wading through control setup, what’s up with the profiles? Every time I try to map on my Virpil Mongoose, it asks for a new profile.

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Same. It’s a terrible experience. And now got a CTD when trying to change a setting on my Tobii eye tracker and instead of relaunching, I’m back here:

So glad I didn’t delete MSFS 2020.

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Any ideas on how to activate TrackIR?

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They have made it more complicated than before. T_T

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no clue – I got a CTD when I went into Tobii eye tracker and now sitting here at 15% “activating packages” menu. This is a terrible first time experience.

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Same here on the CTD configuring Tobii Eye Tracker. :frowning: And now I’m stuck at “97% - Loading unusually long: log saved to Report-loading.toml…” and no going back in. :frowning:

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Yeah, this sucks. No flying today.

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Refund this is a complete mess, not happy and dont think I will buy again. Deleted.

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Is anyone else having a hard time with ‘free look’ and their mouse. I go to use the mouse for free look and it automatically shoots upwards, any movement is super rapid and points up or down instantly. I’ve tried sensitivity and free look speeds but no avail… and my mouse has stopped using left click to select after a CTD…and mouse navigation gets lost again on series X, just like 2020 but so far worse. My mouse is no longer working after the initial loading screen. I cannot click, once the main menu comes up my cursor disappears completely. I had a good hour of it working, did my first career flight and now it’s gone.

Also turtle beach velocity one yoke all axis’s are reversed (throttle, prop, mixture) and the vernier throttles now conflict with the lever throttles and cannot be mapped simultaneously… HELP :speaking_head:

I’m currently completely overwhelmed and cannot even fly. I consider myself to be very tech savvy and love to troubleshoot issues, but this is taking a toll.

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I have exactly the same issue with the mouse moving very rapidly and unintentionally. Even slight movement with freelook becomes a mess. I do wonder if there’s any setting related to this.

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Thanks, feels better I’m not alone! :face_holding_back_tears:

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Having all the same issues here. CTD when selecting hardware settings for Tobii (because while it is clearly functional, it responds sluggishly and awkwardly to head movements), and of course restarting is taking forever. And I agree, this is the worst / least intuitive controller configuration approach I’ve ever encountered in a flight sim. Maybe in any game.

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What a complete disaster. Completely incomprehensible setup, then one click on Tobii settings, CTD and back to “12% Activating packages…”. Lol@asobo.

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Yeah I couldn’t get to grips with the controls in the Alpha either, parts of it just didnt seem to work. At the time I was told it’s just bugs since it’s an alpha. Hopefully someone wo understands it 100% can make a good video tutorial…

I’ve managed a to figure out a bit:

2024 Controls Interface Discussion - Discussion Hub / General Discussion - Microsoft Flight Simulator Forums

How to get Tobii & MSFS 2024 to Work Together - Discussion Hub / Tools & Utilities - Microsoft Flight Simulator Forums

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The UI… OMG, that UI is demential… At this point I just want universal bindings, having separate profiles for each aircraft with that UI is a complete mess…
Please Rework Completly that system in a future update, we can’t have the worst control binding system ever made in 2025… Are we going backwards? Can’t stand it.

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I struggled with my stick and controller as well. It’s not intuitive and almost nothing is mapped.
It’s going to take a day or two to set things up.
But I did manage a flight

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Now swap your aircraft and you’ll need to start mapping all over again because who fkn understands how to duplicate profiles or do nothing in there…

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