Development Status - November 14, 2011

[mcdaniels]

Offtopic: Concerning Trackir - I always turn my head when flying in BF3, wondering why it does not work ^^

OnTopic: For me CloD is playable at the current stage of development. I am looking forward to see what comes up...

[Kodoss]

totally Offtopic:

Originally Posted by swiss

You seem to be into potis and that stuff?
Speaking of Saitek: As I have two of those x52-bastards, I decided to disassemble one throttle. Those potis inside look rather cheap and the spiking annoys the hell out of me.
Now, the question is:
Are they available in higher quality, if so, where can I get them and finally: will they be compatible with the saitek software/PCB?
Thx.

Well, not really into this stuff.
What you are looking for is linearity tolerance, but first you should find out what resistance your build-in-poti has ( 10K 100K 1K? ), because it's also important for which resistance the chip is build. Or else the resolution and signal-to-noise-ratio will become even more bad.

Normal lin tolerance is +-5%. But a better lin tolerance than +-3% I have'nt seen.
Also important is the angle you can turn your poti. ( 270° 360° 3600° )

Knowledge is grapped through google, wiki and FAQ by producers, so please don't complain.

[r0bc]

Thanks for the update.
Really looking forward to the overhauled graphics, hope it fixes SLI.

[Insuber]

Originally Posted by albx

the pots are in the throttle, all x52 (pro and not) have hall sensor in the stick

partially true. The z-axis in the stick -rudder- is a normal pot, subject to dirt/spikes. You need to disassemble the handle and clean it with contact spray from time to time.

cheers,
Ins

[albx]

Originally Posted by Insuber

partially true. The z-axis in the stick -rudder- is a normal pot, subject to dirt/spikes. You need to disassemble the handle and clean it with contact spray from time to time.

cheers,
Ins

yup, forgot it because never used, have the pedals.

[Robert]

Originally Posted by Tree_UK

lol, I once nipped across to my corner shop to grab some milk with my trackir cap on complete with vector clip!! I realised when I was in the shop but decided to front it out despite the odd looks!! Ive got one of those pro clips now to save further embarrasment.

That's nothing. I had a knock at my door and inadverdently I answered with the old reflective dot from the Track IR 1 stuck to my head. Turned out it was my neighbour from down the hall. She was Indian. I still remember the look.

I'm REAL careful now.... even with the hat and track clip.

[kristorf]

Thx for the update

Just one incey wincey request, restore the Spit weathering slider to 0 please.....................

Originally Posted by Robert

That's nothing. I had a knock at my door and inadverdently I answered with the old reflective dot from the Track IR 1 stuck to my head. Turned out it was my neighbour from down the hall. She was Indian. I still remember the look.

I'm REAL careful now.... even with the hat and track clip.

lol, brilliant!

[Feathered_IV]

Thank you for posting luthier. In your last update, you said you expected a 50% or better increase in performance from the new version of the graphics engine. This seemed like an incredible claim. Do you still stand by that, or do you now have a different expectation?

As I'm about to spend more than a thousand extremely hard earned dollars on an upgrade, some honest talk would be appreciated.

[Sokol1]

Originally Posted by Kodoss

All you need are 3 Potis with 3600°/100kOhm

The expensive part are the potis (3x15€).

Are these multi-turn (10) pots?

Typically USB circuits work better with 20~50k pots, why use 100k - more subject to pick noise?

Sokol1