Newcomer / Intro Returning game veteran needing help with bindings.

[xfury]

After several years absent from the game, a couple of days ago I found my Thrustmaster Hotas and associated throttle. I loaded up the game and tried to change bindings for my setup. I made the necessary binding changes for the Thrustmaster utilizing the TARGET doodat, apply changes and go back in the game. It keeps reverting back to Keyboard and Mouse and I can't for the life of me work out why! Any help appreciated.
Cmdr Judson
(Hi to any old friends)

 

[Ashnak]

AFAIK you don't need the TARGET SW, but then I don't use a Thrustmaster any more. In general, we can shorten that discussion a bit if you first read the thred that's stickied at the top of the PC subforum: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threa...-free-backed-up-binds-look-no-further.554451/

Bindings in ED can be a bit finnicky - usually, easiest is if you omit all intermediary SW and configure the bindings directly in ED (or go real hardcore and manually edit the binds file). If you just want a useable configuration, I'd recommend to hop over to EDRefcard (and perhaps to the associated forum thread).

 

[the100thmonkey]

TARGET installs a virtual device driver into the system. When you activate the profile, it interrupts the normal interface between the stick and system, and redirects the joystick input to a Thrustmaster Warthog Combined virtual stick. You can confirm this by opening joy.cpl (type it into the start menu). Open TARGET and start the script. The T16000M. FCS will disappear and be replaced by the combined stick.

The game client has a Thrustmaster T.16000M default, but it will not load those binds if you run TARGET, as this is basically a different stick the game does not have a default set of binds for. You will need to run TARGET then create a new set of bindings. You can do this from blank, or modify KB/M into a custom set.

If you have mapped the controls with TARGET running, Windows 10 has some rather aggressive power management features. One of these is to cut power to unused USB ports. As the OS can no longer detect the stick plugged into the USB port, it cuts power to it. You can change this with a registry edit. I can explain how to go about this, but it would be a waste of time if it's not actually your problem. If you do continue to use TARGET (it's great for power-pip management and joystick response curves), then you will very likely run into this.

 

[xfury]

Thanks to both responses, but now I am completely befuddled. I tried the first renaming thing many many times taking care to follow the instructions. I never got a preset I named to choose from. Not yet reinstated TARGET but I will give that another go. As a 75 year old I find this stuff quite difficult so I really do appreciate the help so thanks again.

 

[STRONTIUM DOG]

when you open your bindiings folder you should have the following within if you are playing odyssey
1 a custom 4.1.binds file
2 a startpreset4start file


when done renaming using the three step guide method your file structure should look like this
(if you cant see the files open your windows file explorer settings and enable hidden files and folders and file extensions)

N.B if you still dont see the files delete the bindings folder and restart the game and the folder and files within will be rewritten to default
(ensure all control devices are plugged in first)