Saitek x45 configurations

amb7247

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I know there are plenty of people holding on to their perfectly working x45 Hotas joystick/controller so with all the x52 profile and pictures being tossed around, I was hoping to make a thread that would show or give preferred set ups for the Saitek x45. I've used my Saitek x45 with Falcon 4.0 and it still works.

If you have the actual file used in the profile editor or you have a JPG of your x45, I hope we can post it here so those in the beta can try out some configurations. It's an idea since I didn't see anything regarding this yet.
 

Nemesis74

Nemesis74
Hi, as my first post in the forum the controller setup seems a good place to start! :)

I'm with you.. would be good to see some X45 setups. I only have access to the combat tutorials at the moment, so still fiddling with my setup. I would post a jpg of my current setup but apparently I'm not allowed to :(

I don't have the Saitek software installed, just using in-game configuration.

I've been a bit reluctant to upgrade to the X52/X55 due to hesitations with the twist rudder setup... really like the rocker on the X45 throttle. How are people finding it on the X55?
 

Satsuma

Satsuma
I'm still tweaking my setup, but here's what I've been using so far:

Fire A: Nearest hostile
Fire B: Select target
Fire C: FSD drive
Missile launcher: Hardpoint toggle
Trigger: Primary fire
Pinkie switch: Secondary fire
Upper hat: Target switch (up/down cycle through hostiles, left/right cycle through all targets)
Lower hat: Power distribution
Rudder: Rudder ;)
Throttle hat: Thrusters up/down/left/right
Throttle glowy thumb button: Boost
Mouse nubbin: Head look
Mouse button: Reset camera
Big rotary control: Sensor zoom in/out

I don't care for the throttle controlling fwd/reverse thrust, so I just have it mapped to forward. I'm still playing with what I want reverse thrust to be. I never use it, anyways.
Throttle
 

Satsuma

Satsuma
Oh yeah, it just one-steps it, so I have to twiddle it back and forth to zoom way in or out. You used to be able to map it to zones in the profile app, but that crashes on windows 7.
 

DAYLEET

DAYLEET
I used to have a problem binding the PinkySwitch on my X45 but since i have removed the official drivers for x64 win7/8 and let windows take care of everything i have no problems.



http://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/2jc41t/saitek_x45_layout_and_bindings/

^There is a jpg there with someones config. I use something similar, after looking at many others config on many stick i copied and in some case switch things around.


Here are my config using the jpg in the above link.

Missile Launcher: Deploy hardpoint

Fire Button A: Cycle sub system(for when you are targeting a ship already)

Fire Button B: Cycle next fire group

Coolie hat 1: When landing gear is down they are thruster forward/backward/left/right, when gear is up they set the system power to shield/engine/weapons.

Coolie Hat 2: Same as the link/jpg, select target.

Fire Button C: Secondary fire

Trigger: Primary fire

Pinkie Switch: Flight Assist Off, get used to it!!lol

AUX 1 Switch: nothing on there yet, probably will be stuff like heatsink and chaff, He is using only the middle position for ease of use.

3 Mode Switch: also unused as of now, like AUX it will be something i decide when i go into harder fight and need heatsink and chaff and whatnot.

Fire D Button: Boost, i really dont like flight assist off here because of how i have the yaw on rotary switch 1, and boost only need clicked not toggled.

Mouse Cursor: UI Panel navigation

Rotary Switch 1: YAW, it comes naturally to me to use it with my thumb, it's fast and accurate in all situation, docking or dogfight or avoiding interdiction.

Rotary Switch 2: Unused, i have panel navigation but never use it, it's not as easy and accurate to use at the rotaryswitch1.

Coolie Hat 3: Thrust Down/Thrust UP/Thrust Left/Thrust Right, i only really use thrust down and up when docking or needed minute adjustment BUT those works when landing gear is up as opposed to CoolieHat1 that required landing gear down.


Edit> I dont use Rudder under the throttle, my wrist wants to kill me when i do depending where the throttle is positioned.
 
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Satsuma

Satsuma
I never thought of having the hat switches map differently with the gear up or down. I love the idea of remapping my system power hat to be landing thrusters. Right now I use my keypad 8/2 keys for thrust fwd/rev, but that's much more natural.
 

Nemesis74

Nemesis74
Not sure about your pinkie switch as FA Off :)

I'm currently setup as follows... sure I'll be tweaking it when I get the full game to play with:

EliteX45Reference.jpg
 

xenoNfluX

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This is probably a complete noob problem, but is it normal for the throttle to only do forward/reverse when landing gear is out? After my ship flailing around wildly in the starport a few times, I finally figured out the landing gear thing.

I've had my X45 in storage for years with little ability to use it, for one reason or another. Little by little I'll figure out how I want my bindings set.
 

xenoNfluX

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xenoNfluX said:
This is probably a complete noob problem, but is it normal for the throttle to only do forward/reverse when landing gear is out? After my ship flailing around wildly in the starport a few times, I finally figured out the landing gear thing.

I've had my X45 in storage for years with little ability to use it, for one reason or another. Little by little I'll figure out how I want my bindings set.
Click to expand...

One more minute on Google... one more minute... landing gear can change flight controls. (hopefully that helps someone else, at least)
 

Nemesis74

Nemesis74
Yes that's what I use the trim wheel for, forward/reverse control during landing. My throttle is set to forward only.

good luck with the setup!
 
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