YaDeLi - "Yet another Device Link for IL-2"

[Tailspin45]

This little app is just what I need. It's elegantly simple and very nicely designed. But I have a weird problem when I use it.

With both my joystick (Warthog) and driver (win7) calibrated, IL2 aircraft fly straight and level. Until I use YaDeLi to add rudder pedals. Then they have a left rolling tendency so severe that full opposite aileron trim doesn't prevent it.

I also find that the aircraft are very twitchy, for lack of a better term, despite assigning curves to all the axis. In fact, it seems as if there's some kind of crosstalk between the axes.

Now, this all may not be a problem with YaDeLi and it's only revealing some other issue I didn't know I had. But I can't fly without rudders (I'm a taildragger kinda guy) and I can't install them without YaDeLi.

Anyone have any idea what the problem may be?

[Artist]

Hi Tailspin45,

at first guess it seems to me that you've assigned joystick axes both in IL-2 and YaDeLi...

Please describe your hardware setup in detail: Number of usb game controllers, their respective IDs (use JoyIDs), settings.ini (from the ..\Users\pilotname folder), Screenshots from YaDeLi.

Artist

[Tailspin45]

I've paid hundreds of dollars for software that doesn't work as well as yours, and have endured, sometimes, waiting days only to get a response to a technical question. And then only to received a canned reply that's unrelated to my problem.

You? Forty-two minutes and spot on! Yeah, I -- dumbshit that I am -- do have axis defined in Il2 and YaDeLi.

In the unlikely event that doesn't solve the problem I'll reply again with the set-up. But I'd say thats definitely the issue.

A huge thank you for your great software and great support.

[Tailspin45]

I couldn't figure out how to remove the axis assignments in the HOTAS section, so I just deleted them from the config file.

However, all controls go full nose down, full left wing down, full left rudder, almost like runaway trim. I can center them using ALT + LEFT, + RIGHT, and + Z, but after any movement of the axis they go back to full throw.

The files you requested are at
http://teleworkresearchnetwork.com/w...IL2_YaDeLi.zip

Thanks in advance for your efforts to solve this problem. Very much appreciated.

[Artist]

Mhm.

Originally Posted by Tailspin45

I couldn't figure out how to remove the axis assignments in the HOTAS section, so I just deleted them from the config file.

Good.

Originally Posted by Tailspin45

However, all controls go full nose down, full left wing down, full left rudder, almost like runaway trim. I can center them using ALT + LEFT, + RIGHT, and + Z, but after any movement of the axis they go back to full throw.

Strange, because:

Originally Posted by Tailspin45

The files [...]

... show nothing unusual.

Could you please let me have a look at the number of usb game controllers and their respective IDs (use JoyIDs)?

Artist

[Artist]

Hi Tailspin45,

one thing is unusual (no offence meant ): There's a "__MACOSX" folder in the archive - do you run IL-2 within MacOS (with Wine)?

In any case, the symptoms you describe may result from
- Your hardware is sending funny stuff (test with "usb game controllers", properties)
- YaDeLi is receiving funny stuff (it uses DirectInput, DirectX)
- YaDeLi is sending funny stuff (however unlikely that is )
- IL-2 is receiving funny stuff (network garbled, proxied, )
- IL-2 has some inner conflict (controller shizophrenia - but you've solved that apparently)

We would have to check that step by step.
Artist

[Tailspin45]

I sent the screenshots via Gmail to my Mac, where I needed to do something unrelated. Zipped them there, and that's where it picked up the OS X artifact.

In any case, I solved the problem. Seems I'd forgotten to configure the flight control axes, and they were all linear instead of centered. So, of course, the rest value was the extreme end of the range and thus full control throw.

Never underestimate how dumb a user can be. Half the people in the world are dumber than the other half, but I may be proof that it actually is more than that.

Thank you for wasting your time figuring out the stupid things I did.

Everything is working great now, with your help. I'm grateful, as I've said, both for a very useful program and your prompt help.