My Logitech Attack3 joystick works fine with FSX but I just can't tune the sensitivity out of it with MSFS 2020.

Sensity settings, null zone, dead zone settings seem to make little, if any difference, I've even tried editing the 152 aircraft file, which has no effect whatsoever (that bit I find baffling).

Downloaded lofitech drivers, but I can't assign a profile to MSFS because it's telling me that the Exe file is protected or I do not have access to it.

As things stand, I've been managing with a stick which works perfectly in every other setting that only needs a couple of millimetres of movement to send and the aircraft pitch wild.  Roll and throttle are bearable though.

Anything else to try?

Change the sensitivity on the axis, -40 works fine on my Joystick, but it's a matter of taste, you got to try out what suits you best, but -40 is probably a good start.

PS! Check that you do not use the Legacy flight model, it can cause strange problems.

Edited November 16, 20205 yr by Ixoye

Thanks Ixoye.  Using settings in the -40 to -60 range is about the best I can do.  It's even bad at -80 and -90.  Almost as if the settings are having no effect at all.

Yet in the windows callibration screen it looks and feels fine.

By legacy flight model, do you mean the standard 152 that comes with MSFS? Perhaps I should give the aerobat a try (I actually trained on both of these in the RW).

My plan after upgrading my PC was to install MSFS and get the 152 running smoothly before spending all those hours we do tuning the graphics. Still can't get past first base with this controller though.

One thing worth trying is reset the windows calibration and try it uncalibrated. 

Win10 calibration can do some odd stuff, it totally messes up CH pedals for example.

May not do any good but worth a try.

 

This is a really big issue for a lot of folks. Asobo needs to get this fixed ASAP as it makes the game pretty much unplayable. We should not have to be tweaking the sensitivity settings. They should be preset at acceptable levels to keep the plane in the air. This has been a problem for me from day one. My Logitech Extreme 3D Pro works fine in every other program except this one ? It worked great in FS X. No issues. Fix this Asobo !!!!  😒

11 minutes ago, slowtrak said:

This is a really big issue for a lot of folks. Asobo needs to get this fixed ASAP as it makes the game pretty much unplayable. We should not have to be tweaking the sensitivity settings. They should be preset at acceptable levels to keep the plane in the air. This has been a problem for me from day one. My Logitech Extreme 3D Pro works fine in every other program except this one ? It worked great in FS X. No issues. Fix this Asobo !!!!  😒

The same with my hotas warthog. Almost unflyable.
They thought the issue was resolved with update 4 ...

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Option 3: Don't calibrate in windows or fs2020, and use a 3rd party app like FSUIPC7.

Or one of the other options, https://whitemagic.github.io/JoystickGremlin/

For me step 1 was to reduce reset the sensitivities in MSFS controller settings.

The other thing (which made a much greater change) was to edit the flightmodel.cfg files, which I had to do to get what I thought was a decent controller profile.

Example: probably my favorite plane the KingAir 350.

Using a decent file search app such as the freeware SearchEverything or the even better UltraFilesearch (payware) and telling it to show all files named flightmodel.cfg on the computer. About 5 seconds later it will do that. The pathname will tell which plane each file with that name is for. Click the one you want to open with notepad.

MENU, EDIT, FINDNEXT effectiv

[FLIGHT_TUNING]

original 350:

elevator_effectiveness = 1
aileron_effectiveness = 1
rudder_effectiveness = 1

mine:

elevator_effectiveness = .16
aileron_effectiveness = .16
rudder_effectiveness = .16

Looks pretty drastic a change, but I can land the KingAir onto a short strip using nothing but stick and rudder as easy as with the 172 using default sensitivities and effectivenesses.

I changed all 20 default planes controller effectivenesses, even both jetliners.

The little Cessna152:

elevator_effectiveness = .11
aileron_effectiveness = .22
rudder_effectiveness = .22
 

 

 

 

By the way the same idea works with FSUIPC7.

You can make small welcome changes in the GUI of FSUIPC.

But you can make much more effective changes in FSUPIC by text editing fsuipc7.ini file. Because in that .ini file you can change the effectiveness, not just the sensitivity curve.

 

Edited November 16, 20205 yr by Fielder