June 21, 20223 yr I watched a couple of videos and am tempted to buy, as anything that adds a little more immersion is good! Would appreciate the thoughts of anybody using the ButtKicker Gamer 2 with MSFS. CPU Ryzen 7800X 3D RAM 32GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR5 6000MHz GPU GEFORCE RTX 4090 Monitor AOC AGON AG352UCG UltraWide G-Sync @ 3440x1440 Internal Storage 1TB NVMe PCIe SSD External Storage Three 4Tb HDs
June 21, 20223 yr I have been using a Buttkicker with MSFS since the sim was released. It works sensationally in the sim, and really adds much immersion, so much so that when I forget to turn it on (which is rare) I immediately know that something is missing. You feel the engines spooling up in jet aircraft, feel the rumble of the props as they spin up, feel the landing gear coming up and down, feel the lowering of speed brakes and spoilers, feel the touchdown on the runway. What's more, you can easily increase or decrease these effects on the fly. It is one awesome piece of kit. You will not regret it. Oh, forgot to mention, another cool effect you feel is the seems in the concrete / asphalt as you taxi to your runway of choice, as well as the rumbles as you increase your takeoff roll down the runway. Edited June 21, 20223 yr by sniper31 AMD Ryzen 9900X3D & ASUS X870E Gaming Plus MB, w/64 Gb GSkill DDR5 RAM, PNY RTX 5090 GPU, lots of SSD's and M.2 drives, HAVN Case, Virpil VPC Panels 2 and 3, Virpil Constellation Alpha Stick, Virpil Rotor TCS Plus w/ Hawk-60 Collective grip, TM TCA Yoke Boeing Edition, TM HOTAS A-10 and F/A-18 Sticks and TM TPR Rudder pedals. Currently on Win11
June 21, 20223 yr For years I am using the Buttkicker Gamer 2 and it is as sniper31 described. You won’t regret it. One thing as a caution : the main device can get warm very fast and then stops working (built in overheat protection ), so don’t set it to max …. 5950x3d 5.4-5.7 GHz - Asus ROG 870 Crosshair Apex - GSkill Neo 2x 24 Gb 6000 mhz / cas 26 - MSI RTX 5090 Gaming Trio OC - 1x SSD M2 6000 2TB - 1x SSD M2 2800/1800 1Tb - Corsair 5400 case - Corsair 360 liquid cooling set - 3x 75’ TCL tv. 13600 6 cores @ 5.1 GHz / 8 cores @ 4.0 GHz (hypterthreading on) - Asus ROG Strix Gaming D - GSkill Trident 4x Gb 3200 MHz cas 15 - Asus TUF RTX 4080 16 Gb - 1x SSD M2 2800/1800 2TB - 2x Sata 600 SSD 500 Mb - Corsair D4000 Airflow case - NXT Krajen Z63 AIO liquide cooling - FOV : 200 degrees My flightsim vids : https://www.youtube.com/user/fswidesim/videos?shelf_id=0&sort=dd&view=0
June 21, 20223 yr I have 4 bass transducers screwed to my chair, one of them right behind my lower back, and I run them off a cheap 7.1 soundcard and a couple of 50W amps. I use them for sim racing and it adds a ton of immersion, a whole lot more than I thought it would from watching a few videos/reviews. I haven't yet set them up for MSFS but that's one of the next things on my ToDo list. What software is recommended for running a Buttkicker or your own transducers in MSFS? The only one I've found so far is SimShaker for Aviators, but I haven't tried it yet.
June 21, 20223 yr 33 minutes ago, JacquesBrel said: I have 4 bass transducers screwed to my chair, one of them right behind my lower back, and I run them off a cheap 7.1 soundcard and a couple of 50W amps. I use them for sim racing and it adds a ton of immersion, a whole lot more than I thought it would from watching a few videos/reviews. I haven't yet set them up for MSFS but that's one of the next things on my ToDo list. What software is recommended for running a Buttkicker or your own transducers in MSFS? The only one I've found so far is SimShaker for Aviators, but I haven't tried it yet. FSRealistic does almost the same job. I have Buttkicker Home which is more powerful (does not get warm easily) than BK Gamer2 and enjoy it a lot. Edited June 21, 20223 yr by kt069 Intel i7-9700K - AMD 7900 XT (VRAM 20GB) - 32 Gb Ram - SSD Drive - Win10 x64 - Samsung 43" 4K TV - Quest 3 VR
June 21, 20223 yr Same here, really like it, without it, my 2D computer screen, really seems "2D", Go figure. Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10700F CPU @ 2.90GHz (8 cores) Hyper on, Evga RTX 3060 12 Gig, 32 GB ram, Windows 11, P3D v6, and MSFS 2020 and a couple of SSD's
June 21, 20223 yr 1 hour ago, kt069 said: FSRealistic does almost the same job. How do you get it working with fs realistic? I use sim shakers aviator at the moment.
June 21, 20223 yr I got 3 hooked up to my setup and use OPUS for MSFS which has buttkicker support. I use the Buttkicker 2 on the chair and two transducers mounted under the desk. With the software you can add canned effects like rumble,gear,flaps,turbulence, takeoff and landing effects. http://www.opussoftware.co.uk/opusfsi/OpusMSFS_ButtKicker.pdf Edited June 21, 20223 yr by FreeBird(Josh) CPU: Intel i9-11900K @5.2 / RAM: 64GB DDR4 3200 / GPU: 4080 16GB /
June 21, 20223 yr 45 minutes ago, Ianrivaldosmith said: How do you get it working with fs realistic? I use sim shakers aviator at the moment. FS Realistic generates suitable sounds for BK and I use additional cheap 5.1 USB soundcard for BK. Therefore, I use Voicemeeter Banana (free app) to split the sounds and direct MSFS sounds also to BK. Hope this helps ? Happy Flying... Edited June 21, 20223 yr by kt069 Intel i7-9700K - AMD 7900 XT (VRAM 20GB) - 32 Gb Ram - SSD Drive - Win10 x64 - Samsung 43" 4K TV - Quest 3 VR
June 21, 20223 yr 27 minutes ago, kt069 said: FS Realistic generates suitable sounds for BK and I use additional cheap 5.1 USB soundcard for BK. Therefore, I use Voicemeeter Banana (free app) to split the sounds and direct MSFS sounds also to BK. Hope this helps ? Happy Flying... I use an additional sound card at the moment for my buttkicker device. So, I will need voicemeeter banana right? Edited June 21, 20223 yr by Ianrivaldosmith
June 21, 20223 yr 3 minutes ago, Ianrivaldosmith said: I use an additional sound card at the moment for my buttkicker device. So, I will need voicemeeter banana right? Yes, only with VM Banana you will be good to go. Intel i7-9700K - AMD 7900 XT (VRAM 20GB) - 32 Gb Ram - SSD Drive - Win10 x64 - Samsung 43" 4K TV - Quest 3 VR
June 21, 20223 yr 8 minutes ago, kt069 said: Yes, only with VM Banana you will be good to go. Brilliant. So, I assume doing it this way, it takes the sounds from the sim and passes them through to the buttkicker device? And then FSrealistic provided the flaps vibrations etc? is there any guide to setup this? Or is it fairly straightforward ?
June 21, 20223 yr 9 minutes ago, Ianrivaldosmith said: Brilliant. So, I assume doing it this way, it takes the sounds from the sim and passes them through to the buttkicker device? And then FSrealistic provided the flaps vibrations etc? is there any guide to setup this? Or is it fairly straightforward ? By this you can split the sounds with VM Banana and pass to BK. FSRealistic is adequate for vibrations. VM Banan is not hard to understand but needs a bit adjustment. No guides or tutorials as far as I know. I learned it myself and you can easily handle it, as well. Intel i7-9700K - AMD 7900 XT (VRAM 20GB) - 32 Gb Ram - SSD Drive - Win10 x64 - Samsung 43" 4K TV - Quest 3 VR
June 21, 20223 yr 29 minutes ago, Ianrivaldosmith said: Brilliant. So, I assume doing it this way, it takes the sounds from the sim and passes them through to the buttkicker device? And then FSrealistic provided the flaps vibrations etc? is there any guide to setup this? Or is it fairly straightforward ? The only difference from SimShakers is , you can not split MSFS sounds from FSRealistic sounds. (If this is important for you ? ) (Simshakers does this) I wanted to mention also this before you put effort on it. Happy Flying... Edited June 21, 20223 yr by kt069 Intel i7-9700K - AMD 7900 XT (VRAM 20GB) - 32 Gb Ram - SSD Drive - Win10 x64 - Samsung 43" 4K TV - Quest 3 VR
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