April 12, 20233 yr Author Mine arrived from Amazon today a few hours ago. It's working fine and I love it. But who knows, perhaps problems might occur. Will update if problems develop later. 5800X3D, RTX4070, 600 Watt, one or two 1440p 32" screens, 64 GB RAM, 4 TB PCle 3 NVMe, Warthog throttle, VKB NXT EVO stick, Honeycomb Alpha yoke, CH quad, 3 Logitech panels, 2 StreamDecks, Desktop Aviator Trim Panel. Crystal Light VR.
April 12, 20233 yr Please do! Or even if no problem happens and it's pure joy ^^ 5800X3D, 64GB 3200 RAM, 7900 XT 20GB
April 12, 20233 yr Author It's great, iborg. Flying over the ocean out of KLAX, it makes quite a thump if you're too low and suddenly skim the water with the wheels a bit. I was watching the app sliders instead of my altitude 🙂 The Youtube videos where they observed you could hardly feel the flaps or G forces: But I feel them fine. Because I set the HFS slider for Engine down to 30 and turned the other sliders full 100%. Then I cranked up the master volume knob (which is on the wired remote). That way I get the full effects of throttle, instead of 30% but all the others are now louder than if you just set them all to 100%. If you raise altitude quickly (pull back on yoke) you feel the effects (I think this is the G force). It's quite strong the way I have the sliders. The seat has a strap that goes around the top back up high. And one that goes around under the street to hold it down. Two loops hold the bottom back corners of the HFS seat bottom back tight to the chair back. The HFS seat can't slide forward. It's a cushion effect that doesn't move but stays put. Pausing the sim (such as going to the MSFS option screen) only temporarily stops the haptic feedback. It comes back instantly when resuming. I used a Buttkicker in FSX, but not in MSFS. I like the HF8 a lot better. I can roll my chair back and forth etc, no problem while connected. USB | audio cords are all long (and the power cord is longer still, about 12 feet long). The The wired remote cord is short (a little over a foot). I used a Velcro strap I already had (2" wide) to hang the wired remote to the office chair seat height adjustment lever, so that there was no pressure on the cord connection to the seat. Or you could velcro that controller to chair arms instead. 5800X3D, RTX4070, 600 Watt, one or two 1440p 32" screens, 64 GB RAM, 4 TB PCle 3 NVMe, Warthog throttle, VKB NXT EVO stick, Honeycomb Alpha yoke, CH quad, 3 Logitech panels, 2 StreamDecks, Desktop Aviator Trim Panel. Crystal Light VR.
April 12, 20233 yr well I have had mine now for a week - touch wood no problems at all - now does it add to the immersion of the sim? - most assuredly - don't think I could go back now to flying without it - especially in VR. One thing I would really like if the programmers for it could come up with a way to make a twin react to a single engine scenario - seeing the seat is split vertically with sensors on both sides it would be beaut if an engine failure could be felt - ah what wishfull thinking - but I suppose some smart programmer could work that out - but I won't hold my breath Rattso Cooler Master Cosmos 700M - MSI Godlike X (Devillike!!) - AMDD Ryzen 9 9950X3D (water cooled) - 128gb Corsair Vengeance 5200 D5 - ASUS ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 Liquid OC GDDR7 32GB - EVGA 2000W P/S - Creative AE-7 - intel Optane 500gb - 3x 2tb M2 SSDs - 2x 2tb Samsung EVO SSDs - 1x Hybrid 2tb HDD - Brunner CLS-63E Joystick - Honeycombe Bravo quadrant - Brunner CLS-B rudder pedals - Samsung Odessey Ark 55" - G9 49" monitor
April 12, 20233 yr It looks interesting, but I know I would be very annoyed by having cables between my chair and PC, so I will wait and hope for a wireless version in the future. System: I ASRock X670E | AMD 7800X3D | 64Gb DDR5 6000 | RTX 4090 | 2TB NVMe | Seasonic Vertex 1000W I LG Ultra Gear 34 UW I
April 12, 20233 yr On 4/7/2023 at 7:43 PM, Wingtip2802 said: Does anyone knows if the HF8 Pad works with thirt party planes such as the Fenix A320 or the PMDG 737??? It will it is a generic tool, but you better use at this moment the free software Simshaker for Aviators Theo Soldaat
April 12, 20233 yr On 4/6/2023 at 9:22 PM, Fielder said: Somebody at a combat sim forum wrote they turned on a fan to blow air on themself for WWI open cockpit planes . I suppose it might be technically possible to alter fan speed according the throttle. Got the tee-shirt 😎 MarkH https://www.youtube.com/@AlmostAviation AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D / 64Gb DDR5 / Zotac RTX 5070 Ti / 2560 x 1440 display
April 12, 20233 yr Author Yeah, nice shirt... 5800X3D, RTX4070, 600 Watt, one or two 1440p 32" screens, 64 GB RAM, 4 TB PCle 3 NVMe, Warthog throttle, VKB NXT EVO stick, Honeycomb Alpha yoke, CH quad, 3 Logitech panels, 2 StreamDecks, Desktop Aviator Trim Panel. Crystal Light VR.
April 14, 20233 yr I tried the HF8 and it does help with immersion, especially in VR. The one thing though I found is that after 15 min or so the HF8 became a little hard to sit on. I started to feel pressure points on the individual pads. I tried putting pillows on the pad and that helped, but now I had a gaming chair / HF8 / pillow sandwich and that made the chair really high and unstable, even at the lowest chair height. If this tech could be buried inside a gaming chair this would become a VR necessity.
May 6, 20233 yr Author I use a high quality coccyx pad on top the HF8 pad. This one has a removable insert so that it can work as a coccyx or a donut pad, either one, or neither. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B092MW72T7 I think it was a couple days ago that HF8 released a new version of their software. This new version was especially designed to make it work nicer with MSFS. 5800X3D, RTX4070, 600 Watt, one or two 1440p 32" screens, 64 GB RAM, 4 TB PCle 3 NVMe, Warthog throttle, VKB NXT EVO stick, Honeycomb Alpha yoke, CH quad, 3 Logitech panels, 2 StreamDecks, Desktop Aviator Trim Panel. Crystal Light VR.
May 16, 20233 yr Well, I pulled the trigger on one and it arrived yesterday. Simshaker works fine, however no joy with the HFS software... the MSplugin launches, but nothing appears in the console window. That is with the latest version installed and I tried all the shenanigans described on the MSFS forum thread. The hardware itself is very nice and does improve the comfort of the base Playseat. Also brings me a bit higher, which is good too since the Playseat is quite low to begin with. 5800X3D, 64GB 3200 RAM, 7900 XT 20GB
June 5, 20233 yr Hello all, Has any one got any experience with the Haptic HF8 with FBW A320/Fenix A320? I presently use a 1st Gen Buttkicker which is OK but wondered if the Haptic HF8 offers anything different to the experience, I think all of the reviews concentrate primarily on prop aircraft as opposed to tubeliners. if anyone has any info and base settings ( I know they are subjective) it would be appreciated, as I predominantly fly airliners. Thank You Regards
June 5, 20233 yr 1 hour ago, Nicholas Jackson said: Hello all, Has any one got any experience with the Haptic HF8 with FBW A320/Fenix A320? I presently use a 1st Gen Buttkicker which is OK but wondered if the Haptic HF8 offers anything different to the experience, I think all of the reviews concentrate primarily on prop aircraft as opposed to tubeliners. if anyone has any info and base settings ( I know they are subjective) it would be appreciated, as I predominantly fly airliners. Thank You Regards The only airliner I've used it with so far is the BAE146 but typically I don't change much between my prop and jet profiles. The main one is engine effect - just over half of my prop profile. Things like gear and flaps are really down to taste as a larger airliner is typically a lot more stable than a smaller GA aircraft. It's easy to tweak and sample how things are as the changes are reflected in real time. Never used a buttkicker so can't compare but the HF8 allows you to assign effects to different areas of the seat providing a different feel/feedback. Ryzen 9800X3D, RTX 5090, 64GB, Win 11. MSFS2020. Moza, MFG, Fulcrum & Virpil controllers. Quest 3 for VR.
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