Saitek X45 Stuff
	Keyboard layout
	Sounds
	TWEAK: bin files
	TWEAK: sharpness

Saitek X45 Stuff

X45 profile based on Dhauzimmers drivers

I have changed to Dhauzimmers drivers and stopped using the official Saitek drivers. They advantage is that with these drivers you can make your rotaries work, define lists of commands that you cycle through and in short use the full potential of your X45. What you need to do is:

1. de-install Saitek drivers
2. download the drivers made by Dhauzimmer, the latest version (x36usb2105c.zip) of the drivers can be found at http://vega.dyndns.org/x36/
3. install the drivers as described at Ron Hunt's Unofficial Saitek Help Cente

Use one of the user made tools to program your stick. My personal favourite is:

XD-Profile is a great program by Mike "Mitch" Houghton, that allows you to set up a easy to enderstand text file with your entire profile. Current version is 1.01. This tool then translates this to a file that can be uploaded to your stick. The website for XDProfile is: http://xdprofile.freebirdswing.org/index.asp.

The easiest is to download one of the ready made files from the site and start fumbling around with that.

My eech XD-Profile files can be dowloaded here: eech_xdp.zip (right click and save). The zip contains a text file (eech2.xdp) that can be loaded in XD-Profile and a binary file (eech2.bsp) for uploading to your X45 using the query.exe tool that comes with the Dhauzimmer drivers.

Finally I made a Powerpoint page in which you can use with this profile or you can fill in the commands for reference while you are flying. The powerpoint file can be dowloaded here (click on the image for a larger version):

Old SST based files

My Saitek X45 SST profile. in general mode 1 is for all normal operations, mode 2 is for all wingman related commands

• POV 1 :
  • mode 1: view cockpit, target, missile and map
  • mode 2: reuqest artillery, air, backup, transmit recon
• POV 2 :
  • mode 1: activate radars, TADS and TSD, trim
  • mode 2: call wingman 1, 2, 3 and flightgroup
• POV 3 : autopilot, hover hold, waypoints up/down, time+/-
• mouse POV: looking around
• mouse button : view cockpit - F1 and view HUD - ctrl F1 (shiftet)
• Rotaries : zoom radar and TDS
• A :
  • mode 1: select target up / down
  • mode 2: values 1 and 5 (shifted) for wingman commands
• Launch :
  • mode 1: ground radar target priority up / down and air radar all/enemy switching
  • mode 2: values 2 and 6 (shifted) for wingman commands
• B :
  • mode 1: select/store weapon
  • mode 2: values 3 and 7 (shifted) for wingman commands
• C :
  • mode 1: LOAL/LOBL + auto target (shifted)
  • mode 2: values 4 and 8 (shifted) for wingman commands
• D : flare + chaff

X36 gameport and PCDash 1 files

(for use with the gameport software)

PCDash 1 sheet	PCDash 1 files	X36
	here	here
	here	same as above

Saitek X36 Combo command viewer

An old tool, works only with the gameport version of the X36 !

This tool is no longer continued...

The Saitek X36 Combo command viewer is a little tool to help remember which commands you assigned to the buttons. The viewer is based on a stylized drawing of the stick and the throttle with boxes next to the buttons that show the commands.

Some features:

show the command strings or the key codes
show the commands for all 3 modes or just one of the modes
ignore double commands (pinkie shift)
edit the command strings
dump the picture to printer or jpeg
change fonts

You can download the last version of the command viewer here. Just unzip it somwewhere to your liking. It should be self explanatory, just fool around with it :-). When you load a x36 file it will look in the header for the corresponding cmd file (the program assumes that both files are in the same directory, or that they are in ..\X36 and ..\Cmd).

If you think you can do something with the Borland C++ Builder source: here it is.

Screenshot:

EECH keyboard layout

 

Click on the image to enlarge and save.

Sounds

One of the sounds I don't like is the engine overtorque warning. The speech files replace both US and CIS versions of this warning with silence. You'll only here the overtorque warning beep.

To install: get the Ground Support System by Richard "Flexman" Hawley. Download and unzip with full path information the SPEECH.zip file under the directory: \razorworks\cohokum\audio.

Then use GSS to repack the audio files. You can make a backup of the original sounds with the "export single" option of GSS. The files are called: audio\SPEECH\US\SYSTEM\WARN_41.PCM and audio\SPEECH\CIS\SYSTEM\WARN_41.PCM. Careful, the export name is the same for both files so you have to make copy in between!

Tweaks

NOTE: this is no longer necessary as of version 162W2 and later (thanks to Firebird).

Make your NVIDIA card use the bin files

Download the tool Rivatuner. Install it and click on the "Detonator XP detected Customize..." button:

Click on the DX symbol (second button) and find the "textures" tab. UNCHECK the "Enable 8-bit palletized textures" (second item). Restart your computer and EECH will use the texture.bin instead of the texture.pal file.

Image quality

 IMPORTANT: the image quality settings of your geforce card determines to a large extend how your cockpit graphics will look. If you use "best performance" to up the framerate this will give you blurry cockpit graphics. The "blend" option is reasonable.

best performance                          best image quality

    

Quite a difference (at 960x1280)!