Reading the Real Flight Game controller by the Computer

There has to be several things to fit together to make your simulator work. First of all without actually running the simulator program, we have to see if the computer is reading the USB Adapter? Then we have to determine if the computer is reading your Real Flight controller. If you get all this working, then we can work on the simulator itself.

USB ADAPTOR
At the beginning screen on your computer, with just the ICON’s showing, go to the bottom left of the screen and left click your mouse on the green START button.

There will be a new START window to pop up on the left of your computer. At the right hand column of the start selections near the bottom of the list, there is a selection “RUN”. Click on this selection.

There will be a new little window to appear in the bottom left of your screen. Click your cursor in the white banner to the right of where it says OPEN.

Type in dxdiag and click on the OK.

A big window will pop up that says DirectX Diagnostic Tool in its blue banner. There will be several selections of pull down windows like System, DirectX files, etc. There will be one that says INPUT that you will want to click on.

Now there will be a window with some selections in it like Mouse, Keyboard, etc. The last one should read USB ADAPTER when you scroll down to it.

If this has proven TRUE, then click your mouse on all the red X’s in the upper right corner until you get back to your normal first screen. You have just determined that the computer sees the USB ADAPTER.

REAL FLIGHT GAME CONTROLLER
Now click on the green START button again. In the new window, click on CONTROL PANEL. There will be another new window to appear that has pictures of different parts of your computer and their names. Click on the one that says PRINTERS AND OTHER HARDWARE.

On this window, you will see selections like MOUSE, KEYBOARD, etc. Click on the one that says GAME CONTROLLER.

There will be another window to pop up that says USB ADAPTER in the blue banner. Under this blue banner are pull down selections like ADD, REMOVE, etc. Click on the one that says PROPERTIES.

Then a new window will appear on top of everything else that has some selections like SETTINGS & TEST. Click on TEST.
Now, yet another window will appear on top of the others. This window has a square with a plus sign in the middle of it. If you move your right joystick on the Real Flight controller, you should see this + sign wiggle around? Don’t worry so much about the left joystick as you will not be able to determine a whole lot but you can try and see what happens to satisfy your own curiosity? The three switches (buttons) on the controller are indicated by a row of lights along the bottom of this window. Try them and see if the lights come on?

The main point here is to see if the computer is reading your Real Flight controller. If everything is OK, click on all the red X’s again to get back to your original screen that you normally see.

NOW WHAT?
If this is all OK, then we are going to have to work on the Flight Software itself.

Jim