What additions do you run with ED?

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Re: What additions do you run with ED?

Postby LionOfNarnia » Thu Dec 03, 2015 4:25 pm

LOL another big WinAmp fan here, for music. VLC/Ace for streams & GOM for my movie/show collection.

I hear you all about keyboard width too - My Steel Series Merc Stealth tucks away under the 32" screen for Elite, I have a cheapo (£20) 'Cerulian' mini-board which I bought for the lappy but sits very nicely between the X-52Pro controls & still leaves room for an ashtray. VERY important!

I do have a Razor Nostromo, but am yet to find any real use for it in space - even if having it sat there makes it look much more like the cockpit layout.

I don't use my Logitech headset much in-game, mostly coz I have to turn the game volume down so much to use it without bleedthrough. Having no family & few neighbours means I can use my 550w 5.1 system the way the manufacturers intended ;)

I did give headtracking a whirl, using OpenTrack & FreePIE - it works fine, but it just feels 'wrong' to have a moby on my head so I stopped.
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Re: What additions do you run with ED?

Postby Flip » Thu Dec 03, 2015 4:47 pm

I use Xion Audio Player for radios and music, because it has global hotkeys that allow me to control it from my HOTAS (including the volume).
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Re: What additions do you run with ED?

Postby Cmdr Kharma » Thu Dec 03, 2015 4:55 pm

Winamp is controlled by a tab in powergrid....So I can alter the master volume......Music volume and Mic volume....Plus pause play etc....
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Re: What additions do you run with ED?

Postby JustSomeGuy » Fri Dec 04, 2015 9:42 am

Foobar2000 for music and MPC-HC for video. Both are very lightweight and fast, been using these for ages.
On Linux, Clementine for music and SMplayer for video. There is also a Windows version of these two.
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Re: What additions do you run with ED?

Postby Gregster » Mon Dec 14, 2015 10:08 am

So my impatience got the better of me and seeing as ED is pretty much the only game that has me hooked, I decided to grab a DK2 (I know it isn't long till the CV1) and OMFG.... I am blown away by it in truth. First time I fired it up, I was in a station in my Anaconda and it is the first time I have actually seen how big these things are. Looking around the ship is just wow and it has made ED go up to 11.
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Re: What additions do you run with ED?

Postby evovi » Mon Dec 14, 2015 10:18 am

I nearly bought one from eBay few week back, the sketchy support from fd and some advice from here I aired on caution - would love to see it from within the rift tho.. Sixth sense needed on button mapping!

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Re: What additions do you run with ED?

Postby Gregster » Mon Dec 14, 2015 10:25 am

evovi wrote:I nearly bought one from eBay few week back, the sketchy support from fd and some advice from here I aired on caution - would love to see it from within the rift tho.. Sixth sense needed on button mapping!


Whilst waiting for delivery from the bay, I had a good read up to familiarise with everything and what was needed to be done which helped and ED worked perfectly off the bat except for being upside down :D A quick fiddle in monitor settings had it working properly though.

A shame that I have to keep switching between 0.7 and 0.5 runtime but it is only a case of using a switcher program that the community made, so all easy there as well.

Gripes are pixels and clarity but after playing for a few days with it, I can say that our eyes start to ignore the pixels and this makes for a better experience but the CV1 will be better for that. I have been doing the CG goal at a CZ and it is amazing leaning forward and looking up. Jaw dropping in fact and I was totally alone when I fired it up in ED for the first time and actually said out loud "Oh my ****ing God" :D I was blown away propers!

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Oh and running Voice attack really does help. Saves guessing where the KB is, let alone specific keys. Plotting a course is the tricky bit but I just lift it up to see the keys :D
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Re: What additions do you run with ED?

Postby charlie2alpha » Mon Dec 14, 2015 11:11 am

I hate all of you and especially JohnLuke ( I just ordered an edtracker pro, I'm a dead man :D ).
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Re: What additions do you run with ED?

Postby evovi » Mon Dec 14, 2015 11:22 am

Like the track ir, situational awareness is unsurpassed - the ability to lean forward twist, tilt - if you loose track of your enemy - you need to go to flight school :) or your flying an anaconda against an eagle lol

You will have to give a demo ;) I wasn't aware that swapping sdk's was so easy tbh... Good on ya!

My money is now tied up in a new desk and a possible new PC dedicated to the "desk" good job I don't have a wife anymore lol!

Think with the desk, PC and my track ir, I'll be content until the vr systems come down in price

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Re: What additions do you run with ED?

Postby LionOfNarnia » Mon Dec 14, 2015 12:33 pm

OK, I have added to my toolbox ;)

Roccat PowerGrid running on my Sony Xperia, which sits nicely over that useless MFD panel on the X-52 Pro.

I made a custom grid which gives me 6 extra buttons that I can hit with my left thumb whilst keeping my hand on the throttle. 3 of them are macros for my fave power distro configs:-

RUN (2-4-0), SHIELDS (4-0-2) & ATTACK (3-0-3)

Final layout
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Earlier version in place
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