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Navy Chief
April 6th, 2015, 13:07
This device sounds promising. Information about it:

http://store.steampowered.com/app/353380


I posted a question on their forum, asking if this device will accept inputs from flight sim controllers, such as my Saitek X52 set up. The following was another member's response, except I do not understand what "input API" is, or how I would determine what that is, with relation to my controllers.


We don't know yet. The device comes out in November, hopefully we will be given more information before then; if not, wait for reviews/compatibility tests. At a guess, it depends on the input API of your device, but I don't know enough about that kind of thing.

Craig Taylor
April 6th, 2015, 13:21
The "input API" would be the Application Program Interface (API) software that takes the input signals from your hardware and translates them into instructions that Windows (or Steam, or a game (FSX, for example)) can understand. Some hardware can interface already using the built-in Windows APIs for input devices (such as your mouse), but others may need their own software. And...that's about the extent of my knowledge. :wavey: