VKB-SIM

Using my VKB F-14-stick on the Heatblur F-14 in DCS.
Every now and then I noticed the trim wandering away without touching the coolie hat (that I have the trim assigned to) after flying for a while...
I still need to investigate further, but can this be a hardware-issue, maybe?
Or is there something I can try out in the DevCfg-Sorftware?
What do you think?
Thanks for your ideas and input!

In order to have the trim activated a button must get pressed. When this is happening in game alt-tab to a tester and see if there's any input from the hat buttons. If there is, then there's something wrong with the hat switch. If there's not, then it must be a game setting (check if the trim is properly bound to digital and not analog).

Thanks, fallout.
First of all, can you please explain what you mean by trim to be bound "digitally" and not "anlog"?

Then, allow me to give more details:

DCS has the possibility to show axis-/flight-control-inputs (Joystick, Throttle, Rudder) ingame by pressing Rctrl+Enter. I'll come back to that in a second...

In-game (DCS Controls key-binds/assigns - not DevCfg) I have assigned trim to the VKB stick's coolie hat. (In DevCfg I have been resetting/calibrating the stick beforehand - but no more than that.)

After flying the F-14 for a while (and everything - icluding trim - working fine) my plane was starting to pitch up. I could not counter that by pushing the stick fully forward...
I hit Rctrl+Enter and it showed the positions of all my axis where they should be EXCEPT the trim at a rear right position (=> pitch up and right bank) without me having touched the hat for a while. (see screenie attached - the small diamond to the lower right shows the trim's position... I was pushing the stick fully forward (big diamond at the very top of its axis) to regain control of the aircraft at that moment.)

Btw.: to my knowledge Alt+Tab doesn't work in DCS (can that be?) - so I don't know how I could check if any of the coolie positions were been triggered at that moment... Anyhow by using the coolie hat, I might be able to re-position the trim back to neutral (I will have to check that again) - that would mean that the trim was changed "at once" and not by a constant coolie hat's input.
Can that be? THAT (to me) would sound like a hardware-related thing and not something in DCS...
What do you think?

Anything else that I could check or try? Any input is much appreciated.

Thanks
Oliver


Question: does my thread belong here or should better be moved to the Tech Support-section of the forum???

Update: yesterday I had same issue again. Not AS bad as before, though: trim just went to the right - actually it WAS at the right side from one moment to the other, not wandering.
I tried resetting the trim by using the coolie hat - but nothing happened!

Found out that Alt-Tab works well with the sim in pause.

Went to the DevCfg and found the coolie did not register movements for a second or two, then came back to life.

Very strange!


Then: guess this really belongs to the Tech Support. Will you please move it there? Thanks!