The game sees the PTA key and the issued VAC
command as a key combination and that’s the problem you may be having.
I’ll try and explain that a bit better.
For example, say you have an action “Raise Gear” which will send the
“g” key when activated by VAC. Each time you say “Raise Gear” the
“g” key is sent and all is fine, but now you assign a PTA key like
“L-Alt”. So you press “L-Alt” and say “Raise Gear”, the game
sees “L-Alt+g” and the command is not recognized. Some games this will
not matter, but games that allow key combinations will be a problem.
To solve the problem, assign a mouse button as the
PTA key, and then tie a joystick button to that mouse button. Each time the
joystick button is pressed, it’s sending the PTA to VAC and the game will
not see a key combination sent when VAC issues the key command.
