RigReady
Get the rig ready, keep your controls, find what is wrong.
RigReady is a free Windows app for flight and racing sim rigs. It checks the rig before you launch and fixes what it can, helps you set up, save and bring back your bindings, and shows what every controller is doing when something is off. It does three jobs:
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| Ready to launch (before a session) | Checks the rig for the setup you are about to use, fixes what is off, and starts the game. |
| Controls, set up and saved (setting up) | Bindings, cheat sheets and backups, so a new aircraft or a new PC does not start from nothing. |
| See what the rig is doing (when something is off) | Every button, axis and USB port the way a game sees them, so a fault has a name. |
Website: rigready.io · Manual: rigready.io/docs · License: MIT
Who it is for
People with a flight or racing rig on a PC that is also used for other things. Getting it ready means the right controllers are plugged in, the helper apps are running, the monitors are arranged and the game's files are intact; when one of those is off, you usually find out after the game has loaded. Setting up bindings for a rig full of controllers takes hours, and a reinstall or a new PC can mean doing it again. And when a view creeps or a button does nothing, it is hard to tell which device is at fault. RigReady helps with all three.
Status
Version 2.0.0 is a rebuild from the ground up, and it is what this page describes. It is in final testing and not published yet: there is no 2.0 installer to download, and the only way to run it today is from source (below). When it is published, the installer will be on the download page and under Releases.
The installer on the Releases page today is version 1.1.0, the first RigReady, from February 2026. Version 2.0 replaces it. It does not use version 1's setups as they are, but lists them apart and can bring one over as a new setup; 1.1.0 does not update itself to 2.0.
docs/requirements/ledger.yaml lists every requirement with its status and the evidence for it; CHANGELOG.md summarises what 2.0.0 contains and what is still open.
What it does
Ready to launch
A setup records how the rig looks when it works. Before each session RigReady checks the rig against it, fixes what is off, and launches the game. Launch on its own is never blocked, only warned.
- The Play screen. One screen for the setup you used last: a readiness dial, the rig drawn with its monitors and devices, and a checklist of controllers, helper apps, monitors, audio and game files with a fix beside every failing item. Make ready and launch runs every fix in order (starts apps, applies the monitor layout, restores files) and starts the game once everything required is in place. Stand down closes the helper apps and puts the monitors back to the desk layout. The Play screen
- Without the window. A desktop shortcut per setup, the tray menu, the taskbar button and a hotkey, so a session can start with one double-click. Inside the app, Ctrl+K runs any action. Starting without the window
- Monitors and audio. Named layouts for flying, racing and the desk, with identify; a layout you apply goes back by itself unless you keep it, and once you have kept a layout, Make ready applies it without asking again. Default audio devices. Monitors and audio
- Flying and racing on one PC. One setup per aircraft or car, each with its own devices, apps and layout. Setups
Controls, set up and saved
Setting up bindings for a rig full of controllers takes hours. RigReady helps you get them right, shows what every control does, and keeps a copy so a reinstall or a new PC does not mean starting again.
- Capture a setup. Record the controllers, apps, layout and audio as they are now, then edit. Capture
- Bindings. For DCS: see the bindings in effect, edit them with a preview, clear the defaults DCS adds to every device, and copy controls between aircraft. For iRacing: every action and what it is bound to, for all cars and for each car with custom controls, read only. One Bindings page with a game picker. DCS bindings, iRacing bindings
- Cheat sheets. Each device drawn with what every control does, for DCS aircraft and the racing games, printable and exportable as DCS kneeboard pages. A controller with no drawing gets a sheet from your own photo of it. Cheat sheets
- Learn them. A trainer names an action and you press the control; twenty binding guides, from the F/A-18C, F-16C, A-10C and F-14 to the Ka-50, UH-1H and P-51D, walk through what to bind first, and you can write or import your own. Trainer
- Overlay. A small see-through list over the game of each button you press and what it does there, fading after a few seconds. Off until you turn it on. The overlay
- Back up and restore. One click backs up setups, game files and settings; a restore shows what will change before it does. Backups, moving to a new PC
- Share it. Share a setup as a file with personal details reviewed and removed, or make a picture of the rig to show people. Sharing
See what the rig is doing
A view that creeps, a button that does nothing, a panel the game no longer knows. These tools show what each controller sends and where it is plugged in.
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