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Controller Hardware Anomaly

StormILM

StormILM

Charter Member
Just wanted to ask here (repost from the P3D forum),

This morning I went to run a test of one of my models after making a tweak and after I started P3D and went to fly, I noticed that all of the buttons on my X56 stick were not functioning. The Axis were all fine. I did the normal troubleshoot to see what was going on, no joy. I closed P3D and went to DCS, same thing. Oddly my X56 throttle's buttons and sliders worked normally. This X56 unit (which was a replacement for my original) doesn't have a lot of time and wear on it and has already outlasted the original I had by 3 years. I was able to figure out that the buttons on the stick were actually fully functional but not communicating with either sim. I did a Hail Mary pass/move and decided to uninstall the drivers and reinstall them. Boom! Problem fixed. That leads me to the question if this was some odd glitch or overwrite with a Windows 10 update involving USB drivers/firmware that screwed things up? Anyone else seen this sort of thing? I also take note that it looks like the X56 drivers haven't been updated in over 2 years which makes me wonder if they may be prone to glitches like this with each Windows update or other issues.
 
At times both my axes for the stick will vanish. I have to go into the software (X56 HOTAS) and re calibrate both then I'm back in business. I have heard that it's best to use a powered USB hub and plug both controllers into it. Which I do.
 
udidwht said:
At times both my axes for the stick will vanish. I have to go into the software (X56 HOTAS) and re calibrate both then I'm back in business. I have heard that it's best to use a powered USB hub and plug both controllers into it. Which I do.
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Yeah, I figured out that using the calibrate function would usually fix the issue although I ended up seeing the POV hat stop working and the re-calibrate didn't fix that. Apparently just a bad contact with the pins between the stick and the base which I fixed by unscrewing the stick, pushing on the contact pins a few times, cleared right up. So far, the X-56 has held up a lot better than the X-55 did. I will take your advice on the powered USB port.
 
I always get some strange behaviour with my HOTAS Warthog and Saitek pro combat rudder pedals, but only in DCS World. Every now and then I need to redo my controls, usually after an update to DCS, although I will just fix up each aircraft as I fly it. Also, the first time I set controls for an aircraft, a lot of functions are pre mapped, but I always find that axis controls are triple mapped to joystick, throttle, and rudder. This plays havoc obviously, until I fix it up by deleting the extra maps. Sometimes buttons and key maps are also duplicated across two or more devices.
 
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