Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler - Joystick losing connection in FSX

Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler | PC Support | Joystick losing connection in FSX

DVA4229
First Officer, B767-300
OLP

Joined on March 19 2007

"Sink rate. Sink Rate."
Southeastern United States

54 legs, 100.9 hours
47 legs, 87.7 hours online
53 legs, 98.4 hours ACARS
7 legs, 11.9 hours event

Posted onPost created on April 05 2014 23:00 ET by Lawrence Woodworth

I'm having a problem and it only seems to be happening when I am trying to fly on Vatsim.

Win 8.1 x64, 16 GB RAM, FSX w/Accelerator Pack and 4GB patch, Logitech Extreme 3D Pro joystick

The FSX controls settings before start look correct with the 3D Pro listed as the controller. Just about the time I'm ready for a pushback, the joystick stops responding. Checking Options from the menu bar shows that the joystick settings have been replaced by the mouse yoke settings and there seems to be no way to get the Extreme 3D Pro back as the controller (it's no longer listed as a controller option). Exiting the program and restarting brings the Extreme 3D Pro back as the controller. Any ideas on where to look would be greatly appreciated.

Lawrence Woodworth (DVA4229)

DVA11180
Captain, A320

Joined on December 12 2012
Century Club

Minneapolis, MN

143 legs, 266.3 hours
133 legs, 249.7 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on April 06 2014 00:55 ET by Caleb Williams

This is probably the Joystick issue with Windows 8. The only solutions is FSUIPC. At least that's only one that worked for me. YMMV.

Caleb Williams

Captain, A320

DVA2533
Senior Captain, EMB-120
OLP, COMM

Joined on July 27 2005
50 State Club
Globetrotter
Commuter Conquest
Dorval 500 Club
US Coastal Club
Online Fifteen Century
US Mountaineer Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
Bi-Millennium Club

Winter Springs, FL USA

2,087 legs, 2,752.1 hours
1,762 legs, 2,302.1 hours online
1,905 legs, 2,467.0 hours ACARS
29 legs, 31.6 hours event

Posted onPost created on April 07 2014 13:44 ET by Jim Warner

You might also look at your flying programs to see that you are running all of them as administrator (ACARS, FSX, SB4, etc.). Mine wouldn't fly correctly until I ran all of them as an administrator.

Jim Warner

Senior Captain, EMB-120

DVA12073
First Officer, MD-88

Joined on March 30 2014

India

7 legs, 6.5 hours
2 legs, 1.7 hours online
6 legs, 5.7 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on April 10 2014 11:30 ET by Anindya Banerjee

I also use to suffer from this problem sometime. An 'Alt+Enter' hit from keyboard most of the time resolves the issue. Further hit of 'Alt+Enter' may also be done to switch back to your favourite full screen or windowed mode whichever you like. smile

Anindya Banerjee

First Officer, MD-88

Posted onPost created on April 10 2014 22:42 ET by Lawrence Woodworth

I did a couple of things: Went online and found a thread about FSX, Win7/8, and joysticks losing connection. The fix they posted was to go into the Device Manager and edit all the HID and USB hubs so that any with a power management tab had power management set to "Off". Then I went into FSX and turned off all joystick axis and button assignments. Then I went into FSUIPC and assigned all the joystick axis and buttons. Tonight I was able to complete a flight with Vatsim, ATC, and ACARS running. rawk

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