Joystick(s) not connecting to X-Plane! Need Advise

[Toby Rice]

Last night, I flew XP9.70 with my Logitech Extreme Pro joystick, and It worked fine. Now it's not!

 

This afternoon, I started up XP9 as usual, and instead of working as normal, the joystick was not activated, and the little "+" in the middle of the screen was there as if the joystick was never plugged in. I restarted X-Plane, unplugged the joystick, plugged it back in, and it still did not work. I tried my old joysticks, and restarted the PC, and nothing worked.

 

My joystick is not bad, as the device manager on the PC said it was working fine.

 

Please help!

 

This is really bad since I am working on a big assignment on FSEconomy that needs to be done ASAP.

 

Here are my specs:

 

X-Plane 9.70

Windows 8

Logitech Extreme 3D Pro

 

[Cannuccia]

It is a windows 8/8.1 problem with USB devices. I experienced this MANY times in 32bit mode also in x-plane 10. All ok in 64bit. I do not know if the same procedure works, but give it a try...

I remember I partially solved loading x-plane after a cache cleaning (with ccleaner) and PC restart. Then start x-plane with a very simple scenery and plane, and then switch to a more complex scenery/plane. Many time this worked.

The basic is to free as much memory as possible before loading x-plane, so close all unused/unnecessary programs running in background.

I also tried all the procedures I found on Microsoft forums, including disabling the power management options of USB devices, but with no success. I suppose it is a memory problem of windows 8 (never solved) or something related, because x-plane loads correctly, but, soon before displaying the loaded scenery/interface, disconnects the peripherals. This happens also in FSX so I suppose it is not strictly an x-plane problem, but a 32bit problem in windows.

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Edited April 14, 2014 by Mad Mat

[Toby Rice]

Ah, I see. Thanks.

 

It started working randomly last night, so I guess its fine now. I'll yell if it goes wrong again.