G'day guys, I've recently purchased a Saitek X52 set-up and it has been great apart from two things.
1: It squeaks like a mouse on ecstasy
2: (and more seriously) It has a tendency to completely flip out about once a week.
Everything is calibrated as it should be and the stick works better than fine for a week or two and then without warning it seems to instantly recalibrate itself in a strong nose-down manner.
I'll be engaged and pulling through a turn and all of a sudden the nose will drop and all inputs on the vertical axis will become very twitchy making it impossible to fight and difficult to maintain level flight.
An in-game recalibration will fix the problem and restore it to perhaps 90% performance but this will only last long enough to RTB and does not suffice for further fighting.
Someone was kind enough to post a Saitek recalibration pack which completely re-writes its directory or something of this nature.
This requires un-plugging the stick, running the re-cal. then plugging it back in and recalibrating the stick through AH (for trim and RPM sliders mainly).
I've had Saitek sticks in the past and I never had a problem like this. My Evo's vertical axis gradually degraded over time, so I replaced it. The just X52 goes haywire every now and then.
As it is now I have a fix for the problem but it is frustrating at times.
Has anyone come across this before?
Any input is much appreciated.
Cheers,
-Arch
