Eagleclaw, that was the first thing I checked, no luck there.
I am not giving up yet, just want this to work. Tired of AA and want to try something new.
Can you see the stick in the windows setup? Can you calibrate it there?
If yes, move onto the game systems, if no your stick isn't working, bad plug, bad stick.
In the game, go to controllers, and select your from the drop down box. Click on one of the axiss in the list, and click on the "advance" button. Click the calibrate button and follow directions. Watch the blue boxes to the left and see if the line is moving up and down through it. Do each of the axiss this way. If this works move on to the programing of buttons.
I would click the "ok" button after every few changes, then reopen the controllers section to see if it stayed. If it doesn't, then your file may be marked as "read only" in which case it won't "write" the new setting to the file.