<S> gents,
I had to put a new hard drive in my computer recently. It has windows 7 loaded on the new drive. My previous hard drive had vista. The x52 stick worked fine on vista.
The X-52 pinkie switch and the POV-2 hat switch (upper hat switch) won't work. I've downloaded the drivers and software from Saitek. The "test panel" function in the software shows these two switches as functioning; (ie: the lights flash on the Saitek test panel when I operate these two switches), but alas ...in the "map controller" selection of AH these two switches do not function. All the other buttons/hats on the stick and throttle work in game except these two.
I've even gone so far as to assign the POV-2 hat switch positions (8 way) with letters in the Saitek software; and assigned those same letters to 8 views in the "map keyboard" section of AH. This doesn't work either. I can see these letters being produced by the stick in Saitek software "test" mode. I can also press my keyboard letters and observe the correct the pilot view change in the game.
The stick is 7 years old and has never given any problems. It just won't communicate to the AH game for these two switches.
I've tried running the game in compatibility mode for vista....no improvement. I've deleted AH and the Saitek downloads+drivers and re-loaded them fresh 3 times...no good.
I'm running out of ideas; anyone else experience this problem?
V/R and <S>, SWjink
