Game freezes on startup after driver re-installation

[jollyFE]

Got a weird one here.  My X-52 Pro wouldn't be recognized in game so I figured that a driver must have gotten corrupted.....easy fix or so I thought.  I went to Saitek and downloaded the appropriate driver and installed it.  This took forever...like an hour for it to finish (which it never did)...in fact my pc locked up so I had to restart.  If I leave my stick plugged in to the USB port(powered hub), the pc wont progress past the password entry screen when windows starts.  I unplug the stick and restart the pc and everything starts fine.  I plug the stick in and windows says it's installed the drivers and I try to start AH...gets to the online arena selection phase and stops responding.   I know I have deeper issues but I just want to fly.

thanks

Tim

[Skuzzy]

First of all, you did not need to install anything from Saitek.  If you did, then get rid of it.

Something is not acting right with your computer.  I do not have enough information to make a guess at what it could be.

I need to see a [bcomplete[/b] DXDIAG output.  That might help.

[jollyFE]

heres the dxdiag

[Skuzzy]

You have two NVidia GTX 760 cards in the system?

What power supply is in the computer?

[jollyFE]

1 card 2 monitors

[Skuzzy]

There are two instances of the card showing up in the DXDIAG output.  That usually means there are two drivers installed, unless NVidia is actually registering the driver for each monitor, which would be very odd.

[jollyFE]

not sure on the power supply...its a big one though

[jollyFE]

Weird, how would I get rid of the duplicate vid driver?

[Skuzzy]

Purge the system of the drivers, then let Windows install the VGA driver and then install the NVidia driver again.

Or, remove the other monitor and run DXDIAG again and view the text file to see if there is still a double entry.

[jollyFE]

unhooked the other monitor

[guncrasher]

I had a problem with a couple of updates before.  when something got installed in windows and my x-52 throttle stopped working.  not sure what madcatz did to their driver but somehow my windows got messed up.  when I switched to the x-55 rhino the throttle would be recognized either.  I had to do a clean reinstall of windows and then both my x-52 and x-55 throttle started working.

I still have my old hd and when I hook it up it still wont recognize my x55 throttle.


semp

[jollyFE]

So if I read Skuzzy right, I can not install any Saitek drivers and the X52 should work fine?...How would I remove all the Saitek drivers.

[Skuzzy]

Is there not an Add/Remove feature in the Control Panel/Programs and Features for the Saitek software in Windows?

[jollyFE]

Nothing in the add remove programs says Saitek, does that mean that I have gotten rid of all of it, or are there things left in the registry?

[Skuzzy]

It might be madcatz.  Yes, there could be things remaining in the registry.