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Help and Support Forums => Help and Training => Topic started by: TDeacon on April 17, 2012, 11:06:04 PM
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I can retain calibration settings after exiting and then restarting AH. However, if I reboot my Windows XP PC, I lose the calibration settings. Is there a file I can make write-only, or some such known solution?
MH
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Run DIView after you reboot and see whats happening with all of your USB game devices. Go into the game recalibrate, then exit the game and run DIView again and see what is going on.
DIView.zip is from Logitech support originaly to look at your Logitech game controller inputs. Just unzip and run it. USDBDeview will tell you everthing you didn't want to know about all of your USB devices connected to your system. Including the USB type of all of your devices. There are seperate downloads for 32bit and 64bit.
DIView and USBDeview are free applications that you simply run the file, no install.
http://www.cannonsimulationtechnologies.com/usertpl/1vg017v2-left-column/diview.zip
http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/USBDeview-Download-53487.html
You need to specify what kind of controller. If it's on an external powered HUB. You could have a USB port going bad or not getting proper voltage. Your controler could be one USB version while your USB port is another or the port could be having problems auto-sensing the USB version of your joystick. Your joystick could be going bad.
Oh...have you tried moving your joystick to another USB port?
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I've seen this issue since I started running Aces High back in 2004. Back then, I didn't even have a powered USB hub. I thought I remembered that it was something that XP was doing.
MH
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In device manager is there a yellow warning dot on your Joystick? Does it list under its name or generic game device?
If it's your XP registry calibration settings try this from Logitech to completely clean out any controller calibration settings in your registry:
http://www.logitech.com/en-us/441/291?softwareid=633&osid=1§ion=downloads
I'm going to assume no XP updates installed recently have changed your power management or USB power management. But. just in case go into the screen saver tab and turn off all power management. Under devices go into USB controllers and your joystick device and turn of allowing the OS to turn off this device for all of the root HUBs and your joystick which should be higher up in the device tree.
Are you running a screen saver? Turn that off and see if this stops. Do you have other USB devices connected to your PC other than a throttel, mouse/keyboard? Have you pulled those other devices? Plugged your joystick into a different port?
DIView can tell you alot about your joystick while it's just sitting idle in windows before you start the game. Is it sitting there spiking on the x, y axis or off center on both? What joystick is this? Have you run searches against your joystick and XP to see if other people have your problem? Have you swapped out your joystick to see if it's the joystick?
Two possible reasons why Skuzzy hasen't hopped in yet.
This should have been posted in the techsupport section along with your joystick type and PC info. Or there is no simple XP solution and he's letting me run through the general question and answer with you to build up a picture of your problem or solve it.
What have you done to troubleshoot this yourself so maybe I don't reinvent the wheel.
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I run XP Pro and I don't lose calibration settings. I almost never recalibrate and I turn my machine off every day.
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I will repost in tech support.
MH
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Great responce bustr. :salute
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I've recently began loosing calibration settings on every game exit. Im on windows 7 though. Seems like it started happening after I adjusted the dampening settings slightly from the default settings. ( Aileron and rudder )
Of course I'm playing with a logitech 3d pro that's about 6 months old so it's now in it's "golden years"
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I've recently began loosing calibration settings on every game exit. Im on windows 7 though. Seems like it started happening after I adjusted the dampening settings slightly from the default settings. ( Aileron and rudder )
Of course I'm playing with a logitech 3d pro that's about 6 months old so it's now in it's "golden years"
Note that mine are not lost on game exit, but only on Windows exit.
MH
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Go to your game controller properties and watch the display to see if the movement is correct under windows.
If you find the behavior to not be linear and is super sensitive to where it goes full deflection with very little stick movement, then I believe there is a flightstick jihad thread that may help.