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Title: Joystick settings... poof
Post by: Triton28 on March 05, 2013, 11:01:38 AM

For the second (or maybe third) time I've logged on to find my joystick mapping in game completely erased.   :furious

Given the amount of time I've spent playing this game, it's actually not that common, but the fact that it's happened at least twice is making me  :headscratch:

Does this happen to anyone else?



 

Title: Re: Joystick settings... poof
Post by: guncrasher on March 05, 2013, 12:23:51 PM

is it a ch stick.?   Looks like the stick is losing connection.  do you have a self powered usb?


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Title: Re: Joystick settings... poof
Post by: Triton28 on March 05, 2013, 12:30:02 PM

Quote from: guncrasher on March 05, 2013, 12:23:51 PM

is it a ch stick.?   Looks like the stick is losing connection.  do you have a self powered usb?


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Doh... sorry. 

It's a Logitech G940 and no, I have no powered USB hub.  The G940 pedals and throttle plug in to the stick, and the stick plugs to the computer.  I disconnect the stick from the computer when I'm done playing.  Everything else stays plugged like it was.

It never loses mapping during play, only randomly when I fire the game up.  I always know it's screwed because I calibrate every time I play.

Title: Re: Joystick settings... poof
Post by: SIK1 on March 05, 2013, 02:16:46 PM

Are you plugging it back into the same port?
Isn't the G940 a ffb stick? A powered hub might help, and when I say a powered hub I mean one that has a separate power supply that plugs into the outlet. Not one that gets its' power from the USB buss.

Title: Re: Joystick settings... poof
Post by: Skuzzy on March 05, 2013, 02:20:10 PM

If you have to calibrate the stick, it is because the stick has been given a new Windows ID and Windows needs to have it calibrated again.  This, in turn, causes the game to lose its ID for the stick as it has changed.

A powered USB hub would probably solve the problem.  If the USB bus is power cycling, due to load, it will eventually cause the USB bus to completely fail.

Title: Re: Joystick settings... poof
Post by: Triton28 on March 05, 2013, 02:39:54 PM

I am using the same hub when plugging/unplugging.  It is a FFB stick.

The recalibration habit was just a response to having to do it a couple of times in quick succession when I first got the stick.  I also talked to other players who said they have to recalibrate almost every time they log in.  Given that the G940 is buggy (to put it mildly), I just chalked this up to one of it's lesser demons and went on with my business. 

I will try the powered hub.  I was going to get one to use with my upcoming build, anyway.  I just gotta keep the wife away from the money first.    :lol

Thanks for the help guys.

 :salute