StormILM
January 30th, 2020, 12:56
Just wanted to ask here (repost from the P3D forum),
This morning I went to run a test of one of my models after making a tweak and after I started P3D and went to fly, I noticed that all of the buttons on my X56 stick were not functioning. The Axis were all fine. I did the normal troubleshoot to see what was going on, no joy. I closed P3D and went to DCS, same thing. Oddly my X56 throttle's buttons and sliders worked normally. This X56 unit (which was a replacement for my original) doesn't have a lot of time and wear on it and has already outlasted the original I had by 3 years. I was able to figure out that the buttons on the stick were actually fully functional but not communicating with either sim. I did a Hail Mary pass/move and decided to uninstall the drivers and reinstall them. Boom! Problem fixed. That leads me to the question if this was some odd glitch or overwrite with a Windows 10 update involving USB drivers/firmware that screwed things up? Anyone else seen this sort of thing? I also take note that it looks like the X56 drivers haven't been updated in over 2 years which makes me wonder if they may be prone to glitches like this with each Windows update or other issues.
This morning I went to run a test of one of my models after making a tweak and after I started P3D and went to fly, I noticed that all of the buttons on my X56 stick were not functioning. The Axis were all fine. I did the normal troubleshoot to see what was going on, no joy. I closed P3D and went to DCS, same thing. Oddly my X56 throttle's buttons and sliders worked normally. This X56 unit (which was a replacement for my original) doesn't have a lot of time and wear on it and has already outlasted the original I had by 3 years. I was able to figure out that the buttons on the stick were actually fully functional but not communicating with either sim. I did a Hail Mary pass/move and decided to uninstall the drivers and reinstall them. Boom! Problem fixed. That leads me to the question if this was some odd glitch or overwrite with a Windows 10 update involving USB drivers/firmware that screwed things up? Anyone else seen this sort of thing? I also take note that it looks like the X56 drivers haven't been updated in over 2 years which makes me wonder if they may be prone to glitches like this with each Windows update or other issues.