Joystick does not work in BoS but fine in RoF

[Uriah]

I had not played BoS for nearly a month and had unplugged the joystick. But to night I started up and had forgot the to plug it in. But still no response. Did a restart but still no joy.

I ended up starting up RoF to test if somehow the joystick just was not working. Glad to say it worked fine. So started up BoS but no luck.

And I did check and verified that I was on joystick and not mouse mode. I do have a CH Throttle quadrant too. And it seemed to do the throttle just fine.

I am stumped. Any suggestions?

[71st_AH_Mastiff]

Yes rebind your inputs don't transfer your saved ones by the way did you unplug the throttle quad and check to see if it's a to many inputs plugged in? For now I think it's not supporting more than 5 devices?

Edited April 21, 2016 by 71st_Mastiff

[Elem]

I had not played BoS for nearly a month and had unplugged the joystick. But to night I started up and had forgot the to plug it in. But still no response. Did a restart but still no joy.

I ended up starting up RoF to test if somehow the joystick just was not working. Glad to say it worked fine. So started up BoS but no luck.

And I did check and verified that I was on joystick and not mouse mode. I do have a CH Throttle quadrant too. And it seemed to do the throttle just fine.

I am stumped. Any suggestions?

Have you selected Joystick input over Mouse control?

[Uriah]

Elem, I did verify that.

 

Sad to say I think Mastiff is on the right track. Even though everything showed as set up in BOS I did not get pitch control until I remapped it again. Once I did and did so just as it was before - this time it worked.

[Uriah]

Elem, I did verify that.

 

Sad to say I think Mastiff is on the right track. Even though everything showed as set up in BOS I did not get pitch control until I remapped it again. Once I did and did so just as it was before - this time it worked.

[Uriah]

I did have to remap keys and axis for the joystick and CH Throttle quadrant. It seems everywhere Joy0 became Joy1 and 1 became 2. But the rudders kept their value of Joy2.

Keyboard did not need to be remapped.

 

Now if I save the input files as a back up and if this happens again could I use the backup files?

[Sokol1]

Yes, save the files in game folder /Data/Input.

 

This renumbering joystick is common in this game, specially in win 8/10 - unplug/plug increqase the possibility to happen.

Edited April 22, 2016 by Sokol1

[Uriah]

Thank you very much Sokol1.

Edited April 22, 2016 by Uriah

[AKRaider]

This renumbering joystick is common in this game, specially in win 8/10 - unplug/plug increqase the possibility to happen.

 

Ah HA!  I use a switchable-powered USB hub with an X55 and Crosswinds.  There are applications (Google Earth) that don't appreciate gaming controls.  I was slowly losing my mind with BOS because I was getting some really inconsistent results while trying to customize the key-maps to the HOTAS.  And then there's Windows 10...

 

Thanks for this information.  Armed with this I'll take another look at my rig architecture.

 

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Edited April 28, 2016 by AKRaider