MFG Crosswinds not being used correctly?

[Voyager]

Gita pair of MFG Crosswinds, set them up and have been using them in other flight sims. I tried binding the rudder axis to them in Il-2 and while the auto detect picked up the axis, and bound them, when I move the pedals, the game does not respond. Not even the control needle in the axis tuning screen does anything for it. 

 

It does respond to the Thrustmaster Warthog for ailerons, elevators and throttles, and it does respond to the CH Throttle quadrent for the various mixture and prop controls. I've also checked all of my other plugged in controllers to see if it was grabbing an errant axis, but nothing else seems to be responding. 

 

Any idea what else to check or how to fix this? Every other flight sim I've tried it on detects it, except Il-2. I'm at a complete loss here.

[cardboard_killer]

I had a similar problem once and it was because the joystick number was incorrect for an exchanged control. Make sure that the number of the joystick (j0 or j1 etc.) is not being used by another device.

 

https://riseofflight.com/forum/topic/56754-black-widow-hat-switch-issue/?p=709244

 

 

[Voyager]

Actually found the issue: 

It looks like in my case, the problem was that I'd hit over about 12 effective controllers attached to it and it couldn't deal with any more.