Thrustmaster stick not recognized. Config tool does nothing.

[artdev99]

Game recognizes the throttle but not the flight stick.  Says "plug in controller"

Stick does absolutely nothing in game.

Any ideas.

[Drum]

Go into your Window's Device Manager and select Universal Serial Bus controllers and if you see one with a red exclamation mark click it and update it's driver and/or make sure both boxes are unchecked in the power manager within properties <right click>.

Better yet, there's already a topic for this problem.  Here's the link  

 

Edited May 15, 2022 by Drum

[=NOSIG=Ask]

If the device shows up in Windows, I had a similar issue when upgrading my stick and throttle. It was because I had more than 8 controllers on my PC.

 

Go to <game folder>\IL-2 Sturmovik Great Battles\data\input and check the devices.txt file. If there are already 8 in there I'd disconnect as many as I could and then only connect the ones I wanted for IL-2 and redo the mapping again. Just remove the devices.txt and input.map and start IL-2 again.

[artdev99]

the device does show up in windows but, I can't find that file. 

[jollyjack]

On 5/15/2022 at 7:37 AM, [NOSIG]Ask said:

If the device shows up in Windows, I had a similar issue when upgrading my stick and throttle. It was because I had more than 8 controllers on my PC.

 

Go to <game folder>\IL-2 Sturmovik Great Battles\data\input and check the devices.txt file. If there are already 8 in there I'd disconnect as many as I could and then only connect the ones I wanted for IL-2 and redo the mapping again. Just remove the devices.txt and input.map and start IL-2 again.

 

you could use USBdeview.exe for that; you can see which are used (green ones), and delete the rest ..

https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/usb_devices_view.html

[=NOSIG=Ask]

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you could use USBdeview.exe for that;

 

I've cleaned out old devices a time or two in the past but not for this reason. So if I unplug the old stick or device IL-2 would "reset" IL-2 devices.txt as well? I think (unconfirmed) I tried that and that was not the case.

 

In my case I hade a lot more than 8 controllers connected (DCS don't care) and my stick didn't end up in the first 8 and was not detected. Cleaning it out devices.txt and connecting less than 8 made them all appear in IL-2. Then I could add all the others in again.

 

 

On 5/16/2022 at 4:56 PM, artdev99 said:

the device does show up in windows but, I can't find that file. 

If you have the IL-2 game icon on your windows desktop you can simply right-click it and select "Open file location". That would take you to the bin-folder. Navigate two folders up and go into data\input. It should be there.

Edited May 17, 2022 by [NOSIG]Ask

[artdev99]

On 5/17/2022 at 1:45 PM, [NOSIG]Ask said:

 

I've cleaned out old devices a time or two in the past but not for this reason. So if I unplug the old stick or device IL-2 would "reset" IL-2 devices.txt as well? I think (unconfirmed) I tried that and that was not the case.

 

In my case I hade a lot more than 8 controllers connected (DCS don't care) and my stick didn't end up in the first 8 and was not detected. Cleaning it out devices.txt and connecting less than 8 made them all appear in IL-2. Then I could add all the others in again.

 

 

If you have the IL-2 game icon on your windows desktop you can simply right-click it and select "Open file location". That would take you to the bin-folder. Navigate two folders up and go into data\input. It should be there.

have the icon but right click just brings me to Steam.    File location not and option

r click on Steam gives me file location  but just steam files noting with "data" in the name.

[=NOSIG=Ask]

Ah, you're on steam. Then check what folder the games are installed in in steam settings.

 

Browse the folder

 

And go to common. All games should be there but I don't have IL-2 from steam so I not 100%.

[artdev99]

found data/input and deleted it....no joy. 

Then I "removed" TM files and rebooted with stick and throttle plugged in and was able to set 3 axes and they functioned.  Now I just need to put every single command onto the game, I guess?   Cause the hat switch doesn't work and I assume none of the other commands will either. 

[artdev99]

On 5/19/2022 at 4:22 PM, [NOSIG]Ask said:

Ah, you're on steam. Then check what folder the games are installed in in steam settings.

 

Browse the folder

 

And go to common. All games should be there but I don't have IL-2 from steam so I not 100%.

thanks.  very kind of  you to go through all that trouble.

[=NOSIG=Ask]

No problem. I have a good tool for making screenshots (greenshot). I hope it worked out for you.

On 5/23/2022 at 5:23 PM, artdev99 said:

found data/input and deleted it....no joy. 

Then I "removed" TM files and rebooted with stick and throttle plugged in and was able to set 3 axes and they functioned.  Now I just need to put every single command onto the game, I guess?   Cause the hat switch doesn't work and I assume none of the other commands will either. 

And I see it almost did... the hat works in the Windows Game Controllers?