Joystick recognized but wont work

[SCG_motoadve]

Bought a joystick from Vitaly  a couple of years ago, it has been great so far until now

Now I get this error and does not work.

Any ideas how to fix it?

 

Your game controller is not connected correctly

Please verify that is plugged to your computer

 

 

[Sokol1]

Do this test: open a game in what this controller was previously set and test some buttons.

 

If they work then the error in Games Controllers could be a Windows Register error, may due recent Windows Update. Just a guess.

 

See similar case with MMjoy2 - different from MJ16 but with common origem.

Edited March 9, 2023 by Sokol1

[SCG_motoadve]

47 minutes ago, Sokol1 said:

Do this test: open a game in what this controller was previously set and test some buttons.

 

If they work then the error in Games Controllers could be a Windows Register error, may due recent Windows Update. Just a guess.

 

See similar case with MMjoy2 - different from MJ16 but with common origem.

Thanks, yes it works in a game, but now and then it gets disconnected for no reason.

[FlyingH]

May that be windows habit of shutting down usb ports from time to time for "energy saving" puposses? Check the settings for usb ports.

[1Sascha]

On 3/10/2023 at 2:07 AM, FlyingH said:

May that be windows habit of shutting down usb ports from time to time for "energy saving" puposses? Check the settings for usb ports.

I was reminded of that, too. Although: Can't say I recall ever seeing that "your game controller isn't connected properly" error message from any Windows version I've used ... ?

 

I've had issues vaguely similar to this with the PS3 Eye camera I use for Opentrack. Every once in a while it just wouldn't work and Windows would show me one of those yellow warning triangles for it in device manager and/or the devices and printers screen. Quick fix was to simply re-plug the camera (which always did the trick) - more permanent "fix" was to manually disable that "Windows may shut down device to save power" setting for all my USB ports/devices.

 

S.

[jollyjack]

Your error message seems a driver issue, if you used an installer, reinstall it?

 

Otherwise these steps might fix it:

 

1) Device manager, USB, all USB hub entries, check if Power Management is disabled, turned OFF.

 

2) open devices.txt in the game's data\input folder

 

it should read something like:

------------

configId,guid,model|

0,%2248666970-95d4-11ed-0000545345440b80%22,Joystick%20-%20HOTAS%20Warthog|

1,%224a0fe730-a26b-11ed-0000545345440980%22,Throttle%20-%20HOTAS%20Warthog|

---------------------------

 

These blue numbers are the ones that correspond with the 0 and 1 used in the key mapping for your joystick and hardware controller in the game's settings

 

Edited March 11, 2023 by jollyjack