Thrustmaster key bindings stop working mid game?

[carve_gybe1]

Hi All

 

First of all, I first fell in love with IL-2 almost a decade ago and tried my luck with Track IR and a fairly basic set up. I eventually got frustrated and left it.

 

Fast forward to now and I decided to splash out on a i9 13gen Intel rig with 4090 laptop...I already had Oculus 2 VR which was my wife's for use without a computer...

 

I also bought the Thrustmaster t1600m FCS (with HOTAS but without the rudder pedals)...

 

I spent the last few days setting everything up and binding keys to the way I like em. Not difficult because I just want to fly Lagg-3 for now.

 

Here's the weird bit: some of the binding stop working mid-game. When I start a Quick Mission parked, I can unpause with a joystick key and I can see everything works. Then, either when enough time elapses or when I turn the propeller on...the entire HOTAS stops working...or just the throttle. Also, nav/landing lights mapped to my joystick stop working. Then, mid-game, I go to key mapping, and all I need to do is to re-map one thing from HOTAS and one thing from the joystick, and then everything works again. But I have to do this each time I start a mission. If I didn't crash so often, this would be ok, but it is really getting on my nerves now.

 

So... while I am still excited about this investment and the game, I hope I can find a solution based on input from this community.

 

Any ideas? 

 

My setup:

 

- Kickass laptop

- Oculus 2 (wired with original wire)

- Thrustmaster joystick and hotas (plugged into separate USB ports, but HOTAS through a USB hub which also has mouse/keyboard attached)

 

All new set-up so shouldn't have to re-install stuff.

 

Thanks in advance!

 

EDIT: I just tried the game without VR - everything works. It must be either SteamVR or Oculus software...

 

 

Edited November 30, 2023 by carve_gybe1

[[CPT]Bligh]

Almost sounds like the game is losing focus.  Does alt tabbing make any differene?

[cardboard_killer]

On 11/29/2023 at 10:08 PM, carve_gybe1 said:

HOTAS through a USB hub

 

I would ensure that the hub is powered. Also, check your energy saving settings in windows--windows turns off USB ports on certain energy saving settings.

[McFly60]

I had a similar problem a few days ago, after the latest game update.

During one mission the joystick's pitch and roll controls started to misfire, so much so that I thought I'd been hit. Then I started a quick mission, and the problem was still present. I looked at the response of the controls in the game setting, and both pitch and roll responded inconsistently with joystick movement.

Then I went to the Thrustmaster website and downloaded the updated drivers related tò my HOTAS X joystick, after having removed the previous Thrustmaster files from the system. Rebooted the PC, everything worked perfectly again.

 

[jollyjack]

Laptop? Usually that has one USB controller chip only. Traffic jams ahead maybe. You could clean up all non active USB drivers with USBdeview.exe.

[carve_gybe1]

So I tried without USB hub and that didn't help. Windows energy settings were fine.

 

But I figured it out. There was a dialog box popping up on the left but without text. I didn't notice it because it is translucent. After hitting enter to close it, all settings were working again. I had misdiagnosed the problem as a key binding problem.

 

Thank you for your input.