PXN 2119 Pro Joystick crashes the game at loading sreeen

[kostarikas2]

I just bought the game 2 days ago through steam , tried to open but game crashed all the time after the initial loading screen . After looking around the forum and contacting support trying everything form antivirus to uninstalling, integrity check, file modification, launching with admin from the il2.exe nothing worked. Finally by coincidence after many hours of trial and error found out that game launches correctly when the PXN 2119 PRO JOYSTICK is NOT connected. If it is connected before the launch game crashes every time if it is connected after the launch the joystick is not recognised at all . I haven't figured out yet how to use the joystick in the game. Every other game is working perfectly fine (xplane 11 msfs warthundere prepar3d).

Edited Friday at 04:20 PM by LukeFF
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[Aapje]

I see quite a few people complaining about this stick crashing their games. They point to the EZFRD64.dll in C:\Program Files\PXNJoystick being the cause. This is for force feedback.

 

You can try removing that DLL and seeing whether that helps.