Hi,I post here after searching the Internet and racking my brain trying to figure out why in the world joysticks stopped working with FS9. Any help would be sincerely appreciated.I recently had a problem with display drivers and accounts requiring me to replace the settings file for my 'Owner' account. All programs and settings are now back to normal and work fine. Before I had this problem and replaced the account data, I had no problems with FS9's joysticks, everything worked fine.When starting FS9, going to settings and controls, I click the check box to enable joystick. Upon clicking assignments, there is no joystick tab like there used to be with FS9. Clicking cancel and going back to the controls, I click Calibrate Joystick... It opens the Joystick control panel showing my two devices plugged in. When I click on Properties, however, I received this popup message "Internal Error! Necessary support files not found." I click ok and return to the joystick control panel. I've tried the other device with the same results. I've tried it with one device only, same results. When I access the joystick control panel outside of FS9 and click properties, it gives me the normal page with no errors.I run Windows XP, FS2002, X-Plane, Fly II and FS2004. I use (all USB) a CH yoke and MS Precision joystick and CH pedals, but they all work perfectly with all the other programs except FS2004.I checked the loading of flight simulator with File Monitor, a utility that shows what programs are referencing when loading, and I didn't find any missing dlls that would be a factor. Then I used file monitor to watch as I clicked Calibrate Joystick...This first image shows what FS9 is calling when I click Calibrate Joystick...(70k gif image)http://members.cox.net/tdauto/fs9filemon.gifThis second image shows what FS9 is calling when I click Properties. Note that the dialogue box pops up when it calls for the XP Critical Stop sound file.(70k gif image)http://members.cox.net/tdauto/fs9filemon2.gifI've already reinstalled flight simulator from the disks, with and without the FS9.1 update, I've reinstalled Direct X 9.0c, I've checked the device manager and all HID based devices and their drivers and everything is set and working correctly. I haven't been able to find general Windows USB drivers to reinstall.I'm no expert so I couldn't delve too deeply into why these "Necessary support Files" could not be found, or even what they are. But I'd like to find them and give them to Flight Simulator so I can use my joysticks again!Any help would be greatly, greatly appreciated!Best Regards,James

Hi James,I've seen that message many times. What has always caused it here is that I'm using joystick drivers for the stick that come with their own calibration applet and Windows can't find those files to pop up the calibration screens. If you're using straight Windows drivers, you'll should see the regular Windows calibration screens okay if DX is all there. If you're using the CH Control Manager, it uses special calibration applets, but if you're just using the Windows drivers then they just use the standard Windows drivers. I don't know for sure, but it seems to me that the MS sticks all used their own calibration applets, too.Best regards,- BobThe StickWorkshttp://www.stickworks.com