I did the compatibility mode for the driver and it didnt help. This is just ridiculous.

FSX has been running for 6hours + and still haven't lost my controller (with a lot of alt-tabbing) I hope the disabling sleep mode is the trick. Cheers jja

FSX has been running for 6hours + and still haven't lost my controller (with a lot of alt-tabbing) I hope the disabling sleep mode is the trick. Cheers jja

 

So it didn't work?

So it didn't work?

LOL yes it seems to have. Not sure why the post was lined out. Cheers jja

LOL yes it seems to have. Not sure why the post was lined out. Cheers jja

 

Which USBs did you do this with? I have tried all of them and its still happening, In fact, sometimes when the flight is loading, if i alt tab and alt tab back, the joystick wont work even 2 minutes into the flight.

I did all 6 of my USB controllers. 2 are USB 2.0 and I use one of these for my joystick because I also heard that there could be issues if you plug a non-USB 3.0 joystick into a USB 3.0 port. Still no definitive answer to this problem IMO. Cheers jja

Have to wait for SP1 of Windows 8 or else Windows 9

Yes,I had the issue with P3d

Have to wait for SP1 of Windows 8 or else Windows 9

 

That's not even funny:( The problem is, Microsoft hasn't even admitted that this is a problem, so we can wait for years without a fix. We need to find a way ourselves and strangely this only happens in FSX for me.

I've been having this problem with windows 7 for the last month or so. I'm wondering if there was a Windows Update to Windows 7 that perhaps is causing the issue. In my case I'll be flying along and I get the usb disconnect sound and my joysticks become inactive. If I enter FSUIPC and exit the joysticks are reset.

 

This thread was started at about the time that I started having problems. I'm going to go through the updates for October and see what I can find.

Yes I had this same issue in Win 7 so it is not just Win 8. I suspect that Windows is either sleeping the port or some driver incompatibility. Next time it happens I'll check the event log for clues.

 

Cheers

jja

I solved the problem by going back to Windows 7-64. Win 8 is nice but not ready for prime time, IMHO.

Its a driver issue. Look for a SP to resolve any issues. Cheers jja

I was seriously considering throwing away $150 and going back to windows 7 until I saw that this issue may happen in windows 7 as well. I am really depressed to be honest, I cannot fly in VATSIM because of this, I just cannot complete a flight without doing alt+tab. Someone please come up with a solution!:(

That's not even funny:( The problem is, Microsoft hasn't even admitted that this is a problem, so we can wait for years without a fix. We need to find a way ourselves and strangely this only happens in FSX for me.

It's not meant to be funny at all.

It's an M$ problem and they won't admit to it.

I 100% agree.

Unfortunately, all we can do is come out with workarounds, but the fix unfortunately,lies in the hands of Microsoft