January 31, 201313 yr I have a newly installed Windows 8/64 (Pro) and a new instance of FSX, it has been running for several days now with no issues, until tonight when I encountered both the "missing controller" issue and a CTD. I had just installed a third party Start menu ( Classic Shell). I wonder how many of us that are having issues also have a Start menu app installed into Win8? In my case, I got sick of having to use File Explorer to go find installed executables that have shortcuts installed to the Start menu. I have my controller axes and buttons assigned in FSUIPC (registered), Thanks, Bruce. ASEL, Instrument. KBJC, Colorado.
February 3, 201313 yr I encountered both the "missing controller" issue and a CTD For the CTD, you should run AppCrashView - http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/app_crash_view.html and provide us with the error report (just copy and paste the whole report here). Since AppCrashView works for Windows 7 I'm sure it works for Windows 8 too. For the missing controller issue, did you plug the controller into another USB? Are the USB controllers drivers up-to-date with Windows 8? I use Driver Scanner to occasionally check for old drivers - http://www.uniblue.com/software/driverscanner/. It's not going to bother with your Windows 8 installation but will look for old hardware drivers like for your USB controllers. You do not have to purchase. It will identify the drivers out-of-date and you can pay to have them automatically download and install or you can simply go to the site where the drivers are located (via a Google search) and download and install them yourself. Best regards, Jim Jim Young | AVSIM Online! - Simming's Premier Resource! Member, AVSIM Board of Directors - Serving AVSIM since 2001 Submit News to AVSIMImportant other links: Basic FSX Configuration Guide | AVSIM CTD Guide | AVSIM Prepar3D Guide | Help with AVSIM Site | Signature Rules | Screen Shot Rule | AVSIM Terms of Service (ToS) I7 8086K 5.0GHz | GTX 1080 TI OC Edition | Dell 34" and 24" Monitors | ASUS Maximus X Hero MB Z370 | Samsung M.2 NVMe 500GB and 1TB | Samsung SSD 500GB x2 | Toshiba HDD 1TB | WDC HDD 1TB | Corsair H115i Pro | 16GB DDR4 3600C17 | Windows 10
February 3, 201313 yr I had just installed a third party Start menu ( Classic Shell). I wonder how many of us that are having issues also have a Start menu app installed into Win8? In my case, I got sick of having to use File Explorer to go find installed executables that have shortcuts installed to the Start menu. Thanks, Bruce. I don't understand why the alleged lack of a start button is such an issue with some Windows 8 users. The start button is still there, just hidden. The installer will pin a tile to the start menu, then cursor to the lower left corner of the screen reveals the start tile, one click shows them all them all and one more click will start them. Thus, two clicks, just like Windows 7, Vista, XP....... Any .exe file can be pinned to the start menu using the "pin to start" option and I also pin my most frequently used .exe files to the taskbar, using the "Pin to Taskbar" option. Regards, Nick.
February 3, 201313 yr Author Thanks Jim, for the useful info on AppCrashView (which is now running), and the USB controllers- I will try that too. Thanks also Nick- since I first wrote the start of this thread I am now using the start menu that you described. One question- where do you see the "pin-to-Start/Taskbar" option? Do you mean in the installer (which I know about)? Or is this a Win 8 setting? Thanks, Bruce. ASEL, Instrument. KBJC, Colorado.
February 3, 201313 yr If you right click on any .exe file or .exe file desktop icon you will see this (except the .rar options which come from Winrar and Pick Link Source which comes from a very useful utility called LinkShellExtension and the big red dots. ) Regards, Nick.
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