April 19, 20188 yr This has been a longstanding issue for me with Win 8.1 and I wondered if anyone on this forum had experienced the same problem and found a solution. It occurs with my USB joystick, Saitek yoke and throttle. I uncheck "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power" for the Power Management properties in all the HID's, but then a few days or weeks later, my devices stop functioning mid-flight and I discover that some of them are checked again. There doesn't seem to be a way of permanently saving the setting. Any thoughts would be welcome! Intel I7-4770 3.4Ghz 16 Gb RAM nVidia GTX770 2Gb Windows 8.1 64 bit P3D 4.4/3.4 FSX SE
April 19, 20188 yr If I remember correctly, I think there are only two solutions; upgrading to Win 10 or get a registered version of FSUIPC and set controllers through there. Ryzen 7 9800X3D || MSI RTX 5090 Gaming Trio OC 32GB || G.Skill TridentZ 32GB@6000CL32 || Asus ROG Strix B650E Kingston Fury 4TB M.2 NVMe || Phanteks Glacier One 360 T30 v2 || Phanteks NV5 || BeQuiet Straight Power 1200W LG C4 42'' 4k@144hz || Oculus Quest 3 || Turtle Beach Velocity One
April 19, 20188 yr "updating" to Windows 10 is probably the best solution. Edited April 19, 20188 yr by Jude Bradley Jude BradleyBeech Baron: Uh, Tower, verify you want me to taxi in front of the 747?ATC: Yeah, it's OK. He's not hungry. X-Plane 12 and MSFS2020 🙂 System specs: Windows 11 Pro 64-bit, Ubuntu Linux 20.04 i7-13700KF Gigabyte Z790 RTX-4060-Ti , 32GB RAM 1X 2TB M2 for X-Plane 12, 1x256GB SSD for OS. 1TB drive MSFS2020
April 19, 20188 yr When you were in Device Manager, did you also go down the list to USB Controllers > USB Root Hub and do likewise in the Power Management tab? Chris
April 19, 20188 yr Author Many thanks for all your replies. Yes I have got FSUIPC and my controllers are set through that. I went to check the USB Root Hubs just now because I forgot about those this time and yes, some had now got "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power" checked - even though I unchecked them originally several weeks ago. So there doesn't seem to be a way of permanently saving these settings. So I either upgrade to Win10 or check the device settings every few days! Intel I7-4770 3.4Ghz 16 Gb RAM nVidia GTX770 2Gb Windows 8.1 64 bit P3D 4.4/3.4 FSX SE
April 19, 20188 yr There is a way to edit the registry and stop this behavior in Windows 8.1 BUT getting to Windows 10 is a better solution. There are still some controllers/devices that are affected in Windows 10 (Thrustmaster MFD, in my case) but overall, the problem is much resolved. Here is an article I wrote about editing the registry in Win 8.1. See "USB Device Problem" https://uchisworld.wordpress.com/2015/10/08/exploring-a-dark-forest/ EDIT: PS read the comments to the article as well Edited April 19, 20188 yr by Henry Street My MSFS 2020 repaints: Flightsim.to - Profile of HStreet Working on MSFS 2024 versions.
April 22, 20188 yr On 19/04/2018 at 12:11 PM, thefrog said: This has been a longstanding issue for me with Win 8.1 and I wondered if anyone on this forum had experienced the same problem and found a solution. It occurs with my USB joystick, Saitek yoke and throttle. I uncheck "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power" for the Power Management properties in all the HID's, but then a few days or weeks later, my devices stop functioning mid-flight and I discover that some of them are checked again. There doesn't seem to be a way of permanently saving the setting. Any thoughts would be welcome! This will fix it: http://uraster.com/en-us/products/usbenhancedpowermanagerdisabler.aspx
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