Hi everyone,

After a long break from flight simulation I have purchased Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020. After a very slow install I had everything working beautifully. Then I set up my controllers. The Saitek X55 Pro Rhino HOTAS set. I used the excellent YouTube tutorial by Squirrel

 

Things worked great until at about 3:00 am in the morning I decided it was time for bed.

The next day when I started MSFS2020 none of the X55 profile would connect to any aircraft. I have uninstalled various things to see if I had mucked up the system. SDK, Nvidia drivers, but to no effect. I can still assign X55 keys in the controller profiles they just don’t work on the aircraft.    

The axis are assigned, along with other settings,, and saved, but if you switch back to the aircraft nothing works.

Its doubly frustrating as it was working when I first installed.

• ·         Any ideas on how to fix this?
• ·         Is it a known bug?
• ·         Are there other X55 Rhino users who have got it working?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Still have the same problem but after really spending too much time searching and trying to apply bodge solutions I thought I would uninstall and re-install MSF2020 from scratch.

OK it is taking hours, as we all know but while I wait I thought I would raise an issue that has always bugged me with MSF since 1982. Yep I was there at the begining. 

Why is it that this simulation has always required complex, difficult, and time consuming BODGES to make some simple things work. I mean the fact that the only solution to my problem appears to be editing an XML fille that is buried in an devilishly secure part of Windows 10 requiring really dangerous hacks to the operating system to make things work is very bad in 2020. I suspect that ASOBO will have an update at some point that may address my problem but would the hack suggested break the simulation if that happens?

I know that since 1982 the community have found some really creative ways of stretching MSFlight Sim to its limits but systems now are much more tied down than they were in the early days. We have to think of the new simmers that will join this community because of the latest version. They should expect an easier experience than we did in 1982 and beyond. 

In conclusion my thoughts are that MSF2020 is an amazing looking sim BUT some of the simple things, like being able to fly at all because many have software broken controllers, is unaceptable in 2020. Every other sim game I have either works with virtually any controller or allows simple editing of a controller config file to make it work.

Rant over  and I am still only 60% way through the reinstall. I also have little confidence it will work after this also.

 

 

Edited August 21, 20205 yr by cogfilms

***************** EASY SOLUTION FOUND *****************

After struggling with this problem for too long I found a really simple solution on the official Flight Simulator site.

If none of your controllers are working on the aircraft check that the AI Co-pilot has not been set. you can find it in the top menu when you are on the field or flying.

I stupidly set it on a few days ago and had not realised it is persistent across all aircraft. However, it is a shame that this setting is buried in the top menu as there is no way of knowing unless you look. Perhaps something ASBO could modify?

My thanks have to go to ClayishCoast9 on the flightsimulator.com forums.flightsimulator.com site for this solution.