Moderators, I only noticed the post about the hardware section after I posted this.  Thinking about it, I feel that it is a little broader than just a hardware topic but it's your forum and if you want to put it somewhere else, or just delete it, I understand. Tres

 

So, a few days ago, I pulled the trigger as I had threatened to and acquired MSFS 2024. Now about a week later, after many hours of very frustrating effort trying to figure out how to get the mouse to work as a joystick, as I have done with MSFS 2020 very successfully, I am starting to fear that I may have to back out of the whole thing and get a refund, which I do not wish to do .

 

The program recognizes the presence of my Vjoy Driver device, but nothing I have been able to think of will make it actually make the control yoke move.  I have looked at several forum posts including in the MSFS 2024 forum and it's a little unclear frankly but some of the conversation is leading me to believe that perhaps MSFS 2024 just will not support the virtual essentials/vjoy setup which has worked very well for me in MSFS 2020.

 

Now this is an obscure topic I know, And not likely to be very interesting to very many people; I would not recommend anyone to use their mouse as a joystick if you didn't have to. I DO have to because my right hand and arm do not work properly and I cannot operate a joystick. I can slide a mouse around on a table surface and I can fly in this way very well.

 

So I guess the question is, and I doubt that anyone really knows, Is there any hope here? This has been a very frustrating and tiring experience but I hate like hell to just have to drop out of the 2024 world over a stupid thing like this Any thoughts at all most appreciated.

 

Tres

Edited September 1, 2025Sep 1 by tres2

Hi Tres. I have no clue how to solve your issue but wish you all the best to hopefully find a solution which I am confident there is. 
Just want to bump this up a bit and ask whether you already opened a zendesk ticket with Microsoft as I made good experience with their email support

10 hours ago, tres2 said:

The program recognizes the presence of my Vjoy Driver device, but nothing I have been able to think of will make it actually make the control yoke move.  I have looked at several forum posts including in the MSFS 2024 forum and it's a little unclear frankly but some of the conversation is leading me to believe that perhaps MSFS 2024 just will not support the virtual essentials/vjoy setup which has worked very well for me in MSFS 2020.

Before you give up hope: I suspect this may be a control assignment issue, rather than an issue with MSFS 2024 supporting vJoy.

I haven't used vJoy with MSFS, but I've used it with other applications, and from what I can see, it appears to the application just like any other joystick.

MSFS 2024 has changed the way control asisgment is done with the UI, and this has caused issues for people with "regular" hardware too. Can you elaborate what you've been doing to assign controls, what you expected to happen, and what happened instead?

There are also a number of videos on YouTube on assigning controls with MSFS 2024 - I don't have a link, but maybe someone else can jump in.

Definitely reach out to support. MS actually has great accessibility support for players of all kinds and they take it seriously.  

I guess they don't go for videos here. I made a video showing what is going on in the settings controls areas of both 2024 and back in how it looks in 2020.  I go to Settings controls and then hardware settings, it shows slanted line just like it does in 2020 and when I hit the X key, which I can do for either the X axis or the Y axis, It slides right along with the mouse.

 

From there I went into the cockpit of the Cessna 172 and saw that the control yoke is moving but very jerkily. I remembered that I had been in settings controls for the mouse and went back there and deleted several inputs I had previously put in. When I went back into the airplane cockpit, the yoke was totally unmoving.

 

so that's basically where I am.   I have No doubt at this point that the program is recognizing Vijoy but I have some kind of setting slash bindings slash controls issue. I wish I could show you that video.

 

Edited September 3, 2025Sep 3 by tres2

https://youtu.be/5jQdrE1yVvA

This may explain it better.

 

https://youtu.be/i7C43ntzC9k 

The above videos have been reset to “public and should now be viewable. Sorry for the inconvenience!

Does your left hand and arm work properly? Thrustmaster makes a joystick that can be flipped to left-handed, it's called the T-16000M.

 

On 9/3/2025 at 9:08 AM, tres2 said:

From there I went into the cockpit of the Cessna 172 and saw that the control yoke is moving but very jerkily.

That sounds like a controls conflict.

It looks like controls conflict. I would reset binding and bind each axis one at the time from the scratch.

OP - Do you need to use vjoy for this? It is possible to assign elevator/aileron axis to the mouse in the 2024 controls directly.

Also from watching your video it looked as if the pitch trim was going wild. Do you have auto trim assist on?

Edited September 10, 2025Sep 10 by bailout