mrpilot

I've tried that yesterday and it seems to have done the trick, I was able to complete a real time flight from LGAV-LSZH (approx. 3 hours) without the joystick disconnecting. I encourage everyone experiencing this issue to click on "me too" on the following thread:http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_8-hardware/unable-to-use-the-joystick-while-playing-fsx-on/1de533c3-08d3-4ae7-850a-cde2b76122ca Eventually Microsoft will notice if there are enough votes.

While this might be a good workaround, it has two small shortcomings: 1. You cannot use the mouse to pan around in the virtual cockpit. 2. It's not possible to use the joystick to slew the aircraft.

In my case it takes about 5-10 minutes after FSX lost the joystick until FSUIPC loses the Joystick connection as well. In my opinion this might be caused by a recent update, before mid December I never experienced this issue.

I am also experiencing this issue, already tried 2 joysticks and all kinds of settings. What is strange that I am using Windows 8 and FSX since the day Windows 8 came out (October 26th) and I never had this issues up until 1 or 2 weeks ago. I didn't perform any system changes. I hope that this will get fixed in Windows 8...

Just to make sure that it wasn't the joystick itself causing the problem, I've tried another brand new joystick (Saitek) and got the same results. This definitely seems to be an operating system issue.

Unfortunately Vista compatibility mode is also a no go (at least in my case). The disconnect happened right after touchdown. By now I've tried nearly everything.

Running FSX in Vista SP2 compatibility mode looks promising so far. Unfortunately I've noticed a small drop in FPS and I had to reactivate all my FSDT products but so far so good...

Unfortunately that didn't help. I also have the USB selective suspend setting on DISABLED under the Windows 8 power options. What is quite strange is that this only started happening a few days ago without changing anything on the system.

Thanks Wayne, I'll give it a try.

Disregard my last post, it just happened again without FSC on short final. I also have the full version of FSUIPC and the joystick axes configured there as well. Strangely first the joystick disconnects from FSX, then I am able to continue controlling the plane due to FSUIPC but after approx. 1 minute FSUIPC doesn't see the joystick anymore. By the way I am using Windows 8 Pro and FSX (Acceleration Pack).

Strangely in my case this only seems to be happening when connecting Flight Sim Commander 9 to FSX. I've tried 5 flights from EGKK - LSZH, with FSC connected to FSX my joystick (Sidewinder Pro) was gone by the time I was ready to taxi. Without FSC I was able to complete the whole flight without any problems. Is anyone of you using FSC 9 connected to FSX?