April 30, 201511 yr If you've been tearing your hair out over Win 8.1 or 10 joystick and throttle disconnects in P3D, especially with Saitek products, this could be for you. I stumbled across a cure that, so far, has been absolutely, 100-percent effective. This works when disabling selective suspend in device manager does not. It works when changing power settings in Control Panel does not. It works when the problem presents itself in Windows 8.1 OR 10. Here goes. Search the registry for this string, EnhancedPowerManagementEnabled=1, where the device it refers to corresponds to a joystick, pedals, throttle quadrant and so on. Change it to read EnhancedPowerManagementEnabled=0 Reboot. Smile. Bear in mind, though, this needs to be redone every single frickin' time you upgrade Windows, as the Windows install stomps on those Registry keys. Sorry "resets them to the 'proper' values." Hope this settles it once and for all
April 30, 201511 yr Hey... Congrads! Aside from joystick hell, would you recommend any particular feature of win8.1 for P3d?
April 30, 201511 yr Does this still work when you swap devices from one usb socket to another? or does windows reset the power management. bob
April 30, 201511 yr Yep, works fine, thanks for the tip! :-) - PC Hardware: AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D // Asus ROG Crosshair X870E HERO // 2x32Gb Corsair Dominator Titanium DDR5 6000MT/s CL30 // ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 4090 OC Edition // 4Tb Corsair NVMe M.2 MP600 // Corsair 1600W PSU Samsung Odyssey Arc 55" curved 165 Hz monitor. - Simulator Hardware: VIRPIL Constellation Alpha Prime + VIRPIL VPC Universal Control Panel - #3 + MOZA AY210 Force Feedback Yoke + WINWING URSA MINOR 32 Throttle & PAC Metal + WINWING SKYWALKER Metal Rudder Pedals + WINWING Airbus FCU & EFIS + WINWING Boeing 3N PAP + WINWING MCDU-32 + WINWING PFP-4 + WINWING PFP 3-N + WINWING PFP-7.
April 30, 201511 yr I followed these steps (the workaround bit) similar to what you recommend back when I was on Windows 8.1 x64 : https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2900614/en-us It worked for a while and then suddenly only worked for a part of the joystick (Saitek X52), eventually completely failing. I then resorted to using FSUIPC and as far back as I can remember, it worked perfectly without any need for registry hacks. There's also DLYS (Don't Lose Your Stick) that achieves the same purpose (ran this before mapping all axes through FSUIPC) but runs outside of the sim : http://va-gae.eu/flightoperations/download/fsx-joystick-tool.html
April 30, 201511 yr If you've been tearing your hair out over Win 8.1 or 10 joystick and throttle disconnects in P3D, especially with Saitek products, this could be for you. I stumbled across a cure that, so far, has been absolutely, 100-percent effective. This works when disabling selective suspend in device manager does not. It works when changing power settings in Control Panel does not. It works when the problem presents itself in Windows 8.1 OR 10. Here goes. Search the registry for this string, EnhancedPowerManagementEnabled=1, where the device it refers to corresponds to a joystick, pedals, throttle quadrant and so on. Change it to read EnhancedPowerManagementEnabled=0 Reboot. Smile. Bear in mind, though, this needs to be redone every single frickin' time you upgrade Windows, as the Windows install stomps on those Registry keys. Sorry "resets them to the 'proper' values." Hope this settles it once and for all Also do this: go to BIOS /advanced/intel XHCI mode disable….EHCI handoff/disable that works.... Pedro Rodriguez
May 7, 201511 yr Hey, I solve that issue with registry entry, but I achieve another problem with saitek products with W8.1 64bit. I run FSX:SE and everything working fine unless I lose focus on FSX, it menas that you go to Windows or another application and return back to FSX. At this point FSX lose Saitek Yoke and Pedals. I cant see it at controls menu, but if you look into windows devices, they are still connected. Reconnect doesnt help, I have to restart FSX. really annoying, especially when you accidentaly press WIN key. That occurs with both default WIN and saitek drivers - no difference. I try to find some working fix, but I dont. So I temporarily switch back to W7 which working well, but... I really like W8.1 environment :( i7-8700k, RTX2070 Super, custom water cooling, 32GB RAM, 6TB SSD spacePrepar3D v4, X-Plane 11, 40" 4k TVRex, Active Sky, RealAir and A2A pilot, GTN, ORBX mostly everywhere
July 13, 201510 yr I need some education please, how do you go about making a change within the registry on Windows 8? I can't even find that string within the registry. If anyone has done this fix please point me in the direction of a step by step process, thanks.
July 13, 201510 yr Finally this one worked. Here's the video. https://youtu.be/ERRyuYsIli8 Yusuf Keyre
August 13, 201510 yr Or install WIndows 10 (for free). 100% fix 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
January 15, 201610 yr Great thread. Angelo Cosma PPL ASEL / IFR Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Field Service Representative (SEA) ZSE ARTCC Intel i7 6700K 4.8Ghz / ASUS ROG Maximus Hero VIII / 16GB DDR4 3200Mhz Ram / EVGA 1080Ti FTW3/ Corsair H110i GTX EVGA 850 Watt Gold / Samsung 850 500gb SSD
May 31, 20206 yr Another solution which worked for me was to simply just open up a new logging file on FSUIPC.
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.