Anyone having problems with X52 Pro on Win 8.1 and Elite Dangerous?

Comrade Napoleon

Comrade Napoleon
The x52 Pro does draw power, I had to have it on a separate port.
WARNING: If you change ports settings are gone, if you make changes to IRtracker port, seettings are gone !

Set the X52 Pro on exclusive usb group, I tried with powered hub did not work, and also tried usb 3 ports , also failure.
When installing drivers , take it easy and go through the different tabs displayed, set time on the MFD , disable clutch checkbox (to make pinkie work).

Once you have set settings in Elite, do not switch ports as all setttings will be gone!

Hope this helps, else search the x 52 pro thread.

Cheers Cmdr's
 

natte hond

natte hond
Asp Explorer said:
Sometimes the MFD and throttle LED's won't come on. Sometimes The joystick won't remember it's LED colour settings in 8.1 Update 1.

It's not a huge deal - just reset in the control panel.

8.1 is personally a huge headache for me, but for a couple of reasons I am forced to use it. It's even worse that it has to run natively, or I'd have just kept it in an VM :(

Roll on 9!
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I have this too in 7 , but only if I do not have the stick connected at bootup.
maybe its not related to the os.

I too have the flickering lcd screen but not always.
 

Comrade Napoleon

Comrade Napoleon
As I said above , abnormal behavior from the x52pro is because it cant get the power needed. There is a thread abou
t the x55 on this, the x52 can behave similar.
I have had all the problems described here ant put it on an exclusive port grouping , all solved!!
Confer on your motherboard for groupings.

Cheers Cmdr's
 
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Tankshell

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Comrade Napoleon said:
As I said above , abnormal behavior from the x52pro is because it cant get the power needed. There is a thread abou
t the x55 on this, the x52 can behave similar.
I have had all the problems described here ant put it on an exclusive port grouping , all solved!!
Confer on your motherboard for groupings.

Cheers Cmdr's
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Any dummies guide for doing this?
 

Timar

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I had loads of problems with the X52 Pro on a new-ish (1 year old) Intel I7 O'C to 4.2Ghz. Gigabyte Z87-DH3P motherboard, Windows 7 Pro.

Driver install would hang part way through forcing a hard reset of the PC, and if I left the stick plugged in windows would refuse to boot.

Boot to safe mode then normal mode, drivers (several versions) still would not install and even worse the PC would become unresponsive and eventually bluescreen if I left the stick plugged in (first time I have ever seen this PC bluescreen, normally it's rock solid). Tried USB2 and USB3 ports, tried disabling xHCI(USB3 mode?), tried a powered USB2 hub... still no good.

Tried it on my older PC (AMD quad core black edition), which I think only has USB2 ports, and it works fine.. the drivers installed first try. Have ordered a PCI USB2 card as suggested in this thread, will see if that works.
 

Ian Phillips

Volunteer Moderator
Ian Phillips
Voyager_NL said:
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This might be my problem....

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ianw

I
Ian - I'm running X52 Pro on 8.1 and it was doing some funny stuff earlier.

If you're still having trouble - you get to the clutch settings via control panel - then "devices and printers".

Then right click on X52 Pro and and click "game controller settings", then select "properties" - then the MFD tab and de-select "enable clutch mode".
 

niugiovanni

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Tankshell said:
Hi guys,

I have been getting some very odd problems when playing Elite Dangerous using my new X52 Pro, on Win 8.1

The SST profile software is all setup (latest version from Saitek website for Win 8.1 x64) and generally speaking the game runs fine... for a while, then occasionally (and by that I mean maybe once or twice a week, given I play pretty much every night), the game will start behaving very stangely and my X52 will seeminlgy start to malfunction.

Symtoms include:

  • the mfd screen on the throttle stick will start to flicker rapidly
  • keys will seemingly get stuck in a "down" state, meaning that I can no longer control the game properly, and even if I manage to quit out out to windows desktop, I can no longer left click or right click with the mouse
  • computer will hang if I try to reboot it/turn it off

When it gets into this state, nothing but a system reboot seems to fix it. Unplugging the X52 from the USB port and replugging does not help. Neither does force killing and restarting the SST software.

Basically I am trying to figure out if this is a problem being caused with the game, with the SST profile software, or some combination of both. Or even, is it an intermittent hardware failure?

Has anyone else experienced this or similar issues with their X52 Pro on Win 8/8.1?

Thanks guys. Slowly driving me insane!
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I'm getting the exact same thing. It's not just you. Didn't have the problem until I installed the Saitek software. Going to try to remove it all.
 

Knarlfin

Knarlfin
What I've found as well is that the mouse cursor will jump about in normal desktop use unless I load a Saitek profile with the mouse axis "unprogrammed" on the X52pro.
 

MiNi

MiNi
Tankshell said:
Hi guys,

I have been getting some very odd problems when playing Elite Dangerous using my new X52 Pro, on Win 8.1

The SST profile software is all setup (latest version from Saitek website for Win 8.1 x64) and generally speaking the game runs fine... for a while, then occasionally (and by that I mean maybe once or twice a week, given I play pretty much every night), the game will start behaving very stangely and my X52 will seeminlgy start to malfunction.

Symtoms include:

  • the mfd screen on the throttle stick will start to flicker rapidly
  • keys will seemingly get stuck in a "down" state, meaning that I can no longer control the game properly, and even if I manage to quit out out to windows desktop, I can no longer left click or right click with the mouse
  • computer will hang if I try to reboot it/turn it off

When it gets into this state, nothing but a system reboot seems to fix it. Unplugging the X52 from the USB port and replugging does not help. Neither does force killing and restarting the SST software.

Basically I am trying to figure out if this is a problem being caused with the game, with the SST profile software, or some combination of both. Or even, is it an intermittent hardware failure?

Has anyone else experienced this or similar issues with their X52 Pro on Win 8/8.1?

Thanks guys. Slowly driving me insane!
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No problems whatsoever, newly installed win 8.1 64 bit.
But i always avoid the SST software and bind the buttons directly in
game. Only extra thing i do is to disable the clutch in win config of the
joystick.
Fast to setup and as said works perfect like that.
 

Helicity Boson

Helicity Boson
Turning off clutch and plugging into a USB 2.0 jack solved all my issues, works like a charm now*.






*(apart from the moment where I forgot I had a new stick with a one-way throttle, and I accidentally hit boost instead of reverse while landing. The results were predictable)
 

Hixx

H
I have this exact problem!
Win 7 64, clean install. Works fine for an hour or so, then the mfd starts to flicker and random stuck keys, it's a pita when landing as normally its thrust down.
After reading through this thread I checked if it was on a port on its own, it wasn't. I will pull a few plugs tomorrow and see if I can find it a hub of its own.
 

Darwa

D
Knarlfin said:
What I've found as well is that the mouse cursor will jump about in normal desktop use unless I load a Saitek profile with the mouse axis "unprogrammed" on the X52pro.
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Many thanks. I'd taken the 'quick' route and gone without a profile. I read your post, actioned it, and now all is well :)
 

Antmax

Antmax
The 1mm wires inside the stick tend to rub on the sharp end of the metal shaft they pass through at the base and eventually wear through the insulation and cut the wires. Flickering LED's and intermittent odd behaviour can be due to this. I've had to solder about half a dozen new wires in that got severed this way in the last year.

Also, if it seems to randomly lose calibration mid game. It is most likely needing a powered USB hub.

These sticks are good when new, but the internal design is a bit lacking and there are some really good easy mods to improve precision and response.

If your even a little handy with a soldering iron, repairing the wires is easy enough. I replaced my broken ones with wires from inside an old USB cable.

You can slow that down by adding a better sleeve than the greasy paper one they used.
 

CMDR Regulas

CMDR Regulas
got a problem with the pinkie trigger it used to work fine and now you have to push it 2 or 3 times before it actually does something, maybe loose wiring as the above post mentions, I will most probably open the stick up today and check this. but the one thing that is happening which I can't figure out is, in game when playing for a couple of hours I try to dock at an outpost pulling back the throttle to stop the engines, the ship doesn't stop it it slows down to 10% and no amount of yanking the throttle back will make this go away. The only thing that solves this is to unplug the throttle and stick and plug it back in, alt ctrl delete out and hit ED profile that I have set up, otherwise it goes back to default with the clutch mode engaged, I've got all the latest drivers and a top spec gaming pc. It's a little bit annoying but I can live with it. apart from that the X52 pro is great.
 

Tib

Tib
This night i lost my Cobra, lots of bounty and of course I had to pay the insurance fee because of my X52 throttle behaving very weird inside a station just before docking. Throttle to zero, hands off throttle and stick but my Cobra was still thrusting an bouncing around. BOOM. :-(

...I'd rather die because of my own stupidity or after a good, fair dogfight. Then I would have known "WHY?".

Everyone who ordered a PCI USB card: Did this solve your issues?
 
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