Rhino X-56 ghosting since computer upgrade

Sylow

Sylow
I currently am at a loss on the hardware side here. This weekend i upgraded my system. (AMD Ryzen 7 3700X on a MSI B450 Mainboard, if that matters.) And while anything else works perfectly fine, my X-56 since this change has ghost keypresses. This usually is credited to too little power, but I already operate my HOTAS on a powered USB hub. I measured the voltage of the power supply, it's a bit over 5V, so well within specifications.

I currently am at a loss on what the problem could be and also ran out of Google-fu here. Anybody around who has any experience with this and could please give me a pointer on what the issue could still be?
 

CMDR X

CMDR X
Did you re-install Windows for the new hardware? Have you tried re-calibrating your controller?
Since everything is different now, you might have a bind conflict.
Just a few things that popped into my head.

X.
 

Sylow

Sylow
Hmm. Worth a try. I actually used the powered USB hub to fix power issues of my old computer. But i might try it this way around, yes.

Edit: Interesting. At least within the short time window my wife granted me for testing at the moment, the problem did not occur any more. Makes me wonder, though. On the old rig, the HOTAS got enough power from the powered USB hub, on the new one it seems to be necessary to split them. Guess the USB hub secretly also takes power from the board and doesn't get enough from the new one, or something like that?

Will need to test in more detail later, to be sure. Thanks for the help! :)
 
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[VR] Mad Mike

[VR] Mad Mike
X55 / X56 sup a lot of power, more than what some usb hubs can reliably manage. both of my X55 and my X56 give ghost keypresses if i go into usb2.0 but they work fine in usb 3.0.
some usbs can handle it, come cant. So before buying a hub i would try different usb ports, esp usb3 ones if you have any (i know they are usb2 devices but perhaps usb3 can just deliver slightly higher power even over a usb2 cable???
 

CMDR X

CMDR X
Never use hubs for controllers. Pendrives, keyboards, phones yes but never controllers. Especially force feedback ones.
 

Sylow

Sylow
X2611 said:
Never use hubs for controllers. Pendrives, keyboards, phones yes but never controllers. Especially force feedback ones.
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Actually using a POWERED hub is the advised fix for the X-56. I had ghosting problems when the device was new and connected directly to the computer. Switching to a powered hub fixed the problem for me at that time. But it seems to be not enough any more on the new computer. Anyway, now i seem to have another hour of time to see if things behave better when one device is on the powered hub and the other directly on the computer.

That was a good hint, i haven't throught of splitting it like that before.

Edit: 45 minutes of combat, no wrong button presses which were not accounted to pilot incompetence. I guess distributing the devices to two different sources of power indeed did the trick. Thanks again. :)
 
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