USB Connections

[Sledge]

Hi guys,
Just a quick one....when reconnecting the USB connections for FS,PT and PP to the computer, do you have to put them back into the original USB ports that CM detected upon first install. I have found that if you don't do this, the CM does not recognise the controllers. Only when you put them back to original USB ports, it works again. eg./ I can move my USB mouse to any port and it has not problems finding it, therefore why can't the HOTAS connections do the same?

Cheers and Beers :cheers: :drunk: :w00t:

[Revvin]

Use 'CHDelete' to remove the devices from your computer while they are disconnected and you can then re-connect them to any port.

[Bob Church]

I'm guessing you're using Windows XP, it's the trickiest. Windows in general sees the device as a combination of the device-type and the port that it's plugged into, e.g. a FighterStick on USB Port 2. If you subsequently plug the FighterStick into Port 3, it sees it as a different device-type/port combination and so treats it as a new device. Windows XP initially gives the device the standard set of drivers, those have to be updated to use the Control Manager driver.

If the devices are plugged in at installation time, the Control Manager installer will update everything and so it's recognized just fine, but if you unplug a device after installation and then plug it in somewhere else, you generate a new device-type/port pair and it gets the standard Windows drivers. They need to be updated before the Control Manager can see them.

To do that, you just need to run the Control Manager calibration applet from within the GUI. Running it from the Control Panel/Game Controllers applet won't work. When you run it from the GUI, it rescans the ports and updates any new device-type/port pairs that it finds. You have to calibrate the new pair anyway, so it's not really an extra step. Just don't be too surprised if you start getting New Hardware Found messages when you go to calibrate a new pair.

A couple of notes. First, the New Hardware thing may pop up behind the Control Manager GUI and you won't see it. If the update seems to stall, check the tool bar for the New Hardware button or minimize the GUI so you can see the dialog.

Also, things will eventually stabilize. If you have 3 device and 3 port, there's only 6 ways things can go together. Once all 6 have been encountered and updated, nothing new will be seen and no New Hardware messages should occur.

Anyway, maybe this will help explain what's going on a little. Hope it helps.

- Bob

The StickWorks
http://www.stickworks.com

[Sledge]

thanks for the replies guys..appreicate it :thumbsup: