Cant Calibrate - changed my stick name

[Firefox]

Ok now what.

I have sticks hooked up and it sees them fine. When I load my map into the stick it changes to CH CONTROL MANAGER DEVICE 1 and reloads drivers. Now I cannot calibrate my sticks.

SOOO WHAT happend now :censored: :censored: :censored: :censored: :rant:

[Bob Church]

Nothing. You don't calibrate Control Manager Devices. You need to put it into Direct Mode so you've got the regular device names and calibrate everything there. The Control Manager Devices take their calibration from the data for the axes that are used to make up the Control Manager Device when you switch to Mapped Mode. Just calibrate everything in Direct Mode and your Mapped Mode stuff should be right.

- Bob

The StickWorks
http://www.stickworks.com

[Firefox]

Yea, problem is that everytime I start the computer it says it finds the CH USB devices and the USB Compliant device and there is no control manager device. Then WHen I load the throttles It says it finds the CH Control manager devices and loads the software for them but deletes the CH USB devices. It repeats this everytime ..

rather annoying

[Bob Church]

It should create one standard device for each Port/Controller pair that it encounters. If you have a stick and throttle and 2 USB ports, it would normally create 2. If you were to then swap the ports it would create 2 more because the stick and throttle would then be associated with the alternate ports. It should also create Control Manager Devices until it's created enough to cover whatever your maps generate, e.g. if your maps reference at most 3 Control Manager Devices then it will ultimately create 3 Control Manager Devices to handle them and then just reuse them for different maps.

Once it's done that, the device detection should stop and it should be quiet on restart unless you plug a controller into a port that hasn't previously had that type of controller plugged into it since the Control Manager install. Then you've got another Port/Controller pair and Windows has to create a device to cover it. Also, sometimes it generates a few new pairs on the first restart after install since Windows itself may just rearrange things when Windows detects the controllers at boot for the first time.

If the New Hardware Found dialogs don't stop after a couple of boots and the download of a map that has as many Control Manager Devices as you actually have controllers, something's not going correctly. I'm not sure what it might be, though. Since the controllers are obviously recognized and getting installed, it's odd that they don't "stick". Maybe Michael has some ideas, he talks to a lot more people about the installation process than I do. He may see this thread, or you might want to call CH and talk to him directly. It really shouldn't keep generating New Hardware Found dialogs for more than a restart or two.

- Bob

The StickWorks
http://www.stickworks.com

[MichaelCHProd]

"When I load the Throttles"

Can you explain that line just bit for me?


As to your "found new hardware" after you boot up that is normal the first few times you boot up after you install the Cotnrol Manager.