Simviation Forum - X52 going bad?

Sep 11^th, 2010 at 7:18pm

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Had this Saitek X52 for over a year and a half - been good, now it's being bad; paticularly in the Y (elevator) axis. Extremely sluggish and return to center even worse. The X (aileron) and all other axes seem normal. For some reason, I can't get to the 'calibrate' window - both in-game and game controllers only give me the 'test' window. Any thoughts?

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Reply #1 - Sep 12^th, 2010 at 3:04am

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Don't know if you remember, but I had some problems with mine and thought there was a short in the cord or connection. Turns out, I just needed to reload the driver off the disc. I'm still not satisfied with it and the lights flicker if I turn them off. But when it works right, it's great. Anyway, try reloading the driver and see if that helps.

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Reply #2 - Sep 12^th, 2010 at 11:27am

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patchz wrote on Sep 12^th, 2010 at 3:04am:

Don't know if you remember, but I had some problems with mine and thought there was a short in the cord or connection. Turns out, I just needed to reload the driver off the disc. I'm still not satisfied with it and the lights flicker if I turn them off. But when it works right, it's great. Anyway, try reloading the driver and see if that helps.

Reloaded from the disk and am now in a quandary. This is XP by the way and on the Device Manager list, under Human Interface Devices, are two flight controller entries - one HID and one USB. Each driver has a different date. Do I delete one - if so which? The underlying problem here is that I have no way to 'calibrate' the joystick - neither in-game controls nor control panel game controllers. In each case, all I get is the 'test' window.

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