Well, at the moment I'm not at home, so I can't verify the following (but I assume)
- aaX52P14FS9.dll starts and checks if there is a X52 stick (hardware)
- next it checks if a communication with FSConnect.dll can be established
Quotation from the reference manual by Blackswift: "Once the program installed and configured, plug the controller on the computer, then launch FS2004. The X52PI4FS9.dll module launches the X52 Pro Interface for FS9.exe program for you (you may also disable the module and launch the executable program by yourself). The "X52 Pro Interface for FS9.exe" program checks out for the presence of the joystick (if not present it waits for 10 seconds before exiting), for FSConnect and loads the pages in the MFD."
- by running in the background it handles the output of some parameters to the little MFD of the stick
So I assume it will not be possible to check this without having connected a X52 stick - but maybe I'm wrong.
Kind regards,
Guenther