FSUIPC not remembering Saitek throttle assignments

[Hissinsid]

I have searched for an answer to this but cannot see anything that makes sense to me.

I am not particularly literate in programming speak but believe I am trying to assign controls correctly.

I am using FSUIPC 3.93 with FS9 with a Saitek Yoke and Throttle levers (1 x black lever, 1 x blue lever and 1 x red lever).

I use FSUIPC axis page to assign throttles to black, gear up/down to blue and spoilers to red and they work perfectly. However when I close flight sim and restart it these assignments are not working until I assign them again. FSUIPC is remembering what they are for when I open the axis page and move the levers and rescan them but I have to do it each time I restart FS. I am using the default 737 to create the assignments and that is the aircraft I try when I restart FS.

All button assignments (made through buttons page) and Yoke assignments remain functional when I restart FS.

Should this be the case or should they remain operational when I start a new FS session?

Regards

Sidders.

[Pete Dowson]

I am using FSUIPC 3.93 with FS9 with a Saitek Yoke and Throttle levers (1 x black lever, 1 x blue lever and 1 x red lever).

I use FSUIPC axis page to assign throttles to black, gear up/down to blue and spoilers to red and they work perfectly. However when I close flight sim and restart it these assignments are not working until I assign them again. FSUIPC is remembering what they are for when I open the axis page and move the levers and rescan them but I have to do it each time I restart FS.

Sorry, there are conflicting statements there.

You say they don't work until you assign them again, but then you say that in the FSUIPC axis assignments window, when scanned, they show as already assigned!

Which is correct?

Should this be the case or should they remain operational when I start a new FS session?

They should be operational every time.

Are you sure they are not simply getting switched off by Windows power management? Look in the Windows device manager, find all of the USB entries, and make sure the options for Windows to save power by turning USB devices off is not checked. Windows tends to havethat enabled by default.

Regards

Pete

[Hissinsid]

Pete

Many thanks for prompt response.

I have checked the USB power option and can confirm that they were checked to turn off to save power I have now unchecked them (not tested FS yet though).

Apologies for the poor explanation of what is happening with assignments. Hopefully this will make more sense!

I initially assigned each lever as described previously, play FS and use them, then closed FS. At the next restart of FS the levers did not perform the tasks I had assigned to them (did not throttle, operate gear or spoilers) so I opened FSUIPC and went to axis assignment. I pressed clear then rescan and then moved the black lever, at that point without doing anything else FSUIPC showed the assignment I had previously made in the window on both the left (axis throttle) and the right ones (move up throttle inc, move down throttle dec). Similarly when I clicked rescan and moved the blue and red lever FSUIPC showed what I had previously assigned (gear and spoilers). I then click OK go back into FS and they work again. This has happened each time I have closed FS.

Kind regards

Sidders

[Pete Dowson]

I have checked the USB power option and can confirm that they were checked to turn off to save power I have now unchecked them (not tested FS yet though).

That should do the trick though.

... without doing anything else FSUIPC showed the assignment I had previously made in the window on both the left (axis throttle) and the right ones (move up throttle inc, move down throttle dec).

So, the devices were asleep when FSUIPC first started, so they didn't register. Moving them wakes them up. FSUIPC rescans for newly attached devices in the options dialogue, but it doesn't do so all the time during a session as it is inefficient. I expect they would have been fine if you'd waggled them to wake them up before or whilst FS was loading.

Regards

Pete

[Hissinsid]

Pete

Problem cured, many thanks for you assistance and prompt replies.

Regards

Sidders