Joystick axis getting stuck

[elcoo]

Hi,

a friend of mine has a weird problem using any joystick with DCS. The joystick axes get stuck at an offcenter position when he quickly recenters the joystick. When he moves the joystick again after that, it will reposition correctly - so it doesn't get decalibrated. Still this is a big issue, because it often leads to a stuck aileron or elevator.

 

We tried it with different controllers (thrustmaster flight hotas x and Xbox 360 gamepad) - it's the same for both controllers on every axis.

The axis position shows correctly in the windows gamecontroller settings and other games, apart from DCS, so we are certain it is not a hardware issue.

 

 

There were no other controllers plugged in, that could interfere with the controls. We only used one controller at a time for testing.

 

The update rate on the hotas flight controller seemed to be much slower than with the xbox controller. This seemed to increase the effect drastically. It looks like DCS stops to update the axis position as soon as the joystick reaches the center position and shows the last known position instead.

 

We also tried resetting the input settings, by deleting the input configuration folder. We used DCS version 1.5.4.55584 on a Windows 10 64 bit system.

 

I was not able to reproduce the bug on my Computer using a X52 Pro flight stick.

 

Anyone with an idea what could cause this and how we could fix it? :huh:

 

Thanks in advance!

Edited August 9, 2016 by elcoo

[Chichco]

http://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=2867172&postcount=21 like this?

Many Russians wrote this bug but no answer from devs. In my view its new "hot plug/unplug" future.

[elcoo]

Yes, that's exactly what we encountered! I searched the forums for that iisue but it was hard to find, as I didn't know what keywords to search for. BTW, I was now able to reproduce the bug on my system as well, by twisting the joystick to its limits very fast.

Edited August 9, 2016 by elcoo