TrackIR Device unplugged/plugged solution

[Arikaj]

Good day everyone,

after checking every post I could, I managed to gather enough information to possibly solve the underlying issue and not just disabling the hot plug option.

Symptoms: stutters in game (DCS, MSFS) while TrackIR device is unplugging/plugging.

While the symptoms were taking place, Device Manager would refresh its list of devices. I came across "DevManView" program that lists all of your devices the same as Windows Device Manager, however with much more information. I filtered the devices by "Connect Time" (need to run it as admin) and when the games stuttered, approximately 4 seconds before this, there was a log for the culprit device. For me it was a HP printer at my home connected by LAN. I disabled the printer in the Windows Device Manager and I haven't got the stutters since then.

Wanted to make this post, because I did not come across a definitive answer in multiple posts and I did not want to just disable the hot plug, because it would not fix the underlying issue that could develop into another problems.

Hopefully this posts helps somebody.

[scommander2]

37 minutes ago, Arikaj said:

For me it was a HP printer at my home connected by LAN. I disabled the printer in the Windows Device Manager and I haven't got the stutters since then.

It is a interesting finding and it sounds the issue is kind of related to the system resource handing underneath DCS.

Has any chance checked this following forum yet?

 

[silverdevil]

1 hour ago, Arikaj said:

Good day everyone,

after checking every post I could, I managed to gather enough information to possibly solve the underlying issue and not just disabling the hot plug option.

Symptoms: stutters in game (DCS, MSFS) while TrackIR device is unplugging/plugging.

While the symptoms were taking place, Device Manager would refresh its list of devices. I came across "DevManView" program that lists all of your devices the same as Windows Device Manager, however with much more information. I filtered the devices by "Connect Time" (need to run it as admin) and when the games stuttered, approximately 4 seconds before this, there was a log for the culprit device. For me it was a HP printer at my home connected by LAN. I disabled the printer in the Windows Device Manager and I haven't got the stutters since then.

Wanted to make this post, because I did not come across a definitive answer in multiple posts and I did not want to just disable the hot plug, because it would not fix the underlying issue that could develop into another problems.

Hopefully this posts helps somebody.

hello, i commend you for taking the time to troubleshoot your issue and share your solution. many users do not realize that there are indeed underlying issues that will affect DCS. so many users just blame DCS. of course there are problems with DCS itself, though it is unfair to make wholesale unverified claims. thank you for your efforts.

[Hiob]

The main problem for gaming on windows was always windows. It wasn’t made for gaming (most OS aren’t) and it shows. Microsoft for the longest time couldn’t care less and then half arsed some “gaming features” <cough> on top that never worked.

Only half decent attempt to improve the situation was the advent of DirectX, but that didn’t fix the patchwork of process managing, cpu scheduling, memory organisation and so on.

Well that is what we’re stuck with for now and have to work around. Let’s hope that SteamOS (or something similar) will gain traction eventually.

 

/rant 

[silverdevil]

10 minutes ago, Hiob said:

Only half decent attempt to improve the situation was the advent of DirectX

haha. maybe you did not live through early iterations, forgotten, or casually ignored the first releases of directx. i cannot remember how many times i had to reinstall it to fix an issue. i casually ignore those times until someone reminds me. Vielen Dank!

fun aside. you are spot on. windows is fundamentally bad at gaming unless you can get the settings right. i personally do not have any issues or can work them out on my own. the benefit of being a sysadmin since floppies and sneakernet days.

[Hiob]

2 hours ago, silverdevil said:

haha. maybe you did not live through early iterations, forgotten, or casually ignored the first releases of directx. i cannot remember how many times i had to reinstall it to fix an issue. i casually ignore those times until someone reminds me. Vielen Dank!

fun aside. you are spot on. windows is fundamentally bad at gaming unless you can get the settings right. i personally do not have any issues or can work them out on my own. the benefit of being a sysadmin since floppies and sneakernet days.

I actually started my Flight Sim Career with endless sessions of tweaking the config.sys and autoexec.bat to squeeze out 600K of expanded memory to make Falcon 3.0 run on MS-DOS…. 

But you are right. To MS credit, Windows (NT and descendants) improved the experience/stability a lot. In the early W95/98 times Blue Screens were almost a daily occurrence. Still, a gaming platform it is not…..