Product: Star Wars: Squadrons
Platform:PC
Please specify your platform model. PC
What is your gamertag/PSN ID/EA Account name? J_Lunchbox
Are you playing in VR? Yes
Which VR Platform are you using? Steam VR
Which part of the game is the issue happening in? Game Menu
What were you doing when the bug occurred? Step by Step detail is helpful. Trying to map game controls to my flight controllers
Where did this issue occur? Please include menu name or in game location. control mapping meny
When did this happen? (dd.mm.yy hh:mm) 2020-10-02:20:00:00 NZDT
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
How severe is your issue? Can't play
What happens when the bug occurs? Game controller unavailable for mapping
What do you expect to see? My game controller amongst the list of mappable controllers.
Which ship were you playing? If not applicable, just answer "no" or "none." none
What components were you using? Was trying to use Warthog Joystick and Throttle and VKB Rudder pedals (without success) :-(
Which customizations (if any) were you using? None
I have 7 game controllers attached, but the game only allows me to choose from (presumably) the first four it encounters when it enumerates the list of available controllers.
My flight stick, rudder pedals and throttle are apparently at the wrong end of that list and as a result are not made available for mapping in-game.
Squadrons doesn't recognize my USB devices.
Yes, there are a lot of them.
No, that shouldn't matter at all.
See attached pictures.
Windows, DCS, MSFS 2020, FSX, X-Plane, and every other program under the sun sees all game controllers.
Squadrons only sees the two listed.
I've unplugged all other USB HIDs and Squadrons will see the pedals, stick, and throttle.
This just means your code is trash, because I should be able to select which controls I want to use from all available controls.
Any decent sim can manage this.
I shouldn't have to unplug my controllers to play a game.
So the question is: how can one re-arrange the list of USB devices? I believe the issue is the order in which Windows sees them.
This looks like it would fix the problem, but doesn't make it past anti-cheat.
*Sigh*
https://github.com/briankendall/devreorder/tree/master
Can anyone help me work this problem?
I have essentially the same problem. Prior to the most recent patch (1.1?), it didn't matter because you could map the controls anyway. The real issue is that only 2 devices are recognized which only works if you only have 2 devices connected. It seems like EA appears is assuming that if you have a HOTAS, you must not have enough ports to plug anything else in.
Hopefully they will at least put it back in the next patch. Have you tried using T.A.R.G.E.T.?
Ugh.
I don't even have that software installed, it's so useless and unwieldy.
Even DCS works better without it.
I'm really starting to be shocked at how shoddy the controller handling part of the game is.
They just didn't think this through at all, did they?
You *KNOW* people are going to want to make their own T.I.E. fighter cockpits from this game, and they've, through their own failure of imagination, denied anyone to do that.
(I'm not one of those people, but I'd still like the game to work)
This is suggested on the forums:
Unplug your stick and throttle, start the game and bind the pedals, save, quit out and reconnect your stick and throttle. Restart the game.
I cant try it cause i have ctd, s
My TM Warthog is recognized, my MFG pedal is not:
Yea I am in the same boat. I haven't really played since launch hoping that some of these last few patches would address this. At first I could see 3 devices in the menu options but I foolishly booted up the game with all my stuff plugged in, multiple MFDs and whatnot. It recognized the little joystick on my Logitech G13 as it's own device and even after rebooting the game with the G13 unplugged I still couldn't clear it from the devices that the game would recognize so it was just taking up that 3rd slot even though it wasn't plugged in. I went as far as to dig for an ini file and found one that had a fourth device listed, it was blank though. I deleted the entries for all the devices in the ini but when rebooting the game it repopulated the ini file with the old stuff, so idk what's going on there. I gave up after that hoping patches would fix it up. Now with the latest patch it only shows 2 devices in the menus. For them to say it has HOTAS support and it be like this is laughable. Someone, if not multiple people, should be embarrassed. This was a real disappointment. I will still be putting my playing of the game off in hopes of this getting sorted out. I still have hope. I really want to enjoy it when I play through it. I did give the controller a go and it was okay, the game seems great. But I can only imagine how much more I'd be enjoying it with my stick, throttle, rudders, and head tracking all working. That is really how I want to play the game and I'm sure it would be epic.
Weird suggestion, but the specific USB port may have something to do with it. The game refuses to recognize my flight stick when its plugged in to anything other than my left USB 2.0 port. It makes zero sense, but it works.
You have no choice. You have to unplug the device you doesn't want. I have almost the same devices, and i have to unplug all the devices before i played. I shouldn't forget to plug them again to play on IL2 great battle, DCS, Fs, etc...
