I recently upgraded to Windows 10 about a month ago. Recently I started noticing issues with my CH products (Fighterstick, Throttle, Pedals) and I’ve narrowed it down to something with CH Control Manager.
When I boot my PC, Windows sees the controllers no problem. I can open CH Control Manager, open my BMS map, and everything at this point still works fine. I can push buttons, move the controllers, and CH Manager will change to that controller and button or axis.
My issue starts when I download my map to my controllers. Once the map is downloaded Windows doesn’t see the controllers (Device Manager, Game Controllers, in BMS, etc.) anymore and CH Manager will quit responding to inputs. Also, the toggle buttons in the CH Control Manager for “Off Mode”, “Direct Mode”, and “Mapped Mode” are all grayed out and the CH Control Manager software is unresponsive.
I’ve done some searches and have tried changing power settings for Windows, and turned off power management for the CH Products in the Device Manager. I have uninstalled, and reinstalled the CH Software and that worked….until I rebooted my PC and had the same issue all over again.
In the interim, I’ve directly mapped my controls to BMS. This is okay for me, the problem is I can only use one of the hat switches being that BMS only recognizes one of them. I used to use the hat on the Throttle for comms and IFF (datalink) and as I write this I don’t know of a way to config this being that I used CH Manager to make the throttle POV a hat switch in CH Manager. I also used the CH software to set curves for the little thumb joystick on the throttle that I use for TDC as well.
Granted I’ve got a partial work around, but I’d like to be able to use my CH Manager software like I typically did. It worked flawlessly for me on Windows 8.x and seemed to be working fine on Windows 10 until recently. Perhaps the latest update.
Long post, but I was wondering if anyone experienced this and had found a viable solution that “works 60% of the time every time”.
-Howler