If you follow the instructions in the FSUIPC documentation to assign and calibrate controls, you should be fine. However the hardware is generally of reasonable or good quality and it does work fine in all the sims I have tried it in (X-Plane, Flight Unlimited 3, Fly!II and the MSFS series, mainly).
I believe that there have been issues with them using 3rd party software as part of their driver suite that they are not licensed to as well, but don't accept that on face value as I have no proof of it. MadCatz, I believe, took over Saitek several years ago, but their online support has usually, to be honest, been pretty terrible. Pete put a function in to FSUIPC which eliminated button "spikes" shorter than a set time frame and it did help the Saitek yoke a lot, but getting a replacement for the faulty one was still the best thing to do. There is a known issue - supposedly with the early yokes and which was eliminated later (they replaced my yoke and it now works fine) - with random button presses. Later today, I hope to swap the stick for the "full rig" of a Saitek yoke and two additional throttle quads, all of which are calibrated and assigned using FSUIPC for FSX. Indeed right now I have a CyborgX and Saitek pedals stick plugged in, calibrated through FSX. In desparation, I am looking for someone to please help me in the calibration of the Saitek joysticks.Īs a user of Saitek equipment for years, I have never had any problem at all calibrating any of it with either the default settings or FSUIPC. Looking through the topics i realise that there are many people who have upgraded to FSX and many of the topics regard FSX, however, I am still using FS9. Well, well, well it all seems Greek to me. My last attempt before throwing all the equipment out the window, was to purchase the FSUIPC module and try going down that route. Now a company seems to have taken over their forums and some movement and replies to peoples problems are to be seen.Īnyways, after trying to configure my yokes to work the way I wanted them to, I now find myself after all this time still trying to configure them. Big mistake !!!! SAITEK forums have postings that havent been replied and the only thing that someone can derive is that most probably they are either in the process of closing down or been taken over.
I look and read and for me to be here now and writing in the forum I think I have used up all my resources and patience !!Ībout a year ago I made the mistake of purchasing the SAITEK yokes, 2 x throttle quadrants and pedals, in an effort to upgrade my equipment and get more involved in the game.
I am not one to sit and write in forums the moment I run into problems looking to find the easy way out.