Ensure you have the drivers and software off the disk included before you plug in the USB as well. The joystick's cable goes into the base of the throttle, then the throttle is plugged into a USB port on your computer. Now it makes that little noise when plugged in, and under Mouse Hardware, there is an extra mouse which im guessing is supposed to be the joystick? Sounds like you have it set up wrong. The Joystick is not even recognized in Game Controllers in control panel. The game might not take joystick commands if its window is not in foreground.I purchased the Saitek X52 Flight System a few days ago and have not been able to get the Joystick set up.
Make sure that the game's window on your regular monitor is the active one - move and click a mouse over it to be sure.
Did you get the drivers from Logitech? Does the stick show up and work in Windows control panels? I did download the Logitech drivers, but could not get the install program to work and their workaround, which I did get to work for the Saitek drivers would not work for theirs for some reason. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Saitek X52 Joystick Problem? Have asked Logitech-who now owns Saitek apparently-for assistance, but that's been like barking at the moon. I have read most if not all of the threads on X52 issues and have tried many of those solutions-am getting pretty frustrated as I bought Occulus pretty much for this game. I can get my Xbox controller to work but that's a miserable experience trying to fly and especially land with that thing! I have tried various things with "Big Picture" which also recognizes my X Pro trying to run the game not using Steam VR but rather launching it normally and them going into Occulus and selecting it, but nothing will get my X52 Pro to actually function in game. The game recognizes the X52 Pro as I think I finally overcame the issues with loading the Saitek drivers in Windows I recently purchased an Occulus Rift and using the X52 Pro is about the only way to fly using a VR headset, as you need to be able to execute functions pretty much by feel-mouse and keyboard are impossible. I am having problems with the X52 Pro settings that I enter through the options menu actually taking. Home Discussions Workshop Market Broadcasts.