Hey, so i have a really weird problem that I never encountered before, and I've tried problem solving and googling for the last 12 hours, and I am left clueless.
I will try to make this as short and as to the point that I can but there is a lot to explain so it might get a but long so stick with it please:P
I have many USB devices connected to the pc, and every thing worked fine until a couple of months ago when my flight sim cockpit would give me some problems, is one of the devices got disconnect it would not work if I just plugged it back in and I had to restart the pc for it to work again. In the cockpit I have 7-8 devices connected to two usb hubs with 0,5 meter wires id guess, then form the hubs I have 1 meter usb cable that goes in to a Powered usb hub with a 5m cable to the pc.
and as far as I know there is no problems with this as I will explain later. The other USB devices that are connected to my pc is 2 keyboard and 3 mice witch just have dongles for them, 1 webcam a Razer orb weaver chroma, 1 legato steam deck and a VR headset (HTC cosmos elite).
Then yesterday when I was going to play some games, the Throttle was not registered as an input device in the game or a 3rd party joystick tester, the throttle was however showing up in the software that came with it and in windows under "Bluetooth and other devices" and "devices and printers" where it is shown as active/connected or not greyed out, this is the same for all my devices. Now I am uncertain if they show up in device manager, as they have no id other than usb input device, all I know is that when I connect the devices and device manager is open the list flickers.
However it did not show up in the menu called "Game Controllers".
Now after countless hours of diagnosing trying to plug everything out and in and restarts and combinations of thins and what I did discovered was, that when I pulled out another device on my simpit then replugged the throttle it showed up, but when I plugged back in the other device two thing happens. It either replaced the throttle in the list or does not show up at all (as I mentioned before the device always shows up in devices and printers but now the Game controller setting" and as a result are not usable by any software or game). Now I tried different thing and I decided to connect more old gaming devices I don't use any more and they did not show up either, but then out of pure luck I disconnected my VR headset not from my pc but from the Small box and every device showed up, and disappeared again except two or three devices when I connected the VR headset again. In the "Game Controllers" there where also a Vjoy device to be used as virtual hotas device, and nothing happened when I disabled or uninstalled this, but the Razer orb weaver chroma was listed there for some reason it does have a thumb stick on it and when I pulled out the Razer the same thing happened, all the devices where showing up and then disappeared except two or three random devices when I plugged in the Razer again, now if the Razer is disconnected the VR has no affect on it at the same is true form the other way.
So I have no idea what's wrong, the only other information I might think is useful is that for the longest time when I was playing games and connected something to a USB port while inside a game the game would freeze for a few seconds, this was especially noticeable wile playing tekken and plugging in a fight stick. And the fact that I do feel like the list of HID devices in device manager is a bit to long, there are 86 devices there from HID Compliant to usb input devices, then there is 10 under keyboard and 9 under mice, 13 under Universal Serial Bus Controller and 1 under Universal Serial Bus Devices, and triple that if you show hidden
It seams so random, what device stays in the "Game Controllers" list and witch gets replaced, so I have no guesses to what this could be. i will do some more fiddling around and update this as soon as I find something.
I have ASUS ROG Strix X570-F GAMING, S-AM4, Corsair Vengeance RGB PRO DDR4 3600MHz 32GB, AMD Ryzen 9 3900X Prosessor, ZOTAC GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER
Any help would be appreciated
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