Saitek Throttle Quadrant

[WebMaximus 372]

That's really weird!

 

And you made sure you used the correct PID?

[fppilot 4,339]

Saitek Twitter says now Windows 10 drivers coming ASAP. That was two days ago!

[Mean Aerodynamic Chord 269]

Saitek Twitter says now Windows 10 drivers coming ASAP. That was two days ago!

Yes, they are sure taking their sweet time with them.

[fppilot 4,339]

Tweets about Windows 10 drivers removed from their Twitter feed.

[retiredat44 0]

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/933/160/890/

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please sign petition for Saitek and the nasty attitude they, have about not releasing Windows 10 drivers.... thanx!

[ricka47 611]

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/933/160/890/

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please sign petition for Saitek and the nasty attitude they, have about not releasing Windows 10 drivers.... thanx!

 

Done - although I don't know if they will see this.

[retiredat44 0]

Mad Catz® Receives Audit Opinion With Going Concern Paragraph

http://www.thestreet.com/story/13207535/1/mad-catzr-receives-audit-opinion-with-going-concern-paragraph.html

possible reason why Saitek is not giving Win10 drivers.. I heard a financial report saying Saitek and MadCatz is in deep doo-doo financially and relying on a product to save them.. I heard this a couple weeks ago in a financial report.. here is an article with some info:
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[Richard Sennett 2,499]

You dont need Their drivers - work fine with spad

[fppilot 4,339]

You dont need Their drivers - work fine with spad

 

Richard,

What does Spad do for yokes and rudder pedals? That's where I have trouble in Windows 10. Only with Saitek. Windows 10 installs Saitek's old drivers, and if uninstalled - reinstalls them. Registry patches to Advanced Power Management do not fix the mouse freeze up problem caused by unplugging the devices.

[Richard Sennett 2,499]

Richard,

What does Spad do for yokes and rudder pedals? That's where I have trouble in Windows 10. Only with Saitek. Windows 10 installs Saitek's old drivers, and if uninstalled - reinstalls them. Registry patches to Advanced Power Management do not fix the mouse freeze up problem caused by unplugging the devices.

 

Spad for me just runs in background - I do not make changes with it - dont have too - as for yoke and rudder pedals - (multi-panel and radio panels show up in spad- again I dont touch anything) it should just work out of the box 

 

Dont un-plug devices while pc is running 

 

Look at your windows sleep settings - turn them all of and in power settings go to advanced and then go to usb settings DISABLE selective suspend setting - might help 

 

Also noticed on my asus maximus formula that my usb plugs need to be in sots that makes it happy so you have to play with them for instance for me anyway mouse receiver and keyboard are in 2.0 and saitek stuff is in 3.0 only way I could get them to work which is weird as I would have thought the opposite

[iainsmith 9]

 

 

Post #6 - uninstall all saitek drivers - spad works perfect in windows 10

 

Does this also apply to Saitek joysticks? I have a Cyborg Evo.

 

Iain Smith

[Richard Sennett 2,499]

Does this also apply to Saitek joysticks? I have a Cyborg Evo.

 

Iain Smith

 

I have no idea as I dont use a stick but should be fine

[iainsmith 9]

 

 

I have no idea as I dont use a stick but should be fine

 

Ok thanks.

 

Iain Smith

[gfd 15]

This may, or may not help anyone else. I did a clean install of Windows 10. Of course I had my Saitek controllers plugged in during the installation and 10 installed drivers.

 

I have 3 x throttle quadrants, rudder pedals and a trim wheel. After booting into windows, I tested the controllers. All seemed to be functioning except the trim wheel. This is an ongoing issue, where I had to spin the wheel a couple of times. The trim wheel would disconnect and then reconnected. After that, the trim wheel would function normally until I rebooted Windows. That was Ok in Win 7, but in 10, the mouse froze after the trim wheel dropped out.

 

This is getting long winded, but I just wanted to lay out my experiences so those reading, could compare. Here's what I did:

 

-changed how I receive updates from automatic to notify for downlad and install

-uninstalled Saitek drivers on device manager

-changed Windows update process. Please look at post 147 in this thread to see how it's done:

http://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/8013-windows-update-automatic-updates-enable-disable-windows-10-a-15.html

-disabled Windows Update in services

-deleted all the files in C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution folder

-rebooted windows

-enabled Windows Update service

-ran UsoClient.exe Start Scan to look for updates

-ran wushowhide.diagcab (Update Troubleshooter) to hide the Saitek drivers

 

Note: after uninstalling the drivers, none of the Saitek controllers were functional, except the trim wheel. Also, in the abscence of the driver, when the trim wheel dropped out and reconnected, the mouse didn't freeze.

 

-turned off the machine and disconnected all Saitek controllers

-rebooted into windows and confirmed controllers were gone

-turned off machine and reconnected Saitek controllers

-downloaded Saitek Windows 8.1 drivers for throttle and rudder from Saitek site

-installed drivers

 

Perhaps one or more steps were unnecessary. I don't know. I just wanted to be thorough.

 

All controllers now test out correctly in joy.cpl. The trim wheel dropout doesn't freeze the mouse.

 

I hope you'll forgive the long post. If there is something that may help others trying to get Saitek controllers functioning; perhaps it's worth the headache you got slogging through this.