[nodlew]

Evening folks. I bought a used-like-new Saitek J24C X45 joystick and throttle from a guy on Amazon and it arrived two days ago. The stick is in perfect condition, hardly touched at all and I am happy with its basic funtionality in Vista using the Saitek vista drivers, however, I cannot use the Saitek controller profiling software with this stick. Attempting to load a profile will instantly cause my system to blue screen and crash to restart. I was aware that there were such problems when I bought the stick, but I am an old hand at solving driver issues and was confident that I would quickly find a fix or a work-around. Boy was I wrong. I have spent hours and hours downloading different drivers and uninstalling and reinstalling the stick and it's software. Finally I looked for third party options and found Dhauzimmer's drivers which have been around for a coon's age. I was able to install the drivers and calibrate the stick and throttle, but I am unable to find the profiling software that was made for the drivers--XD Profiler, or HazardScript--they have completely disappeared from the web, so I am basically where I was with the Saitek drivers, a joystick that works fine, but which is 90% non-functional because I cannot program it's mouse emulation and keyboard emulation features.

Can anyone help me with this? Does any old pilot out there happen to have a copy of XD Profiler laying around? Or has anyone ever found a fix for the Saitek profiling issues? Keep in mind, I have tried just about everything that is available through Google--intalling the XP drivers and older versions of the profiling software, but I might have missed a step or otherwise gone awry.

Any help, encouragement, or comiseration would be much appreciated.

[Planemad]

Moved to PC Technical Help.

Planeamd

[nodlew]

How thoughtful of you.

[Jambo]

nodlew,

Planmad might not be able to help you, 'because he never had a X-45 - but he did the right thing. No reason to be sarcastic or...!

What OS do you have? Did you had a look here as well: http://www.saitekforum.com/
or even here: ftp://ftp.saitek.com/pub/profiles/x45/

Wish you luck!

Jambo :wink:

[nodlew]

I said "How thoughtful of you" which is not an offensive thing to say. Now, had I come to the forum hoping to find help for the problem and found none, only that my post had been relocated and had I found that just a bit irksome and made my reply with the merest tinge of sarcasm, then there would be no way that you, or anyone else could tell that from what I wrote. And if, accused of sarcasm, I denied it, there would be nothing in the evidence at hand to incriminate me, and you would be, in fairness, bound to take my word for it.
So there.
Thanks for the suggestions. I will look at the links, although my hope has dimmed. What has worked for others has not worked for me in this issue. The damn Saitek site has disabled new registrations to their technical support forums. What kind of bastards not only provide no help themselves, but then prevent people from seeking to help each other? Like many, I like the Saitek products, but the customer relations dimension of their enterprise is beginning to get me hot around the collar. I've never encountered it before, because every other Saitek product I've owned has just plain worked, no questions asked.

Yeah, as I thought, I have examined both those sites with a microscope and spent all last night downloading various versions of saitek drivers and profiling software from the latter one. Nothing worked. The new joy drivers + sst software blue screens and crashes me. The old xp drivers installed cannot be calibrated and result in crazily out of whack x and y axes on the stick, and beyond that, with xp drivers and old sst versions the profiler will not run on my computer, so I cannot even test to see if a profile will load. Other combinations I ahve tried result in an error message when I try to load a profile--that the device has not been configured...meaning that my drivers are incompatible with the programming software. I am certain that there is a combination of drivers and sst that will work for me, but I have shotgunned the problem until I am exhausted and beyond frustrated without making any headway, just hitting the same brick walls over and over. I have resorted to using Joy2Mouse to use my hat switch in mouse emulation mode, which works pretty well. Just can't use the two mode switches on my joystick which robs me of like 20 possible button programs--I would never have to touch the keyboard. It's an infuriating shame. Shame on Saitek.

[Planemad]

...Planmad might not be able to help you, 'because he never had a X-45 - but he did the right thing. No reason to be sarcastic or...!

Thanks Jambo, your right I've never owned the X-45

Planemad

[nodlew]

I was exhausted from hours of fruitless endeavor. I apologize for my berserk fit of mild irony (he said ironically). Anyway, to hell with Saitek software. I have traded in Joy2Mouse--mouse emulation was lagging--for Joy2Key, a tiny program with responsive and perfectly smooth mouse emulation, plus the capacity to program multiple virtual joysticks easily, so easy even a knothead like me can do it, making the button mapping possibilities huge. I am programming my control system to work in different modes, a combat mode with all weapons armed, flight controls necessary for combat, and a flight mode--no weapons armed, buttons mapped for engines, brakes, lights, etc. It's totally fantastic. I recommend it to everyone everywhere.