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Windows isnt finding my joystick.. why?

April 26, 2017joystick Windows

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Windows isnt finding my joystick.. why?

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Its probably because you have a bad connection going to one of your potentiometers. When Windows looks for a joystick, it is looking for current running from the +5 V pin of the game port to BOTH the X and Y axis pins. If this isnt happening on both pins, Windows will not acknowledge the presence of a joystick. Windows doesnt care about the button connections when looking for joysticks, so keep this in mind. Windows may tell you that the joystick is connected and functioning properly without knowing that you missed a button wire.