[sonar]

CH Fighterstick
CH ProThrottle
CH ProPedals
CH Quadrant Throttle

All USB

What I've tried so far:

3.6.7 build - latest launcher

Firstly I tried getting just the Fighterstick to work.  No go, choosing everything on the launcher either gives me the propedals, the prothrottle or nothing.

Second I did was use the CH products key mapper.  This thing will let me combine the sticks into one mega stick and then specify what the computer sees as available.  So for Battlefield 2 I have everything combined to one stick.  The pedals work as the rudder, the stick and it's buttons are working fine, the throttle uses the throttle and the quadrant is inert.  Only the buttons on the stick work.  So that gives you a 12 button (plus 1 hat) 4 axis joystick.  No go.  Down the list and force 1 and 0 are nothing.

This is really annoying.  I've never been able to play FS2 with working rudder pedals and I really, really want too!

Couple bits of information for you.

When combined the computer only sees the 1 stick the other sticks dont' exist any more as far as its concerned.  The stick is labled CH Control Manager 1 by default.

When the stick isn't combine and just one part is selected the Windows 32 force option appears.  It doesn't appear when the stick is combined.

I'm going to mess with the control manager some and reduce the number of buttons on the stick to see if that helps.

Any advice would be appreciated.

[Pnakotus]

Using such an expensive and complex control setup for Freespace just boggles the mind.  LO:MAC, maybe, but I play Freespace with a PS2 controller. 

[sonar]

  I do play lomac actually.

[Nuke]

ok, in windows xp (im assuming youre using xp), once you inst6all a control it is given a device id. in older versions of windows you were allowed to edit this number, but the egg heads over at microsoft thought it would be easyer to handle the number in software, transparent to the user. so whats happening is you install the controls and they take up # 0-3, and the virtual driver, which probibly installed last, gets #4. freespace is set up to use stick 0, though you can force it to use 0 or 1. what might work, and im not 100% sure on this, is if you uninstall the drivers for all the components, and install the virtual driver first, followed by the drivers to the other controls (probibly starting with the most used). ive never used a ch stick so im not sure how good their drivers are. before you do that you might want to try editing the "CurrentJoystick" registry entry. first try forcing 0 and then 1, if neither of those work edit the value to 2,3,4,ect and some other value might just work.

[sonar]

  I dunno.  I'll try the reg edit.  I can't install the virtual drivers first, I have to have the regular device drivers already in.  I think.

[Kazan]

use the launcher joystick panel to look for the virtual device's ID

[Greyv]

i had a similar problem a while back with some games and my saitek x-45.  i found a little program called JoyIds
which allows you to make them whatever you want, create profiles for different games, etc.
hope this helps

[sonar]

  The JoyID program fixed it.  Thanks very much.  The game rocks hard now!  Woot!