Joystick (from Microsoft) nnot recognized

hello all,

I am a french guy playing (or flying to be exact) with flight simulator since the very beginning. for the last 1à years at least or even more, I was using a Microsoft sidewinder force feedback 2 joystick and was happy with that, but in this new version of FS, this device (from Microsoft is not really usable. When connected,it appears in the list but with any slider for setting sensistivity or setting, after many attemps I could do some kind of sensitivity (to be honest this part is far from being obvious compared to previous versions). when I saved and got back to the game nothing was enabled , this Microsoft (again) device was totally ignored !
I there any reasons for ? Maybe too old…

Regards,