Problem with Thrustmaster Airbus Joystick

[TheSevenflyer]

There are a lot of users experiencing CTD’s in the last few days.
It may not be joystick related.
See this:

Crashing to desktop, now 70% of time

There are some issues going on after the last update. There are quite a few people posting in this forum on it. I have had 4 or 5 myself, and I rarely ever had them before. I have heard people refer to it as a result of various memory leaks, I personally have no idea. However, it does seem to be resolved by lowering settings. Some lowered traffic, some clouds, etc, and this is seeming to help till the solution comes along. I lowered traffic settings, and made all my add on liveries unabl…

If it’s the joystick it may be related to this, although this issue generally doesn’t result in a CTD.
Check this out.

Rudder has a mind of its own

I own a Thrustmaster TCA Airbus sidestick. After a month of use I also started getting these strange false inputs even when not touching the stick. The windows USB controller panel showing the issue was the controller sending erroneous inputs, not the game. Unfortunately I am not the only one with this issue : it’s a common Thrustmaster joystick problem for T16000 and TCA. I didn’t know the much more expensive hotas model also had this issue. The problem lies inside the stick : the wires for…