Hi, I just bought a sidewinder 2 and XPForce for FS2020 and although I am happy that the force feedback works, it operates at a bare minimum. Mostly centre forces are felt and with take off or landing some shaking. Better something than nothing I think. The force feedback native support in FSX h…

I think I figured out the main thing causing XPF to slowdown, freeze and crash. I have vJoy installed and had the standard setup in it which had Force Feedback enabled. Probably had the Sidewinder and vJoy fighting each other. So now I am down to getting the settings right. Still have some weird be…

I have gotten it working better but it still basically does rythmically or random throwing the joystick to the side, especially bad when taxiing on the ground. As soon as I close XPforce the issues disappear. I managed to track it down to the the last settings page in XPforce where the “Joystick ac…

Even with all the sliders on the effects tab at zero? The ground acceleration, wheel shimmer, bumpiness etc. All of those to the far left. Is it the same in every aircraft? May be worth you trying this software. It’s on my list of things to try. Heard a good thing or 2 about it but not got round t…

Yep, I tried to turn everything down but the “Joystick active” still flickers off at times.

Is the stick plugged into the motherboard USB direct, or via a Hub? Did you try the .net repair thing?

It is plugged in directly and I tried multiple ports, also it is just with XPforce active in the sim it does it. I will try to repair again but did it once.

I think I found the main culprit! I got vJoy installed for the Honeycomb Bravo trim wheel and it seems like any time vJoy is active at all it interfers with XPforce. Making the joystick disconnect from XPforce when some of the forces gets pushed.

Hello, How to point XPForces to the 2024 launcher? Thanks,

We have a lot of threads about XPForce and not much activity in each. I think I will compile a list of them and ask the Mods to merge them but they have more important things to battle at the moment. Anyway seeing as there has been no comment about this question and how to make it work in 2024, I g…

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Sidewinder 2 force feedback with Xpforce

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StarlessLion50 April 23, 2026, 1:39pm 56

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