I fly mainly high-altitude jetliners 80 percent of the time. I spawn at the runway and go. I usually fly by instruments and use the keyboard for taking off. When landing I usually turn off the AP and land manually using my wireless Xbox controller. So I turn my controller on before this point as I don’t want to waste batteries. Upon turning on, why does the pop up asking me if I want to keep my default controller profile always have to pop up when turning on the controller? This is ridiculous. I use a custom profile so use this profile because its the last one I used and I don’t want to be asked anymore!!! Every time I turn it on it interrupts my flight and I have to escape out of it to get back to my flight. Cmon, Asobo, you fix so many bugs on your lists but never the ones that matter. This doesn’t need to pop up. Thanks
This is happening, because if you launch the sim with the Xbox controller “off” the sim doesn’t know it exists.
When you turn it on after you have launched the sim, the sim is going to recognize its connection as a new device. It is behaving as it would do if you were to plug in a new USB-based controller after the sim is launched. It’s no different.
My suggestion would be to launch the sim after turning on your Xbox controller. Once the sim has fully launched, you can put the Xbox controller to sleep/off and you won’t have this issue when you wake it up again when you wish to use it.
It would be more convenient when the sim just writes a status on screen which disappears after some seconds. And for reconnecting known devices the question to create a new profile is just useless.
Every pause/blocking message (controller, Bandwidth, …) in flight is annoying and for online user (f.e. Vatsim) its bad for many other affected users when the aircraft freezes for some time.
Yes that’s what I do but it is a pain. I shouldn’t have to do this. It should know it’s not a new device if I have had it plugged in before.
Sorry, Gotcha
I get that it’s annoying, but I think you’re asking the sim to be able to be operating on a level beyond the Windows/Xbox OS that handle device connections.
That seems an impossibility.
I don’t know anything about coding but it seems like a simple" if this, then that" situation. Call me naive.
Yeah, it probably works where the OS “tells” the sim what devices are currently connected and that is then passed onto the sim, which loads the appropriate device profiles.
What they could do, though, is rework how they introduce a new device connection, so that it is less obtrusive and/or offers a selection that says, “Use previously used profile?” or something along those lines.
Wishlist item?
Definitely. I’ll add it.