Never buy an X52 Pro from Saitek if you value your time.

[CatDad500]

I'm just ranting here but I was a proud owner of an TM Hotas Cougar for 12 years. Heard great things about the X52 Pro for Elite. It worked for one day, one day. Tried every single driver they had 30+ reboots, editing the registery, powered hub, not powered, usb 2, usb 3. Nothing, just nothing. Do I mention the part where the system will hang and you will lose internet access? Or the part where only a forced shutdown will get you out of this mess. I emplore you if you have windows 7 x64 and are loving elite don't buy Saitek for your own sanity.

[Tron©]

have owned an X52 for 10 years, still use it, never an issue with it.

[DownSouth05]

I have heard a number of similar issue with the X-52 and also an equal number of people saying they have no issues with it. Its way too expensive IMO to test it on my system to see if it works or not. I'll stick to my KB, than always works, and my Logitech Flight stick. Its cheap and it works.

[alinonstorm]

I have an X52 Pro and other then some setup issues (Mostly that you can only use USB 2.0 and there are some issues with intel USB) it works fine for me on Win 7 64bit.

[Laurreth]

Oh dear you edited the registry… if you did that following the advice on Saitek forums, you might as well reinstall the OS.

[Hiten]

The build quality and materials are sh*t and that's a proven fact.

Also, their Q.A. is either a singular 90-year old blind man being forced to work in a dimly lit cave, or simply non-existant.

I hear Saitek used to be good before MadCatz bought them, but never owned anything besides a post-MadCatz x52 Pro. Cannot recommend it for the price. First one developed weird throttle issues due to a frayed wire inside the housing (from constant rubbing/pinching) after about a month. My replacement doesn't register past 90% or more on the far right rotational axis, unless you really twist it really hard (meanwhile, left rotation is fine). For $150-$200, I expect the thing to last at *least* several thousand hours if not abused; or simply working correctly out-of-the-box would have been nice. And I am pretty darn gentle on my stuff - the throttle was not damaged by me in any way, and the second stick was just wonky with rotation right out of the box.

Then, let's not forget needing to open the stick itself to add decent magnets to the weak ones they stick in there, if you want real (or close enough) linearity on the stick and to remove the deadzone. Or how about having to open the throttle to remove the afterburner detents? Those got real old, real fast in games that don't make use of an afterburner - of which there are a lot of, including E:D. Oh, I also get the "unresponsive mouse/system" issue every time I unplug the x52 while the computer is on, requiring a hard reset of the PC (Win7 x64, for which the stick is developed for.)

Problem is there is no real competition in the middle class HOTAS market. All that exists is the low-end (Logitech, some TM models, generic stuff, etc.) and the high-end (TM Warthog, Black Mamba, etc.). Until someone decides to market a competitively-priced HOTAS with around the same feature-set as the Saitek models - and hopefully isn't a piece of crap - they'll sit comfortably in their position of being the only middle class HOTAS manufacturer forever.

[57]

When i upgraded my pc i had issues with my x52 pro due to the motherboard having a Intel Z97 chipset. A temp workaround was to disable In BIOS, xHCI (USB 3.0 functionality). That though forces everything to USB 2 one and wasnt acceptable for me. I had an old usb 2 expantion card from years ago and put that in, turned xHCI on again and now all is good.

[Laurreth]

Цитата допису Hiten:

Until someone decides to market a competitively-priced HOTAS with around the same feature-set as the Saitek models - and hopefully isn't a piece of crap - they'll sit comfortably in their position of being the only middle class HOTAS manufacturer forever.

Sadly Microsoft stopped making their only good product :-(

[Mu77ley]

Цитата допису Tron:

have owned an X52 for 10 years, still use it, never an issue with it.

I've had mine for 2 years now, and no issues at all.

[EightByteØwl]

My X52 has been working perfectly for the few weeks I've had it. No trouble here.

[sgtkoolaid]

I have the saitek X-55 rhino so far so good. Though I did have my tthrustmaster Cougar for almost 10 years. but their hatwitch and aileron slider was faulty and had to replace it from parts given to me by them ands solder them myself. So I guess in the end you hope you get a good batch off the line. :P

[UselessFoetus]

Well I have the x52 pro and been playing this game and star citizen without any problems at all, running win 10 64-bit btw.

I just pluged it in and it worked flawlessly, didn't have to install any drivers.

[Ghoul]

TM Warthog here, all good! :P

[Laurreth]

Цитата допису Shinuz:

I just pluged it in and it worked flawlessly, didn't have to install any drivers.

IME the "driver" part is relatively painless most of the time (at least if you stick to the latest version YMMV spectacularly though), but the programming software... oh my goat.

[-OrLoK- Слава Україн]

Hello there

OP what happened to your COUGAR? I use mine for ELITE and various flight sims and it still works fine ( I did have to replace a pot in the throttle) but mine still works well all these years later.

(Number 00898)

Ive heard on these forums lots of woeful tales on this issue but havnt seen anything in the press. Can anyone link me to a mainstrem article on the issue?

Rdgs

LoK

[CatDad500]

It really sucks, I did get the stick to work the first day I had it. Worked flawless in Elite and I was stoked. Must just be a dud. This Reddit post describes the issue perfectly. Although I can't disable xHCI in my bios and disabling USB 3.0 didn't help. Windows still recgnizes the device and the latest software but it kills any ability to use the internet while plugged in and hangs the computer if you try to shutdown or uninstall the device. Unplugging doesn't work either.

https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/1vdrnq/having_trouble_installing_a_saitek_x52_hotas/