{"id":1280,"date":"2016-03-11T16:48:45","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T20:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pressleypress.com\/blog\/?p=1280"},"modified":"2016-03-11T16:48:45","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T20:48:45","slug":"saitek-x52-pro-not-being-detected-by-driver-installation-program-windows-8-and-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pressleypress.com\/blog\/?p=1280","title":{"rendered":"Saitek X52 Pro Not Being Detected by Driver Installation Program (Windows 8 and 10)"},"content":{"rendered":"

My X-52 has been a real pain in the butt in Windows 10. It’s hit or miss if after a reboot the joystick is going to be detected by Windows. Attempting to re-run the driver installer doesn’t help. I found the following tip at\u00a0the Windows Support site<\/a>\u00a0and seems to do the trick.<\/p>\n

I finally found a Solution, when I try to load the driver and it gets to the point that it asked me to plug in the device I went to the device manager and when it asked me to install the driver I clicked “browse my computer” then”let me pick from a list” from there it gave me 3 choices, 2 of them were X52 Controllers, the 3rd was a generic USB device, I selected the Generic Device and then the Saitek Driver installer was able to finish its installation<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My X-52 has been a real pain in the butt in Windows 10. It’s hit or miss if after a reboot the joystick is going to be detected by Windows. 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