Conflicting Saitek vs. TrackIR USB drivers?
Posted: Thu May 14, 2009 4:08 am
Hello,
I'm a new customer, just received my TrackIR 5 yesterday. I think I might have run into compatibility problems with conflicting Saitek products and would like to know if there are any known issues with this combination. My box runs XP Pro and I have a Saitek AV8R Joystick with the Saitek keyboard macro software installed. Saitek also installs a new device class in dev mngr, 'Saitek Magic Bus'. This has always worked fine.
The TrackIR installed without problems using both v4 and v5 software, but I later noticed that the Saitek profiler software (their keyboard macro software for that stick) had stopped communicating with the joystick. The stick and all those saitek devices were still present in device manager, the saitek process was running (but wouldn't show its gui), but there was no functionality whatsoever. I then reinstalled the saitek software, and voil�, saitek was working again, but guess what, now TrackIR wouldn't find the camera anymore. Actually the camera had even disappeared in device manager.
In the end, I somehow managed to get it working by unplugging the camera, putting it back in, uninstalling TrackIR, reinstalling TrackIR .. but really, it doesn't feel very reliable at all. I fear that any future update, or even a disconnect/reconnect of either the TrackIR or the Joystick may again disable one of the two.
What is the root cause here? Conflicting inf files maybe? driver conflict? Any workarounds or even fixes?
Oliver
I'm a new customer, just received my TrackIR 5 yesterday. I think I might have run into compatibility problems with conflicting Saitek products and would like to know if there are any known issues with this combination. My box runs XP Pro and I have a Saitek AV8R Joystick with the Saitek keyboard macro software installed. Saitek also installs a new device class in dev mngr, 'Saitek Magic Bus'. This has always worked fine.
The TrackIR installed without problems using both v4 and v5 software, but I later noticed that the Saitek profiler software (their keyboard macro software for that stick) had stopped communicating with the joystick. The stick and all those saitek devices were still present in device manager, the saitek process was running (but wouldn't show its gui), but there was no functionality whatsoever. I then reinstalled the saitek software, and voil�, saitek was working again, but guess what, now TrackIR wouldn't find the camera anymore. Actually the camera had even disappeared in device manager.
In the end, I somehow managed to get it working by unplugging the camera, putting it back in, uninstalling TrackIR, reinstalling TrackIR .. but really, it doesn't feel very reliable at all. I fear that any future update, or even a disconnect/reconnect of either the TrackIR or the Joystick may again disable one of the two.
What is the root cause here? Conflicting inf files maybe? driver conflict? Any workarounds or even fixes?
Oliver