Alexmoose

TLDR make sure if your keyboard has more than one usb to only use the one that powers your keyboard, also dont use the USB slot on your keyboard if it includes one, make sure joystick is in USB 2.0 This recently happened to me and I found a fix that worked for me. So I play on a custom setup, 3 monitors, 2 keyboards, wireless mouse, headset ect. I recently decided to clean up my whole setup and relocate to a different room in my house. I was playing Wasteland with my friends and when I bought a helicopter for us to fly, i noticed my throttle was not working. Went into my settings and my joystick was not showing up. I eventually stumbled upon this thread and tried everything mentioned, nothing would fix it. My joystick was available in the main menu but in game stopped working. It really annoyed me because I enjoy flying. I've been into airplanes for a long time. Now I do have very good knowledge on computers. Code, hardware, software, everything. People were mentioning this is a Windows 8 issue, which it possibly could be. The main issue is a USB problem. I have a Razer Blackwidow Chroma (Keyboard with all the custom colours). It has 2 USB Slots. I had both plugged into the back of my motherboard into the USB 2.0 slots. I had my joystick plugged into a USB 3.0 slot. I also had my phone charger plugged into my USB slot located on my keyboard. At first I moved my joystick into the USB 2.0 slot on my computer and still the same issue. Then I realized I never used both USBs for my keyboard, only the one for power. I removed the one of the USBs from my computer (remember my keyboard has two, i left the main one plugged in, removed the extra), put my joystick into the USB 2.0 slot and my issue resolved. Obviously not all people are gonna have the same fix that I have, but this could help some people.