So on a whim this morning I tried getting the updated Total Air War 2.0 mod working and ran into a loop of problems that I can’t figure out. The install process seems to go fine until I get a crash of the installer…but things seem to proceed normally. Perhaps I could get things working if I could get the Application Compatibility Toolkit to work…but I don’t understand how to launch that despite having read the manual addendum. I’m feeling a bit clumsy…and it reminds me of the old days of PC sims where I spent more time configuring than playing…
Nuts. Still getting the same DirectInput error on launch… I’m gonna have to give up. Burned two hours on this this morning for something that tugs at me out of nostalgia more than anything…
I had also that problem but after un-plug HOTAS Warthog and plug-in old USB Microsoft Sidewinder Precision 2 (joystick) everything was ok. If I remember well the problem occurred when HOTAS and the joystick were connected both.
Some early WIndows flight sims might have trouble with controllers having more than 32 buttons. IIRC Joint Strike Fighter and Enemy Engaged AH and CH (vanilla versions) had this issue. Even if your stick doesn’t have that many buttons it still can have “virtual” buttons. In my case I had this issue with VKB Gladiator NXT, to resolve it I had to limit the number of buttons to 32 in the stick config software.
