Saitek SST Programming Software?

SEE · #1 08-20-2010, 04:26 AM

Suspected for a while that the SST software was causing the Blue Screen of death on my PC. Not so much with IL1946 but frequent blue screen crashes in WOP. However, I remapped one of the top hat switches as a shift Key for IL1946 and the instant I hit the key - Blue screen of death ('Bad_Pool_Call' but sometimes 'Driver _IRQL_Not Less Or Equal'! Really hacked off so I checked on the internet and found a lot of threads concerning SST, conflicts with TrackIR and causing PC instability. Anyway, I have removed the SST software and mapped the stick directly to the functions I need with no intermediate software and everything now seems fine.

Has anyone else experienced problems with this software? BTW, this was following a complete re-install of the OS (WIN XP 32 bit SP3) and Nvidea drivers, etc, as I thought it may have been a duff registry or driver issue. I only have WOP and IL1946 installed and it was crashing with out TrackIR enabled.

BadAim · #2 08-20-2010, 06:07 AM

I'm using the latest version of SST inIL2 with no problem, or at least not much. But I can tell you from 10 plus years experience that Saitek drivers by and large suck, and if I didn't like their controllers so much I'd not put up with it. It's like anything else, a choice you make. Do you want that little red sports car? You can't pack up the family for vacation with it (or more than a change of underwear, for that matter). Same with the Sticks.

322Sqn_Dusty · #3 08-20-2010, 11:06 AM

Since the Saitek X45 came on the market, i'm using Saitek for Il2 (currently X52 Pro with MDS programmed) in combination with Track ir3. Others from my group use the Saitek Cyborg. As far as I know the SST only caused real problems in a former release. Used both mapping directly in Il2 and from SST, don't forget to clear the Il2 mapping for the latter. Nuke'n the USB ports could solve the issues in some cases. Be sure to use the latest drivers.

SEE · #4 08-20-2010, 02:01 PM

I will try several hours with no SST on both WOP and IL1946 and, if no problems, I will then install the latest SST and Drivers for my Cyborg. I am using the SST version shipped with the stick and it is the earlier version. Using any key as SHIFT key (other than the designated one on the Cyborg X) causes the PC to crash the instant I press it so it is definitely the SST software.

swiss · #5 08-21-2010, 11:07 AM

I experienced lockups with the SST - I think it was caused by mouse functions on the X52.
Deleted all of them; no more lockups.

SEE · #6 08-21-2010, 01:58 PM

Realised I had 'Xpadder' and this works a treat for flight sticks as well as game controllers. Absolutely no issues with Xpadder and does everything that S.S.T does - will stick with it and not bother installing the latest S.S.T. software. Not sure wether Xpadder has 'shift key' support but I can live without that.
18 assignable switches is more than enough for me....and my aging memory

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jtdude100 · #7 03-11-2011, 04:24 PM

I downloaded the SST programming software and now my joystick to way too sensitive and it wont go away even wen i uninstall it....

swiss · #8 03-11-2011, 04:28 PM

There's no correlation between stick response and SST.
Try joycontrol.

meplay · #9 03-11-2011, 04:55 PM

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Originally Posted by SEE

Suspected for a while that the SST software was causing the Blue Screen of death on my PC. Not so much with IL1946 but frequent blue screen crashes in WOP. However, I remapped one of the top hat switches as a shift Key for IL1946 and the instant I hit the key - Blue screen of death ('Bad_Pool_Call' but sometimes 'Driver _IRQL_Not Less Or Equal'! Really hacked off so I checked on the internet and found a lot of threads concerning SST, conflicts with TrackIR and causing PC instability. Anyway, I have removed the SST software and mapped the stick directly to the functions I need with no intermediate software and everything now seems fine.

Has anyone else experienced problems with this software? BTW, this was following a complete re-install of the OS (WIN XP 32 bit SP3) and Nvidea drivers, etc, as I thought it may have been a duff registry or driver issue. I only have WOP and IL1946 installed and it was crashing with out TrackIR enabled.

This has been happening to me since i put win 7 on...been giving me headaches, gonna unistall my sst software see what happens ta

SEE · #10 03-12-2011, 12:40 AM

Since posting that thread I tried the latest drivers and SST for an X52 I recently bought, mainly to use the MFD. So far it's been stable on both my WIN7(32bit) and XP PC's. It was hell with my Cyborg and frequent BSOD with the SST installed (which I am pretty sure was the same SST version as I now have).