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I recently got a new PC running SteamOS and picked up the Winwing Orion 2 HOTAS. When trying to play Star Wars: Squadrons (via Proton), I ran into a issue: the game completely refused to recognize my joystick as a flight stick. Instead, Proton was aggressively wrapping it and forcing it to act like an Xbox controller. Because of this, using joystick was unplayable (with or without steam inputs allowed). I would like to leave here solution for other how I fixed it.

How I Solved It (The Manual Fix)
After doing some digging, I managed to fix it manually by editing the game's virtual registry using Protontricks to stop Proton from forcing the stick into Xbox/XInput mode.
Here is what I did:

1. Installed Protontricks from store and opened it. Select Star Wars game.
2. Select the default wineprefix
3. run regedit.
4. Navigated to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Enum\WINEBUS\
5. Found the subfolders matching my joystick's hardware ID (Svn_4098&Pid_bea8).
6. Changed the keys to force raw HID ->
7. - Service: Changed from xinput to winehid
8. - DeviceDesc: Changed to Wine HID compatible device
9. - CompatibleIds: Changed to WINEBUS\WINE_COMP_HID

Keep in mind that you probably have cached settins in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Enum\WINEINPUT\ here remove every subfolder.
Also this should work not only with Orion 2 HOTAS but with other hardwares with similiar issue. In terminal pass lsusb and you should get names of devices. For me:

4098:bea8 — Winwing Orion Joystick Base Metal 2

4098:bd64 — Winwing Orion Throttle Base II

4098:bef0 — Winwing Orion Combat Rudder Pedals

The 4098 is for winwing id and second one after ':' is the device id.

There is opened ticket about it in proton (wine), so if merged, this won't be issue in future for Orion2 HOTAS holders.

MINOR INCONVINIENCE: keep in mind that if you change device (for example disconnect flightstick from the base and reconnect it); Linux kernel might create temporary new profile for the device and our fix won't work. Restarting computer and wait few minutes should be probably enough (worked for me), if you want also also account for this permanently, you need to say it to linux kernel (be absolutely sure) for example (change parameters for your case)
run sudo nano /etc/udev/rules.d/99-winwing.rules in terminal. write there:

# Winwing (Vendor 4098) - Allow raw HID access for all simulation hardware
KERNEL=="hidraw*", SUBSYSTEM=="hidraw", ATTRS{idVendor}=="4098", MODE="0666", TAG+="uaccess"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="4098", MODE="0666", TAG+="uaccess" 

do CTRL+O, ENTER, CTRL+X to save it in editor and leave it, after that run:
sudo udevadm control --reload-rules && sudo udevadm trigger

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title. should i buy it or no one plays anymore?

P.S. is the single player campaign worth it for five bucks?

I'm not aware of any direct comparisons like this so I made my own. 🏳️‍⚧️

Happening tonight!

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Happy Hunting Everyone! *S*

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I know a lot of people have reported this issue.

I opened a help ticket with EA and all the help I got seemed like a copy and paste response from Gemini 😂

Anyways, the solutions were all things I tried before:

Changing which file is the launcher, adding a steam id .txt file, changing the cores steam uses on my PC, running things as admin.

it didn't work and the agent closed my ticket.

So I'm going to keep submitting tickets until we get an actual fix, anyone want to join me?

https://help.ea.com/en/customer-care/ - select game download and launching as your issue and email an agent.

It isn't right they still sell a broken product.

As the title says. I've seen a couple posts on here with no answers, but I want to play with my friends and I'm desperate. Any solutions?

Has anyone else noticed how in Fleet Battles vs AI the friendly "danger zone" doesn't insta-kill the enemy AI like theirs does to you?

I bought Star Wars: Squadrons last month, but I only started playing it this week on PC, and honestly… I can’t stop.

At the beginning, it was a little difficult for me to understand how to properly control and stabilize the TIE Fighter and the starfighters. I kept fighting the ship more than the enemy. But once I started to understand the dynamics, the movement, and the way the ships respond, it became much easier and way more satisfying.

I also really loved seeing General Ackbar again. It is always a surprise to see how he is somehow involved in another important part of the Star Wars lore.

One thing that impressed me a lot was how careful the developers were with the details. Even things like the position of the sun during space combat made the battles feel more real and cinematic.

But for me, the best part will always be jumping to hyperspace. No matter how many times I see it, it still feels amazing.

I’m still new to the game, but I’m really enjoying it so far. Any tips for a beginner pilot?

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This was insanely fun to edit and record. Hope you enjoy!

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Hey guys, I got the game a few days back, but the multiplayer seems dead, and I want to get the achievements in the game, are there any discord groups still active? I found a 5 year old list here, but all ofthem, that I tried were invalid/dead. Thanks a lot