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Re: USB ports going away during match

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Originally Posted by MrForbes View Post
We can look at power settings, but I'm a bit confused why something like that would make the USB port come and go several times during a match, while the control is being used continuously? Although I do understand that Windows works in strange and mysterious ways.
Some laptops also have "sleep and charge" ports, which stay powered even when the computer sleeps (and I've seen some teams' DS laptops go to sleep during a match). One joystick being plugged into one of these ports and the other not could cause this when one controller stays powered when the computer sleeps.

Again, a closer examination of the laptop's power settings should help.
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