Joystick/HOTAS Device is disconnected/switched off

I have Virpil joystick/pedals and winning throttle. These did work in war thunder when I first got them, stopped working a while back. I keep coming back hoping they’d work someday, after spending hours trouble shooting with no luck. I’m sick of it! If anyone knows a way to get them working again please share. This is so infuriating! It should NOT be this much of a pain to get controls for a flight SIM mode working!!! I’ve tried all the presets in setup wiz, I’ve tried to auto detect them while moving the controls, I’ve even tried vJoy and joystick gremlin. When trying to use my original control profile, that worked!!! It just does nothing and says “Device is disconnected/switched off” next to the controllers name. It’s like they just decided to unsupport these controls.

Yes my controls work in other games with NO issues, DCS and Microsoft flight sim 2020/2024.