Windows 8.1 in Bootcamp on iMac27 - USB Joystick loses power?

I have a Saitek joystick I use for flying games. It works great on my ancient Dell XP machine.
However, having bought a 27" iMac last week, installed Windows 8.1 in Boot Camp on it - the joystick loses power after a minute when I'm in a game.
I'm not sure if the power even stays on the joystick long enough for a game (such as Battlefield 3) to see the controller.
It's USB.
Right now, the same USB port on the iMac is charging my iPhone just fine, sync too. So, the port is good and the joystick on another system is good - just don't know why the lights go out on the stick and it becomes "dead" as it were?

I would suspect the win8.1 driver more then I would tink bootcamp or the imac being the issue
usb in general should not require more then 5volts and 0.5Amp
you can try connecting a power usb hub (this is a device which have 1 connector it connects to the port on the computer and then have several ports you can connect other usb devices to)
if that also "loses" power then you know it's not a power issue but a driver issue
driver for the joystick or driver because you did not install the require apple drivers for windows made in bootcamp in osx

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