After a long, long time just being a "taker" of the community, let me give something back:
-- DCS Configuration Manager --
What's this?
The DCS Configuration Manager was created to make the tough DCS life a little easier and help you with those pesky configuration files! The goal was to make you interact with the app itself as little as possible, as noone likes more overhead before you can go fly your sortie! Use it once, set everything up - done! It is of course 2.5 compatible.
Features:
- Shared, single-instance control mappings!
Links your control settings of all your DCS instances to just one. No more import/export when you changed your mappings and switch from 1.5 to 2.0! (or to beta, or any direction really).
- VR configuration management!
Don't own a GeForce 1280ti yet? Need to turn down you GFX to play VR every time and switch it back later? Now you can change between VR and non-VR configurations with just one click in the app. Don't want to start the app? Let it create shortcuts for you, so you can directly launch the right version with the right configuration!
- New in R4: Sound device switcher for VR users!
Users of VR headsets like the Oculus usually have to change sound output und input devices manually before starting DCS. The app now allows you to select what you want to switch to when you use the VR shortcut! Know what's even better? It will switch back to what it was when you started the game! Neat, right?
- Updater!
Starting the app will also check for updates, so you don't miss out on new features. Doesn't happen when you use the app created shortcuts, though. DCS startup times are long enough...
Things to note:
- Windows 10 SmartScreen will not trust it in the early weeks of release (until I know how to stop it from ignoring the certificate when downloaded from the internet)
- If you're really paranoid (and I won't blame you for that), grab the source, check the code and compile it yourself.
Download over this way: https://github.com/TheFitzZZ/DCS-Config-Manager/raw/master/DCS-ConfigMgmt/Installer/DCSCM-Setup.zip
Source and more details here: https://github.com/TheFitzZZ/DCS-Config-Manager
I hope this will make your DCS life a tiny bit easier. Feel free to suggest additions (lootcrates anyone? :joystick:). Do note that I have tested this with fellow pilots, but it is probable that there are still a few bugs there. So don't go blue on blue on me and post an issue on the GitHub project page, thanks :-)
Cheers, FitzZZ