Controls again messed up after reinstalling

[Hydrox]

Can you please fix the control options, again all my joystick, throttle, pedal settings were gone after reinstalling the game. I had even saved them in separate file, loaded it and result was keyboard bindings in joystick slots and so on. So it's totally messed up. I really don't wanna go through control assigning every time something changes in game. And if there is "save" and "load buttons".. well why? They don't even work.

[karambiatos]

you save your controls in a separate folder, for example on the desktop, and then you load them back in after reinstalling, you need one file for the joystick inputs, and one for the keyboard inputs.

[cichlidfan]

Can you please fix the control options, again all my joystick, throttle, pedal settings were gone after reinstalling the game. I had even saved them in separate file, loaded it and result was keyboard bindings in joystick slots and so on. So it's totally messed up. I really don't wanna go through control assigning every time something changes in game. And if there is "save" and "load buttons".. well why? They don't even work.

 

Actually, they work quite fine. You must save a separate profile for each controller, and for each aircraft, and then you must restore them exactly the same way. If you did not do that, then you will end up with what you described.

 

The correct process for saving a profile goes like this. First click on any cell in the column for the controller (i.e. joystick) that you want to save. Then save the profile. Now go the next controller column (i.e. rudder pedals) and click somewhere in that one. Then save that profile.

[Hydrox]

Yes I saved them in separate folder and replaced them after reinstalling, that's what I'm trying to say, you can't easily restore joystick controls, because in every DCS install it creates .lua file with different name. For example my joystick settings are in:

Joystick - HOTAS Warthog {ABDC1180-AECA-11e3-8001-444553540000} (my backup)

and when install game joystick settings are in:

Joystick - HOTAS Warthog {F2AA1FD0-BA37-11e3-8001-444553540000}.lua

so good luck replacing? Why isn't the name "joystick.lua" . like keyboard .lua?

 

Anyway I will now transfer my configs and rename them as these newly created configs to get it to work. Very non necessary hassle.

[Hydrox]

I did save them as separate profile....

 

Well, so I need like 4 different profiles for one plane? I try that then, but still - one would think that "save profile" saves all your current controls.

Edited April 2, 2014 by Hydrox

[cichlidfan]

Well, so I need like 4 different profiles for one plane?

 

Yes, one for each controller (joystik, pedals, etc.).

[winz]

Why isn't the name "joystick.lua" . like keyboard .lua?

The UID is there so dcs can differentiate between two controlers of the same kind. (so you can use i.e. two Thrustmaster MFDs).

Windows doesn't support two keyboards key maps, so there is no reason to use UID for keyboard.

[Hydrox]

OK winz, that makes sense.