Can't import controls

[whitehot]

These days I ran into the tedious process of restoring my DCS installation, after I made some changes in my rig.

 

I had to reinstall windows - but - I could save all my old DCS data to an usb drive.

 

Since DCS is installed on my "secondary" SSD, it was unscathed by the os reinstallation, I just re-activated all the modules and managed to start the simulator all-right.

 

But then, I needed to get back my controls config, over which I had spent hours of trial and error and fine tuning, which I don't want to repeat.

 

So after doing my homework on the forums, I went to my old DCS data folder (the one found under "mydocs\saved games\DCS" , happy that my configs were all there.

 

Copied them to my new "saved games" dir under my new windows install, confirmed all the overwriting and confidently launched DCS. Fired up a kamov quick mission, just to test everything was a-ok..

 

But, no. Controls weren't the ones I imported at all.

So I went over the dir where they are saved, to have a bad surprise:

 

From what I get:

- a config file in lua format is saved for each controller that has been plugged into the game.

- The .lua filename is formed with the name of the controller (like "Saitek x-52 pro") AND a very long alphanumeric string, which I surmise is an ID coming from the windows user.

 

in my case, here's an example:

Saitek X52 Pro Flight Control System {7D313EA0-E9B1-11e4-8001-XXXXXXXXXXX}.diff.lua

 

Copying the configs from the old DCS folder has just caused the new config/input folders to have two of the aforementioned files for every controller, one made with the old user string, one with the new one - Yet DCS does not read the old one - but the new one which I don't need.

 

At this point I'm wondering what can I do to restore my old controls:

Since I don't believe that deleting the "new" files, those made with the current user id would solve anything, my question is, can I go ahead, add the old config files and then rename them using the new user string?

 

It's gonna be tedious, but at least would work imho. Also, if somebody experienced this situation and has a quicker method, can u please share it with me?

 

Thanks

[MadDog-IC]

These days I ran into the tedious process of restoring my DCS installation, after I made some changes in my rig.

 

I had to reinstall windows - but - I could save all my old DCS data to an usb drive.

 

Since DCS is installed on my "secondary" SSD, it was unscathed by the os reinstallation, I just re-activated all the modules and managed to start the simulator all-right.

 

But then, I needed to get back my controls config, over which I had spent hours of trial and error and fine tuning, which I don't want to repeat.

 

So after doing my homework on the forums, I went to my old DCS data folder (the one found under "mydocs\saved games\DCS" , happy that my configs were all there.

 

Copied them to my new "saved games" dir under my new windows install, confirmed all the overwriting and confidently launched DCS. Fired up a kamov quick mission, just to test everything was a-ok..

 

But, no. Controls weren't the ones I imported at all.

So I went over the dir where they are saved, to have a bad surprise:

 

From what I get:

- a config file in lua format is saved for each controller that has been plugged into the game.

- The .lua filename is formed with the name of the controller (like "Saitek x-52 pro") AND a very long alphanumeric string, which I surmise is an ID coming from the windows user.

 

in my case, here's an example:

Saitek X52 Pro Flight Control System {7D313EA0-E9B1-11e4-8001-XXXXXXXXXXX}.diff.lua

 

Copying the configs from the old DCS folder has just caused the new config/input folders to have two of the aforementioned files for every controller, one made with the old user string, one with the new one - Yet DCS does not read the old one - but the new one which I don't need.

 

At this point I'm wondering what can I do to restore my old controls:

Since I don't believe that deleting the "new" files, those made with the current user id would solve anything, my question is, can I go ahead, add the old config files and then rename them using the new user string?

 

It's gonna be tedious, but at least would work imho. Also, if somebody experienced this situation and has a quicker method, can u please share it with me?

 

Thanks

 

You can

 

1. Rename the old configs to the new configs name.
   
2. or
   
3. Copy the data out of the old config file and paste it into the new config file, overwriting the data.
   
4. or
   
5. Run DCS World, go to Options > controls page for each aircraft, click in the joystick column you want your old controls on, and click on the load profile button on top, navigate to were you old config file is for that aircraft/control stick combination and select it.
   
6. ie with the A-10c real = c:\Users\yourusername\Saved Games\Dcs\Config\Input\A-10C\joystick\Saitek X52 Pro Flight Controller {42D66CB0-0713-11e5-8006-444553540000}.diff.lua
   
7. Your old controls should now be showing in the list
   
8. Make sure you load the correct old file for the correct stick, and also make sure your old config is version compatible, was changed drastically around version 1.28, so if your config is from a saved version of 1.28 or higher you should be ok (.diff.lau), if it below a version 1.28 then it is unusable.
   

Regards Ian.

[cichlidfan]

This is what the Save and Load Profile commands were designed for.

[whitehot]

You can

 

1. Rename the old configs to the new configs name.
   
2. or
   
3. Copy the data out of the old config file and paste it into the new config file, overwriting the data.
   
4. or
   
5. Run DCS World, go to Options > controls page for each aircraft, click in the joystick column you want your old controls on, and click on the load profile button on top, navigate to were you old config file is for that aircraft/control stick combination and select it.
   
6. ie with the A-10c real = c:\Users\yourusername\Saved Games\Dcs\Config\Input\A-10C\joystick\Saitek X52 Pro Flight Controller {42D66CB0-0713-11e5-8006-444553540000}.diff.lua
   
7. Your old controls should now be showing in the list
   
8. Make sure you load the correct old file for the correct stick, and also make sure your old config is version compatible, was changed drastically around version 1.28, so if your config is from a saved version of 1.28 or higher you should be ok (.diff.lau), if it below a version 1.28 then it is unusable.
   

Regards Ian.

 

Thanks mate. I think I'll go with loading the controls from inside the program. Anyway, the important thing here is that having the old configs saved, one can import them somehow