Warthog and F-18 stick together with control files in DCS

[DutchCoolHand]

I have both my sticks setup in DCS, for the original WH stick and my newer F-18 one. I have adapted a mission where I put all the planes that I own on the tarmac and I can select which one I want to fly. I use this mission to practice A-G weapon deliveries.

 

my question is can I hot-swap my sticks or do I need to get out of DCS, unplug the stick, switch the stick, plug it back in and start DCS again?

 

Secondly, how are the control files supposed to work, in the beginning, I would save the control setup file for each airplane until I saw that all planes are in the same file. it seems now that when I connect a different stick it does not remember the settings from the other stick. I can understand this as it is a different USB device. Will the system think it is a different stick when I plug the WH into a different USB port?

 

Thanks,

 

Peter