aircraft joystick settings location.

[blkbeltolson]

Hey guys, I just built a new PC and I have transfered what I thought was everything. All my missions are in, everything seems great except for my settings for my flightstick and throttle are not working, its at default. I copied the DCS and the DCS.openbeta, from the saved games folder. and main DCS folder from Steam. I did find the input folder and the planes are in there. Are the settings saved somewhere else?

 

Edit: I was wrong, planes are in the savedgames dcs config input directory. Wonder why they dont work.

Edited December 21, 2019 by blkbeltolson

[Rudel_chw]

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Edit: I was wrong, planes are in the savedgames dcs config input directory. Wonder why they dont work.

 

It's because of the name of the files .. for the joysticks & Hotas DCS appends an USB IDentification code that is provided by Windows. If you change Windows, either by reinstalling or moving to other PC, this ID changes and so changes the filename that DCs expects. For example:

 

 

Here you can see that until April 20th the filename for my F-14 HOTAS keybindings had one filename, and after I re-installed Windows on that date the filename changed to account for the new USB ID that Windows assigned to my Hotas.

 

To fix this, you just copy the new filename onto a text file, then delete the file and rename the old one with the filename that you saved on the text file. In essence, keep the old file contents (your keybindings) but with the new name that DCS now uses.

 

(On the figure I have both files because instead of editing the names, I opted to copy the contents of the old file onto the contents of the new one.)

Edited December 21, 2019 by Rudel_chw

[blkbeltolson]

Oh, ok. I will check into that. Thanks.:thumbup: