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hey all, about a month ago, 2 buttons on my hotas (seemingly) randomly stopped working (my hotas being the Microsoft Sidewinder Precision Pro (she's a beaut', ik), and the buttons in question being the 2 circular one at the top right of the stick). it happened the same time as I started playing exclusively the f18, so assumed it was a problem only with the 18. but as i return to other aircraft, it seems to be a problem with all of them. the odd part is, when in the keybindings menu, i can press the buttons on my hotas, and it will take me to the associated control (meaning DCS can see when i press them). but once i enter an aircraft, the buttons have absolutely no function. i have tried mapping the buttons to multiple controls to see if it is a problem with having them mapped to a certain control (not the case), i have also tried uninstalling the 18 and then repairing my dcs (also didn't help)

 

TL : DR DCS recognises buttons on my hotas when in the menu, but not when in a plane.

 

This may just be a case on my hotas having come to the end of its life, (over 20 years old, with the past 2 years has been used for extensive amounts of DCS) and that its time to get a replacement. any help or advice would be great, thanks in advance! :)

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Double check that the key bound item doesn’t have a second binding if you don’t find it back up you saved games folder for dcs and delete it run dcs it should rebuild it and see if that helps I had a similar problem where I used a key for something and it stopped working in dcs I reinstalled after a chrash and things good as new then I looked into it and the saved games folder was the only thing that it could have been .im sure it’s a lua or cfgfile somewhere but don’t know the exact one you can start reinstalling the files one by one from your backup that should tell you the one in the future

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Well if it works in the Contorl pane it should work ingame.. have you tested the stick buttons in Windows Calibrate screen??

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