Request to make input system more persistent between updates

[Warmbrak]

I own a lot of DCS modules. I run a Thrustmaster Warthog HOTAS, as well Saitek Rudder pedals and Pro Throttle System. Every few updates or so, the inputs become corrupted and I have to redo them for an aircraft I may not have flown for a while.

Due to some incompatibilities with other software I occasionally need to disable my HOTAS peripherals in Windows. When I do come back to DCS, some of my devices are swapped around, and I have to redo my control setup in DCS again.

I had to reformat twice over the past year due to hardware failures/replacement, and even though I backed up my DCS settings folders, I had to redo my controls yet again.

 

I fired up IL2 Sturmovik BoX the other day after I scraped the courage together to remap my controls after I rebuilt my system. IL2 detected my hardware, and noted that it did not recognise two of my devices compared to my previous setup. I gave me the option to pair my current devices to the old profiles and in less than a minute my control setup was back the way it was before and I was up an flying again.

 

While DCS has a very flexible system, it is a real pain when it comes so system persistence, and it should not be necessary to have to remap controls for each and every module every few months.

Please give us the ability to easily swap profiles between devices, and perhaps be a bit more proactive in detecting a user's setup and guiding them on how they can reconnect their devices with existing mappings instead of destroying the profile.

 

I would like to map my controls for a module only once please.

[Lange_666]

IL-2 has only one major setup (with some specials for certain aircraft). This means as if you set you up your control axis, they stay the same for the entire sim.

DCS is airplane by airplane which can be a pain to set up. Just added a VIRPIL base, had to do all the planes again, every single one of them. This is more flexible but i's also an effort to do.

Same goes for labeling of the actions: One example are the airbrakes: Sometimes it's called airbrake, sometimes speedbrake, or sometimes abreviated into SPBR (or a variant). Makes it a mess imho.