derbarbarian Posted January 2, 2022 Posted January 2, 2022 (edited) Hey guys, So I've run into this issue a few times, I was playing for a few hours earlier and all was well, I ended up crashing for a few hours and I just loaded the game back up and hopped into the F-16 module and ALL of my control settings have completely changed. I switched over to the F-18 and F-14 modules and it's the same story. All of the throttle/stick/keyboard have changed, and what's odd is the fact that they haven't reverted back to the default settings, they've changed to something completely different. I went into the saved games folder and checked the controller settings and none of the lau files show any recent modification, yet as I mentioned ALL of the settings have changed. This is the third or fourth time that this has happened in the last 3 or 4 months and it's rather baffling knowing that I haven't changed anything. The other odd thing is when I go into the various controller categories i.e. Keyboard, Throttle, and Joystick and select the entire column and reset it to default, it resets it back to the existing control setup with all of the wonky settings. At this point the easiest thing to do is to just do a full reinstall, which kinda sucks when you have 15 modules installed, but it's the easiest thing to do. I'm definitely going to backup my controller scheme this time around, I'm not sure why I haven't done that previously. With that being said I'm just curious if you guys have any idea why it's doing that? The thought had crossed my mind that the game files may have become corrupted, but the games seem to be running fine, and the controller setups are still there, they've just changed so it doesn't seem to be a file corruption issue. If you guys have any ideas any input would be greatly appreciated. Edited January 2, 2022 by derbarbarian
rob10 Posted January 2, 2022 Posted January 2, 2022 Before you go the full nuclear re-install, have you tried just deleting the controls directories and let them recreate? And/or run a "repair" and see if that fixes it. 1
MAXsenna Posted January 2, 2022 Posted January 2, 2022 Full re-install will never do anything for you. All settings are in Saved Games, and they are not touched unless you delete them. So easiest way to reset without re-installing. Do a full repair, (I recommend Skatezilla's excellent updater app), and rename your DCS folder under saved games. That will give a totally new clean starting point. And any setting you may wish to retrieve will be in your renamed DCS folder.
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