ctguy1955 Posted July 16, 2022 Posted July 16, 2022 My PC has a messed up motherboard and strange things happen. When I update DCS, I have to completely re set up everything in DCS. All My planes and jets have to have pedal/stick/throttle commands redone. all curves on Axis tune panel and so many other things are lost. The hours I spend flying and gaining experience, and the rewards of medals are gone. Can someone please tell Me what I can save that will prevent this from happening all the time now ? Thank You and Clear Skies Mike nullnullnull
M1Combat Posted July 16, 2022 Posted July 16, 2022 You can save your user profile (saved games\DCS) or something like that. I also recommend STRONGLY that you export your controller configurations EVERY time you re-map something. 1 Nvidia RTX3080 (HP Reverb), AMD 3800x Asus Prime X570P, 64GB G-Skill RipJaw 3600 Saitek X-65F and Fanatec Club-Sport Pedals (Using VJoy and Gremlin to remap Throttle and Clutch into a Rudder axis)
Rudel_chw Posted July 16, 2022 Posted July 16, 2022 3 minutes ago, ctguy1955 said: When I update DCS, I have to completely re set up everything in DCS. All My planes and jets have to have pedal/stick/throttle commands redone. all curves on Axis tune panel and so many other things are lost. can you describe in more detail exactly how do you update DCS? I update DCS once a month on average and never experience what you describe, except on the very seldom time when a Module gets new or additional control bindings. Maybe you reinstall windows often? A windows reinstall produces the issues that you describe because it assigns new USB identifications to your hotas and pedals. 1 For work: iMac mid-2010 of 27" - Core i7 870 - 6 GB DDR3 1333 MHz - ATI HD5670 - SSD 256 GB - HDD 2 TB - macOS High Sierra For Gaming: 34" Monitor - Ryzen 3600 - 32 GB DDR4 2400 - nVidia RTX2080 - SSD 1.25 TB - HDD 10 TB - Win10 Pro - TM HOTAS Cougar Mobile: iPad Pro 12.9" of 256 GB
draconus Posted July 17, 2022 Posted July 17, 2022 The logbook.lua in your profile /saved games/dcs world/mission editor folder contains your flight history and achievements. The /config/input is were your bindings are saved. Make sure to backup both and you're safe to quickly retrieve the settings. 1 Win10 i7-10700KF 32GB RTX4070S Quest 3 T16000M VPC CDT-VMAX TFRP FC3 F-14A/B F-15E CA SC NTTR PG Syria
Tom Kazansky Posted July 17, 2022 Posted July 17, 2022 On 7/16/2022 at 2:51 AM, M1Combat said: ... I also recommend STRONGLY that you export your controller configurations EVERY time you re-map something. +1 1
ctguy1955 Posted July 26, 2022 Author Posted July 26, 2022 I appreciate the advice, to Rudel_chw, This only happens when DCS has a major 2.7 update. I have tried to export the settings, but it did not seem to work for Me. I must be doing something wrong. I found this on the forums: "I did solve a great deal of that by rebuilding DCS’ shaders. Deleting the ‘fxo’ and ‘metashaders2’ folders is a common performance increasing method when jumping between updates and that did solve a number of issues with performance but it didn’t fully alleviate them." I was able to find the FXO file and deleted it and it seemed to help, I could not find metashaders but I messed with them in the past and learned not to. Thanks so much for all Your help Clear Skies Mike
Rudel_chw Posted July 26, 2022 Posted July 26, 2022 57 minutes ago, ctguy1955 said: to Rudel_chw, This only happens when DCS has a major 2.7 update. Hi, This is not normal, maybe you have a problem with your /Saved Games/ folder definition .. maybe you moved it to another drive? Please attach your dcs.log to gather more clues about your problem and hopefully pinpoint the issue. For work: iMac mid-2010 of 27" - Core i7 870 - 6 GB DDR3 1333 MHz - ATI HD5670 - SSD 256 GB - HDD 2 TB - macOS High Sierra For Gaming: 34" Monitor - Ryzen 3600 - 32 GB DDR4 2400 - nVidia RTX2080 - SSD 1.25 TB - HDD 10 TB - Win10 Pro - TM HOTAS Cougar Mobile: iPad Pro 12.9" of 256 GB
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