Advice on maintaining keybinds

[LindaBrownie]

Hi all,

I'm planning on getting a new PC soon, I haven't found any solid guidance on transferring my keybinds from my old PC to my new one the easiest way.

Do I have to save each input profile and transfer them over then load them individiually?

Or can I simply transfer over my "Config" and "InputUserProfiles" and then not have to load up each profile individually (This i'm hoping for because I'm lazy).

Thanks for any help!

[hsth]

Make a backup of your Saved Games directory.

Start DCS on your new system. That will create a new Saved Games directory. Then you can copy the backup to your new system and you'll have all your key binds as before.

[Lange_666]

That will probably not work for stick/throttle inputs/axis.
Windows will create new device numbers for your connected devices.
If you copy the old ones over, the old device numbers will not be recognized.

Solution is to rename the devices and replace the old device numbers with the new ones that Windows created, then delete the newly created devices.

It's the number between the { } like in: Thrustmaster Combined DX128 {1C96BA10-A7EA-11ee-8002-444553540000}.diff.lua

[sthompson]

On 2/26/2024 at 8:36 AM, Lange_666 said:

That will probably not work for stick/throttle inputs/axis.
Windows will create new device numbers for your connected devices.
If you copy the old ones over, the old device numbers will not be recognized.

Solution is to rename the devices and replace the old device numbers with the new ones that Windows created, then delete the newly created devices.

It's the number between the { } like in: Thrustmaster Combined DX128 {1C96BA10-A7EA-11ee-8002-444553540000}.diff.lua

Having gone through this recently I can tell you that this is (almost) the solution. But by "rename the devices" I think that @Lange_666 really meant to rename the *.diff.lua files in your backup (or a copy of your backup) before you copy them into the active Saved Games folder. It's possible to write a *.cmd file script that will automate the editing of the filenames, which saves a lot of time if you have many modules.

But there is another step if you use joystick device buttons as modifiers. Then you need to edit the modifiers.lua file in each input folder to edit the device names to match the new device numbers that Windows assigned. Unfortunately, there is a separate modifiers.lua file for each module. And since you need to edit the file, not the file name, this is harder to automate via a command script.

[Jeb]

saved games/open beta/config/ input is where the file for each acft is located

save the file and when you update, paste the file into that location