“General” keybinds not working in game

[MagicFighter]

This is my first post so hopefully a admin will move this to a more specific spot. 

Having issues under “General” in controls. my controller and mouse keybinds do not work in game. the keyboard works fine. i can bind them but they will do nothing when actually trying to using them. i’ve tried uninstalling and it didn’t do anything. 

[Bulldog_1]

Are you referring to a specific aircrafts General key binds or the "General" General key binds?

[MagicFighter]

non aircraft specific. just the General controls. the aircraft binds work with everything. it’s just specifically the “General” binds that don’t work with the controller or mouse. 

[Tom Kazansky]

20 minutes ago, MagicFighter said:

non aircraft specific. just the General controls. the aircraft binds work with everything. it’s just specifically the “General” binds that don’t work with the controller or mouse. 

I remember having the same issue with the general bindings of my HOTAS controller quite some months ago. My work around was to save/export the general bindings for each controller and load/import those into the controller keybinds of the specific aircraft. (Plz make a backup before you try this.)

[Bulldog_1]

I always thought that the duplicated binds were unnecessary because they didn't work for me either.

[MagicFighter]

34 minutes ago, Tom Kazansky said:

I remember having the same issue with the general bindings of my HOTAS controller quite some months ago. My work around was to save/export the general bindings for each controller and load/import those into the controller keybinds of the specific aircraft. (Plz make a backup before you try this.)

could you explain this a little further? my mind melts when it comes to messing with files

[Tom Kazansky]

44 minutes ago, MagicFighter said:

could you explain this a little further? my mind melts when it comes to messing with files

Sure. I know what you mean

So, I start DCS and do the bindings e.g. for the joystick in "general" bindings. Like you described that did not work for any planes.

Don't know If we both are doing something wrong, but here comes my work around:

I then exported the joystick-bindings within the "general" control settings by clicking into the column of the joystick and then klick on "save profile as" (mine is german).

Once saved, I imported this file into each aircraft setting by going into the aircraft's settings, klick into the joystick's column and klick "load profile". Then I selected the previously saved file from "general" (see above) and now I had the setting working.

This is far from beeing a good solution for the issue but it saved me a lot of time.

I'd prefer to get an explanation why my general bindings did not work as intended without this work around, but I'm hoping someone with better knowledge of things could lead me (or us) to the point I'm still missing.

(Don't forget to make a backup of your "...saved games\DCS\Config\Input" folder, before you try this.)