keeping Keyboard assignements while patching?

[JEFX]

Can someone remind me how to keep our keyboard and axis assignements while patching (I havent patched to 1009 yet, I was away...). When one reads on the official DCS website, it says

 

please do a full re-installation. To do so:

1. Uninstall A-10C
2. For Windows 7 users, look in your /Users/(name)/Saved Games/ and delete the A-10C folder.
3. Reboot
4. Defrag the drive that A-10C will be installed to
5. Install 1.1.0.9 full version
6. Reboot

 

Now, if one deletes the whole A-10C folder, it will delete all personal files, therefore Keyboard assignements. Is it advisable to keep it??? Is it different when patching from, say, 1008 TO 1009 , and from doing a complete reinstall (which seems to be better in terms of stability?)

 

thanks!

 

JEFX

[nomdeplume]

You could keep the 'config' folder under your user directory to preserve your settings. I guess it depends what you're doing the full re-installation for - if you're having problems it's probably better to start clean. Bit of a pain in the short-term, but in the long run it's worth it.

 

If you aren't having any issues then I'd just leave your local user folder alone so you don't lose any settings etc.

 

As a compromise, you could back it up (move it somewhere else) and then you'll have something to refer to if you need to, and/or just copy across parts of it (like the controller configuration).

[JEFX]

Thanks Nomdeplume

 

I thought of it that way also, but I thought I remembered that at some point in the recent patches, it was not necessary anymore to delete the Users folder and on the instal instructions on the website it still says it... I always feel that patching is a pain since one has to remap everthing... (perhaps a dread leftover from 'the dance' in Falcon 4...:))

[cichlidfan]

I usually back up the saved game folder. Delete everything that was in the install and saved games folders.

 

Note: The uninstall does not delete files that you have added inside the installation directory (i.e. custom monitor setup files, added skins are textur files) so removing that directory can be important.

 

Once I do the install, I connect my controllers fire up the game and save the current default controller configs (just for reference). Then I copy my old saved games folder back and see if anything appears to break.

 

I don't think anything in the keyboard map changed in 09 but I tend to lose track of what changed in which patch.

[nomdeplume]

I haven't deleted everything for patches most times. Only if I feel like something weird's happening or I'm missing changes that've been made to the control configuration screen will I wipe them.

 

I think those instructions are just the "failsafe" version, i.e. if you follow them then you eliminate every potential problem.

[Nate--IRL--]

In general input configs can be kept between versions. However you will not be able to map or use any new features that may have been added to the input comfigs in a patch, such as the Alt-B Briefing in cockpit.

 

EDIT - Also please don't report bugs without clearing all previous version configs and using the default for the version you are using

 

Nate

Edited September 23, 2011 by Nate--IRL--

[cichlidfan]

I knew there was something else in that Doc folder spreadsheet that needed fixing. The Alt-B command is not listed.;)

[JEFX]

Alt-B was added in .08 and I made the jump from 08 to 09 with only the partial patch instal and it kept everything fine. I am just curious for the future, is ED intending to make the next few patches as easy to add without loosing our assignements? (it is nice and quick, while it was a pain when one had to remap everything, including axes tuning, curves, etc...)

 

JEFX

[Fakum]

As an example, last week I did a restore of my hard drive from a backup I did the week before, I backed up the “C:\Users\MY NAME HERE\Saved Games\DCS Warthog” file 1st,, then proceeded with the restore. Now once I was restored, I wanted to obviously implement the latest files I had like logbook etc so I renamed the older “Saved Games\DCS Warthog” that I restored to, to DCS Warthog OLD, then dragged over the backed up “DCS Warthog” file to the saved games directory. The game would not launch? I swapped default names back and forth and the older version would launch, but not the backed up one? Im not really trying to figure that out, I’ll chalk it up as perhaps corrupt for now,,, I want to know which particular INPUT (Im Assuming) file has the info I need to backup if I remap the keys and I want to save them for future restores so I don’t have to manually do them all over? I seen the “Save as text” option in there, but when I did it,,, it was not very organized in the sense that I could interpret it?

[Nate--IRL--]

Just backup this folder to keep key and joystick assignments.

 

C:\Users\<User Name>\Saved Games\DCS Warthog\Config\Input\A-10C

 

Nate

[Fakum]

Thank you sir,,,,,