Totally Baffled - HOTAS just stopped responding?

[Phil_Ciborowski]

I have never had any issues with my controller setup and with my HOTAS (X-56) being detected in any game, ever. 

 

Yesterday I wanted to move some functions around on my setup.  In windows everything is fine, and everything  is recognized in the game  - all axis and buttons are bound to the right one on my hardware.

 

For whatever reason when checking the axis movements and adjusting the curves - nothing moves... I checked the bindings, and that is registered no issues.  But its checking the curves, and in game nothing works... im totally stumped. 

 

I fired up MSFS and IL2-46 and no issues.  Same in DCS or ROF...  and what is more odd to me, is that it worked fine up until I tried to move the bomb bay open from one switch to another...  

 

What am I missing? Im sure its something blindingly simple.

[firdimigdi]

Check in your <il2 installdir>\data\input directory, there are three files that need to be aligned:

devices.txt - check here for the configId of your device

current.map and current.actions - check that the axis bindings in both of these, for example "rpc_all_engines_throttles" corresponds to the correct joystick (if your hotas' configId is 1 then the axis will be something like "joy1_axis_z", if two then it will be "joy2_axis_z").

 

Generally things can happen if the order changes, but you can rectify that by editing the devices.txt and changing the configId manually back to the one you originally had used. So if you see in the current.map file that it says "joy1_axis_z" and in device.txt your joystick now appears as "2,<guid>,YourJoystickName" you can safely change the "2" to "1" and it'll be mapped properly once more.

 

Note: keep a backup of the above files before editing.

[Phil_Ciborowski]

Lets just say that It was actually something way more embarrassing to admit lol. Totally forgot about this thread too... but I was able to get it sorted.