Need help with re-assigned USB controller IDs

[JG27*PapaFly]

Hi folks,

the latest game update has lead to re-assignment of all my game controller IDs. I use 5 USB devices in addition to my keyboard and mouse, and all IDs have changed. That means that e.g. my Crosswind toebrake axis now controls the elevator pitch axis. Since I have a TON of functions assigned to my USB controllers, I now have a boatload of issues. How can this be fixed? Do I have to edit current.map and replace e.g. joy0 with joy3 etc.?

 

I'd like to fix the issue AND understand why this crap happened. It's a royal pain.

[firdimigdi]

If you remember the names they used to have then don't touch the map file but instead edit the devices.txt file and make sure you set the configId (first value in the comma separated values) to the one that corresponds to the joyX entry you want.

 

Here's mine for example:

configId,guid,model|

2,%228e0b9cc0-e8f5-11ec-0000545345440280%22,VKBsim%20Space%20Gunfighter|

3,%2254ab4860-c630-11e6-0000545345440180%22,TWCS%20Throttle|

4,%2231a5e580-3cac-11ec-0000545345440180%22,BU0836%20Interface

 

As you can see I had some reshuffling over time, so now I've ended up with my VKB being joy2 and the throttle being joy3 - you can put whatever value you want in the configId column - they don't even have to be in order, but if you do re-order them to be so make sure that all but the last row end in | as that is the row delimiter. Hope that makes sense.

[JG27*PapaFly]

16 hours ago, firdimigdi said:

If you remember the names they used to have then don't touch the map file but instead edit the devices.txt file and make sure you set the configId (first value in the comma separated values) to the one that corresponds to the joyX entry you want.

 

Here's mine for example:

configId,guid,model|

2,%228e0b9cc0-e8f5-11ec-0000545345440280%22,VKBsim%20Space%20Gunfighter|

3,%2254ab4860-c630-11e6-0000545345440180%22,TWCS%20Throttle|

4,%2231a5e580-3cac-11ec-0000545345440180%22,BU0836%20Interface

 

As you can see I had some reshuffling over time, so now I've ended up with my VKB being joy2 and the throttle being joy3 - you can put whatever value you want in the configId column - they don't even have to be in order, but if you do re-order them to be so make sure that all but the last row end in | as that is the row delimiter. Hope that makes sense.

Thanks, good to know! I found a backup I had made previously and overwrote the complete input folder with that.

 

Since the game updates roll whenever they choose to,  it would be great if a few critical folders would be backed up automatically.