Cannon ammunition depleting when only MGs are fired

[skitzbuckethatz]

I have an ongoing issue with my cannon ammunition depleting on aircraft with seperately grouped cannons and MGs (BF 109, P-39, Spitfire, etc.) when only the MGs are fired.

 

I have seperately bound MGs and cannons to different trigger buttons using the weapon group bindings in order to conserve cannon ammunition. My cannon ammo depletes despite the cannon not firing.

 

I have an example here - https://imgur.com/a/cannon-ammo-depleting-when-not-firing-il-2-p-39l-gHBWC2C

Please excuse the poor quality. In this video I am using weapon group 1 to fire the MGs with my main trigger, and group 2 to fire the cannon with my pinky trigger. I have however tried switching controls and bindings and the issues resumes. Everything works as per normal when I fire all guns at once on the 'fire all weapons' binding.

 

You can see in the video that at the beginning I have 24 cannon rounds. I fire MGs for a bit, then 5 rounds from the cannon manually, and then the MGs again. The video then ends with 14 cannon rounds remaining. The other 5 have vanished during MG firing. This happens as stated previously on all aircraft with seperate cannons and MGs. 

 

I have tried verifying my files on Steam, to no avail, as well as changing key bindings. I dont think it is a hardware issue (as notorious as the X56 is). 

 

My hardware - 

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D (Issue was present when I had a Ryzen 5 3600 too)

GPU: Gigabyte RTX 3060 12GB

MB: MSI B450 Gaming Plus Max

RAM: 32GB G.SKILL Ripjaws DDR4 3600mhz (Issue was present when I had a 16GB too)

HOTAS: Logitech X56 Rhino

 

There is some more information on my reddit post here: https://www.reddit.com/r/il2sturmovik/comments/1k4vhz8/cannon_ammo_depleting_when_only_smallcaliber/

 

Can provide more evidence if necessary. Cheers.

[skitzbuckethatz]

Been a month now with no resolve. Come on devs..moderators... anyone

[LukeFF]

You have a key binding issue somewhere. 

[skitzbuckethatz]

On 5/23/2025 at 2:21 PM, LukeFF said:

You have a key binding issue somewhere. 

Please read my post and watch the video. I have checked weapon bindings. This isn't the issue. It depletes far too slowly to be a binding issue.

[czech693]

Does your Group 2 assignment show an orange box?