Game Keeps Forgetting My Controls

[artao]

I am sick of this.
I have everything set up and saved. All good.
I go to play and ......... My joystick won't control anything. ALL my other peripherals work fine.

Turns out that what IL-2 saw as Joystick 0 is NOW being seen as Joystic 7, so BYE BYE all my control assignments on those 16 buttons plus 5 axises.
WTAF!! KNOCK IT OFF!! WHY!?!?
This is THE ONLY game that does this. So no blaming it on Windows. Other programmers can handle it fine, why not IL-2?
This is really pissin me off. I go to play and end up with no control and would have to spend 10+ minutes reassigning everything.
Then I play another time and I have to do it again.
and again
and again

STOP IT!!!
Get it freakin right already. Why is the THE ONLY GAME with this issue?
Control devices these days identify themselves by name to the OS. How hard is it to access that? NOT AT ALL!!!
See my Logitech G940 as a Logitech G940, not "device 0" or "device 7" or what-the-hell-ever that regularly breaks my controls setup.
When I want to fly, I want to FLY!!! Not resetup my gorram controls again and again and again.

I'M SICK OF THIS!! Fix it!! 😠
I know this is a longstanding issue with IL-2, brought up for years now. And yet the problem remains.
FIX IT!!! 😠

[marcost]

Maybe try devreorder to fix the control assignments in place for IL2

 

https://forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/72473-so-you-went-and-bought-too-many-peripherals/

[artao]

There was another controller turned on I didn't know about. My game pad.
I unplugged it. Didn't fix it.
I rebooted windows, didn't fix it.

Thanks for the fix suggestion, but that seems overly complex. I search-and-replace all instances of joy0 with joy7 and that fixed it. One has to be careful to not overwrite assignments you want to keep tho. This time it went fine and fixed everything.
As simple and quick as this is, I shouldn't have to do it at all. It is prone to error and certainly not supported by the devs. The game should read the hardwareID itself, not the controller number.

[DEDMANcjp]

joystick renaming happens to me too occasionally.

[czech693]

If you unplug and replug controllers the numbering order can get changed.  I keep a copy of my devices.txt so that if I've changed a controller (like trying out a different joystick), I can replug them in the same order.  Also, I plug them in the order starting with least likely to be changed.   Pedals, custom toggle panel, custom trim controller, VKB throttle group, VKB joystick.  The first three never get changed.  The last two occasionly will get changed.