I hate the fact that the system assigns buttons and axis on its own.

 

I have so many controllers that this is driving me insane

 

Everyday its something or the other. I it assigns Axis to my Go flight modules... all my USB devises are treated like joystick.

 

How do I prevent this from happening?

 

How do you all manage this insanity?

 

Once I set my things up, can I make the standard.xml read only and prevent P3D to write on it?

in FSUIPC you can assign a letter to each joystick -  that means you can plug them into any USB port and the settings will remain.

Manny, any time you go to Settings Controls ( even if you dont change anything ) P3D will write to the Standard .xml. It wont change anything if you did'nt.

 

Read only won't work, as probably it will create a new one.

 

Best way is to have different "standard.xml"  Look in prepar3d.cfg and look for Controls here is my entry

 

[CONTROLS]
Controls_Default=Standard
Controls_Current=Standard_Helo     <<<<<<<<<<<< name of my Helo control set
//Controls_Current=Standard_Hotas  <<<<<<<<<<<<name of my HOtas control set
KBDAIL=64
KBDELEV=64
KBDRUD=54
STICK_SENSITIVITY_MODE=0

 

now in C:\Documents and Settings\Jorge\Application Data\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D v2\Controls I have  4 files

 

Standard_Helo.xml

Standard_Hotas.xml

Standard.xml

Standard.xmlx

 

before starting a flight I decide what setup I will use and change prepar3d.cfg accordingly...done

 

Make a backup of the files and done , the GUID of the devices should not change and that is what identifies them.''Jorge

Several folks have chimed in on this over at the P3D support forums so the developer is aware of the problem but at this point they don't seem to have a full understanding on the cause. 
https://www.prepar3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6312&t=128572 

I cleaned out all the joystick configurations except for my controller and made both standard.xml and standard.xmlx read-only

 

Cheers

bs

Set them up the way you want. Save them to a new folder. Create a batch file to swap them in and out when needed. Problem solved.

 

or use FSUIPC and basically ignore standard.xml

 

Vic