Fixing the way IL2 assigns Joystick IDs

Originally Posted by Artist

Hi EvilJoven,

I wish it were as simple as that. From my experiences with developing YaDeLi: The IDs you've mentioned (and which can be changed with Joystick ID' Swapper) exist only in the old Win32 API which is almost deprecated. They are not, I repeat not, used or accessible in/from DirectInput, which is used IL-2. DirectInput uses a GUID-system to identify and re-recognize devices.

@Daidalos Team: I've used this mechanism in YaDeLi to reliably connect devices to a IL-2 DeviceLink channel and would gladly supply source code, help, and support - if you decide to do somthing in this direction.

Artist

I think we both might be wrong on this one. You're right that the registry keys and values I was working with earlier don't seem to have any bearing on the joystick ID.

Fortunately, I found out what does.

When I worked on this some more to confirm whether or not you were correct, I discovered that when you change the joystick ID in either that joystick ID utility I use or by setting the primary controller from within the Game Controller Settings (in the control panel in XP or brought up by right clicking on a joystick in the Devices and Printers window) you're changing the Joystick ID binary value key for the associated controller, located here:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\System\CurrentControlSet\Control \MediaProperties\PrivateProperties\DirectInput\<VE NDOR AND DEVICE ID>\Calibration\0

This seems to be what sets the joystick ID.

The end result is the same. If IL-2 can be modified so that it assigns joystick IDs by reading from THAT key it should sort things out nicely.