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New controller and the keybind file madness.. help
I think I may need some help 😕 After messing with the lovely key bind files for many hours, googling solutions for more hours, I'm about to be breaking some stuff lol. Iooks like I have to swallow my pride and ask my fellow big brain commanders- Is there a way to easily transfer the key binds that I use with my old PC controller to my brand new shiny controller? I keep running into the issue that the bind file from the old controller wont work even if I change out the 'binding device numbers' to the new controller's number. I have gone in game with the new controller and changed a bind to get a new custom file from the new controller, but when I paste/replace the bind file in the custom file with the correct key binds/device #'s etc and return to game with new controller there isnt any new drop down option in controls. and it kicks error that the old controller's GUID is missing from bind file. I dont know where the game is getting the old GUID # from, but I have my OS and ED on same drive so i disabled the other 3 thinking it was pulling old controller GUID from there but still same issue. The old controller isnt plugged in, I deleted all the old bind files after copying the most recent one for the old controller and pasting it on a USB drive and unplugging it lol Any Ideas will be greatly appreciated, I really dont want to go through and rebind everything, I really wish I would have done that to start with, I would have been done yesterday instead of wasting all day yesterday and today messing with this POS Fdev code..
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Hi Emanuelom,
It sounds like the game is still validating the controller's GUID in addition to the device numbers, which would explain why simply changing the binding device IDs isn't enough.
A couple of questions:
- Is the new controller the exact same model as the old one, or a different model/manufacturer?
- When you open the newly generated binds file, does it contain a different GUID than the old file?
I've seen cases where Elite Dangerous refuses to load a custom binds file if the device GUID in the file doesn't match the hardware currently connected, even if the button mappings themselves are valid.
One thing I would try is comparing the old and new binds files side by side and looking specifically for any GUID or device name entries that still reference the old controller. Sometimes there are more references than just the obvious device numbers.
If the new controller is a different model entirely, the game may consider it a completely different device and reject the old profile unless all references are updated correctly.
Out of curiosity, what controller are you moving from and to?
