Technical Question - GameController IDs

[Artist]

Dear Members of Team Daidalos,

as you have access to the sourcecode of IL-2: How does IL-2 determine the 4 supported game controllers and how are ID1 through 4 assigned? And how does IL-2 remember these assignments between sessions - or does it?

Background to my question: I have 6 game controllers and, as we all know, IL-2 supports only 4. I am looking for a way to move my game controller No 5 into the first four IL-2 recognizes (I feed the two exceeding ones via YaDeLi into IL-2, but e.g. the new Mixture-axis is not supported in DeviceLink).

Supporting ForceFeedback, afaik IL-2 must use DirectInput (the old multimedia joystick API with JOYINFOEX structure, joyGetPosEx, etc. didn't). That's why such tools as PJP's JoyIDs do not help (which work on that deprecated API). Using DirectInput, the devices are usually identified by GUIDs, which I cannot find anywhere inside IL-2 configurations.

I tried everything[1] short of reinstalling Windows and reconnecting the controllers in a different order. Without some insight I'm now stuck.

Artist

[1] "Everything" includes, amongst others, such tools as USBDeview from http://www.nirsoft.net