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Title: Troubleshooter2: Device ids changing on every reboot.
Post by: Connorsdad on August 04, 2013, 02:30:42 pm

Every time I shut down and reboot, my device ids in troubleshooter2 change, I have 1 mouse, 1 spinner, 1 trackball and 2 aimtraks. Any ideas what to do ?

Title: Re: Troubleshooter2: Device ids changing on every reboot.
Post by: Wade007 on August 05, 2013, 07:22:30 pm

I don't have an real answer for you, but it's also a problem I've encountered without even using Troubleshooter 2.

I have 2 Aimtrak based guns (Arcade Guns) hooked up to my cabinet using an Windows 7 64 bit machine.

Every so often the IDs for the guns (hooked up via USB) will change. It will almost always happen if I plug in a flash drive or something else for maintenance/data upload to my cabinet.

Rather than constantly reconfiguring the settings for the IDs in MAME, Demul, Sega M2 and Supermodel on my cabinet over and over again, I just reboot the system and cross my fingers. Usually within a reboot or two the IDs go back to the original settings I expected. 
Maybe that will help you?

If anyone else knows how to keep the ID settings in Windows 7 the same no matter what, I'd love to know as well.

Title: Re: Troubleshooter2: Device ids changing on every reboot.
Post by: Howard_Casto on August 05, 2013, 11:08:16 pm

I'm sorry I haven't responded to all of these troubleshooter issues, but quite honestly they have all be discussed in one of the main threads, people just need to actually read them.  ;)

Right now I'm not working on the app, but the next version will allow you to hard-code the player to a specific device instead of just it's id.  So sit tight. 

Title: Re: Re: Troubleshooter2: Device ids changing on every reboot.
Post by: Connorsdad on August 06, 2013, 01:23:05 am

Quote from: Howard_Casto on August 05, 2013, 11:08:16 pm

I'm sorry I haven't responded to all of these troubleshooter issues, but quite honestly they have all be discussed in one of the main threads, people just need to actually read them.  ;)

Right now I'm not working on the app, but the next version will allow you to hard-code the player to a specific device instead of just it's id.  So sit tight.

Look forward to it, just a pity there's no way to do it for model 3.
Brilliant app btw :)

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Title: Re: Troubleshooter2: Device ids changing on every reboot.
Post by: Connorsdad on August 06, 2013, 01:26:09 am

Somebody mentioned if I use xpadder that will retain the usb id's, I don't have xpadder but would like to hear from anyone that has. I'm fairly certain it won't work in this situation but I could be wrong.

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