i don't know if it's unique to this game or if it's an artifact of the ludicrous bureaucracy of microsoft's horrible, failed, forced-meme new-world APIs (e.g. uwp, windows store) but i am *reeling* at how obnoxious the config file structure for FS2020 is
Flight Simulator 2020 dropped a huge patch that improved performance tremendously... and literally removed the sensitivity adjustment panel completely, it's just blank now. The release of this game was turbo rushed, with a bunch of broken major features, But Anyway.
So when I installed my new yoke (I got very lucky on ebbay and got a CH products for $89 *after* FS2020 came out, if you can believe it) I found the sensitivity was way too high, but the config panel was just empty. So I had to track down the config file and edit it.
Here's where I fucking found it: C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\SystemAppData\wgs\0009000007A9417C_00000000000000000000000\069F80140\FC1946135D1F4750BF7C7A6D5625FF77\9A3611F27CA245FEA04162A6EE53242D
this is already fucking stupid. nobody wants this file here, it benefits nothing, etc. etc. but anyway, I edited it, and my edit took effect and my yoke started working reasonably, so hooray, right?
I changed a control binding ingame, and when I exited, it fucking deleted the file and recreated it with a new random name in a new random folder
WHO PROGRAMS LIKE THIS? who could this possibly be for? what is this accomplishing? just fucking write out joysticks.xml in my documents, christ! christ almighty!
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