Does this even work for anyone / most games anymore?

[oryxcallotis]

I understand the dev doesn't have a lot of time to devote to this nowadays, but I remember this used to work pretty well a few years ago. Nowadays, I've not had it work with any game whatsoever. Anyone else had the same thing?

[oryxcallotis]

For the benefit of any Googlers who still want to disable or switch around their controller ID's, I recommend using the SpecialK program instead. I had a poke around the options in the .ini file, and found out there's a variable called 'SlotReassignment' that lets you switch around controller ID's. So the default is 0,1,2,3 and you can rewrite it to 1,0,2,3 to swap your first 2 controllers around. You can also disable slots, etc.

I've not poked around too much beyond that, but I couldn't find something that works the same as DevReorder's disabling via device ID's, but it's better than nothing.

[oryxcallotis]

Adding on to this, there's a hidden .ini option that's not in the SpecialK UI called "AutoSlotAssign" that's set to false by default. If you set it to true, then the first controller to have an input pressed is automatically assigned to controller ID #0.

[briankendall]

I'm glad to hear someone else is addressing this issue with controller order. devreorder was always kind of a hack, and I've always hoped someone would come along and perhaps do it better.

I think part of the reason why it's not working so much any longer is that a lot of games no longer use DirectInput, and instead rely on other low-level APIs to handle controllers. In that case devreorder won't be much use.

[TedThompson]

Worked a treat on Star Wars Outlaws on Windows 11 about 15 mins ago. ;)

Then again, if this is an outdated way to use controllers I'm not surprised Ubisoft is still doing it. XD

[TheOpponent]

I actually have at least one game where devreorder works better than any other solution: Dead or Alive 5 Last Round (2015). The PC version has notoriously poor controller support that only accepts DirectInput, and it also only supports three controllers because one of them has to be the keyboard, so four controllers at once for the 4-player tag format isn't possible. (One player has to use something like AntiMicro to map their controls to keyboard keys.) I haven't been able to get SpecialK to block the controllers I don't want the game detecting, so devreorder is the only thing that works for this specific case.

[TedThompson]

I since found another use case, Detroit: Become Human. I didn't want to use any controllers and they caused all sorts of problems.

Their calibration works fine in Flight simulator, so the fix was to use this and simply hide all the controllers from the game.