Lesson learned with elite dangerous and swapping ram slots *its bad*
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Because nobody hires Release Engineers anymore, and when they do they don't give them the authority to halt any release? It's very like the situation with QA Engineers: someone in dev management says "developers can QA their own code, or just not write any bugs, and we'll save loads of money!"
I'm saying company executives are uniformly dumb.
I haven't washed my underwear since Update 8 for exactly this reason.
Computer Specs: Win10 professional editionThere's little data here on the PC, or the OS, let alone when you did this versus the recent updates to Elite (which cause binds issues for many). Lots of red herrings here, and you're probably just coincidentally being unlucky.
I will say, since you moved your RAM slots (and again, no hardware data to go on here) that you checked your motherboard manual to ensure it's happy you're running the RAM in the correct slots for that configuration? 1/3 and 2/4 are often exactly right, but some boards like 2/4 over 1/3 (or vice versa) to ensure the channel setup is correct based on the RAM speed/CPU-type (like certain AMD chips being more sensitive to RAM and locality to the associated chiplet).
That's still entirely irrelevant to whether your %appdata% directory would have its permissions changed or not, and how Elite would behave.
Games, not "like Elite", just games, are so far removed from the hardware via things like the OS, DirectX and the device-driver layers mean that, unless you made a major hardware change - and RAM is not one of the listed changes - Windows couldn't care less. The BIOS itself doesn't do self checks unless the amount and speed of the RAM changes. The location is merely a checked to ensure power hits the right pin. If you installed it incorrectly you'd likely not even get the system to POST, let alone let you in to Windows and see the OS affected in any meaningful way.
I played over the weekend with some friends. One booted the game up and had no binds. He had changed nothing.
He had backed his binds up.
He checked the directory - the binds were there.
He checked the contents; they matched his backup.
He replaced his binds.
The game worked.
I'm afraid this stuff just happens and we've both been in IT for 25 years; I've given up trying to work out how Windows does things these days, and having had decades in support, PCs work one day, then not the next. As a side note, my wife's headset microphone refused to work on Monday night on her work PC. I checked it on mine; worked fine. I worked through her PC settings and could verify it didn't work. Rebooting did nothing; I disabled the driver, rebooted, changed the settings and defaults - all the usual junk (that I could, given no admin rights); and the next morning it worked. The reason? I'll probably never know...
As many have said; back up your binds and if you have issues then replace them. Cleaning your fans did not cause this
CPU: I7-8700k
Ram: 32gb 3600mhz Corsair Vengance ram
GPU: Nvidia RTX 2080 Super
Motherboard: ROG Strix z370-E Gaming motherboard with the most recent bios
Power Supply: EVGA 1000w
CPU Cooling: Hyper 212 evo, will upgrade that in a few paycheks to AIO Watercooling
Storage: M.2 SSD forget which brand + 3 WD 1TB HDD's with 2 of them in RAID (i forget which one, i'll check later if its important)
ED is stored on the SSD and the SSD is being used as the boot drive.
I did have a backup on my HDD and i put that back and it did NOT load the backup at all. The ONLY way i retrieved my binds was by changing the name of whats in the picture
and removing the numbers and the .backup part to just make Custom.4.0.binds
Side note: how the hell did you know I work in IT?
Ok so I have an update for what happened. The issue I was experiencing was related to the ram slots not ED. When I swapped the ram slots to 2 and 4, it started to create conflicts between my razer products and my x56 hotas. What would happen is if i plugged or unplugged any razer product, then the stick would disappear from the menu below. When it disappeared from that menu, elite dangerous wouldn't pick the stick up and then revert back to default controls.
