What the heck is going on?...wheel and controller settings misbehaving using Content Manager

My set up has been working fine up until a day or two ago. When I open the game using Content Manager (as I have a lot of mods) I can't use controller presets I've always used. When I try to create a fresh one, my wheel is not recognised and switches I've used on by DSD button boxes cause all kinds of weird, unintended actions that I have not programmed.

my set up: Fanatec Elite wheel base for PS4 and Fanatec GT3 wheel. Using latest Sol and v 128 of Shaders patch. Have always used Joy to Key to use my button boxes. I've always started up my wheel before opening Steam and AC using CM.

Actions taken so far:
- I've checked game file integrity using the Steam tool several times
- tried different USB ports on my hi-end Alienware PC. The usual ones have always worked
- uninstalled and reinstalled my Fanatec drivers
- reluctantly decided to uninstall and reinstall of AC via Steam. Backed up game files before hand as I have lots and lots of mods and time spent enhancing game content.
- even though I've not used it for over a year, I tried using the old stock AC launcher before restoring all my game files. Game seems to load controller settings and I can create a preset.
- tried CM again...still no good. Can't create a new preset. CM sees the button boxes but not my Fanatec wheel.
- deleted the contents of App data/local/AcToolsContent Manager/presets
- reconnected to a new copy of CM - standard version. Can set some controller settings but some still misbehave. Upgraded to the full version of CM. Still not right.
- poked around the web for anything I could try/change in the Steam interface under game controllers

This is really frustrating as I've never had controller issues before and I spend most of my time driving AC. Anyone experiencing these "NEW" controller issues? Some strange conflict due to a recent Steam/ Windows 10 upgrade? I've spent big bucks on many paid mods for AC and am determined to figure this out.

 

Hi,
It may sound strange but in my experience sometime regarding a problem from opposite angle help to find solution, so my set-up is fairly unusual my wheel is too old for preset and my pedals are flight sim controller. As AC is flexible to accept this odd couple, my suggestion is: try to set up your devices without preset I mean manually. It work for me and I have done this only once when I start to use AC and again when I install CM. So far it is pretty simple and never failed. Basically I only have to start my wheel before lunching AC via CM and everything work fine. I must add that I recently build a new system around a Rysen CPU and once again I manually set up my wheel and pedals and it still work. hope it can help, good luck.

 

@Ray Lord same here, if I have my Xbox controller connected (for oculus) then the Xbox take the place of my h-shifter, if I do not connect the Xbox controller everything is fine.

 

Funny I just went through this nightmare - I have a P1 and P2 and a Fanatec DD1.
I can get it working on AC with CM but no luck with ACC

Basically I start CM with the DD not connected - CM then sres the 2 boxes as separate controllers. Then you plug in the wheel.

However I had to remove the bindings, restart the PC a couple of times to make sure the controllers are all indexed correctly (so all controllers plugged in and on and in the same USB ports - you cannot change ports once you have set your bindings). Once I am happy that CM is showing the controllers in the same order each time I go in and program the bindings and save the profile in CM.
If you change rims you need to load the new rim settings in CM and then close CM and restart it with the wheel off. Then plug in your wheel.
I hope I explained this convoluted workaround in a manner that is understood!
PM me if not

 

Yeah CM sometimes hoses my Fanatec controls setup. I have to reconfigure it through the AC wizard to get it working again.


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Hi!! I have the exact same problem and this is driving me nuts...

I think I understood your instructions... basically verified that the PC index correctly the usb controllers... then what I did was:

- Open CM with the base off and the wheel not installed... I have Heuskinveld pedals, so I connected tehm while CM was running.
- Clear ALL the bindings I had in CM.
- Turned on the dd1 base.
- Assigned the axis. Assigned the pedals.
- Connected the wheel (Mclaren GT3)
- Assigned the buttons
- Save the profile... and right then I went back and the Axis was not responding.
- Assigned the axis again, went back to the buttons and they were not responding.. I mean.. I clicked on them and saw them turn on and off in the CM indicator to the right of the screen (red dot), but not on the assigned function box.

Can you please tell me what I'm doing different from what you did to get this going? I really appreciate your help. This seems to be the only thread on this on the internet.. LOL

Best regards,

Chale

 

I just ran into this and was only able to fix it by disabling controller support in steam general controller settings.

If I have controller configuration support enabled in steam general controller settings, where you can configure controller options per game, I have to set steam properties, input per game to "force off" for driving games else the wheel doesn't respond - just as it wasn't responding when launching AC via CM. So it seems to me that launching from CM bypasses/ignores this steam setting and launches default input, where if controller configuration support is enabled is forcing the controller to override the wheel.

Hope that helps.

 

This very interesting. So I'm not alone. This is my situation. I only have one controller connected to my computer and AC sees my controller. I bind everything and everything works. Now I don't want my controller always connected to my computer I use it for other things. So I turn off my computer unplug the USB for my steering wheel then turn my computer on. Ok, now I use my computer for other stuff. After that I turn my computer off and plug in my steering wheel into the same USB, that USB was not used for anything else while the steering wheel was unplugged. AC sees my controller, I know that because the area that shows all controllers has my steering wheel and when I turn the wheel the wheel is indicated it is being tuned. But when I try to drive AC nothing happens as if my controller is not recognized. If I go into settings Advanced and load my saved configuration then go to drive AC again nothing happens. Now if I rebind everything then yes AC actually uses my steering wheel to turn the car. If I never unplug my steering wheel ever then AC has not problem and uses my steering wheel.

I can't just leave this steering wheel plugged in all the time and I sure don't want to have to rebind ever time. In the section that shows all the controllers recognized it always shows my steering wheel and other controllers that is not connected to my computer and never was. I don't know how to delete them.

Any thought on this?

 

Wow. I rebound my controller just now and I use my clutch peddle as the hand break. I've used that in the past and now I bound the same way I did before and see it is being recognized, I have to use the check mark to reverse the direction But I go to drive AC shows no hand break action. My clutch peddle does nothing.

I have TS - XW Racer Sparco P310 Competition Mod.

 

Hi Folks - I just received delivery of my new DSD Black Max II Button Controller. I got it all set up on desk with the RAM Mount and plugged it in. I went into ACC and tried to assign some functions to it. Nothing happens. I emailed DSD and got an insatnt response. I then used the debugging software from him, and sure enough, all of the buttons work fine. I went back into ACC to the Options/Controls. I noticed that in the Presets section, in addition to my Thomas Super Wheel, there was a DSD P-Series Controller. I clicked on it and clicked on load. When I did, the bindings to my Wheel were all lost. I clicked on the Ignition, pushed a button on the DSD box, nothing! What the heck? I'm pretty sure its plugged into a USB 2.0 port on my 6 month old high end PC with an ASUS Rog Strix motherboard. What am I supposed to do to get this box to work and get my wheel back?

 

I figured I would chime in here as well. I'm using a Thrustmaster T300RS on PC with new AC install, content manager. The wheel generally never works when first starting up and loading the game from content manager. Just when I think I figured out a process to get it to work, it doesn't.

My current best-practice: I used wheel setup wizard in normal AC to create and save a wheel settings file. What seems to work to get it to recognize the wheel is to re-save and/or reload the wheel setup in CM. But sometimes it doesn't. So I sometimes save it under a new name and jump between the two pre-sets and that seems to do it maybe? There is no rhyme or reason as to if or why Content Manager decides the wheel will work. I lose anywhere from 5 to 15 minutes messing around with it every time I sit down to drive.

Like some others here, I do not leave the wheel plugged into the PC when not playing AC, so that might be an issue. But I always use the same USB port to connect, and the PC always sees it. One interesting clue for me (though very unlikely to help others here): I use a ~1.5m USB extension cord to connect my wheel to my PC. This never had any issues on PS4, but I noticed in the AC wheel setup wizard, some of the button presses were registering sluggishly on the GUI - also it would not recognize wheel rotation sometimes. I unplugged/plugged the USB extension joint a few times and it seemed to fix it. Not sure if this was just the disconnect/reconnect of USB device re-starting it in Windows to fix it, or if there was some contact trouble in the plug itself but it worked that time.

 

On mine the ffb +/- gain bindings have literally physically disappeared from the controls list..........