Thrustmaster TX, wheel disconnects

[siri175]

Using a Thrustmaster TX wheel, after around 10 minutes in the game I get a wheel disconnected message. Game doesn't recognise controller if I recycle the usb connection. I have to shut down and restart the game and the wheel is recognised again.

I also find the advanced wheel settings don't stick - deadzone and saturation have to be reset each time I start the game. I only use the wheel in game, not the keyboard.

Anybody else seen these problems? My wheel doesn't get disconnected in any other pc sims.

[Hoffie92]

I have exactly the same problems with my Thrustmaster T500RS, Game is unplayable now, because i can't race with my wheel,

[Trapgat]

Make sure you do not put too many USB devices on the same USB hub (check your motherboard for the different hubs). My pc has 4 hubs each containing 3 USB ports. I usually put the steering wheel and pedals on an empty hub because when I do it on the same hub like my mouse or keyboard I'll have issues like these. This has nothing to do with the game, it has to do with the powering of your motherboard.

[siri175]

codies tech support helped me fix this - turns out my chipset driver needed updating and it's worked fine since

[shinod]

I have found a fix for the problem.....the issue is Nvidia Geforce Experience and Nvidia encoder Codec used for capturing the game.

Fix for the issue:-
1. Ensure turn on the USB power modes as all high performance. Check the power modes.
2. Windows 8/7/10 - Device Manager-> Allow to turn off the device - Uncheck the check box.
3. Reinstall the Nvidia display driver without Geforce Experience. Install DDU clean the display driver and install the latest Nvidia driver in the custom mode.
4. Use Bandicam or OBS to record instead of ShadowPlay.
5. Don't use the Nvidia Hardware Encoder for capturing instead use M JPEG or non-Nvidia Codec to to capture. This will result in huge files like 20GB etc. This can then be recoded to smaller MP4 files using batch convert on Handbrake program.
6.This is tested and works fine 100% on Windows 8.1. No more controller disconnected!
7. Other solution is install Linux.

We can now Njoi and play Dirt Rally/GAS/Dirt 4 without wheel disconnects!

[Heather]

http://forums.codemasters.com/discussion/3531/thrustmaster-t300rs-support