Thrustmaster T16000m FCS Hotas.

[Northern Monkey]

Hi everyone
I am trying to return to E/D after a very long break (have about 650 hrs) in . However when i load in the game, the Thrustmaster T16000m preset in the control options has disappeared ,i can only access Classic Keyboard, K+ Mouse and K+Mouse +Yaw. + a slot marked Empty , i loaded game in with Throttle and J/stick connected to PC ,but do know how to get this option back.Was wondering about un-installing and re-installing game to see if it would correct this, but am worried if i might lose my saved game. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

[Dolphin Bottlenose]

You probably don't have something plugged in, that was used by you in the old configuration of controls. If the game sees that one of controllers is missing, it ignores the whole configuration, like it doesn't exist.

You can try to move your bindings from
C:\%LOCALAPPDATA%\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous\Options\Bindings
to a different folder, and use a Steam files integrity verification to restore default ones.

You will not lose your progression, even if you reinstall the game, as it is being stored on Frontier servers. Controllers are stored locally.

[Northern Monkey]

Hi Dolphin Bottlenose

I have checked in settings then devices and both throttle and J/stick are installed ok according to win !0 ,so am i am bit lost off. but many thanks for your reply.

[Dolphin Bottlenose]

Another possibility might be Steam messing with your joystick. Try to disable the generic gamepad support in Steam for this game:

Open the game in the Steam Library.
Click on the "Manage Game" button on the left.
Click on the "Controller Options" button.
Click the "Steam Input Per-Game" drop-down box.
Select "Forced Off".

[Northern Monkey]

Many, Many Thanks Dolphin Bottlenose, i followed what you said ,but controller options did not show under manage game button, so i clicked on big picture mode ,and my J/stick and throttle were there,so i turned OFF the xbox controller settings ,loaded in elite and the Thrustmaster option is back, So you set me on the right path,it is much appreciated .Great Job. :) :)

[Dolphin Bottlenose]

Great to hear! :)

[JL::Jose-Juan Kenobi]

Glad you got it fixed!

I have to note, I've had ED get rid of my bindings after updates more than once, and I have to rebind everything.
So I'm backing up the bindings from the folders described above now and then.

o7

[Caelum]

I want to add to the conversation I had the same issue as the OP and also went to Big Picture mode following his last post and undid all the v's on all the options in the controller settings. Got rid of my problem too. Cheers, @Northern

[insanity83[NL]]

Hi Everyone,

This is an old post an I'm not trying to bump it, however I had the same issues as everyone else and found out what it was.


Load the profile on the TARGET GUI
Right click on Start and select device managers
Look at the HID section

There you see two devices disabled.
- Right click and enable device

This will work and you do not need to add the binding files in the AppData folder

I've informed Thrustmaster about this fact, but it seems I also got the world renouned Nancy to help me. So won't expect much from them.

If somebody wants clarification on what I typed here, let me know. I can share screenshots

[gogsie59]

You dont need to use target software. Works fine without it.

[funkynutz]

Originally posted by insanity83NL:

Hi Everyone,

This is an old post an I'm not trying to bump it, however I had the same issues as everyone else and found out what it was.


Load the profile on the TARGET GUI
Right click on Start and select device managers
Look at the HID section

There you see two devices disabled.
- Right click and enable device

This will work and you do not need to add the binding files in the AppData folder

I've informed Thrustmaster about this fact, but it seems I also got the world renouned Nancy to help me. So won't expect much from them.

If somebody wants clarification on what I typed here, let me know. I can share screenshots

Your problem is you're using TARGET. It's not needed for Elite... While TARGET does have its occasional uses, it's better to not have it running at all.

This is nothing to do with the original problem in this thread (that was a known issue caused by the Steam overlay and controller software), so you've bumped this old thread for no good reason.

Also...

Only 2 HID devices?!?!? I've got 35...