Any Way of Using My Incompatible Steering Wheel?

[It'sTobes]

I own a Thrustmaster Ferrari GT Experience racing wheel (a budget wheel), and I have discovered that it is not compatible with Grid 2, which is rather annoying as this was one of the main reasons I bought the game...

Are there any mods or programs which may allow me to input my steering wheel into the game? I have been Googling everywhere and cannot find a single solution. Perhaps there is some way of making the game think it's a keyboard input, when it's in fact a mapped input from my steering wheel that's overwriting it somehow? I don't know, I'm no genius with this sort of stuff, so any help would be desperately appreciated!

[shivars]

hmm, I *think* I used to have a similar thrustmaster wheel, and I'm reasonably sure that the circuitry inside is the same across a few models (including some rebadged as other makes)

I suspect you might be able to uninstall the ferrari drivers and try the drivers of one of the thrustmaster wheels the game does support and that might just work.

I have to admit I'm a little surprised it doesn't work anyway though - that kind of input is pretty standard, and 'not supported' should normally mean 'doesn't have the right force-feedback or rotation settings'...which is normally work-aroundable in in-game settings.

Assume you've tried manually setting inputs for accel/brake/steering/etc in-game?

[It'sTobes]

I've just tried to access some other drivers from Thrustmaster's website, but for some reason the download keeps failing due to some 'network error'. Despite that, I cannot find where to locate my racing wheel in Device Manager, so changing the driver would prove to be difficult anyway. I have also just sent an email to Codemaster's customer support regarding the issue. It's just really annoying how I pay the price for the game, and then find I can't enjoy or play it at all because my wheel is not supported. My wheel is also fairly popular in the gaming world. No, it's not a high-end racing wheel, but surely they'd support all Thrustmaster peripherals as they are a main brand for racing wheels?

[Brandon]

Try using x360ce. If configured for the wheel, it will act like a xbox 360 controller in game. I've done this before for games like Blur and others. It works!

[Brandon]

Does the wheel show up in the Windows "Game Controllers" control panel? Hit start, in search type "Game Controllers" and click on "set up usb game controllers"... Is the wheel there???

[It'sTobes]

I've finally solved the problem! I emailed customer services at Codemasters and they quickly replied to me with specific instructions for manually inputting my steering wheel. It turned out that after all that fuss I simply needed to configure each and every button manually in the in-game settings. Therefore my PC thinks I'm using the 'Keyboard' preset, whereas it's mapped to my steering wheel instead and works fine now. However, I don't think there are any sensitivity options for my wheel's rotation, but I'm sure I'll find a way. I feel a bit stupid now... there was me considering mods and 3rd party programs when it was all possible in the game settings itself! Well at least that's one less problem now :)

Thanks for the tips above as well guys

[Moose]

I had the same issues..... manually set up the wheel, but then you can still go into advanced wheel settings and adjust the dead zones etc

[76561198056990357]

I have the same wheel, i have had these problems, i have tried to configure one by one but it not working, any help would be welcomed, would really like to play this game in my holidays.

[CrazyTestPilot]

Download "joy2key" premap your butoons on wheel to appear keyboard for esc., enter etc.

[GoldenDoom]

Yes! I own a thrustmaster t80 steering wheel and i was pissed that it wasnt compatible with other games, and some of the games that are advertised that was compatible didnt work either.
Ive tried joy2key, which is a good software but there was no way to make it so that the wheel would turn smoothly.
If you use x360ce it is a emulator for a xbox 360 controller and you can add your own keybinds to the 360 controller.
heres a guild on how to use it
https://www.reddit.com/r/cyberpunkgame/comments/kct4y3/how_to_detailed_setup_near_perfect_steering_wheel/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

[Hemo ¯\_(ツ)_/¯]

congrats, you deserve golden shovel award!

[Andrew Przelucki]

Try installing Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2019 Redistributable. (Unplug the peripheral and connect again.)

[BOSS_HABIBI]

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