Flight / Drive Sim Controllers

[William Chyr]

UPDATE (Dec 8, 2020): We have a potential fix for this issue. See the comment below.

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We've had a few reports of flight / drive sim controllers (rudder pedals, throttle, racing pedals, etc) causing issues. These range from causing menus to scroll down, unintended player strafing, and even stalling on a loading screen.

Unfortunately the best way to deal with these issues at the moment is to unplug these devices. I know that with some setups, this can be rather inconvenient. Sorry about that.

We tested the game with PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, and the Steam controller, but did not test using these special controllers as none of us on the team have them. We weren't aware of these input issues during development.

We are going to look into a way to see if we can add a setting to ignore all special controller input.

In the meantime, these are devices that we know of that are causing issues:
- Fanatec Clubsport Pedals v3
- Thrustmaster pendular rudder
- CH Pro Throttle
- Wireless dongle for Nacon controller (might have gone into wired mode. See here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/473950/discussions/0/3106889614418605467/)

[William Chyr]

We now have a possible solution to this issue. The build is currently in the beta branch (version 1.0.14807). The version number is in the upper left corner of the start screen when you start up the game.

To access the beta branch. Right click on "Manifold Garden" in your Steam library, click the "Betas" panel, then in the dropdown menu select "beta - Private beta". No password is necessary.

Before you start the game, go to:

C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\LocalLow\William Chyr Studio\Manifold Garden

Open the file Settings.txt

At the bottom of Settings.txt, add one of these lines:

keyboardOnly 1

This will enable only mouse and keyboard, disabling all other input devices

xboxOnly 1

This will enable the Xbox (360 or One) controllers as the only valid input devices.

playstationOnly 1

This will enable the PlayStation (2,3,4) controllers as the only valid input devices.

supportedOnly 1

This will make it so only the supported devices mentioned above are the only valid input devices.

Hopefully this helps!

[aliendream]

I have a CH Combat Stick, CH Pro Throttle and CH Pro Pedals.

I found the settings described above in my game settings.txt file and changed them as follows:

keyboardOnly 1
xboxOnly 0
playstationOnly 0
supportedOnly 1

The game will now get stuck at the pre-menu state after launching, showing a blank cream coloured screen and I am locked out of anything in-game. I then must use Windows Task Manager to kill the game. After returning the above settings back to 0 (ie default) the game will load correctly but obviously continue to detect the controllers causing the original problem again.

I have come across this issue many times before with Unity-based games and other games such as Assassins Creed. My usual solution involves a self-made VBS Script that I use in conjunction with the devcon.exe command to disable all three controller devices before launching a game and then post-game again using the script to enable the controller devices. It's far easier for me to do this than get around the back of my computer and unplug the three controllers each time I want to play a game like this.

[Kunming]

The suggested fix doesnt work. Same result as user "aliendream".

I have a Honeycomb Alpha Flight Control and Beta Throttle control as well as a Logitech Rudder Pedal. This is a flight sim setup with complicated settings and cable management; Im not going to mess with it to play 1 game.

Please fix this issue.

Edit: Just realised its been over 6 months, so this issue will not be addressed in the future? This is going to be the first game I ever refunded on Steam.

[William Chyr]

Originally posted by Kunming:

The suggested fix doesnt work. Same result as user "aliendream".

I have a Honeycomb Alpha Flight Control and Beta Throttle control as well as a Logitech Rudder Pedal. This is a flight sim setup with complicated settings and cable management; Im not going to mess with it to play 1 game.

Please fix this issue.

Edit: Just realised its been over 6 months, so this issue will not be addressed in the future? This is going to be the first game I ever refunded on Steam.

There are a lot of flight simulator peripherals. It is simply not possible for us to account for all possible combinations that exist.

If you'd like to help us gather information on how to fix this bug, please send an email to [e-mail] with the subject line "Manifold Garden Flight Sim Controller Issue" and include the following information:

• Your machine specs
  
• what controllers you have plugged in
  
• the version number of the game
  
• Player.log
  
• output_log.txt

The version number we use to identify a build can be found in the upper left corner of the start screen: https://i.imgur.com/NRs2QMa.jpg

The Player.log and output_log.txt files can be found in

C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\LocalLow\William Chyr Studio\Manifold Garden

[leslieviljoen]

On Linux, with an X52 pro, I had a problem of constantly turning left - until I touched my joystick. Then it stopped. But if I moved my mouse, the constant left would start up again. I ran jscal and calibrated it, then restarted Manifold Garden and didn't touch the joystick at all - and that worked. Mouse input was fine. But if I touched the joystick, wild turning happened again! At least I can play if I don't touch the joystick.