Steering Wheel and Pedal Connection Bug STILL PRESENT
Dear Developers at EA/Codemasters,
First off, I love playing the F1 games. I'm an F1 fanatic and love racing sims. This game has been a blast and also incredibly frustrating. To the credit of you guys, it's fun enough for me to continue playing despite the game crashing bugs I experience. However, I would have put a lot more time in already if the game crashing bugs weren't occurring every time I play.
Hardware:
System: PC
- GPU: NVIDIA RTX 3080ti 12gb Ftw3
- CPU: Intel 12900K
- Monitor: 2560x1080 21:9
Wheel Base: Simagic Alpha Mini
- Wheel: GT4
- Connection: USB directly to PC
Pedals: Thrustmaster T-LCM
- Connection: USB directly to PC
Controller Binding:
- Saving over the simagic_m10.xml worked to bind the simagic alpha mini steering wheel.
- The same save also allowed the thrustmeaster t-lcm pedals to bind.
- Before the last patch (or the one before that?) I was not able to bind both the pedals and the wheels but this was resolved after the patch.
Bug Description:
Bug Context:
There are a few different ways it plays out so it may not be a single bug but each outcome seems to be related to or results in steering wheel and/or pedals connection issues.
Frequency
- Occasionally I can make it through an entire practice/race using the temporary fixes below but often times the game freezing ends up crashing the game altogether and I lose any progress I made.
- Most of the scenarios occur 3 or 4 times per practice session/race
Bug(s)
- Audio and Video Freeze - always leads to (or caused by?) one of more of the following
- Wheel stops working while on track (no controller disconnection popup) - sometimes occurs without freezing but most of the time includes freezing
- Pedals stop working while on track (no controller disconnection popup) - sometimes occurs without freezing but most of the time includes freezing
- Game crashes - after freezing (1 crash in every 4ish freezes)
- ***Scenarios almost always involve freezing and one or both the wheel and pedals not working
Temporary Fixes
- Temporary Fix (if Audio and Video Freeze) - wait a minute and sometimes it will unfreeze but at that point either the wheel or the pedals are not longer controlling the car (no controller disconnection popup)
- Temporary Fix (if wheel stops controlling the car) - unplug the wheel POWER and plug it back in (sometimes it seems like the pedals stop working after the wheel starts working again)
- Temporary Fix (if pedals stop controlling the car) - unplug pedal USB and plug it back in (sometimes it seems like the wheel stops working after the pedals start working again)
I currently am playing on a monitor but I continue to quit playing early due to frustration after a few rounds of the bugs. Hopefully a game crashing bug like this is serious enough to warrant investigating but if not, if there is anything I can do to make it less painful for myself in the meantime I am all ears.
Thanks,
EA customer
