Duplicate wheel buttons
Product: F1 23 Platform:Xbox Series X Please specify your platform model. Microsoft Xbox Series X Summarize your bug Can’t use all wheel buttons What is your 16 digit Report Code? CSPE-AVKK-KVBE-...
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CM_RedDevil
EA Staff
EA Staff@Dansmotorsport Hey, unfortunately no news. It's with our team to try and replicate the issue but beyond that I'm not sure if or when I'll have any news on it as we have a few higher priority issues to resolve with wheels at the moment.
@CM_RedDevil Ok cheers, thanks for getting back to me
@Dansmotorsport @CM_RedDevil I think I can add some information to this issue.
Microsoft only allows the same Buttons to be used, as you'll find on the Xbox One/X/S standard controller pad. These are A, B, X, Y, Up, Down, Left, Right, LB, LT, RB, RT, Option, LStickDown, and RStickDown. That's all. For racing wheels, Microsoft allows three paddles to be detected additionally.From the racing wheel's manufacturer side, the wheel must be programmed to map those Xbox buttons to the corresponding physical buttons.
Companies like Thrustmaster are incompetent in doing so, as, e.g., Left/Right Stick Down is not even considered. Therefore, my Thrustmaster TX base consists of duplicate A, B, X, and Y buttons, rendering half of the physical buttons useless in F1 23. There is no way of having DRS and Overtaking on the wheel while not sacrificing menu or camera options. This was already the case with F1 22, and I have to admit (sadly) that the Xbox Series consoles are trash for racing simulators.Not even Flight Simulator makes fun of being played on an Xbox because you cannot have a satisfying cockpit setup. Microsoft's support team reached out to a question at the Microsoft forums that they are looking into this situation, but no timeline for a solution has been given. This was back in 2019.
- @MrtnMjwski Your wrong this is completely false as on ‘grid legends’ (codemasters game) all buttons can be used separately and not one button is duplicated. On Xbox aswell so it’s not a Microsoft thing at all
- @Dansmotorsport That’s interesting mate, I always believed the previous post that it’s not possible to use the spare buttons - I have the TM SF1000 and barely touch half the buttons 😢. I’d be thrilled if they can change the game to allow assigning all those lovely buttons!
- @MrtnMjwski That's not entirely true my man - when TrueForce is enabled on the Logitech G923 you can map the extra wheel buttons (plus, minus, enter, turny wheel left, turny wheel right) as separate inputs and they don't represent Xbox controller buttons. Can confirm personally for F1 23 for Xbox One.
However when TrueForce not enabled - these buttons do absolutely nothing.- @HashbrownRolo Ahh ok that’s a positive thing then meaning that they can definitely do it so hopefully it gets fixed for fanatec equipment. Cheers
