Unplayable - Controller issues PC

Just wanted to try this game out, but the bugs with controllers are making it frustrating. I prefer to play arcade racers with an Xbox 360 controller, which works fine, except when it doesn't. If the controller loses connection, the game will not recognise the controller again until after a reboot. The controller works fine, and other games see it fine, but NFS simply refuses to recognise it until a reboot; restarting the game doesn't help.

On top of that, if I leave my G920 wheel connected while playing, the game will start outputting feedback to the wheel, even though I'm using a controller, and the constant feedback to the wheel will counter-act my controller steering, then if I unplug my wheel, it stops recognising the controller again, until I reboot. Just this issue alone is enough for me to want to throw in the towel.

So giving up on that idea, I thought I would try my wheel, but of course for some reason all the key-mapping is wrong. The clutch is the accelerator, the accelerator is the break, and who knows what buttons do what, because if you remap them in the game, you can no longer tell what buttons to press via UI prompts, because they state something completely different.