Product: EA SPORTS™ WRCPlatform:PCSummarize your bug Can't change device option on my shifter and therefor can only use it to shift but I want to use it as a handbrake. Additionally can't change menu buttons and default wheel menu button layout is very badHow often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Play with a wheel and shifter and try to change menu button mapping and shifter button mappingWhat happens when the bug occurs? NothingWhat do you expect to see? The oppossite of what I described aboveCan't change device option on my shifter and therefor can only use it to shift but I want to use it as a handbrake.Additionally can't change menu buttons and default wheel menu button layout is very bad

Same problems on ps5. No way to use TH8 shifter as a handbrake. And button mapping on the wheel is simply wrong. X is switched with O and so fourth. Quite annoying.. That is on Thrustmaster T300RS.

I normally use my sequential gear shifter for the thrustmaster T300 as a handbrake. But the game isn’t recognising the sequential gear shifter/handbrake. Can’t bind it at all. I went back into dirt 2.0 and sure enough the handbrake is working. Anyone know a way of binding the shifter as a handbrake. Can’t play the game properly at the moment. Thanks

@SidewaysFinn seems like they are having an issue where the game isn't recognizing shifters.

@SidewaysFinn I used to use same setup on Dirt Using sequential as Handbrake & have same issue.game shows H shifter mod, but unable to bind as Handbrake.

I got the same problem. I have the TH8A shifter (and T300 Ferrari Integral wheel) and want to use it as a handbrake. I already tried to modify the device_defines.xml and got to change the type to handbrake - but still it says i double bind the shift pedals.Even without the xml modification i see in the general control menu that it registers button 9 and 10 when i use the shifter. Not 1 and 2 like when i use the shift pedals of the wheel. So not sure what is going on here.Can't really play properly until this is fixed ☹️

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Blackeye3
2 years ago
I got the same problem. I have the TH8A shifter (and T300 Ferrari Integral wheel) and want to use it as a handbrake. I already tried to modify the device_defines.xml and got to change the type to handbrake - but still it says i double bind the shift pedals.

Even without the xml modification i see in the general control menu that it registers button 9 and 10 when i use the shifter. Not 1 and 2 like when i use the shift pedals of the wheel. So not sure what is going on here.

Can't really play properly until this is fixed ☹️
Blackeye3
2 years ago
Here's my workaround to use the Thrustmasters TH8A shifter as a handbrake - JoyToKey didn't work, because it still shifted the gear when using the shifter.

1. Go to the game directory, then navigate to WRC\Content\input\Windows\devices
2. (Optional - Backup is never wrong) Copy the file device_defines.xml and rename the copy to device_defines.xml.bak
3. Open device_defines.xml and delete this line:

<device id="{B660044F-0000-0000-0000-504944564944}" name="tm_shifter" priority="50" type="shifter" />

4. Save the file and start the game
5. Go to Controls and select the now renamed "T500 RS Gear Shift".
6. Select "Load Device Preset" and then "Direct Input"
7. Now you should be able to bind the direct input of the shifter as a handbrake key - no double mapping anymore.

@EA/Codemasters: Please let the player switch to Direct Input on any device!
SidewaysFinn
2 years ago
I normally use my sequential gear shifter for the thrustmaster T300 as a handbrake. But the game isn’t recognising the sequential gear shifter/handbrake. Can’t bind it at all. I went back into dirt 2.0 and sure enough the handbrake is working. Anyone know a way of binding the shifter as a handbrake. Can’t play the game properly at the moment. Thanks
Fenrisulv1
2 years ago
Same problems on ps5. No way to use TH8 shifter as a handbrake. And button mapping on the wheel is simply wrong. X is switched with O and so fourth. Quite annoying.. That is on Thrustmaster T300RS.
H2ODre
2 years ago
@SidewaysFinn seems like they are having an issue where the game isn't recognizing shifters.
UKGRFan
2 years ago
@SidewaysFinn I used to use same setup on Dirt Using sequential as Handbrake & have same issue.
game shows H shifter mod, but unable to bind as Handbrake.
H2ODre
2 years ago
same problem on XBOX Series X - using LogiTech G923 and Logitech H-pattern Shifter.
1dc9d8a48cca690
2 years ago
@Fenrisulv1 do you have a ™ SIM HUB from thrustmaster? I am will be installing one in a day or so. Hopefully that will fix the problem
Fenrisulv1
2 years ago
No I don't, It's connected to the wheel. I'm on the fence of either going towards the hub and then buying a thrustmaster handbrake, or converting the entire rig to Fanatec.. For now I have mapped the handbrake to the fourth gear, it'l have to do for now.
Please let us know how it works out with the hub!
UKGRFan
2 years ago
Product: EA SPORTS™ WRC
Platform:PlayStation 5
Summarize your bug PS5 unable to Bind Sequential Gear shifter for Handbrake. No shifter input for gear change
How often does the bug occur? Often (50% - 99%)
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Try Thrustmaster H pattern Sequential setup
What happens when the bug occurs? Cannot Bind for Handbrake operation as used to in Dirt Rally. there isn't any operation at all
What do you expect to see? H pattern Sequential as individual input & able to bind for Handbrake operation.
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PS5 Thrustmaster unable to bind H pattern Sequential as Handbrake