Steering Wheel Button Mapping Support

EdBvB · Jun 7, 2020

I purchased a steering wheel that is compatible with Xbox one and has additional buttons and directional pads that are useful to assign to functions such as boost, pit lane speed limit, look behind left right, and make adjustments to car braking and engine
settings while driving.

Unfortunately from what I read the wheel is limited to only mapping as many buttons and axes as a standard Xbox controller. Some buttons either don't map or are detected as additional trigger buttons. So after mapping pedals and wheel you are left with only
a few more buttons you can map.

Is it possible for Xbox developers to allow additional buttons to be mapped for wheels that have more than a standard controller? This would really improve the experience of racing games with wheels and with upcoming Xbox project x would make the console
an option for sim racers instead of then choosing to go to PC. Other consoles have improved button mapping for wheels I would hope that xbox can do that too especially since it is Windows based and on PC all wheel buttons are mappable to game functions.

Thank you!

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EdBvB

Hi thanks for the response. I tried the accessories app but it does not detect my Wheel when it loads it's just blank.

RhythmMachine

What wheel is it? The manufacturer might have their own software to map the buttons?

I just reviewed the Xbox Accessories app and realize that it only does official controllers or via the Xbox Adaptive Controller for the app to do what it does. Because of that, I would recommend you take a look at if there is any software from the manufacturer
that you can use to map and configure, and possibly update on the firmware to do what you want it to do?

Can we approach this from the other side? Can you identify any wheel or any software which will map steering wheel buttons beyond those found on an XBOX controller?

I've also been frustrated by the fact that I can't access any additional functionality from the extra buttons on my Thrustmaster TX 458 Italia, and I've read the same thing about Logitech wheels. So if users from all three main sim wheel manufacturers are
struggling with this, rather than compiling a list of all of the wheels we own where we haven't found a way to do it, can you provide some direction for how we can?

PalmettoBling

What wheel is it? The manufacturer might have their own software to map the buttons?

I just reviewed the Xbox Accessories app and realize that it only does official controllers or via the Xbox Adaptive Controller for the app to do what it does. Because of that, I would recommend you take a look at if there is any software from the manufacturer
that you can use to map and configure, and possibly update on the firmware to do what you want it to do?

EdBvB

It's a Fanatec Formula V2 wheel. I previously had a Logitech G920 which also had a couple of buttons that wouldn't map on Xbox. There is no Xbox app for these wheels, they have software on pc to update the firmware which I did. I did some searching and
reading on this issue and it appears to be a limitation on Xbox that allows only as many buttons as a standard xbox controller does to be used on wheels or other input devices. Given that these buttons are mappable on PC there should be a way to enable them
on Xbox as additional buttons.

PalmettoBling

This function does already exist. If you look in the Xbox Accessories app for mapping a controller, there are options to enable a "Shift" function and assign it to a button to allow multiple combinations of buttons to trigger different actions.

As far as specific in game assignment, that would have to be implemented by the developer. Have you attempted to use the Xbox Accessories app to assign buttons, and then map them in game?

Steering Wheel Button Mapping Support