[Temporarily Fix] Wheel/Pedals not saving

As there are many (me included) with the problem that seperate wheel and pedals are causing problems, I wanted to post a temporarily fix that worked for me.

So my problem was that the input of my seperate USB pedals were not saving. They worked fine in the demo. So i just tried copying my demo settings in my full game with the config file. And voila it worked.

Guide:
1.Setup your settings in the demo
2. Find your demo settings file. ( Should be …/User/Appdata/Local/Packages/Microsoft.Forzahorizon4demoblabla/SystemAppdata/wgs/‘number combination’/‘another number combo’/

  • finding the 2nd folder with the combination can be tricky. Tip: Sort by Date. As you just changed the settings it should be the newest folder.
  • there should be a file called container.5 and another file. Open that file with notepad.
  1. Copy your wheel settings or just everything
  2. Find your full game settings file ( Should be …/User/Appdata/Local/Packages/SunriseBaseGame/SystemAppdata/wgs/‘number combination’/‘another number combo’/
  • same as above. To find the right folder change your control settings and sort by date.
  • there should be a file called container.5 and another file. Open that file with notepad.
  1. Overwrite everything.
  2. Done. Your wheel settings in the full game should be the same now.

I hope it works.

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Thanks for this! I am glad I didn’t delete the demo. This works for me! I don’t think it will take too long for them to fix this issue since it works on the demo.

Nice to hear. Have fun!

Awesome thanks.

Going to try this now!

I uninstalled the demo though… I guess 30gb download is better than however many days it will take to get an official patch

edit: works flawlessly!!

Same ;D had to download it

Thanks a LOT for that, I will re-download the demo. Much appreciated. Thank you!

Thanks very much, that’s great news!

I can’t find any of thoses folders.
They don’t exist, even with hided files uncheked.
They are totally hidden somewhere and i can’t acces.

Edit: I finally found them. After a long setting to have administrator access to be able to open the files, i did it but the “fix” don’t work.
I tried to past the wheel custom part of the “ini” and all the file too, but nothing worked. Even with read only.

Still can’t play to the game…
The worse is: The demo WORK…

Edit2 (lol): I found a solution. I pick the file when the demo run, just after saved the settings with “X” WITHOUT get out of the wheel settings.
Because my demo delete my settings when i close it, this is why the “fix” don’t work the first time.

Now my shifter and my pedals work fine.

BUT (yeah… but.) now my wheel is reversed (left side go right side etc), so i still can’t play :confused:

Please help me :frowning:

Edit (last): I found how to resolve the reverse steering wheel, in the file where you are your binds (from demo) the problem are a line with “inverted axis 1” put it to “0” and now i can play.
Edit (or not…): Now the game just crash every 10/15 minutes… I give up. I removed it. Good luck.

You might have to manually type in “\AppData” right after your user name in windows explorer.

Example: C:\Users\YourName\AppData\

My steering was inverted, too. I just turned the wheel right for combined steering instead of left.

You are my hero, THANK YOU!

Oh god, I am redownloading the Demo now. I really really hope this works!!!

EDIT
THANK YOU SO MUCH!! I LOVE YOU MAN. It works perfect.

**Tip: Copy the FH4 demo WHEELSETTINGS ONLY, not the entire notepad text. At first I copied the entire text in notepad and pasted it into the full game file and my shifter worked but Force Feedback on the wheel was gone. After I selectively copy and pasted just the wheel settings portion of the text file, BAM, shifter worked and FFB was back to normal.

Where does the WHEELSETTINGS start and ends?
I did the demo fix and lost all FFB too. Do i have to reset the settings to default?

so looking through all the files… I’m seeing Container.1 through Container.4 but no Container.5

I don’t know if it’s container.5 for everyone… if you change your settings and save it should be the newest folder. That’s why you sort by date. It should be a folder with container.x and another file. The file with the number combination should be your config file.

Sorry guys don’t have time to explain everything in detail. If it doesn’t work you’ll have to wait for an official fix unfortunately…

sorry i refuse to do this to make the game work properly, i prefer asking a refund.

Got it working too, thank you very very much. :slight_smile: :slight_smile: :slight_smile:

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can not open this extension files notepad
Please Help !!!

After the firstDay-Patch didn’t fixed this for me, I tried this method and it works very well.

thx for the hint

Hi I am having this problem but with my shifter. I can bind it but nothing saves. And even when it’s set to Fanatec CSL V2 it won’t let me use my shifter. Anyone else had this problem ?