control presets missing

xxiii · Dec 27, 2014

I just got an xbox one controller (3rd party, not the microsoft one, and I've installed the windows drivers, it works in other games) and went to set it up, hoping there would be a preset for it already.

However, I only seem to have generic joystick, custom, empty, keyboard&mouse, and classic keyboard.

Rummaging through appdata, I see there actually are a bunch of binding preset files, but they don't show up in the menu. How do I get them there, or do they only show up if the game thinks you have one of those? I could manually set up my controller I suppose, but I'd prefer not to start from scratch (and ( don't want to mess up my key/trackball custom bindings I'm currently using either).

p.s. I attempted to search, and read through various threads and didn't find anything (regarding missing/restoring presets), so I apologize if this is covered somewhere already, but please point me to it.

xxiii · Dec 27, 2014

For those with alternate gamepads that aren't automatically recognized by the game yet, and in the hopes of saving someone else some trouble, I had to do the following:

Download/install the xbox windows driver from microsoft.com.

Go to the device properties of my controller (open "devices and printers" -> right-click on the controller, properties, hardware tab, properties, details tab, select "Hardware Ids" from the dropdown, note the vid and pid, which will be used in the below, in my case (for a Rock Candy xbox one wired controller) the VID is 0E6F and the PID is 0146.

Edit the following file (should make a backup copy first):

C:\Users\xxiii\AppData\Local\Frontier_Developments\Products\FORC-FDEV-D-1002\ControlSchemes\DeviceMappings.xml

(location may vary, in particular, your username), search for </Gamepad> and add the following just above it (changing the vid and pid if necessary to suit your controller):


<Alternative><PID>0146</PID><VID>0E6F</VID>
</Alternative>

Now in ED (you may need to exit/reenter) in controls you should see additional preset options. Otherwise, you might only see "Empty" or nothing, in which case you made a mistake or typo in the file. If you just see the same presets as before, then you might not have the VID and/or PID correct.