This is strange indeed. And I do understand why you are confused. I hope that it brings a tiny bit of solace, that the link that you cannot open wouldn't have helped you in this case anyway.
Basically your problem is this: You would think that if you got your brake and throttle on the same axis when you installed the 9.6 patch and no-cd, then you would have good reason to believe that you should change this in GP4, right?
But its just that. GP4 doesn't map the axes (plural for axis?) to the controllers. They are mapped by Windows, sometimes in the game controllers menu, but most often by a piece of software that comes with the controller. You have to set the map axes that you want to use to the controller, before you fire up GP4 and create your controller file.
I have no experience with thrustmaster products, so I offer how it works on a MS wheel as an example instead. A MS wheel uses the sidewinder software to configure the axes. The software integrates with and expands the game controllers menu. When you click "properties" for the wheel, in the game controllers menu, you get a popup menu with 4 sections. Under "settings" you get the option to configure the wheel to "combined" or to "seperate" pedal mode. Choosing "combined" places both the throttle and the brake on the same axis (y), and choosing seperate maps throttle to (y) and brake to (Irz). But take note: you never actually get to see which axes gets mapped to which pedal!
So in your case, IF you had an MS wheel, the case would be crystal clear: your pedals would be set to combined, and you would need to change this to seperate mode. I must assume that you need to do something similar with your ferrari Thrustmaster to assign two seperate axes to the pedals. But do to my lack of experience with said manufacturer and products, I cannot tell you exactly WHAT you need to do. Maybe your controller manual has something on this? If not, then hopefully this link can help you:
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europe.thrustmaster.com]
Anyway, when the axes are mapped properly, that is each pedals has its own axis, you need to figure out which pedal uses which axis. This was what the link was supposed to help people figure out. Many find it rather hard to do this, but I actually find it is very user friendly menu, once you have figured out how it works.
Go into the advanced controller menu, and click on the throttle/brake section. Choose a controller for the throttle, in this case it will be the controller that is on ID1, which is controller A. So having clicked on controller A, the menu changes. The new menu is list of all the buttons and axes that GP4 supports whether your controller can handle them or not. Depress you throttle pedal and which how one of the sliders responds to your controller input. THAT is the axis that is mapped to you throttle pedal. Select that axis, and repeat the same procedure for the brake pedal. A peice of cake. You can also map buttons to specific functions in the same way. By selecting "pit in", "TC" or "LC" you can check out which buttons on your controller you want to use for these selections.
btw, I dunno how applying the nocd can revert your pedal configuration to the same axis. GP4 shouldn't be able to influence this at all. But judging by some of the reports on the first no-cd exe that was available for the patch, it might very well be that you are right. It could be that removal of the cd-check just damaged some coding on the controller configuration code and thus the dodgy behaviour. Anyway, perhaps using the no-cd here on <www.grandprixgames.com> might fix the problem if nothing else seems to work.
I hope my post, while long, is crystal clear and exhaustive (and not exhausting
). If its not, then plz do say so
. And remember to report back. I have a gut feeling that you might not be the only one that is having problems with this...
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