If you haven't been there already, go try the Turboduck people for help. I've incidentally just installed TDU1 and 2 on my new PC, but not tried with my G27 yet.

http://forum.turboduck.net/forums/122-Test-Drive-Unlimited

Thanks for the tip. Posted the problem there and waiting for response.

I haven't tried this myself but perhaps the Universal Joystick Remapper can help, it needs vJoy to make it work.

That really looked like it had some potential to work... but it didn't.

Good try, though 😀

"When I go to the control settings menu in the game and I attempt to assign anything to the wheel absolutely nothing happens."
Could be that the game sees the wheel as a xbox360 pad and you cant rebind controlls on a xbox360 pad
should work in game though

It doesn't, sadly.

I remember having that problem with x360ce, I think I fixed it by deleting the dll files in the x360ce directory. Don't worry, the program will just regenerate them.

AFAIK Thrustmaster Ferrari 458 is the first wheel x360 certified (at least the website claims this). So it must be using XInput.
I may try to suggest the hypothesis that although game supports both DirectInput and Xinput....

... wheels might just work with the former, given they stress only that.
And of course x360ce is useless to convert xinput to xinput..

I have just the same case as Yasashii has/had. First, I borrowed my friends MOMO racing wheel. it worked good on TDU1, but after I gave it back I bought my own wheel to continue game. The same ferrari 458 italy wheel. And I am going nuts because I havent got it work. I reinstalled drivers, partially uninstalled them and even reinstalled Win7. I visited turboduck site, but no one has answered to this question I saw there. I bought TDU2 and refunded it because it felt really clunky. I prefer to drive in Hawaii instead 😀

XInput plus can be used for accurate XInput-->DirectInput remaps.

After countless hours of tinkering, I've finally figured it out. Here's the tutorial:

(If for some reason the below method doesn't work, download the Microsoft Xbox360 Controller Driver. Also, if you've installed Motioninjoy in your previous attempts, you might have to uninstall it.)

1. Download and install Vjoy (a tool that emulates a virtual joystick, as the name suggests):

https://sourceforge.net/projects/vjoystick/fi … latest/download

and UJR (Universal Joystick Remapper):

http://evilc.com/files/ahk/vjoy/ujr.zip

2. Run "Configure Vjoy" from the start menu, disable all the axes except for X and Y. Input 10 as the number of buttons. in the POV Hat Switch area, select 1 and make sure "Continuous" is selected. Also, untick the "Enable Effects" option, since our wheel does not have Force Feedback. Click "Apply".

Your Vjoy window should look like this:

3. Go to Game Controllers settings in the Control Panel. You should see "vjoy Device" on top of the list. If it isn't on top, click advanced and set it as the preferred device. It should look like this:

4. Now open UJR. Don't be alarmed at the message that pops up on the first run. It's only there to inform you that it's about to make a config file. Click ok and you can begin mapping the axes and buttons.

Virtual axis 1 should be set to physical stick ID 2 (assuming the Thrustmaster wheel was second on the list of game controllers, as shown in the above picture) and physical axis 1, with the special operations menu remaining at "none". Virtual axis 2 should be set to physical stick 2 and physical axis 3. Special operations also at "none". It should look like this:

Edit: Recently, I've discovered that the wheel's stick ID changes after having plugged in another controller and remains different even after that controller has been unplugged. Therefore, the stick ID might not correspond with its position on the list of game controllers. Some trial and error might, as a result, be required to find the Thrustmaster's actual stick ID.

5. Now go to the "Buttons 1" menu. Select Stick ID 2 for all 10 buttons. Then set the "Button #" menus to 1, 2, 3 and so on respectively. It should look like this:

6. Go to the "Hats" menu and, again, select physical stick ID to 2. Leave UJR running and start TDU.

7. Now go to the "Controls" menu in Test Drive Unlimited and make sure the "Enable wheel" option is ticked in the "Options" menu. Now you should be able to set all the controls as with a normal controller. That's it.

IMPORTANT: UJR must be running in the background every time you start TDU. Otherwise, it won't work.