I’ve got a set of Thrustmaster T-Rudders, they worked fine until a few weeks ago. Now as soon as I tap the brakes, they lock up. I’ve tried calibrating, uninstalling / reinstalling, etc. Nothing seems to work. Rudder function is fine, it’s just the toe brakes. Any ideas?
Go into Control Settings, select the rudder pedals as the controller and click on ‘scan for input.’ Then press on the left or right brake and see what control MSFS thinks you have activated. The left and right hand brakes should be mapped to L and R brake axis, but it sounds from the on-off nature of the response that they are just linked to ‘brakes.’
If they are linked to the correct axes, try reversing those axes and take a look at the pedals from inside the cockpit, to see if they are doing what you would expect.
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Thanks but no luck. One pedal’s toe brake goes to full strength as soon as I tap it, the other is normal. Reached out to Thrustmaster with details and a picture. They replied after 5 days with a list of things I need to do before they will provide any guidance. Full video of my screens during calibration, video of the pedals moving, etc etc. Almost like they just hope I’ll leave them alone and go away. I’m thinking that I’m done with Thrustmaster products.
I’m sorry to hear you’re still having trouble with them, and to hear about the unhelpful help from the manufacturer.
I wouldn’t have gone straight in with this… but from my own experience, ditching Thrustmaster (and Logitech) products is the way forward. I’ve had various controllers and other peripherals from both of these over the years, and they always work poorly and then fail after an unexpectedly short life.
I got a VKB joystick (the Gladiator NXT), and compared to the X56 & T16000m that came before it, it was a revelation. I have had the VKB t-rudder pedals since 2021, and they are incredibly robust and work perfectly. If you were looking for controls from another manufacturer, I would recommend VKB wholeheartedly. The pedals don’t have toe brakes, but there is a virtual brake you can map to another control and modulate from the pedals or alternatively you can use another axis entirely for the brakes, as I do with the finger brake on the MGCU grip.
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Have you tried running any tools external to the sim, like Windows “Set up USB game controllers”, where you can vies the axes. If that reports the same output, then it may be a hardware issue, or they aren’t calibrated correctly.
I assume Thrustmaster provide their own tool for calibration?
I’ve faced a similar problem with my TFRP. MY problem was on the left pedal due to a faulty sensor.I went through all the test they required and provided pics and videos.After a few weeks they sent me a new set of pedals free of charge.Be patient..I got the replacement that is working..regularly but it’s a bad type of rudder.Too much plastic componentes scratching on the metal rails.The result is a bad,not smooth movement impacting the the taxi and takeoffs/landing management. I am looking for a different rudder pedal like the Thrustmaster Pendular or other models.
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Yes, I used both the integrated WIN setup / calibrate functions, no luck. Same when using the Thrustmaster software. These pedals are less than a year old. Prior to that, I ended up tossing a TM joystick that stopped responding in one axis. Just got back into simming last year after being out of the hobby for a decade. I recall TM’s stuff being bulletproof back then. Not impressed with what I’m seeing so far with the new gear they have.
The same problem here… dont know what to do? Can anyone help with any other solution than throwing it to the trash…. The weird thing is that the TM pedals works fine in xplane 11 and 12
Well, if they works fine with others simulators then you might have setting problems on MSFS2020. What is your problem exactly?
Double check that you have the correct bindings. We’ve had a few users assign brakes on rather than an axis, which means depressing the brakes latches them on, with no off.
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I have same probem. After two sucessful flights I restarted sim. Now brakes are all time on. In settings the input works well. Even left/right works fine. I fly the FBW A320 with trustmaster A320 devices. And no, park breaks are not set!
Tried with other airliner too, same issue!
just a hint: I had some real strange experiance a few weeks ago with a new installed PC. At the end it turned out some USB devices are ‘too old’.
e.g. system did not boot with a Arduino Leonardo connected, and other Arduinos with Mobiflight were always ‘self-updating’
Worked miracously after a regular MS Win update.
My Thrustmaster gear works ok until now.
I work around the issue with disconnecting unused USB devices.
Seems like some kind of ‘security check’ of drivers causes device malfunction, WIN uses default drivers and ignores the ‘to be’ drivers.
Check on devices with system tools, and look for device description ‘legacy’.
In Intel 14700 /Aorus
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Just started having same exact problem out of nowhere.
I have my main expensive FS setup at home, but I also spend a lot of time in another city, so when I am there, I run FS from my laptop and bought some cheap peripherals to use with it, one of which were used Thrustmaster pedals. Worked fine until now, but all of a sudden started having this issue of pedals locking up after being pressed once. They release if I cycle through parking brake, but once I press them again, same thing happens. All controller mappings are OK, tried recalibrating pedals a few times, disconnecting all devices except for them, restarting, etc., but nothing seems to help.
I ordered Saitek pedals as replacement, but as a temporary remedy while I am waiting for them, I assigned pedals to “RIGHT/LEFT BRAKE” (instead of “RIGHT/LEFT BRAKE AXIS”). If you do that, make sure not to press brakes while you are rolling at high speed, as on press they go from 0% to 100% and you can bust your brakes (if brake failures simulated in aircraft).
UPDATE: Saitek pedals didn’t have this problem.
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Just got my MSFS2024 setup on a gaming laptop. Primary flight controls with Thrustmaster setup work fine (after really dialing down the sensitivity of everything in settings.) But same problem with rudder toe brakes. Only the right pedal works, and it locks up the brakes, even leaves a right wheel skid mark on the tarmac! I was not able to find a way to map the brakes in settings.
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I had the same problem; I was using a Thrustmaster USB adaptor to connect the rudder pedals only. I discovered if I remove the USB adaptor and connect the pedals through the Joystick they started working perfectly.
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I know this is an old topic, but I had recently reconfigured my computer and upgraded a bunch of hardware with some software drivers. One thing I did was upgrade my pedals to a TPR “Pendulum” rudder set, which were great feeling but exhibited this strange situation where only have the toe brake axis were registering in Windows 11. I found this thread, but ultimately saw this on the Thrustmaster support site that fixed my problem. It wasn’t documented anywhere else in the forums nor reddit, so I thought I’d post it in case others run into this again: https://ts.thrustmaster.com/faqs/eng/FAQ_Joysticks_Remove_Win_Calibration_All.pdf
I basically had to uninstall the Thrustmaster drivers, “reset to default” the device from the Windows USB Joystick interface, then install the drivers (which I know are optional, but it’s nice to have to see what version of the firmware I have on the TPR) and it all works swimmingly now.
It will be solved if you remove the rudder’s usb, run msfs, and re-insert the usb at the parking lot or gate to recognize it.