Hello there,

I legitimately spent hours on this to no avail.

I have a steering wheel and throttle/brake pad (both responsive) but no clutch.

After some research, it became apparent that the reason I can't move forward is because I am stuck on neutral. Without a clutch, how would I find myself out of neutral. I played around with all the settings but can't find one that works.

There are many buttons on my Interact V3 Advanced FX steering wheel that I can assign to shift up. I've tried that and assigned a button on the wheel to "shift up" (it says it's been assigned so it clearly registered the button on the wheel) but when I press the button, there's no change in shift.

PLEASE HELP

update, the shift up is responsive but I cannot accelerate forward still

leave pits in any car then go to options->driver and turn autoclutch on

Quote from NewDriver96 :

update, the shift up is responsive but I cannot accelerate forward still

Turn on pedal display (Display>Show Pedals), this will show throttle/brake/handbrake/clutch inputs in the bottom right corner

Check your controls to see if your pedals' axes are correctly assigned (sometimes they might need inverting)
if you don't have a clutch pedal, turn on auto clutch, as the post above mentioned.